Recipe Chaos

*sigh* That's what I live in.

Aside from my cookbooks, the recipes I've printed out or been given over the years are all stuffed into a recipe box. I've been telling myself for years that I'm going to organize my recipes into a three-ring binder, categorize them, and make a professional-looking cookbook for myself. I would ideally like to have a picture of each recipe on the page, make sure each recipe fits onto one page, and use page protectors to make those inevitable smears, smudges, and stains disappear.

I can never begin the process, however, because I'm waiting to be inspired by a kitchen theme (do I want it to be "cute-sy," rather formal and elegant, French-like?). So I don't start because I don't want to decide halfway through it that I want to change the theme.

Maybe sharing this with you will inspire me to "just do it" like the Nike commercial. I am thinking deep red and greens, "Frenchie", with some floral something. Maybe I'll start today by coming up with the cookbook cover in Photoshop. It'll have to be cute-sy because I can't draw to save my life. I'll just have to stick with their shapes. Maybe I'll do that.

I'll probably discover some recipe gems that have been hidden in the chaos of my recipe box for several years, untouched because I couldn't get to them. It'll be fun to resurrect old recipes. :)

And then maybe I'll share my fabulous design (tongue-in-cheek!) when I come up with it. I really want it to make me smile when I look at it--you know, for those days when I'm soooooo not motivated to be in the kitchen preparing the 3,456,978th meal for our family. ;)