snap, crackle, flop!

Ok, time for me to 'fess up about my DIY book project.  Last time I posted about it, I was preparing to apply crackle paste to my beautifully painted pages.  I *thought* the heavy white crackle paste would magically vanish over the three-day wait period, leaving my pages with a colorful cracked surface.  Uh…no.  And you can see that I wasn't entirely sold on the idea at the time of application—I tried to spare four of my painted pages, but got them smeared with paste just the same.  I returned from Toronto and my lovely storybook looked just the same as when I left—the crackle paste dried, it *did* crack, but it didn't vanish.  So I'm now in the process of RE-painting the entire book.  And that's not so bad because I can adjust some of the colors and now I *do* have a cracked, colorful surface for most of my pages.  Next step: choosing a font and searching for downloadable images online…