Week 2, Day 12 of Senior Project!

With each day I feel more confident with how our Senior Project is turning out. Even the littlest improvements really make a big difference in the overall image of our binder. With every change we make, our project becomes better and we learn more.

Today at 4:00, Erin and I traveled over to visit our wonderful Sponsor so that she could give us her “two sense” on our work. Erin and I have accomplished a lot since our last visit with Margaret; we were very excited to show her our (almost) finished binder. She couldn’t believe how much work we had done! She thought that it was beautiful. As she flipped through the various pages, she kept saying how impressed she was. Margaret especially liked all of the scrapbook paper we used in our binder. She felt that we chose appropriate paper in relation to each restaurant. This comment was great to hear because Erin and I really tried to pick paper that would compliment the restaurant’s food and atmosphere. Margaret also helped us with ideas for our cover page, which is nearly complete; we just have to add the title and our names. Margaret carefully looked at each and every page and had nothing but great things to say about it!

At 4:45, we left Margaret’s and drove to my house, where we stayed for the rest of the night. From 5:00 – 7:00, and then from 7:30 – 10:15, Erin and I worked up in my room on our binder. While Erin worked on her reviews and other important aspects of our project, I started to paste everything down! This process is not an especially entertaining one, however it really does make everything feel more final and ready. As I pasted everything to each page, I was careful in making sure that everything was straight and centered. Some of the pages were especially difficult to complete; the process was somewhat like a jigsaw puzzle in that I had to move around pictures, menus, and directions to better fit everything to the confinements of the page. During this time, I sporadically stopped to answer Erin’s questions about what my favorite dishes are, as she was gathering this information while I pasted.

Tomorrow is looking like a lot more pasting and printing out of more pictures!

Until then –

Becca