Some days just don’t go well.  Today was the day I bound my birthday calendar book.  I watched the videos on how to use the Zutter.  I read the manual.  Apparently it did not prepare me for the journey that I was embarking on.  I thought I knew how to use the tool.  After all, I did read the 3 x 3 booklet with six small pages of information.  I had a general idea of how to use it but in reality, had no idea what to do when my paper was too short to evenly distribute the holes.  I had no idea how to fix this problem and should have stopped and re-watched videos, but didn’t.  In the end, not only did I punch holes off the page, but I punched the back cover on the wrong side and did not have large enough spirals to make my book flat.  So I’m disappointed and I put a video out that I’m not proud of.  I can’t redo this project.  It took over fifty hours to make and I’m not sure if I have it in me to redo it.  All I really need to do is both covers but that’s at least 20 hours of work with sealing it over and over.  I’m disheartened by my failure and wished I hadn’t just forged ahead, but did.  I’m taking the video live, because I want people to see that all YouTube videos do not end in a beautiful perfect project.  The inside of my project is beautiful, but the outside, not so much.  I am not giving this away, it’s mine to use, so I don’t really have an issue with using it as it is.  Do I wish it had come out better?  Sure, but reality is what it is and I’m glad that the project is done and that the video will go live tomorrow.

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