Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Process

Last week was pretty exciting... and BUSY!  I have been spending all my free time on putting the books together.  I thought you might enjoy seeing the process and love that goes into making Nomemade.

First, we ordered all the pages from a large printing company.  They sent me a thousand copies of each page in their own boxes.

Next, I stack a bundle of the pages onto a table so that I can see all of them in order.  I pick up one page from each stack to make a single book.

I organize them into these boxes and use post-it notes to separate them.  Then I take the boxes to a local company, ImagePro, and they bind the books for me.

I pick up the books from them and this is the final product.

Then I package them up and send them out to the people who have ordered them (a HUGE thank you to everyone who has been supporting us!).  This was the last batch of packages that I sent out last week.

I'm not nearly finished with sorting all the books and getting them bound but I will keep working on it!  For the people in Nome, AK, Kim will be getting a few boxes of books that she can sell locally if you'd like to purchase from her.  For the people in Cedar City, UT, you can purchase from me or you can even find them now at Sunshine Nutrition- the very FIRST store to carry our books!

Again, thank you so much to everyone who has been supporting us with this project!


Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Order Nomemade Cookbook


You can order the Nomemade Cookbook for only 17.99 if you order now using this website by clicking the "Add to Cart" button below which will lead you directly to PayPal. 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Finishing Nomemade

This is Lynn here.  So Kim and her husband, Sean, came down to visit me in Utah.  It was so great to be able to spend some time with them!  We spent our time talking, shopping, going out to dinner, shopping, watching movies, shopping, playing with my kids, and shopping (Kim likes to shop when she's outside of Nome).  We also spent a large portion of our time together working on the cookbook!  Check out some of the dishes that Kim made just for you!

Nomemade Lemonade

Moose Pho

Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls

Alaskan Fry Bread

Tundra Berry Cobbler

And believe me- each and every one of these dishes was delicious!  We also had a photo shoot for our Author Photo.  I'm in the blue shirt, Kim is in the maroon.


On our very last day together we did an interview for KNOM radio in Nome which you can listen to HERE.  It was a lot of fun and Laureli Kinneen was great to talk with.

The book is finally coming to an end.  We've finished all the photos, typed up all the recipes, and today we added in the last of the edits.  We just have a few minor touches left to do and then we will send it to the printers, probably next week.  I am so excited about this.  I honestly can't wait to get my hands on a physical copy, all my own.  Thanks to everyone who has been supporting us and cheering us on!  We truly appreciate it.

Nomemade is now available for pre-order on our Facebook Page.  Go buy a copy!



Saturday, July 14, 2012

Nomemade Cookbook

 Hello All!  This is Lynn, Kim's sister.  Kim has graciously decided to allow me to post on her blog with her.  We are so excited to announce that we are doing a cookbook together!  


Kim and I have been talking about this idea together for years but it never seemed like it was really something we could actually do or we had no idea how to go about doing it.  Then one day the stars aligned and we were blessed to have an amazingly talented person come into our lives.  Just a few short months ago a woman named Ali Eisenach moved into my neighborhood and we became fast friends.  It turns out that Ali writes, publishes, and sells her own cookbooks and is successful at it.  One day Ali approached me about helping her with the graphic design of her next cookbook (Graphic Design is one of my hobby's- I made the cover of our Nomemade book).  I was more than thrilled to swap "favors" with her.  I told her I'd help her with her book if she'd be willing to take the pictures for the Nomemade book and show me the ropes of self publishing.  Luckily for us, she agreed!  You can learn more about Ali and her cookbooks HERE.

The cookbook will be in full color all throughout with amazing pictures of the food and simple recipes to follow.  Most of the recipes focus on the foods that come from Nome, Alaska: Alaskan King Crab, Salmon, Moose, Muskox, Fireweed, Tundra Berries, etc.  However, we also included some of our family favorites from growing up and since our mother is from Vietnam, you can guess that a lot of those foods will be Asian inspired.  

Again, I can't tell you how excited I am about this project!  It really is a dream come true for us.  The book will be ready for purchase sometime in September.  We just have a few more recipes to do for the book and then we're sending it off to the printers.  Can't wait!  Thank you for supporting us and if you haven't done so yet, please "Like" our Facebook Page.


Sunday, June 24, 2012

Two in One Crocheted Hat

Through Pinterest I found this website Artfire PDdesigns for crocheted hat patterns.  The hats are beautiful and I was inclined to make one.  I made the 2 ways crocheted cloche/ newsboy hat.  Easy instructions to follow, I love this hat.  Her patterns are affordable.





Friday, April 6, 2012

My Emmeline Apron

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Sluicey Juice

Check out my Sluicey Juice.  Chocolate banana shake with whipped cream and edible gold dust powder.  I had to make Bering Sea Gold Sluicey into some sort of yummy concoction.