🔥 🎉 All Standard Edition Bonus Recipes are now done!! ✅ 🔥

I finished the Menu and Secret Recipe Chapter 👩‍🍳  today! It's over 30 pages of new stuff, from Bum Peach Cobbler 🍑  to Magic Beans 🍡 to Star Fragments 🌟 , and I really hope you love it! ♥️  (I realize I just listed only dessert 🍨  things, but don't worry, there are non-dessert things too!)

With that plus the 30+ recipe Hyrulian Alchemy and Bartending chapter (and an additional 40+ pages I've added since the Kickstarter ended, oops) the book is finally ready to move forward into my final edits.... which brings me to something we need to talk about.

Timeline.... ⏳

If you recall our post-kickstarter timeline (you can look at it here!) September was Finishing Touches, and October was Order the Books! 📖

I..........  haven't fully finished the Finishing Touches. 😐

First, I'm going to apologize upfront... as many of you expected with the size of this Kickstarter (how dare you all make this so successful), this bonus process is taking me a bit longer than I had planned for. I've only just now finished all of the bonuses and add-ons, and I still have a few more things I want to do for the cookbook interior before I'm ready to say "It's done".

That said, it's not actually late yet. I've just entered into the gray zone (the 'just in case' extra time I had added to the timeline). This means:

I do not know if you will have your cookbooks by late December.

To all of you, I'm so very sorry if your cookbook ends up being late. I want you to know now that it is a possibility, just in case it happens. ♥️ 😞

⏰ Lateness is not something I abide by, and I don't want to be another Kickstarter who delivers late. On the other hand, I am completely unwilling to deliver a cookbook to you all that I am not 100% done with!I'm working hard to finish and to do justice to The Legend of Zelda! ⚔️

4 Finishing Touches I want to include: 🖊

🌍 -A Full Metric Conversion: Include metric and US measurements on each page. So many of you are international backers, I want to thank you for paying ridiculous shipping fees by including this for you! 🌍

⚒ -Cover Redesign: The spine is now much, much thicker (I wonder how that happened), so I need to redo the covers. While I'm at it... the Master Edition covers need a full redesign, as the embossing and foil stamping will require a slightly different look (and template/design process. yay for me!) ⚒

🌸 -Pretty Signature Page: This will be the place I sign for Master Editions, but I'm going to go ahead and include it in the Standard Editions too, as I know a lot of you are giving these as gifts, and it could be a nice page for you to write something to your friend! I don't know! (I hope to have a sneak peak of the Signature page for you soon! It's going to be pretty!!) 🌸

🔎 -Final Draft Edit: I have a list of edits, corrections, and additions to make, along with going through the entire 300+ page book with a fine tooth comb.  🔎

If I am late, know that each moment you spend waiting was fully used to make the cookbook more magnificent!

🦇 🕸 🎃 👻  Happy October!!! 👻 🎃 🕸 🦇

Now that I'm finally out of the weeds of finishing those bonus pages, I'm hoping to keep you all updated more frequently with progress, as I bulldoze 🥊  these next projects! 🎊 To celebrate, I've added a new early cucco recipe to the Discord! 🎺

🎃 🌽 - Pumpkin Stew - 🥔 🥕

"The main ingredient is one of the famous Kakariko Village Fortified Pumpkins! Serve this stew straight from your freshly baked pumpkin!" - Find the full recipe on the Discord!

Thank you for cooking with me!!!

So many of you are still hanging out with me in the Discord every day, and the pictures you send of your cats and tea and recipes give me life and motivation to get through my every day! 💜  Thank you so much, you all know who you are 😭

And for all of you quietly following along... I see your likes, your comments, and I so appreciate your patience and happy support of this cooking/Zelda project! I hope you are all enjoying the new Link's Awakening!! I've decided I will get it as a reward after all of this is finished! If you are waiting like me, then I hope you are happy and healthy or getting there, and I hope this October fills your heart containers! (like you all fill mine! N&A! :D )

As always- I am here for you to message on Kickstarter, I am checking in on Discord, and I am so happy to be here! I can't believe it's been 48 days since it ended! Just let me know if you have any questions, or if there's anything I can do for any of you at any point! Well wishes from your friend in Colorado! ♥️

Aimee ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎