For the last several months, I’ve been a guest blogger at www.quiltmag.com. It has been a good exercise for me in being consistent with this whole blogging thing. Here’s why it worked for me, plain and simple: There were deadlines. I work so well with them! at any rate, there are lots of things to catch up on here, and I hope to set my own deadlines so it will get written. See you around!

Okay, I don’t want to brag too much, but I just have to say that this year was my first perfect season–canning season, that is…. Almost every year my daughter and I can salsa and tomatoes–not because it’s economically sound, but because they taste so good! We go to the farm and get our ingredients and then spend two days with wrinkly hands in the kitchen. This year, for the first time I can ever remember, not one jar broke, and absolutely everything sealed. We canned 41 quarts of tomatoes, 12  half pints and 19 pints of salsa for our 2 households. Yum!

After finishing some fun projects for Timeless Treasures today, I dove into updating my website. This is something I promised myself I’d do before the end of summer, and I seem to have procrastinated long enough.

While enrolled in a course in HTML at the local community college this spring, I purchased Adobe Design Premium CS3 with my student discount, but I have absolutely no clue how to use the Dreamweaver program, and only a little experience with Photoshop. Suffice it to say that I didn’t let that hinder me, but jumped in and started changing things around. In a matter of an hour or so, I had managed to remove EVERY image from the site. After crying real tears, I phoned my son, boy genius, who fixed the problem in about 3 minutes. (Is every generation smarter than the one before??)

Now I am happy to say that I have actually added 3 quilts to the gallery where you can click to see a larger image. Check it out at http://www.cherylrosecreations.com/gallery  There are still a few kinks to work out, but I’m happy to be on my way.