here Well, I did it. My first post was on February 19th, 2012, so Rake and Make is one year old as of today. This will be my 53rd post, which means I met my goal of posting an average of once a week!
https://www.vertaglia.com/op7jr4g8tq6 I recapped 2012 in another post, so I won’t go into that again. Instead, I’d like to take this time to talk about my goals for 2013. Since Rake and Make is a gardening, cooking and crafts blog, I have goals in all three areas and a few overall goals for blogging in general.
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https://photovisions.ca/5kjyhwqzt Grow more blueberries– I really need to work on my blueberries. A couple of years ago, when I bought my blueberry plant, I was told I could just buy one plant and get blueberries. I have found that to be totally untrue. If I am lucky and the birds don’t get them first, I get about 5 sad little blueberries a year. I am going to buy a couple more blueberry plants this year and then move that sad little blueberry bush and plant it next to it’s new friends. The ultimate goal is for blueberry waffles on Vinyl and Waffles day!
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https://pkuatm.org/2024/05/13/omp8guvf Cook the Books Cookbook Challenge– For those of you that haven’t already heard about Cook the Books, it’s a year long cooking challenge hosted by my blogging buddies Meg of Grow and Resist and Oh Briggsy. These two lovely ladies (and my new blogging BFFs, according to me), have picked a cook book a month to cook from for the whole year. January was a French cookbook, called Around my French Table. My post from January is here. This month is Asian Dumplings and we had a dumpling making party last weekend, that I will be posting about soon, so be on the look out.
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https://annmorrislighting.com/r527hwrx2 Master Preserver’s class at Seattle Tilth- Seattle Tilth offered a Master Food Preserver’s class last year and I am hoping they do again this year, because I want to take it! Last year at the Harvest Fair, I met a graduate of that program, Stacy Brewer of Seattle Seedling (I have been following her blog ever since). We spoke that day about the program and it sounds like exactly what I want. I want to be able to alter canning recipes and be comfortable that I won’t poison anybody and she said the class is perfect for that. Plus, upon completion of the class, I will be certified to teach other people how to can, so I will be able to confidently post canning recipes and tutorials.
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https://www.vertaglia.com/366zod47 Knit sweaters!- Rachel at Seattle Yarn, who taught my beginning knitting class, has also been helping me since then by giving me advice on future projects and helping me pick out supplies for those projects. I read somewhere (sorry can’t remember where now, I think it was a comment on Lladybird‘s blog, but I can’t find it now), that Andi of Untangling Knot‘s Miette cardigan pattern is an “ambitious beginner’s sweater”. Sarah from Rhinestone’s and Telephones, was it you who said that? Anyway, I read that and thought “I am an ambitious beginner”! I ran it by Rachel and she agreed. I also had a gift certificate to Seattle Yarn from my sister, so I bought the supplies for my first sweater and will be starting it as soon as I finish the scarf I am working on. If all goes well, I am hoping that 2013 can include a few hand knit sweaters.
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https://aguasamazonicas.org/objtaam2n Attend Blogcademy workshop in Portland!– While my scholarship entry was not the winner (it went to another very lovely and talented lady), Matt and I have decided that it is important for me to still attend, so we are going to make it work financially. I guess you could considerate it my gift to Rake and Make for turning one. So next month, I will be Blogcademy bound! This is very exciting and I think it’s going to make a huge difference for me. I have a few things going for me, like a great logo (thanks Chip) and I already know how to take pictures so I feel like I have that covered, but there are other things I need help with on my blog. I realize that Rake and Make is a relatively young blog, but I feel like my readership numbers could definitely use improvement. I feel like there is an audience out there that would enjoy Rake and Make, and that I just need help figuring out how to reach them. Plus, they cover working on content, design, branding and more. I’ll also get a personalized assessment of my blog and a strategy for how to make improvements. Not to mention all the other cool bloggers, that will be there, that I will get to meet. It’s going to be an amazing weekend and I can’t even believe I get to go. I’m going to be looking forward to it everyday until then and plan on giving a full report when I get back. I won’t be giving away their curriculum of course, but a recap of the weekend will definitely be in order!
Cheap Alprazolam Whoo! That’s a long post. Kudos to you, if you stayed with me this whole time. This post is mostly for me, so I can look back next year and see how much of it I actually accomplished. It’s a lot of stuff, but some of these goals are smaller than others, so I think it’s all totally doable. I have a whole year after all!
https://someawesomeminecraft.com/2024/05/13/xv9bc5258 Big thanks to all of you, who do read and comment. It’s your engagement and encouragement that keeps me blogging. It’s an exciting time for Rake and Make, so here’s to a great second year!
https://thegreathighway.com/kmucf9ql Wow! Thanks Lilly! This post got me thinking about some goals for this year too! Now where do I start?
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https://photovisions.ca/8b97d0j7 Hey Julian, good to hear from you! Thanks for reading this and yeah, let’s totally make cheese! Will you let me know when you hear from the homebrew store? In the meantime, I will ask my friend Sheri (the cheesemonger) if she knows where to get good goat’s milk. Oh and we made a soup with your bratwurst last night. It was amazing and so tasty! Thank you for giving us some of that!
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