Thanks to a Feather Princess guild member, I came home from Tampa last week with 10 freshly picked key limes! The feather princesses told me that 10 is the magic number of limes when planning key lime goodies, something I didn’t know. These key limes look a lot different from the tiny, hard, green key limes that I always find at the grocery store. They were yellower, bigger, thinner-skinned, and very juicy. You can see four of them in the photo. They look more like little lemons.

I decided to make a key lime cheesecake with my key limes on Monday. The kids were coming for dinner on Thursday and it would have time to chill by then. I found this recipe at about.com. It is gluten-free which is important at my house. My daughter-in-law and grandchildren can’t have gluten. I substituted gluten-free gingersnaps for the graham cracker crumbs in the crust and I think they added a lot of flavor to the cheesecake.

This cheesecake raises a lot during baking. The top of mine got browner than I prefer. When I make it again I’ll lower the rack in the oven and I’ll check it more often. If it gets this brown again I’ll be ready to put some foil over the top of it to protect it better.

My plan was to make this cheesecake and not eat any of it. That’s always my plan with cheesecake. I know what’s in a cheesecake which keeps me from eating it. But Steve came home for lunch on Tuesday, the cheesecake had chilled overnight, and we decided to each try a little bit. Big mistake! This was possibly the best cheesecake I’ve ever made! By dinner last night (Thursday) the cheesecake was almost half gone – as you can see in the photo above. (I should have taken a photo before I cut it, but I wasn’t thinking about that at the time.)

I have to tell you that as I ate my (multiple) slivers of cheesecake, I was smiling! All leftovers went home with Christopher and Lorna so today at lunch I’ll just dream of cheesecake…

Becky

Pat Sloan has interviewed me for her blog. Click here to read it: http://patsloan.typepad.com.: She calls these “Celerity Interviews”. Becky’s interview will be on Pat’s blog in early November. Pat’s blog is an interesting read.  There are more interviews on her site. To read them scroll down the right side of column and you will find Celebrity Interviews link.  Visit Pat’s web site for wonderful ongoing projects. She even does a radio program. http://PatSloan.com

Lynda at the Great American Quilt Factory/Possibilities shared Smilebox with me a while ago. Smilebox is a site where you can create web cards using their templates and your own photos. It’s pretty cool. 

I finally got around to making a halloween card for Elanor. But you can send the card to as many people as you want to. And you can post it on a blog which is why you can see it below. 

Turn the sound up, there’s music. There is one photo of Chris and Jeff when they were kids, and one of Steve with Jack. This will be Jack’s first halloween, so I don’t have a picture yet of him in costume.

Happy halloween!

Make a Smilebox postcard

I was working on one of my lectures last week. I usually tweak my lectures before I give them. This time I was working on “How did I get to here from there?!” which is a story of my life with quilts. In the process of tweaking the lecture I came across this photo. 

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Show and Tell is my favorite part of guild. SSQ guild here in Grand Junction if a prolific group of quilters. There show and tell is always worth seeing. The guild has a lot of classes and it shows with their quilts.