When I started this blog in January of 2012 it was for the purpose of participating in Tuesdays With Dorie “Baking with Julia” cookbook bake-along. Two recipes a month were assigned from the book and the idea was all the participants would bake the same recipe and we would post our results on the first and third Tuesday of the month. Well I made it through 2012 and into April of 2013, making most of the assignments and posting my results.   Then I bogged down, or maybe I should say blogged down.

I chose the title for my blog “createdbycarlene”, thinking that I might occasionally post about some of my other creations such as knitting, crochet, or photography. This year I am going to try to add a few of those posts.

In November of 2014,  Tuesdays With Dorie started a new bake-along with Dorie Greenspan’s newest book, Baking Chez Moi.   So far I’m off and running with the new bake-along.  I love to bake and it’s fun to read everyone’s results with the assigned recipes.  So here’s to a new year of blogging…