Butter

I'm becoming so domesticated even I don't know what to think! We are getting fresh milk once a week and this week it has lots of cream. I was told to make butter! OK I thought, I can try that. And try is what I did. I scraped the cream off the milk on Saturday and then last night, Monday, I let it sit out on the counter. This AM i made it. Lets just say it didn't go the pictures said it would. In fact it went quite opposite. I had cream going everywhere, I think at least 6 bowls out, and yeah, it just didn't go as planned.
Discouraged and frustrated that I now wasted good cream, I decided to try again. This time i ditched the cheese cloth thingy and used dish towels to drain the cream and then water off. Now we were talking. It worked! And it worked beautifully.
I now have fresh butter in the fridge of which I haven't tried b/c I'm to chicken. I'm thinking I'll make a loaf of homemade bread (love the bread machine) and will eat it with our supper tonight!
How about you. Have you ever made homemade butter? How about cheese? Or how about just good ol Chocolate Chip Cookies! I have an AWESOME, never go flat, could eat one doz in one sitting, recipe I should share! I have tried many many MANY recipes and this one is THE BEST!
So let me know what you've been up to? Baking anything good? Try anything new??