Aurifil Designer of the Month

Is anyone else doing the Aurifil Designer Block of the Month?  The cool thing is that you make a block each month (duh...) and if you upload a picture of it to Pat Sloan's blog page, you are entered to win a great prize - a 12 pack of Aurifil thread.  All of this sounds really easy, right?  

September block

Wrong.  Making the block is the easy part.  Trying to actually get the picture posted is a pain in the royal you-know-what!! I have had no end of trouble uploading my picture to the site!

Here is the picture I took with my phone. I took a half dozen of them, just to make sure that I got a good one.  This one is decent because I didn't get any of the surrounding mess creative inspirational items in the picture.

So make the block- check
Take a picture - check.
Go to Pat's blog page - check.
Find the link to add the picture - check.
Figure out how to get the picture from my phone to my computer.  (Only took 10 minutes) -  check.
Click on the link to bring up the linky program - check.
Add the required info - check (as an aside, that takes about 15 tries to figure out what exactly is required!)
Click Done.  Uh-oh.  The program is telling me that my file is too big.  Seriously?  How do I make it smaller?  The program says that I can use Instagram.  OK, that sounds easy.  So I signed up for an Instagram account and spent another hour fussing around, trying to figure out the settings and how to post a picture. 

Go back to the linky thingy.  Fill out the required information (easier this time).  Click Instagram icon.  I get an error saying  "error_type": "OAuthForbiddenException", "code": 403, "error_message": "You are not a sandbox user of this client"}

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  What the heck does that mean?  Sandbox?  huh? 

Back to square one.  I give up for now. I was just going to take a few minutes to upload the picture  and it has taken me over 2 hours just fuss farting around  to try to get a stupid picture up on a blog! 

Maybe I'll just go buy some thread.  Sure would be easier!