I'm a Winner!

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Finally had a chance to photograph the great coiled pine needle and ceramic pot by Hannie Goldgewicht I received in the mail the other day. I entered an Instgram contest she was having and I ended up being the lucky name drawn!

Throw back Thursday

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Throw Back Thursday, this time all the way to the first class I hosted for Eric Taylor in 2011.

Our workshop next month is almost full, there’s only one spot left in each class. If you are on the fence, get your registration in today!

Antiquing Find

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One of the nice white oak baskets I saw on my trip this past weekend and had to bring home. I was drawn to the proportions of this smallish basket, along with the nice heavy rims and superior patina.

Baskets, baskets, baskets

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Some nice antique baskets I saw on my drive yesterday home from Stateline Friends Weaving Retreat. All were priced reasonably, but when you have as many baskets as I have, then they need to be either really cheap or really good before I am tempted. I was kind of temped by the ribbed basket pictured here...

Weaving While Watching

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How could I not work on a basket when I was surrounded by all of these weavers? Working on a black ash quadrafoil while vending at Stateline Friends Weaving Retreat.

I was asked how I could work on such a complicated pattern while vending? Fortunately the quadrafoil pattern is one of those that I just "see". I usually need to look at a completed basket or a photo of one to remind me how to start the first over or under then I am good to go for the rest of the basket.

Let the fun begin. Stateline Friends Weaving Retreat

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All setup and ready to go at the Stateline Friends Weaving Retreat. This is the first time I will be featuring my new full line of basket stamps. I am excited!

Well Crap

Well fallout form the Facebook snafu with the Cambridge Analytica leak has bled over into Instagram. New rules have been instituted such that information you used to be able to access about your Instagram feed are now locked down. That is great in theory, but boy does it screw up some of the easy things I used to do, like track who is commenting and who is following/unfollowing me. It also appears to have screwed up the photos I used to repurpose here on my blog very easily by adding a hashtag of #blog to any photo I wanted to share here. It seems that most of my blog posts now feature broken links.

I guess I am going to have go back and relink up all of my images. I barely have time to blog as it is without having to fix a couple years worth of old post. I guess it's something to add to my to-do list.


Argh!