Showing posts with label Drift Zone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drift Zone. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Ready for working from home


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Ready for working from home with my JoAnn Kelly Catsos basketry ceramic mug designed by her daughter Jenna.

Friday, April 10, 2020

Happy Easter


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I’m not putting out too many decorations this year, but just received these two incredibly cute bunny cutouts so it was easier to put them out than put them away.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Hummingbird


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My Mom continues to impress with her beautiful bird photography. She loves these little guys and both she and Dad are kept busy maintaining all of the hummingbird feeders they have established in their yard.

Photo credit: Ann Stubblefield

Thursday, May 2, 2019

Throw Back Thursday

Appalachian white oak basket maker Gertie Youngblood
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A little throw back to the mid-80s when I had the honor of learning from white oak basketmaker Gertie Youngblood. I also had the honor of purchasing the little rectangular basket she is holding.

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Summer Tanager


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Another incredible bird photo my mom took while down in Jekyll Island, GA. This time it’s a summer tanager.

Photo credit: Ann Stubblefield

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

I love painted buntings


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I love painted buntings. We have so many beautiful birds here in the US, but not as many colorful ones like tropical parrots. This guy is definitely bringing it though.


Photo credit: Ann Stubblefield

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Happy Easter!


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 Happy Easter!

Sorry it takes me so long to actually write anything on these automated posts. I thought if I could link some of my Instagram posts to my blog I would actually be better at keeping content here fresh, but I that hasn't necessarily been the case.

Part of my lack of motivation is that a year ago Google/Blogger did something to the way their blogs are indexed in the search engine and it really screwed everything up. It isn't just me, it sounds like from reading the message boards that it adversely affected everyone. I went from my posts having 300 to 600 readers to now only 30-60 (if I am lucky). While I am not doing this just to have a big following, it is not very motivational to spend hours photographing baskets, editing them, writing about them, etc., only to have a hand-full of people even see them.

Anyway, thanks for hanging in there with me. I will keep plugging away.


Happy weaving,
Tony

Sunday, March 31, 2019

Playing with Mom's New Camera


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Playing with mom’s new Nikon CoolPix P900 this past weekend I snapped this picture of one of the many cardinals that visit my parents' bird feeders. I was sitting in the house on the sofa and shot this through the window to the feeders across the yard. I am horrible with distances, but it was probably 30-40 yards away I guess.

Monday, March 4, 2019

If it fits I sits


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Soon Jinxy’s going to be too big to fit in my Stephen Zeh French bread basket. She’s all tail and legs.

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Smashing it in 2019


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So again this year I completed my 2018 Smash Book on the first day of the new year. While that sounds like an OK achievement, the reality is I was 7 months behind!!! It took me all day to sort and print photos, and assemble everything. Lord please don’t let me do that again in 2019.

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Baskets., Baubles, Santas and Bears, Oh My...

Antique basket, santa and steiff bear
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OK, can’t promise this is the last of the vignettes of Mom and Dad’s store window, Jim Stubblefield Furniture, decorated for Christmas. This section of the window features one of the baskets brought from Mom and Dad's home along with an antique Steiff bear, antique Santa and sleigh that usually make an appearance each year.

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Baskets, Baubles and Wreaths

Painted white oak appalachian ribbed key basket
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I don't know why it didn't occur to me before to put a ribbed key basket into the center of a wreath. This is another shot from the Christmas store window I did for my parents' shop, Jim Stubblefield Furniture.

Most of the red and green baskets we use in the window we have permanently removed from my parents' collection and keep them in storage at the shop for use in the window. The white baskets though I bring in from their house. This one normally hangs in my childhood bedroom.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Yet another new place to sit.

Kitten in a Stephen Zeh black ash basket
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It has been quite a while since I’ve had a kitten. I had forgotten how quickly they can figure out to get up to mischief. This is on the fireplace mantle which is shoulder high!

Of course Jinxy the kitten has very good taste. This is my Stephen Zeh black ash French bread basket she is sitting in.

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Another new place to sit


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Jinx has discovered my basket weaving room and that she can get on the table if she climbs up my leg, to my lap, to the table. She does like to chew on everything, including my weaving materials, so as cute as this picture is she is going to be banned without supervision from getting into things.