basket making, step by step . . .

following on from yesterdays thoughts on baskets

If you should like to have a try

i found this wonderful link to step by step basketmaking.

here on Jon's bushcraft page.

I made a basket many moons ago & should love another try.

Just need to find suppliers now.

Jo Hogan baskets . . .

 My mind does wander so . . .

recently musing over Autumn & collecting blackberries & chestnuts

I began to think about lovely baskets to collect them in!

This bought to mind the beautifully tactile & contempary baskets

made by Jo Hogan from Loch na Fooey, Ireland

Basket maker since 1978, 

i love the way he works items into the weave

This one called "from the bog"

wild sugar mushrooms . . .

from 

andiespecialitysweets

comes pure edible loveliness

as shown above with these

edible wild sugar mushrooms!

fit for any faerie table.

Seed faces . . .

looove this idea

" Seed faces"   

from

Kelsey Pikes sustainable paper studio

made from recycled paper, each face is

 " stuffed full of organic, heirloom eatin' sprouting seeds"

re-cycling old albums . . .

I love re-cycling old items and so fell in love with this idea

A step by srep how to turn an antique photo album 

into an expanding file for letters, receipts, and other important documents.

see here

PS: Im really back this time folksies, i got waylaid getting all teary

at my newly emptied nest, after 30yrs of having children at home

its taken me by suprise!  Keeping busy seems to be a great distraction x