Memory Weaver

I have a lotta works in progress, and today is the day we clean the art room. Yeah, it's a disaster area. Seems every time I wanna go in there and play, I find myself cleaning up instead. I just can't create if I'm surrounded by this project and that project and the last supplies I used. It makes the river of creativity just plum dam up. So today, I'm rearranging things and getting rid of stuff I'm not currently "into". I have too much new stuff with no place to put it. Makes me scream cuz I'll just stick it in someplace and then when I wanna use t, that's riiiiiight - NO CAN FIND! AAaaaaaarrrrrrgggggh!

Since I got so many lovely emails about the baskets, I thought I'd share some more with ya. I'm sorry for the coupla grainy pix - I took pix of pix since my scanner isn't hooked up. The originals are just not great.

My fave is the one I'm holding. It's made from a shed moose antler. I knew a woman in Montana who was a (VERY GOOD) Taxidermist. Her Mom found this antler on their property and loved it. I wove it into a basket (it's a wall pocket that can actually hold stuff) in exchange for getting an elk hide tanned. LOVE trades like that!!

Anyway, enjoy! I hope you have a fun day and that you are the one hogging up all the sunshine we're not getting today! :o) Enjoy it now cuz once I get my hands on that firey ball, I AIN'T sharin' it!! Smiles... debmarie :P

A Basket Case

Happy Sunday!! Is it almost Easter already?! Sheesh...

I hope this day brought you time to enjoy the coming sunshine (or the coming cooler months if you're on the other side of our rock)! I ran across some pix I thought were lost forever, and almost cried over the discovery! Thought I'd share them with ya.

When I lived in Montana, I made my living for a while by weaving and selling contemporary baskets that I wove. I've recently taken up weaving again and cannot even begin to describe the flood of memories and feelings that came flooding back to me. It's all attached to the smell of the materials, softening in the warm water that does it. I just LOVE the fragrance of soaking reeds and grasses!!

Here are a couple that I sold last year in my Etsy shop. Enjoy! Hugs...debmarie :o)