The National Blog Posting Month website posed a contest for all bloggers to make a blog post every day for the 30 days of November.
So, I jumped on the bandwagon at the first of this month and joined the contest, committing to making at least one post a day for 30 days during the month of November.
I’m happy to report that I MADE IT! Whew, that’s the first time in over five years of blogging here that I’ve actually made a blog a day for 30 days!
How did all the rest of you do?
Now that deer hunting season is over, you might be able to snag some not-so-perfect antlers from hubby or his friends and make some terrific home-made woven antler baskets out of them!
Give the gift that will live on forever and can be used in a variety of home, cabin or business decor situations. Perfect for an engagement or wedding present, housewarming gift, birthday present or holiday gift.
Just click on over to the Antler Basket Patterns page of WickerWoman.com where you will find a selection of basket patterns for the Intermediate to Advanced basketmaker.
Here is a list of the more simple and easiest antler basket patterns geared for the intermediate basketweaver with prior rib basket experience: Destination, Coin Catcher, Nesting Quietly, and Safe Keeping.
Patterns can be purchased on the site using PayPal, the most reliable and easy payment system.
Make a purchase of three or more patterns and I’ll throw in a special FREE gift, not available anywhere else on the Internet, an antler basket tip sheet, “13 Tips to Weaving Sensational Antler Baskets!”
This SATURDAY’S CANE & BASKET SUPPLIER, found on the Cane & Basket Supplies Directory ™ page of WickerWoman.com is WSI Distributors.
WSI Distributors markets to wholesale customers in the trades of chair caners, furniture restorers and antique dealers among others, and provides hard-to-find items such as reproduction hardware, caning supplies, tools, instruction books and more!
Listen up here, all you chair caners and wicker restoration specialists! They are the only US supplier of the extremely hard to find Lloyd Loom paper fibre sheets or fabric for repairing Lloyd Loom antique wicker furniture!
If you are in the wicker furniture repair business, be sure to open an account with WSI Distributors so you’ll have a source for this very desirable product! And tell them you heard about them on Weavin’ Wicker Woman’s Blog!
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a representative of the Nielsen TV Rating Company and asked if I’d like to participate in doing their TV watching surveys.
I’ve always wanted to do this, since I first heard about them in the early 1950s. So here was my chance and I jumped at it right away! The instructions were very easy to comply with and I’m to just keep a diary of all the TV watching that takes place in our home.
I now have my TV in the studio, so I watch it mostly during the afternoon and evenings when I’m doing chair caning, antler basketweaving or wicker repair. Mornings are my most productive time for writing, so hardly ever watch during the mornings. And hubby almost never
What are your TV watching patterns? What are your favorite shows and can/do you watch during basketweaving or other craft times?
Hopefully you will be with your family, friends and other loved ones today, thankful and grateful to be living here in these United States.
We are lucky to have nutritious food, reasonable cost housing, good education and the freedom to do almost everything we desire.We have abundance all around and I’m thankful that I’m open to receive it, are you?
I thank God for each and every new day that is given to me, and consider it the most precious gift to treasure. Hopefully, I will be around for many more years, but if not, I’m thankful and grateful that I’ve been blessed to be here to enjoy what I have.
Take time this day to appreciate all those around you, give thanks for all you have and will have. Enjoy Life!
This wicker chair is listed in the book, Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company Classic Wicker Furniture, The Complete 1898-1899 Illustrated Catalog. It’s on page 33 or [65 & 66] of the original catalog, as a Lady’s Arm Chair, #6041 A.
Here are some of the many repairs made to this lovely wicker chair I did several years ago. This chair had been painted somewhere along the line, so my customer took it to a furniture refinisher/stripper and had the paint removed before bringing it to me for the wicker repairs.
There were already broken areas on the piece before the stripping, but that process added a bit more work for me to do in order to restore this piece to almost the original condition.
It has fancy braid work around the back, with reed rosettes and swag reed rope, many, many curlicues and a close-woven sheet cane seat. Simply a marvelous old piece and quite comfortable, too! Customer was going to do final stain and varnish finishing.
Fellow basketmaker and teacher, Susi Nuss and her Elves Workshop was mentioned in The Times Leader newspaper! Decorate for the holidays by crafting home-made basketry ornaments from black ash, sweetgrass, ribbon and other materials.
Cut the cost of holiday decorating | The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA
This week’s MONDAY MENTION is a bit of a departure from my normal chair caning, wicker or basketry topic, but I’m sure will be very beneficial to all of my readers.
I was on Twitter this morning checking the new feature of Listing, when I came across a #FridayFollow by a person I was already following. She recommended following life and business coach, Shawn Driscoll as a person she would follow anywhere.
So, typical of the way things work on Twitter, I followed my peep’s recommendation and was delighted to read all about Shawn from Shawn’s Twitter account, and then clicked on her domain website, too ShawnDriscoll.com
There I found her blog, which I subscribed to right away and got her free audio download about how-to improve your business and your attitude about business.
Now I have also BeFriended her on Facebook, so we’re all set! I think this is one lady you’d be happy to get in touch with and have her as one of your Peeps and Friends, too!
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