Last week I was very lucky to be able to attend a local Basket Weaving
Workshop - it was run by a visiting artist by the name of Harriet Goodall.
Amazingly enough, we all went home at the end of the day with a basket that
we’d made!
I can’t really tell you here on our blog exactly HOW we were shown to
make the baskets (that would be giving her workshop’s secrets away!), but I can
talk about how I have used mine since I brought it home.
Recently I set up this little sitting area on my verandah – it’s nice
here in the sun all day. I used two metal chairs that my parents dug out of one
of their sheds (I wire-brushed and painted them), and had the cushions
re-covered in hardy material from Fab Outdoor Fabrics. I do like yellow at the moment! The scatter
cushions are also made from the same outdoor material.
You can also see that I still have lots of projects yet to do! (Check
out the tatty chair on the right in the photo at the top!)
I will be changing the artwork fairly regularly in this spot, so I’ve
just simply leaned this picture, one of my black and white squiggle designs up against the wall.
The little table in between the chairs was tiled by my husband when he was about 12 – nice to finally use it somewhere, and the ‘pretend’ lampshade is the basket I made at the workshop! I simply strung it up using a long strip of material and hung the end on a cup hook.
The little table in between the chairs was tiled by my husband when he was about 12 – nice to finally use it somewhere, and the ‘pretend’ lampshade is the basket I made at the workshop! I simply strung it up using a long strip of material and hung the end on a cup hook.
All very simple of course, but it all helps to make it a lovely place
to sit with a cup of coffee (or three)!
Happy decorating!
Emma
PS Don’t forget that Mother’s Day is only a couple of weeks away! My
project for next week will be a cheap and easy gift to make, but in the
meantime, you may like to check out my Mother’s Day projects from last year for
some more ideas...
... and here are a few more of my projects to give you ideas for REALLY SIMPLE gifts to make for
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