TOMATOES FOR JUICE

The tomatoes are rippening by the basket full.

Every day I core them and cut them into wedges so

I can then freeze in plastic bags until we're ready to make homemade tomato juice.

It is so good and we have to use control so the juice lasts until the next Fall .

Tomatoes are my favorite thing to eat.

I call them a dessert, yummers.

Cutting up tomatoes and weaving baskets, it's a nice way to enjoy the day. ;-)


bee-hugs, Debby

CELL PHONE CHARGER BASKET...

CELL PHONE CHARGER BASKET... to bead or not to bead? I'm a little further along in lashing this basket with beads and copper craft wire.

I'm thinking about changing the lashing to Hamburg cane for the other half and maybe follow that with the copper wire and a coppery

colored bead to sit on top of the rim....just thinking out loud. What do you think?

I think I'll just go for it and take another picture when the basket is complete.


A very nice Basket Convention in Bloomington, IL is coming, Sept. 9-11, 2011 Camp Tuck.

Let me tell you these weavers are so talented and all of their baskets turn out just beautifully.

They all share their knowledge of weaving should you need a little help with something.

A lot of weaving fun with many friends. ;-P I love to vend here with Basket Bees.

Just drive my car into the building unload it and drive back out. Easy-peasy. *wink*

The bases are still heavy, but they don't have to be carried.

You can see my Basket Bees' base on the bottom of this basket.

I'll take a picture of our vending booth at Camp Tuck so you can see our product.


It is time to get back to lashing this basket.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Weave a little basket or stitch something nice, r-e-l-a-x.


with bee-hugs, Debby

Just rollin' along...

singin' my song... side by side......

I bought this wagon wheel off of Craig's List. It turned out the seller just lived about 2 miles from me. It barely fit in my car.

It is peeling but, I love the shabby chic look. I need to put a wood sealer on it, the insects have been chewing on it

plus the weather has taken it's toll on the wheel.

I have wanted a wagon wheel for at least 30 years.

You can imagine how much I love..love...love my wheel.

I have the perfect place for it with the olde milk can and a rusty flower

I bought at a craft sale. I also love rusty garden sculptures.

I'll show you those on a later post.

Wisconsin's weather was beautiful this past weekend and today also.

I'm enjoying my day and this moment of time. ;-)

bee-hugs, Debby

"Garden Sculpture"

Cute? Not so cute? That is my question.

Yes, I made this " garden sculpture" and you can make one too...in your own style of coarse.

One day while I was looking around at St. Vinnie's another shopper was stacking these platters with vases in between.

I asked her, "what are you trying to make?" She told me that she makes "garden sculptures" this would be her 7th.

Copy-cat me, I started looking around at platters and vases and this is what I designed with what they had on their shelves.

The plate is smaller at the top and add a little whimsy on the top plate.

All of the dishes cost me $7.50. A great deal and I was recycling!

I washed everything and used an adhesive for glass for outside.

You can buy this at a hardware store like Home Depot, ask someone in the paint dept. just to get the correct stuff.

I put it into my garden and I always give it water for butterflies and other thirsty creatures.

My bottom platter is labeled, not food safe but the other 2 are safe.

Have a creative weekend, with bee-hugs, Debby ;-o

Bandit- She's a sweetheart ;-)

Let me introduce you to our 3rd. cat, Bandit. She is 13 years old and another daughter of Trax the Cat.

We think Callie and Bandit have the same father, just different litters and one year apart. She is a lap cat that loves to have her

tummy scratched gentley. Bandit is the friendliest cat of the 3 cats. She is in and out side over and over and over again.

She knows how to make us jump if it is nice outside and we're using only the patio screen door.

Bandit ever so gentely puts out one of her nails and plucks the screen. JUMP!!!

She is a button-pusher, that's for sure. But she is soooo sweet you don't mind, unless it's the 3rd or 4th time you have let her in or outside. ;-o

We have to open the screen door and close the glass patio door if we leave the room. Then she will sit there and wait for awhile.

With all of the watering of my new bushes I'm getting a tan. Laying in the sun for a tan is something I just don't do.

As a teenager I rarely did it.

Well, Bandit is tapping the screen............gotta goooooo......JUMP!!!


jack-in-the-box, meeee

Debby