Friday, 17 July 2015

Five on Friday

I am late posting today, I have had a very busy couple of days.  My five on Friday post is five of my favourite baskets.  I love baskets and am a great fan of the many styles and uses of a basket.  I would love to be able to make my own and have looked at courses at one time or another, but the time was never right.  Maybe one day.....

My favourite of all time basket is an old picnic basket that I have had for years.  It holds so many memories of picnics long gone and of the family travelling Europe.  Nowadays it holds precious cargo, my yarn cones.  I look at it often and conjure up bygone days.


 
My second basket is another old picnic basket, that has never seen a picnic since I have had it.  I use it for storage.  It is currently in the craft room been used to store fabric.  It doesn't hold the same memories but I love the leather straps and the ease that it opens and shuts.
 

 
A Basket that is lined is my number three choice, that again is used for storage, I store fabric that is going to be used in current projects to save me keep getting up and down.  It is the perfect shape and reminds me of one that I had similar when I was a young girl, taking my cooking ingredients to school.  It also had a plastic cover in bright red.  Some lovely memories.
 

 
I have a beautiful sewing basket that my daughter bought me one Christmas that I love, it takes pride of place in my craft room and is used on a daily basis.
 
 
Finally, basket number five is a basket that I keep at the bottom of the stairs a habit I fell into when my girls were small.  Anything that needed to be taken upstairs was thrown into the basket and then I would empty it out on a daily basis.  These days it usually my things that are thrown into it and it is emptied out weekly.
 

 
My five on Friday, five things that I have enjoyed sharing with you.  I am once again joining Amy over at Love Made My Home for the weekly get together.  Pop over and enjoy the weekly meme.
 
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  I am heading up to my daughters over the weekend to help out with the girls next week, so I will catch up with everyone on my return.
 
See you soon.
 
 
 
 
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34 comments:

  1. Linda17 July 2015 at 10:29

    You have a lovely collection of baskets, so handy for all sorts of things.

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  2. Crimson Kettle17 July 2015 at 10:41

    Have a good trip. Lovely baskets, I also have a hamper like that sitting empty under the table, maybe I should fill it up with wool! :-)

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  3. Latane Barton17 July 2015 at 10:48

    That is such a lovely collection of baskets. I, too, love baskets so your post was of great interest to me. I love the idea of storing things in a basket at the bottom of the stairs. Have a great weekend.

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  4. Mad about Craft17 July 2015 at 10:54

    I also love baskets!

    Have a great weekend!

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  5. Rosie17 July 2015 at 10:55

    Lovely - I love baskets and have three I use for storage and decoration too. You brought memories back of carrying a basket to school full of cooking ingredients. Hope you have a wonderful weekend too:)

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  6. Gracie Saylor17 July 2015 at 11:05

    I enjoyed seeing your favorite five for the week, and I share your love of baskets! They are pretty and practical and I am surrounded by them in my room where they help decorate and organize my space :)

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  7. Amy at love made my home17 July 2015 at 11:12

    A great celebration of the basket!!!!! You really do have some beauties there. Thank you so much as always for joining in. I hope that you have a great weekend. xx

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  8. Janet17 July 2015 at 11:37

    I love the picnic baskets. There's something so quaint and cosy about baskets, and they're also very practical.

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  9. Frugally challenged17 July 2015 at 11:37

    I think baskets are totally addictive! They look gorgeous and are so easy to justify on the grounds that they are useful. I even have a basket of baskets.

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  10. Meredith17 July 2015 at 11:55

    I love baskets to store all my knitting and crocheting projects, love all of yours.
    Meredith

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  11. Lilly's Mom17 July 2015 at 13:46

    I loved seeing all your baskets and the way you put them to good use. The last one looks very vintage. All are beautiful :)

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  12. CathieJ17 July 2015 at 14:22

    I love baskets also. I don't get as much use out of mine as you do. I have always had a staircase basket. Mine is used for hats, gloves, and visors.

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  13. Sue17 July 2015 at 14:53

    Beautiful baskets! My lovely SIL made me a goreous one for my 50th birthday, she's so gifted and has strong fingers!

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  14. Lisa from @intotheglade17 July 2015 at 15:10

    Oh I absolutely love baskets too! Yours are all so beautiful. Have a lovely weekend x

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  15. Grandmabeckyl.blogspot17 July 2015 at 16:42

    Your baskets are so nice. I have quite a few myself. I bought a round whilst living in UK years ago. I still have it and it is sitting on top of my curio cabinet. Fond memories it has of last century!! Have a goid weekend.

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  16. handmade by amalia17 July 2015 at 22:21

    What a lovely selection. I have quite a few myself and also use most of them to store fabrics and wool. Great minds think alike!
    Amalia
    xo

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  17. Géraldine B.17 July 2015 at 22:28

    I love baskets too and I have a few myself ! They're so useful ! I wish you some good days with your family next week ! see you soon !

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  18. Hootin Anni18 July 2015 at 02:54

    I too love baskets!!! I have a collection of 'flat' baskets that I prop on my walls to cover the light/power sockets. LOL....It's a decorative touch and hides those ugly pieces of plastic with the sockets.

    I think my favorite basket you share is your sewing basket with the decorative top.

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  19. A Colorful World18 July 2015 at 04:04

    I love all your beautiful baskets! Baskets are fun, useful and often very lovely. I have several I really enjoy as well...one very similar to the one of yours that reminds you of one you had as a child. Mine in that shape had belonged to my grandmother.

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  20. linda18 July 2015 at 05:17

    Lovely baskets! I love baskets too I have one which I like to put my latest crafting project in, I really need dozens because I have that many projects haha, I used to love taking a basket to school on cookery day with a cover over the top to hide all the goodies, I wonder what happened to it. Have a great weekend. :)

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  21. JoAnn ( Scene Through My Eyes)18 July 2015 at 06:52

    What lovely baskets!!! I too had a stairs basket when the kids were growing up - it sometimes had to be emptied several times a day, but when someone went upstairs they just took the basket with them. Now we have no stairs - and our kids have families of their own - but I still have the basket. Living here in the Pacific Northwest where are winters are quite damp I find baskets will become moldy much too often - so I spray all of my baskets with a non-glossy clear spray - doesn't change their appearance and dust brushes off easier - no mold. I like that you keep fabrics and projects in your baskets too.

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  22. Henny Penny18 July 2015 at 07:03

    Your baskets are so pretty. Makes me want to go out and buy more. I love the sewing basket!

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  23. Shirley-Ann18 July 2015 at 07:21

    Oh I love those baskets. You can never have enough baskets in my opinion ;)

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  24. Mac n' Janet18 July 2015 at 08:38

    I love baskets too, yours are great!

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  25. Mylittlepieceofengland18 July 2015 at 11:25

    I'm a big fan of baskets, we do the stair thing too xx

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  26. Sandra 18 July 2015 at 14:40

    I also love baskets. I put wires on one, the dog's clothes under a chair, threads on the other, and so on. I think it is beautiful and very organized.

    Cheers, Sandra

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  27. Nancy Chan19 July 2015 at 07:50

    I love baskets too. The basket your daughter gave you is a very sweet and pretty one!

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  28. Anitha19 July 2015 at 11:23

    Love all the baskets.. everything looks so pretty :)

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  29. karen19 July 2015 at 16:43

    I'm a basket collector so I admire your collection! I have a picnic basket that was my mother's and it's my favorite one.

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  30. EMMA20 July 2015 at 11:51

    Great basket collection! I like the idea of keeping one at the bottom of the stairs for things that need to be taken up - wonder if my kids would actually put anything in it? they have a dirty laundry basket in their room and they leave all the dirty washing right next to it!!!!

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  31. Wendy McDonagh-Valentine20 July 2015 at 14:51

    I currently have baskets holding magazines, dog toys, Megan's little art supplies, books and toiletries in my bedroom. I used to be a huge collector of baskets and picked up my best ones at yard sales. At the last sale I had at my home I donated all of them that didn't sell to our local Salvation Army. Still have a lot of them but have pared down to just the ones that I love. : ) I hope you have a wonderful week!! xoxo

    ~ Wendy
    http://Crickleberrycottage.blogspot.com/

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  32. kathy b21 July 2015 at 08:52

    My cats would love the corner basket.

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  33. Teresa Kasner21 July 2015 at 20:47

    Oh.. I love all your baskets! I'm a basket-a-holic. I'm not home or I might photograph some of mine. We're in Oklahoma and head to Missouri tomorrow. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)

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  34. Amber at Sequin Stitches 22 July 2015 at 10:59

    Oh my goodness I want that fabric basket! I am a bit of a fabric hoarder...

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