Let’s talk baskets today!  When we were stationed near Trier, Germany, some dear friends of ours introduced us to shopping the antique flea markets in The Netherlands.  We never bought anything really big, but we DID find a few nice, small things.

Small things like these baskets!  They would’ve been used for proofing (rising) bread dough.

 

I don’t make much bread these days, so I’ve found other ways to use them.

This one is a slightly different style, and it holds fruit…and other random things that end up in it!  (It sits on the kitchen counter, so you know how THAT goes!)

 

This one holds potpourri.

 

And one of the first ones I showed you usually holds a cat!  Meet Arwen, cat #2 of 3.  She always chooses the highest perch available in any room, so she naps a lot up here on top of the china hutch.  That’s my Darcy, cat #3 of 3, hanging out on the windowsill.  She’s not much of a jumper!  (Arwen jumps from the printer there by the window right up to the top of the china hutch!)

Mostly I use these baskets to decorate because I love the texture and because they make me smile!  That’s my first rule for decorating:  all items used must make me smile!  Pretty good rule, I think!

 

{Here’s an update for anyone who read yesterday’s post about the approaching hurricane.  Based on this morning’s information we’ve decided to stay here in our house and ride the storm our here.  We’re inland enough that we think we’ll be okay.  I’m trying to go ahead and get some posts up today for two reasons:  (1) So they’ll post even if our power goes out later, and (2) to keep me away from the Weather Channel!}

This is Day 7 of the Write 31 Days blogging challenge.  To see the list of other posts in this series, please click here.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you’re having a wonderful, hurricane-less day!

 

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