Basket obsession. A confession.

Justamum

Whistling_Gypsy wrote: »

I blame you lot.

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20091130.p.Wicker_Basket.ar10

Great price!!

It came up with a page asking for my postcode

I love your avatar by the way :rotfl:

InfamyInfamy

morwenna wrote: »

Another basket lover here too

This is all the fault of my Dad, who used to have a basket shop & would make wicker baskets to order - including all the school cookery ones and dog beds made to measure!

I still have a few of his - a large oval log basket, a trug which is full of pine cones on the fire place and the Ali Baba basket in the bathroom. I recall he used to make cane headboards too, the hairdresser next door to his shop used one as a window dressing. (He traded for haircuts for us three girls, how MSE was that?! Feather cuts though, I've tried and failed to repress the memory!)

We used a picture of him making an Ali Baba basket at his funeral (in his Christian Slater lookee-likee days back in the seventies )

I can probably still remember how to make one too. :T

It's funny how child hold memories hold dear. My Dad had a stationary shop and I have loved browsing stationary ever since...still find it exciting!
:T

mrs_lds

I need some cheap baskets (wicker) with lids for small chocolate hampers for my children.

p.s I hate the wicker man films found them dark & disturbing

Jo_anne_2

Katharine wrote: »

I got some of my baskets from here when they were visiting seemed like reasonable prices to me: http://www.jackstrawscountrystore.co.uk/

The postie has just brought my Gondola basket (Xmas treat to myself!) from this company. I love it and it has brought back happy memories - can't wait to go shopping with it! :j

grunnie

I just love baskets have done all my life. When I look lovingly at food hampers in big stores my OH says stop it you are only wanting the basket it is in. Have baskets in every room holding just about everything you could name. Went to a funeral by train last year to Perth and spotted a set of huge hampers and baskets for the bathroom and had to take a taxi back to the station and then carry them home. My OH said they smelt weird but they are seagrass :rotfl:which I love. I also love candles and my pal's husband said if I lit them all we would be ankle deep in wax;)