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Annetta Kraayeveld, artist owner of PrairieWood Basketry, is a basket weaver, designer and teaching artist.
PrairieWood Basketry
7M ago
I am glad so many of you enjoyed my thoughts on Creativity and Excellence. And now, as promised, here are some of the things you can do to encourage creativity. These are things I do – things I practise. It is not a list of rules, it is a decision to learn and to grow and […]
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PrairieWood Basketry
7M ago
I have been thinking about this topic for a long time, years in fact. I believe that focusing on excellence, on developing and fine tuning our skills, encourages creativity. In my experience, a lifetime of making things, including twenty five years of basket weaving, I find the pursuit of excellence to be the key to […]
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PrairieWood Basketry
4y ago
Covid Life
We have been at this new life style since March. At first it was just weird – we hunted for toilet paper, dug sewing machines out of dark places and made face masks. Spring and warm weather arrived, so we moved outdoors and social distanced in parks and on our decks. We’ve worked on adjusting, but nothing seems normal and we wonder when normal will return.
This whole thing is hard isn’t it? So much change and loss and uncertainty.
The Covid-19 science information is overwhelming and I think we are all tired of crazy Covid-19 conspiracy theories. I long for things that I used to tak ..read more
PrairieWood Basketry
5y ago
An Exercise in Creativity
Last year, ten members of my local basket weaving guild participated in the Mystery Basket Project. It’s a great way to encourage creativity. We had several months to weave our project, and I am not exaggerating when I say I stared at the contents of my bag for months before I had my first idea!
In a nutshell here’s how it works:
Participants will be given a number when they sign up. Then they will go through their basket, craft and art supplies and put 10 items in a paper grocery bag. This bag is sealed, labeled with the participant’s number and given to the organize ..read more
PrairieWood Basketry
5y ago
These things make me smile… baskets and basket classes.
I was able to spend much of the month weaving and have several new baskets to show for it. July looks like it will be full of proposal and pattern writing and kit preparation, but I promise to post pictures of my new baskets. But we are talking about June now – so
Baskets
I love sweet grass and I love coiled baskets and I love Dianne Stanton’s work – so I was very excited to acquire her award winning piece “Niche’. It is a piece I will treasure.
And this month, the NBO summer issue arrived, the Member’s in Print edition. I was honored ..read more
PrairieWood Basketry
5y ago
So Monday was Memorial Day and tomorrow is June 1st — It’s time to actually finish that post about my May classes!!!
May started with some Minnesota gals coming down to take a class in my studio.
They wanted to weave Zoe over two days…
and look at that, they did it! Each of them went home with a beautiful basket. We had a wonderful time weaving and visiting and even took time to enjoy the early spring woodland flowers.
And yes, I would love to have you and your group (four – six people) schedule a class in my studio!
And then I was off to the Stowe Basketry Festival, a seven day event in sc ..read more