Granny visited some antique shops last week when we were on our fall family vacation to Abingdon and picked up five different potato mashers with various colored handles to use for making her potato masher baskets.
Each of the shop owners thought she really needed the mashers to actually mash potatoes. When we mentioned she would use them to weave a basket around the bottom, they looked at us like...what?? So funny!
Anyway, we had an enjoyable time searching for just the right mashers, and now Granny has some fun work cut out for her! She loves making these baskets!
Here are Sarah, Hannah, and Granny making some memories on vacation:And now we're settling down this week with more baking, soaping, basket-making, and quilting! Never a dull moment!
~Deb
Oh my goodness! Those are so pretty and I LOVE the aqua and white one!!! When we were in Damascas last summer we stopped in an antique shop looking for some potato mashers for Granny, they too looked at us like we were crazy when we told them what we needed them for...but they thought it was a very "clever idea". Sadly we never did find any while on our trip, you guys must have hit the jack pot! :)
Posted by: Chris | Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 11:14 PM
Granny is creative! Wow!
Posted by: Connie H | Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 07:44 AM
Nice ones!!!
Posted by: Bet | Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 07:47 AM
To find so many nice ones in one trip is amazing nowadays, as those have become quite 'rare'! Her baskets are always beautiful and look forward to seeing those she makes too. Great photo of your mom with her two granddaughters!
Posted by: Lisa Spivey | Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 08:29 AM
Granny is my kind of gal! I love those potato mashers, and working them into baskets is a wonderful way to preserve them. Can I come live with y'all? Just kiddin', of course, but I do enjoy lots of the same pastimes as y'all do.
Have a great day, girls!
Posted by: Toni | Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 08:32 AM
Glad she found some more mashers and hope her basket making is quite successful.
Victoria
Posted by: victoria | Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 01:11 PM
What a clever idea! Love the picture of the 'girls'. Glad you could all take a break from your routine.
Posted by: Joyce | Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 07:27 PM
So glad you had a good time on vacation!The picture of granny and the girls is great...looks like it'll make such a sweet reminder of fun times!
Posted by: Anna | Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 09:34 PM
I always look for potato mashers when I'm out shopping...they are hard to find! The photo is so beautiful! Hope you had a wonderful vacation together. Love and miss you all! :-)
Posted by: Dorothy Horton | Friday, October 25, 2013 at 09:39 AM
I think I will get one of those baskets next!!!
Posted by: Kathryn Duke | Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 07:48 PM
Granny - looks you hit the masher mother-lode!!! The folks of Abingdon must have been heavy duty mashers way back when. :-)
Posted by: Kathy | Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 09:20 PM