Greetings and a 'spot-the-LOTR-reference' mathom

No, not the cool library one with the Tolkien book! That was neat to see, though!

I'm talking about the "basket building" -- I used to live very close to where they built that thing. The guy who founded the basket company bought a big estate in our community, and pretty much everyone I knew had one or more of the baskets his company made. They were all hand woven -- very pricey -- and collectors items. They sold them at home parties, like Tupperware. I just never got invited to any of those parties, I guess, as I was the only person I knew without a Longaberger basket somewhere in my home...

Good to see you again -- if you've been here, I've missed you -- but glad to spot you now!
 
appropriate exterior for a library! I remember reading that they had the locals vote on which books were to be represented. A very intelligent community, I'd say! [laugh]

But I think I would not want to walk through some of those buildings...[crazy]

Thanks for the link!
 
a Longaberger basket. But I got it at the thrift store. I love baskets for carrying things around it. They work so much better than bags for most things... even though I dearly love bags, too.

We have the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota:

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... not seen you in a looooong time. Hope all's well. Nice to see you here again [:)]

I'm liking the stone house. I wonder what it looks like from the inside... all hollowed out rock I suppose. A little scary. But that makes it all the more exhilirating [cool]
 
Sorry I could not resist a pun, especially when responding to the Reigning Queen of Puns :-)!!

That's so cool! Small world .... did the guy who founded the basket company actually live there? Or was it a store?

Thanks for sharing the background on that one - I was wishing there had been some info about each of the buildings because they were just so intriguing. I'm so glad you could fill in the blanks on that one!

Good to see you too, weaver!!!

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[heart] Loresilme
 
I was thinking how nice it must be to drive past it each morning on the way to work. Seeing books displayed with such honor and importance would be very uplifting.

Of course, I'm sure *going to* the library itself would be equally nice, lol.... but you know what I mean ;-).

Glad you enjoyed the pics!
 
They're all incredible, though!

My book-loving soul adores the KC Public Library. If someone would build a residence to look like that, I'd buy it and live in it! [heart]
 
How they came to be built, what they were like inside .... just amazing. I'm not even sure if that stone one was based on real boulders or whether they were fabricated. I also thought those 'wiggly' types of structures were incredible, I had no idea they could make a structurally sound building with all those wavy vertical features. I wonder if any of the floors are wavy inside too [crazy]!

Good to see you too, Earl - hope all is well [:)][heart]!
 
That's right, the first one looks like the Weasley's house...and also, I think the Lovegood's house, didn't it! Hmm.... wonder when it was built.

I love that library too. It really says something about the community, to be so bold and passionate about books [:)].
 
if you could have such a house built, and also be able to choose which books you wanted to have in the design?


Oh it would be so hard to choooooooose, lol....!
 
I could not justify spending what the baskets cost new -- but a thrift store find, now that would do it!.

The local lore on Mr. Longaberger was that he only had an 8th grade education, or at least never made it out of High School...he needed to make money, so decided to set up a shop to make baskets the way his parents or grandparents did, by hand. So each one is still individually made, from what I know.

Glad to know one of them landed in your hands!
 
Sorry, that pun was bad...even for me!

The guy lived in my town, the basket building was in a neighboring community. But he only moved to where I lived after he sold enough baskets to buy a mansion! So yes, locally grown company, and still in the family so far as I know.
 
Nice to see you!.

Those buildings had a strange effect on my 'perceptual platform' [crazy]. They all were fun to explore and ended wishfully to do the same on the inside of them as well.

Thank you for such a nifty mathom[:)].

Now if i could get that book down, i would not need the 2.5x reading glasses any more. And i could get a workout turning the pages[laugh].
 
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