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I want to share with you a really nice idea for potlucks during the summer that really is not as hard to do as you might think, In fact you do not have to be an artist or have any special talent to make this Watermelon fruit basket and it is a hit.  I took a medium sized watermelon, a honey dew melon, a cantaloupe, some mint from my garden and some blueberries and created this for a potluck.  The comments people made were:  You should start a catering business, Wow you have talent, That is really neat it must have taken you a while to make, How did you do that it looks so pretty.  Anyway you get the idea.   I took a melon ball tool and made the melon balls from the cantaloupe and the honey dew the night before, then I refrigerated them as well as to have the water Mellon cool I refrigerated it.  This works best with a seedless watermelon.  Then the next morning I removed the watermelon from the refrigerator and drew on the outside outlines for the basket.  I then cut out the top sides and set them aside.  Then I carefully carved out the area under the handle, Note do not pull on the handle at all or it may break.  If it does use tooth picks to set it back on.  after carving those areas, I scooped out Mellon balls from the inside lower part of what would be the basket. Then I cleaned it with scraping carefully with a spoon.  Then for the zig zag appearance I carved out triangles along the edge.  Once all this was done I took mint I had grown in my garden and used toothpicks to hold it in place along the handle.  To cover up the tips of the toothpicks which I had broken down to be half to one third their size to hold on the mint, I covered them by adding small berries.  I believe I have shared the idea with you and given you the start to create your own Mellon basket.  You could also before begining the basket part carve pictures into the outer rind to be even more creative than I was using carving tools and pictures from a carving book from your Halloween pumpkins.  Be as creative as your imagination will allow you.  I hope you enjoy this and happy creating.  It was a blessing to share this with you.