Sister Synergy.

About a week and a half ago three of my sisters-in-law and I spent the better part of a day making gift baskets--shopping for cute little things to spruce them up, brainstorming which product to put in which basket and then finally arranging them. It was really rewarding, after a lot of synergy between us sisters, to see the baskets come together.

Basket-making crew :0)

(Good thing we had some older kids to take care of the youngs kids otherwise we wouldn't have gotten much of anything done. Aside from the chaotic moments when all the babies seemed to get hungry and then sleepy at the same time, we all teamed together to get these baskets made. Go girls! :0))

The

"Man Basket"

as we jokingly and affectionately called it :0)--was comprised of a hunting/fishing cookbook, 4 heavy duty steak knives and a mix of Black Bean Chili. Check out the outdoorsy tree bark basket too.

A few more of the baskets, all wrapped and ready to go:

I took a snapshot of each basket before it was wrapped
(since the light reflecting off of the cellophane made it tricky to see the contents.)
Here are a few of the snapshots:

I love how this basket turned out.

I think it'd be perfect to give as a...

going-away-to-college present.

With the cute baby blue, multi-purpose basket, plastic scraper and spoon, a cute kitchen towel and a bright green plate and matching bowl (for dips and chips and such), and last but not least...a 100 Calorie Snack Cookbook. So fun!

Don't you just love the fun vintage lime green kitchen towel?

(I don't know if any of you have heard of Rada Cutlery. I honestly hadn't until my sister-in-law Beth gifted us some of their product for our wedding...and now I love it! They have great quality and reasonably priced knives & kitchen utensils, cookbooks, mixes, etc. Great stuff. In any case, she is a reseller and is getting more and more into fun gift baskets (as shown above :0)), catalog parties and such. She'll have a website up soon, but for now if you're interested in seeing the line of product just let me know.)