This Christmas Ottawa was mired in a labour dispute that brought the city to its knees. The entire public transit system grounded to a halt when the union, representing employees with OC Traspo, clashed with Ottawa's City Council and its Mayor, Larry O-Brien. This left a good number of residents with significant challenges getting around during the holiday season, myself included. Where once I had a 15 minute commute to work by bus, I now had an hour long walk into Hull.

Nevertheless, my better half and I kept the now 3 year tradition of Christmas Baskets alive. In fact, we completely redesigned the 2007 Christmas Basket and put the prototype into production. Four models were released for shipping on December 20, 2008, just in time for Christmas Eve.

Introducing the 2008 lineup:

Christmas 2008 Baskets

This year, we traded up ceramic mugs for Christmas tins, shaped like lunch boxes. The tins came from Dollarama. The tins of butter cookies, Pharma Plus and the Maple Cookies, Sears. Instead of raiding the local Giant Tiger, we picked up large boxes of provisions (i.e. chocolates) from Costco.

Materials

Here are close ups of the finished products:

A lovely blue model

Another blue model

Limited edition red model

Here are the baskets, wrapped for shipping:

Blue Baskets

Individual Blue Basket

Red Basket

And yes, each found a grateful home!

We here at foodiePrints hope you had a Merry Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year!



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