Basket Brigade

For the past four Christmas's, Amy and I have been involved with "Basket Brigade". It's an event where a group of people come together a few days before Christmas, bringing food and money, and make up and deliver 150 hampers for families in need all over Dublin.

Our best friend Alice is also involved  along with Kasey who unfortunately had to miss this year due to another commitment.

Here are the three of us before we got started! 

The first job that gets done is that each box is covered in nice Christmas Wrapping paper to make it look festive. Then we get down to the business of filling the boxes.

This is the list of everything that goes in to each hamper along with additional miscellaneous items including such things as pasta, sauce, soups and baked beans, etc.

This is the first hamper we made. Each hamper gets a chicken and a ham which are put on the top so that the receiver can see them and can refrigerate them immediately.

Amy paired up with another friend of hers - here she is working away on a hamper. While Alice and I worked together as another hamper packing team.

After each box is filled it is wrapped in cellophane and tied up with a cheery ribbon. They look attractive and are surely appreciated by whoever receives them.

Here is a batch of hampers all lined up and ready to be delivered. What great work by everyone involved!

A big thanks to all the companies who help with this endeavor. It really is a worthy cause and hopefully it gives a little help to the families who receive the hampers this Christmas.