Heart Shaped Gift BasketAmish Wicker Basket w/Homemade Jams

• Handcrafted Quality: Handwoven by the Borntrager family, Old Order Amish basket makers on the Iowa-Missouri border. Natural wickering reed woven over a solid hardwood bottom gives it the keepsake feel of a basket meant to outlive the jam inside it.
• A True Heart Shaped Gift Basket: The heart is woven right into the wicker, not printed on a ribbon. Customers tell us the shape itself is what makes this gift feel "thoughtful and meaningful."
• A Useful Size: Measures 8" x 8" x 3 1/2" tall. Small enough for a counter or dresser, roomy enough to earn its keep as a candy dish or catchall long after the jars are empty.
• Two Jars of Amish Jam Included: Every basket carries two full-sized, 10-ounce glass jars of Lena Mast's homemade Amish jam, cooked in small batches from vine-ripened fruit using recipes handed down through her family for generations.
• Flavors Follow the Harvest: Depending on the season, your two jars will be two jams, or one jam and one of Lena's apple butters. If you would like a particular flavor, ask in the order notes at checkout and the helpers in the Shipping Barn will follow your directions.
• Optional Extras: Add a lift-off lid to turn the heart basket into a covered keeper, or an engraved brass plate with your own message. Both are optional and only added if you choose them.
• Ships Gift-Ready: Free shipping in 3 to 5 weekdays, straight to your door or theirs. No prices in the box, and you can add a free gift note at checkout.
• American Heritage: Signed on the bottom by the Amish crafter who wove it and backed by our lifetime guarantee on the basket. A jam gift basket that stays in the family long after the toast is buttered.

This heart shaped gift basket pairs a handwoven Amish wicker basket with two jars of Lena Mast's homemade Amish jams, and between the two, it is the jam that gets eaten and the heart basket that gets kept. Our customers send it for the moments that need a little tenderness: a get-well package, an anniversary, a granddaughter's engagement, a first Christmas in a new home. One reviewer told us "the person I gave it to had tears in her eyes." Another sent it to a friend recovering from cancer, who "said she had never seen a basket like it and was profoundly grateful to receive it." When you need a jam gift basket that says more than a card can, this is the one to send.

A word about the jam, because people ask. Lena cooks true Amish jam, not Amish jelly, so each jar is mostly fruit and spreads a little softer than the firm store-shelf kind. One customer put it well: the peach was "not as sweet as the store jams," and she meant that as a compliment. Color and set can vary a bit from jar to jar, which is the nature of small-batch pot cooking, not a flaw. Flavors are seasonally adjusted around what the harvest gives, so your two jars may be two jams, or one jam and one of Lena's apple butters. And if a jar ever arrives the worse for the trip, write to us and we will send a replacement.

When the last spoonful is gone, the heart shaped wicker basket begins its second life. At 8" x 8" it sits nicely on an entryway table, a kitchen counter, or a bathroom vanity, catching keys, candy, soaps, or whatever the day empties out of your pockets. Add the optional lift-off lid and it becomes a covered keeper for whatever a heart basket ought to hold, love notes included. And if your someone would rather unwrap a little pampering than preserves, our heart shaped goat soap gift basket carries the same weave with two full-sized bars of fresh Amish goat's milk soap inside.

Every wicker heart basket here is handwoven by the Borntrager family, Old Order Amish crafters on the Iowa-Missouri border, and signed on the bottom by the family member who made it. The basket carries our lifetime guarantee, shipping is free, and returns are accepted with no questions asked. Lena's preserves have been called "the best jams I have ever tasted" by the judges who matter most, the ones who opened the box. We think you will agree.