Make Your Own Gourmet Gift Baskets
Everyone loves to receive a gift basket. Corporate gift baskets are often given by businesses to their customers as a token of their appreciation. However, most gift baskets are person to person expressions of love and friendship.You can find a great selection of online gift baskets from the very expensive to the cheap. Or, you can come up with your own unique gift basket idea and surprise a cherished friend or loved one.It's not difficult to make your own personalized gift baskets. Most gift baskets involve a theme.Here are some sample ideas to get you started:
- Cookie Gift Basket ? bake up some homemade cookies and enclose them in colorful plastic wrap, include a personal card or poem.
- Chocolate Lovers Gift Basket ? include individual fancy chocolates, boxed chocolates, or the person's favorite chocolate bars along with hot chocolate mix.
- Holiday Gift Basket #1 ? a Christmas holiday gift basket idea could include small stocking stuffers, candy canes and homemade Christmas cookies.
- Holiday Gift Basket #2 ? a Halloween holiday gift basket can be stuffed with candy, throw in some plastic skulls, spiders, cob webs and assorted creepy items.
- Wine Country Gift Basket ? wine and cheese baskets are favorites, include two bottles of choice wine from your favorite winery or wine shop, add cheese and crackers.
- Coffee Gift Basket ? Your favorite coffee lover will enjoy fresh gourmet ground roasted coffee (or their favorite brand), flavored creamer, cookies and a fun coffee mug.
- Italian Gift Basket ? include a variety of dried gourmet pasta like spinach, whole wheat, or dried tomato, two jars of pasta sauce, fresh mozzarella and parmesan cheese, garlic bread and fancy olive oil.
- Tea Lovers Gift Basket ? you can include several varieties of black tea, green tea and herbal teas, a mug and homemade butter cookies adds a nice finishing touch.
- Champagne or Beer Gift Basket -
the champagne basket would be elegant: includes a bottle of fine champagne, cheese and crackers, and fancy chocolates; the beer basket includes several domestic and/or imported beers, lagers, or ales, chips, pretzels and nuts. - Pet Gift Basket ? dog and cat gift baskets are the most popular.
For a dog you can include: homemade doggie biscuits or cookies, a doggie collar, doggie toys. For a cat you can include: cat treats, cat nip and cat toys.
Wedding Favor Creator
Wedding favors have always been a nice, personal gesture to include in your wedding preparations. Unfortunately, there are too many "cookie-cutter" type favors out there, which portray the couple's lack of interest in providing something unique.Here is a Wedding Favor Creator for you to use for your upcoming wedding or one that you're planning for your best friend. You can mix and match to your heart's content and according to the budget you have.Small containers to use for candies, chocolates, small floating candles, decorative soaps, etc. (many of them can be purchased at your local dollar store)
- tiny wicker baskets or straw hats
- egg cups
- candle holders
- flat shells (scallops)
- small filigree metal boxes
- decorated wooden boxes
- coffee mugs
- wine glasses
- small decorative dish
- tiny flower pots
- little tin watering cans
- small jars
- ceramic spoon rest
- heart-shaped candies or chocolates
- Hershey's...
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How To Choose The Best Holiday Gift Basket -- Insider Shopping Tips
(ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) November 29, 2005 -- If you're like most people, there's a gift basket or some corporate gift baskets on your shopping list this holiday season.
After carefully researching the gift basket industry, and talking to a number of suppliers within it, here are some insider tips we've discovered to help you choose a gift basket the recipient will appreciate and remember for years to come:1. Choose a gift basket that's uniqueMost people are no longer impressed with the traditional cellophane-wrapped, gaudy, cheap gift baskets and tins of popcorn...
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Edible Arrangements in West Hollywood is Certified Kosher Just in Time for Purim Holiday
West Hollywood, CA (ContentDesk) March 14, 2006 -- Edible Arrangements (www.ediblearrangements.com) of West Hollywood, owned and operated by Scott Greenberg, has been Certified Kosher by Rabbi Abraham Tzemach Rosenfeld and Rabbi Yossi Bodenstein from Kosher Supervision of America.
The certification comes just days before the Jewish holiday, Purim, which is celebrated by sending gifts of food or drink.
Store owner Scott Greenberg is proud to announce the certification, stating, Were really excited to provide the Jewish Community with delicious fruit baskets and table arrangements that are not only beautiful, but kosher. Were in the celebration business, and we consider it an honor to create someones Purim gift basket or contribute to their Bar Mitzvah feast. Edible Arrangements specializes in fresh fruit baskets, elegantly designed to look like flower arrangements....
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Six Ways To Save Time And Money While Holiday Shopping
(ContentDesk) December 18 2003--If you're struggling to finish?or even start?your holiday shopping, if your gift list is growing longer as your wallet and your calendar countdown shrink, and if panic is beginning to set in, you can stop worrying. "If you know where to look, you can still purchase thoughtful, creative gifts and get great deals on them to boot," advises Art Beroff, coauthor of The Bargain Hunter's & Smart Consumer's Field Guide: How To Buy Almost Anything For Next To Nothing! (Avebury Books 2003, available at Amazon.com).
"The trick is use the time factor, coupled with smart shopping tactics, to your advantage."1.???As time goes by. If you can handle the approaching-deadline anxiety, waiting to shop until the season is well under way can be a good thing. "The closer the holiday deadline looms, the more retailers mark down merchandise," Beroff says.
"One week before the big day?or even one day?is a terrific time to pick up bargains on everything from clothing...
Six Ways To Save Time And Money While Holiday Shopping
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Discount Wine Gift Baskets
Wine gift baskets are welcomed in almost every home and a combination basket can thrill that much more.
Mix and match them?offer a treat of red and white wines, chardonnay, Bordeaux, cabernet, port, merlot, zinfandel or that special champagne.
Cashing in on the trends, many retailers, wineries and auction houses are offering discount wine baskets that will let you select a cross-section of wines at astonishingly competitive prices. They make treasured gifts of the latest and the most popular wines for the season. A 2004 variety or a 2001 vintage can be bought at a discount direct from the vineyard, and arouse much excitement and curiosity amongst your friends without burning your pockets!
Special blend wines, undiscovered Napa Valley finds or even the finest vintages can be snatched up through discount offers.
Whether you wish to order a magnum, halves or a case of 12 bottles, discount wines can be tailor-made to suit your needs and budget....
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Traditional Baby Shower Gifts
TRADITIONAL GIFTSIn this section, you will find some of the more traditional gifts. Keep in mind that you can alter any one of these to be more creative or personal.Gift BasketsGift baskets are something you can buy or make. If you want to save a little money, purchase a nice, inexpensive basket from Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, or other retail chains and then fill it with items like baby powder, lotion, diaper cream, washcloths, bibs, sleepers, bottles, teething ring, pacifiers, and so on.For a nice, added touch, purchase a second basket for the parents. In this basket, add some crackers and cheese with sparkling grape juice, Godiva chocolates, bubble bath, gourmet coffee, homemade cookies or muffins, two movie tickets, and so on.KnittingBeautifully, hand knitted blankets, bonnets, jackets, and other gifts are always a welcomed gift. With this type of baby gift, it is apparent that the person put tremendous time and effort into making something special, something warm and cherished.
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SEND.COM Unveils Enhancements to its Gift Network Search Engine
PRINCETON, N.J.(ContentDesk)November 18 2003--Send.com, an online gift infrastructure business, is pleased to announce the launch of its enhanced network-search engine. The new search tool allows users to quickly and easily search more than 80 category-specific gift sites in the Send.com network."Our enhanced search tool makes shopping online with Send.com even easier," said Ranjan Wijesinghe, founder of Send.com. "Shoppers can find the perfect gift by simply entering the product name or descriptive keywords in our search tool. Our enhanced filters will search through thousands of products to return a targeted list of gifts ideas."The network search system was redesigned in an effort to improve each user's overall shopping experience. The goal was to create a fast and efficient system to return focused search results to internet shoppers.
In addition to the enhanced search engine, shoppers can easily browse the Send.com network via convenient menus located throughout the sites,...
SEND.COM Unveils Enhancements to its Gift Network Search Engine
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Traditional Baby Shower Gifts
TRADITIONAL GIFTSIn this section, you will find some of the more traditional gifts. Keep in mind that you can alter any one of these to be more creative or personal.Gift BasketsGift baskets are something you can buy or make. If you want to save a little money, purchase a nice, inexpensive basket from Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, or other retail chains and then fill it with items like baby powder, lotion, diaper cream, washcloths, bibs, sleepers, bottles, teething ring, pacifiers, and so on.For a nice, added touch, purchase a second basket for the parents. In this basket, add some crackers and cheese with sparkling grape juice, Godiva chocolates, bubble bath, gourmet coffee, homemade cookies or muffins, two movie tickets, and so on.KnittingBeautifully, hand knitted blankets, bonnets, jackets, and other gifts are always a welcomed gift. With this type of baby gift, it is apparent that the person put tremendous time and effort into making something special, something warm and cherished.
Shoe...
Traditional Baby Shower Gifts
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