Homemade Gift Basket Ideas

Gourmet Chocolate Gift Basket

Chocolate Delights: Gourmet Chocolate Gift Basket

Send best wishes with this decadent gourmet sweets gift basket. Offers a wonderful assortment of premium gourmet chocolates, candies and cookies including premium Lindt and Ghirardelli chocolates, Belgian truffles, kettle fudge, butter cookies, malt balls, and more! Designed in rich cranberry and gold colors, and arranged beautifully in this dark cherry stained willow basket, they’ll enjoy for days!

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The Gift Basket Design Book

The Gift Basket Design Book: Everything You Need to Know to Create Beautiful, Professional-Looking Gift Baskets for All Occasions

A successful gift basket professional reveals her tricks of the trade in this bible of the business. Gift baskets are an ideal small-scale business – but not all gift baskets are created equal. The Gift Basket Design Book shows you how to transform your creative ideas into polished professional-looking baskets to give as gifts or use in your own business. Shirley George Frazier, a successful gift basket entrepreneur, reveals basket-building and design techniques that yield expert results. Her easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and photos show you exactly how to craft delightful gift baskets for all occasions, from holidays to life’s milestones to those everyday pick-me-ups.Inside you’ll find:Guidance on selecting supplies, gifts, and food. The best techniques for placing and anchoring contentsThe most effective ways to wrap your baskets. Special design touches to complete your lookIdeas for using unique containers, such as boxes, bags, teacup (more…)

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Homemade Gift Basket Ideas: Wedding Anniversary

A wedding anniversary is always a very special day in a person’s life. It is the time for them to relive the magic of the day when they vowed to be together for the rest of their lives. It is also the time to reassure each other about their undying love and continued bliss. While choosing a wedding anniversary gift basket, one has to be truly creative and choose with care and affection. After all, wedding gift baskets are meant for the ones whom we truly love and the person could be your husband, your wife, your close relative or a very dear friend who means a lot to you. Here are some homemade gift basket ideas for w wedding anniversary.

The gift basket should be unique, display your taste, your personality as also the liking and preference of the recipient of the gift. Every wedding anniversary is special and since the gift is going to epitomize your affection for the person, it will look special no matter what you choose to put in it. Yet, remember to take into account such items which are passionately liked by the person.

If he is a voracious reader, give him his favorite paperbacks tied neatly along with some flowers and chocolates. If the person is a foodie and health conscious, remember to include gourmet cookies and recipe books. If the occasion is 25th anniversary, go for a cane basket and have it painted in silver to signify the event. Include enough satin ribbons wherever possible. For the fashion conscious one, you may include a number of cosmetics along with flowers and chocolates or home made cookies. There are varieties of baskets available these days with imaginative shapes and sizes.

No matter what you give, do not forget to add some flowers and candles or cookies for better effect. If they are fond of delicate bone china or crystal wares, you could gift them beautiful coffee or tea mugs along with respective sachets or latest brands, along with flowers and candles. Put anything in the basket, but remember to make it attractive and let it denote you feelings for the person.

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Vegan Gift Basket

Vegan Gift Basket

Our Vegan gift basket is appropriate for any gift-giving occasion. Includes a gourmet vegan selection of dried fruits and vegetable snacks and nuts. All the gourmet foods are free from animal by-products and include only plant-based ingredients.

Includes:
Dr. Lankin’s Awesome Almonds®
2 Flavors of Larabars
Panda Licorice
Mrs. May’s Snack Mix
Betty Lou’s Organic Harmony Bar
Just Veggies or Just Hot Veggies Dried Vegetable Snack
Betty Lou’s Krispy Bites Snack or Smacker
Vegan Organic Soy Crisps
Endangered Species Vegan Dark Chocolate
Handmade Basket

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Start And Run A Gift Basket Business

Start and Run a Gift Basket Business (Start & Run a Business Series) (With CD-ROM)

With little more than some working space and a few start-up items, you can operate a profitable gift basket business out of your home or in a rented studio. Start & Run a Gift Basket Business provides practical instructions for setting up and operating a successful gift basket business, whether run on a seasonal or year-round basis. Combine your creativity with the valuable advice in this book and create a lucrative business designing gift baskets for any budget and occasion. Whether your operation is a full-time endeavor or a sideline to earn extra income, the potential for finding clients for a gift basket business is unlimited! Topics covered include: Researching you market Finding a suitable location Gathering equipment and supplies Determining start-up costs and budgets Pricing your gift baskets Managing daily operations Advertising and promoting your service Using the Internet to expand your client base Meeting legal requirements

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Homemade Gift Basket Ideas: Get Well For A Child

If you’re looking for get well homemade gift basket ideas for a child, here are some ideas for a sports related one. Normally children look for candy and treats when they receive a gift basket. Unfortunately, these treats aren’t necessarily the best gifts to give to children, due to the high sugar and fat content. The following is how I would prepare a gift sports basket. The total cost of the gift basket will be approximately $100.00. First, you’ll need to find the largest gift basket possible. Go to your local craft store, such as A.C. Moore, and look for a large wicker basket, the size of a laundry basket. This should cost about $20.00. Also make certain you pick up crepe paper and bows, preferably blue, white or red. This should cost around $5. Then head over to a local sporting goods store. Talk to the parents ahead of time, and find out which sporting team he likes. Then I would purchase a baseball hat and a T-Shirt from the team he likes. Total cost would be around $25.00. I also would get his favorite sports ball, a basketball, football, soccer ball, or baseball. One of these items would cost between $8-$25. Then head over to a drug store, or sports memorabilia shop. At these establishments, one can buy sporting cards, such baseball or football trading cards. These card packs will the child something to open, as part of the gift basket. Each of these packs of cards will cost between $1.50 and $2.00. Also these stores are great places to get sporting books and magazines. This will give the child something to read while they are getting better. Thoughtful gifts that are put together with the child in mind will be greatly received. Assemble the gift basket with the above items. Have the largest item in the middle, which would be the ball, and hat. Put the trading cards around these items. Lay the team shirt at the base of the gift basket. The last touch will be adding the crepe paper and bow.

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