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Wedding planning stirs up a mix of emotions – there’s times of stress during wedding planning (oh no, the place cards are incorrect?!) and also times of great joy. But even more prevalent is the firm undercurrent of love and appreciation between not only the couple-to-be, but between the bride and her bridesmaids. Brides typically choose bridesmaids based on the friends they feel closest with, and her bridesmaids do their best to support the bride in her wedding decisions and even help lighten some of the load of wedding planning. It’s important for both brides and bridesmaids to “give back” to each other in appreciation and friendship, and we have some great ideas for you!

Brides, gift your bridesmaids:

• We know you’re already busy and have barely a free minute to shop for a gift! We’ve worked with many a bride in choosing gifts from our Bridesmaid Gift Baskets collection, and have only heard “oohs and ahhs” in return! They’re filled with all those girly-delights that bridesmaids will just adore, and packaged beautifully to put an instant smile on their faces!

• Remember having sleepovers with the girls when you were a kid? Do it again! Grab some pizza, a unique martini creation if you’re all over 21, a few rom-coms, and have a fun and relaxing girl’s night in.

• Gift them spa gift certificates – to be used after the wedding! It can be hard to really stop and enjoy yourself before the wedding, so gifting a spa gift certificate to be used after the wedding is a neat way to say thank you and help the girls relax.

Bridesmaids, gift your bride:

• Make it a group gift. With the other bridesmaids, choose a specific room in the bride’s home, such as her bathroom. Choose various items for that room that each of you will buy, and together gift her all she needs for that room!

• Our Bridesmaids Gift Baskets section may imply these gifts are for bridesmaids, but bridesmaids can also get together and purchase one or a few bridesmaid gift baskets for the bride, too! Our Bridesmaids Spa Gift is perfect for the honeymoon, as is our Go For The Gold Gift Tower for the bride and groom to munch on after the wedding reception.

• Are they honeymooning at a resort or specific vacation spot? Call the hotel concierge and see if you and the bridesmaids can surprise the newlyweds with a couples massage, scuba dive, or swanky night out!

It’s so important to take a few minutes for brides and bridesmaids to show appreciation for each other and say thank you for always being there. Bridesmaid Gift Baskets are a very pretty (and quick!) gift, and you can always pair it with a smaller, more personal gift. Happy wedding planning!

Oh, there’s just something so tranquil and wonderful about going to the spa. It’s a great way to unwind – the soothing music, calming spa services, and that beautifully soft bathrobe that is just so cozy! Planning an at-home spa day for Mom this Mother’s Day will be a welcome break from the hustle and bustle of family life, and will show her how much you care about her. Here’s our tips for a spa day worthy of the finest spas!

Cozy Bathrobe + Slippers

One of the key elements to unwinding is feeling comfortable. Visit a local department store and choose a so-soft bathrobe and slippers. Wake her up and gift her with both of these in a beautifully wrapped box, along with a card explaining the suite of spa services at her fingertips for the day.

Mother’s Day Gift Baskets

In addition to gifting her with a plush bathrobe and slippers, gift her with a Mother’s Day gift basket when she wakes up on Mother’s Day! Choose delights including our Amazing Daisies Floral Bouquet to brighten her smile, and our Tranquil Spa Mother’s Day Gift Basket to get her so excited for her at-home spa day.

Set The Scene

Next, dim the lights slightly and play soft, soothing music, just like you would relax to at a spa. Decide on the spa services she’ll be partaking in – simple but so welcome services include a relaxing bubble bath, pedicure, manicure, facial, and massage. Visit a spa or beauty store in your area to purchase an at-home facial kit for Mom to do herself. For a pedicure and manicure, gift Mom with all the essentials and several nail colors, and if there’s any daughters in the house, ask them to give Mom the manicure and pedicure. Ask Dad to give Mom a massage, and voila! A wonderful spa day is planned for Mom to unwind and relax to. Just be sure there is a spa “host” to take her “to and fro” each service!

Top It Off

The best way to end a spa day? With a sip of California wine from our California Wine Experience Mother’s Day Gift Basket, and a bite to eat – think grilled salmon, steak, or a delicious chicken dish, with a side of brown rice and asparagus.

Are you planning a spa day for Mom? What kind of spa “services” are you including in the day?

We couldn’t be more excited for Earth Day, on April 22^nd, this year! We’re based in picturesque Parker, Colorado, and although living in a location surrounded by beautiful mountains makes it a little easier to appreciate Mother Nature, we’ve been long supporters of Earth Day initiatives. In fact, we made a commitment to ourselves that in the 13 years we’ve been in business, we would make an effort to reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible – after all, even simple commitments, like recycling paper goods, can result in a big impact on our environment over time. We’ve also put a focus on including Organic Gift Baskets on our website, filled with organic products to help you stay healthy and enjoy these gourmet goodies and products the way nature intended.

Here’s a snapshot of just some of our much-loved organic gift baskets:

• Picnic Basket with Cider: Filled with sumptuous assorted fruits and cheeses, this organic gift basket boasts Theo Organic Mint Dark Chocolate and Theo Organic Orange Dark Chocolate.
• Dog Pound Gift Basket: Dogs should be healthy, too! Treat a pooch (and show a dog owner you care) with the Zukes Superfood Organic Dog Biscuits and Organic Banana Sweet Potato Dog Treats in this dog gift basket.
• Monkey Business Baby Gift Basket: Encourage an organic lifestyle from the very start for the new baby in your life! Created by Kara Nessian, this super cute gift basket is made from 100% Organic Cotton products.

Thinking about integrating more organic products into your life? Earth Day is the perfect way to kick this lifestyle change off! Besides choosing organic gift baskets, here’s a few easy ways to think organic:

• Milk: A recent study done by the United States Department of Agriculture found that pesticides existed in about 30% of regular milk. Don’t chance it – switch to organic milk.
• Peanut Butter: Do you pack a PB&J sandwich for your child? More than 99% of peanut farmers use fungicide in their crop treatment – something you certainly don’t want in your child’s lunch box!
• Apples: Pesticides run rampant in apple production, and as they’re a very popular fruit and juice, skip the risk of pesticides and go for organic apples.

We’d love to hear from you – leave a comment on how you plan to add more organic products into your everyday lifestyle!

Easter tends to have a more kid-friendly connotation to it, what with the cuddly Easter Bunny, kid’s Easter egg hunts, and of course all those scrumptious chocolates and candies. Us grown-ups can appreciate the Easter bunny, have fun at Easter egg hunts, and happily enjoy chocolate candy, so who says we can’t send and receive Easter Gift Baskets for Adults?! After all, age is only a number; and we’re of the mindset that chocolate is even more delicious as we age!

Easter Gift Baskets For Adults

Let’s take an Easter morning stroll through our Easter gift baskets designed with grown-ups in mind (and well, the kids can enjoy them too, we suppose!):

• Lindt Easter Gift Basket – Now, we’re not saying the kids won’t love Lindt chocolates, but as an adult, we know the Lindt brand and tend to well, adore it. An entire Lindt chocolate bunny? Oh, oh my.
• Ghirardelli Easter Basket – The kids are mighty pleased with their Snickers and Cadbury, but us adults have more refined chocolate tastes. Sure, we’ll snag a Kit Kat from their Easter basket, but Dark Raspberry, Almond, Luxe Milk, and Hazelnut Ghirardelli Chocolate Bars? Easter is my new favorite holiday!
• Sweet Easter Basket – What was the first thing you did with your Easter basket on Easter morning, as a kid? Ripped it open, of course! As an adult, we tend to appreciate the nicer things in life – like the pink and green cherry blossom container that holds the raspberry tea cookies and keylime taffy chews in our Sweet Easter Basket. Perfect for holding all of those little items, like our keys and pens, that would otherwise have a tendency to run away on us!
• Easter Gift Tower – want to send or receive the ultimate Easter gift basket for adults? Our seven-tiered Easter Gift Tower is absolutely mouthwateringly delicious. It’s filled with seven layers of scrumptious goodies – from lemon drops to white cheddar popcorn to perfectly baked cookies.

So who says kids have all the fun? We think Easter can be just as fun as an adult, so inject some extra fun in it this year for you and the fellow grown-ups, and gift Easter Gift Baskets!

Many of us have treasured holiday traditions – like enjoying Christmas Eve dinner together, whipping up pork on New Year’s Day, and filling an Easter basket with candy treats and Easter dinner goodies. We decided to do a bit of research on some of the common Easter Gift Basket traditions out there, and were so pleased to see such rich tradition only continuing – it’s really interesting!

Blessing Of The Easter Basket – Eastern Europe brought us the Christian “blessing of the Easter basket” tradition that was brought to the United States by Polish-Americans. Many Christians would gather together before the Easter holiday in their respective churches waiting for their priest to bless their Easter baskets. Many churches continue to recognize the importance of this tradition and do have blessing of the basket services.

Easter Gift Basket Food Traditions – One of our favorite parts of the Easter holiday has always been the food, and oh, enjoying delicious food on Easter has been a long-standing tradition. Some of the traditional foods you’ll find inside Easter gift baskets include:

• Pysanky eggs
• Krashanky eggs – dyed hard boiled eggs (like the ones you made as a kid with Mom!)
• Salt and pepper
• Butter – usually resembles a lamb
• Cheese
• Horseradish
• Ham and various smoked meats
• Kielbasa

A newer tradition has been to include Easter chocolate goodies, such as those hollow chocolate bunnies we all love and adore, along with any kind of special jewelry or mementos.

Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs – The depiction of a large bunny delivering Easter eggs on Easter morning is another time-honored tradition. The Easter bunny – and eggs – are both symbols that reflect the Springtime sense of renewal and fertile soil. We just happen to include a bit more chocolate in our Easter Gift Baskets these days!

In a world so full of change, it’s refreshing to see wonderful Easter traditions still being continued. We’re all for new traditions being created and added in, and we hope you’ll make choosing a beautiful Easter gift basket from BisketBaskets.com one of them this year!

It’s hard to believe Easter is just a bunny hop away, but we’ve already been hard at work creating Easter Gift Baskets for our loyal customers. We’ve noticed that our Ghirardelli Easter Basket has been one of most popular Easter gift baskets for the last few Easter seasons, and we thought we’d take some time to shed the spotlight on the company that is Ghirardelli – the makers of absolutely fine chocolates.

Rich In Chocolate, Rich In Tradition

Ghirardelli was incorporated in 1852 and is still in business today – that’s a whole lot longer than most businesses these days! They’re proud to be able to say that they control the entire chocolate manufacturing process for their chocolates, meaning that they are able to ensure their chocolate is as exquisite as Ghirardelli requires it to be. Ghirardelli is a company with high standards, and they make sure their chocolate reflects this.

Variety Is The Spice Of…Chocolate?

We love to hear from our customers, and one of the common feedback themes from our Ghirardelli Easter Basket customers is how they love the different Ghirardelli chocolate varieties in it. We include different varieties in each Ghirardelli Easter Basket, but you can rest assured knowing that each will include four 3.5 oz Ghirardelli chocolate bars, two .53 oz Ghirardelli assorted chocolates, and 2 oz. Ghirardelli double chocolate caffe. Ghirardelli has found a niche for itself in developing different varieties of chocolate, such as their LUXE MILK™ Hazelnut, LUXE MILK™ Toffee, Dark Chocolate with Raspberry Filling, Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt Caramel Filling, Dark Chocolate with Orange, and so much more.

We take pride in each and every Easter gift basket that we create, and we always want to make sure the goodies inside them reflect this commitment to quality. Ghirardelli has the same high standards we do, and together we’re proud to offer our Ghirardelli Easter Basket!

We (and our dogs!) couldn’t agree more with the quote, attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, “Dogs are miracles with paws.” If you have a dog yourself, or a friend, family member, or colleague or client has a dog, they likely have photos of their darling dog around, or mention Baxter in conversation. When it comes time to gift shopping, even if it’s a simple thank you gift, you’re going to be thinking hard about their interests. If their dog pops into your mind, well, you’ve got it made!

Think: Dog Gift Baskets

We know you’re short on time, and running out to the mall, selecting the right gift, going home, wrapping it, and writing a card out doesn’t exactly fit into your schedule well. That’s why we’re here – we were one of the first companies to create and offer Dog Gift Baskets, and we’ve only enhanced our Baxter-approved gift baskets since then. It’s a cute way to show the dog’s owner that you appreciate them – and are listening to them, too!

Think: Dog Photo Frame

Visit your local gift store and pick up a dog-themed photo frame. If you can find a photo of the dog owner with their dog, perhaps on Facebook, print it out, place it in the frame, and wrap the frame in tissue paper. No need to fret if you don’t have a photo – the dog-themed photo frame is certainly thoughtful too, and they’ll appreciate that you have paid attention to their interests!

Think: Dog and Owner Spa Day

Are you able to splurge a bit more? Think of this gift as a “two-parter” – a spa gift certificate for the dog owner, and a gift certificate for Baxter to a local dog grooming spa. It’s a cute way to help both dog owner and dog relax and enjoy some pampering!

One of the keys to successful gifting is choosing a gift that really means something to the recipient – a gift that embraces their interests or reflects their personality. If they’re over the moon about their pooch, a Dog Gift Basket is a great way to show them you’re paying attention and care about what they care about, too!

She might say Valentine’s Day is overrated, but chances are, your girlfriend, fiancée, or wife hopes that you’ll do something special for her on Valentine’s Day. We know you’re feeling the pressure, but we want you to have a relaxing and enjoyable Valentine’s Day, too. Valentine’s Day Gift Baskets set the pace for a romantic Valentine’s Day that exceeds her expectations and turns you into Prince Charming . Just follow our directions!

Step 1: Make/Bring Her Breakfast. We know you’re both heading to work and are short on time, but wake up a half hour earlier than usual and either make breakfast for her (pancakes are easy and a-okay!), or bring breakfast to her, along with a delicious latte.

Step 2: Surprise Her With A Valentine’s Day Gift Basket or Flowers. We don’t always want to admit it to ourselves, but isn’t being surprised with flowers or a romantic gift basket in the office or on our doorstep such a great feeling? Make her the envy of the office (or the block!) by having our Valentine’s Love Forever Flowers or our Valentine Reeses Gift Basket delivered to her, with a sweet note on the included hand written gift message.

Step 3: Keep Her On The Edge Of Her Seat. She’s likely going to wonder if you made dinner plans anywhere. Call her in the afternoon to let her know the Valentine’s Day celebrations will be continuing. It’s a great way to “tease” the night ahead, and you can even give her three clues on where the night will be taking the two of you.

Step 4: Dinner and a Movie, Your Way. Restaurants are often rushed on Valentine’s Day, so if you prefer not to go out for dinner, use your culinary expertise to whip up a delicious dish, or order takeout from one of your favorite restaurants. Throw a nice tablecloth on the dinner table at home, break out the nice silverware and wine glasses, and have a fantastic night in. Afterwards, rent a movie and enjoy one of our Wine Gift Baskets, toasting to an absolutely perfect Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s Day might not be your favorite day of the year, but that will all change this year! We’re here to help take the pressure out of Valentine’s Day and make it a love-filled day for the both of you. After all, real men wear pink on their sleeves!

The hustle and bustle of the holidays tends to add a little pep in our step in November and December, but oh, when January rolls around, don’t you just feel a little worn out after the holidays? If not, you’re lucky! If you’re like the rest of us, there’s the temptation for the January slump – those dreaded winter blues – to creep in. We have long, cold winters here in Parker, Colorado, and we want to help you beat the winter doldrums with some tips that we use, as well as getting your focus on the next holiday to come round, and Valentine’s Day Gift Baskets to celebrate it with!

Tip #1: Exercise. New Year’s resolutions come and go, but exercise for your happiness. Data does show that exercise has the ability to improve your mood and simply help you feel great, so get some warm clothes on and head outside for a walk, run, snowshoeing, skiing, etc. Or, head to the gym a few nights each week.

Tip #2: Good nutrition. You really are what you eat, and if you’re eating junk food all day long, you’re going to feel like junk. Improve your mood by eating healthier items – simply search for “quick healthy recipes” in Google, and you’ll have an arsenal of healthy recipes at your fingertips!

Tip #3: Good lighting. Doctors often prescribe ultraviolet lighting for Seasonal Affective Disorder sufferers, but whether you have a bona-fide condition or need a pick-me-up, surrounding yourself in warm lighting can also promote feelings of happiness. Just be careful about that electric bill!

Tip #4: Valentine’s Day. You don’t have to be in a relationship to love Valentine’s Day. We can bet you have family, friends, and pets in your life that you absolutely adore. Focus your Valentine’s Day energy in showing these people (and pets) how much you appreciate them. Sending surprise Valentine’s Day Gift Baskets is a great way to send a smile, and in turn, you’ll likely feel happier too!

Tip #5: Start Planning. Doesn’t the world seem a little rosier when you have something to look forward to? Start planning your Spring or Summer vacation – the research itself will boost you out of those doldrums! Can’t do a vacation? Set your sights on a Spring project, like growing a garden, or cleaning out all that clutter in your home.

We’re excited for what 2012 will bring us here at Bisket Baskets, and we hope we’ve helped you boost your mood a bit and get out of those winter doldrums! Let’s all look forward to a love-filled Valentine’s Day, as warmth and affection for the people around us is a sure-fire way to put a smile on our face.

Wasn’t it July just a moment ago? In the ring of a jingle bell, it’s suddenly only a handful of hours until Christmas Day. Our elves here at Bisket Baskets have been happily filling Christmas gift basket orders, and in the spirit of goodwill, we’ve decided to put some of our most-loved Christmas gift baskets on sale, for today only! If you order today, you can select the 2 Day Air shipping option so Santa and his reindeer (er, the Postal Service) can speedily get your holiday gift basket to you by Christmas Day.

You can shop our Christmas Gift Baskets On Sale by checking out any gifts with the “Sale Today Only!” banner on them. We’re gifting you with prices reduced by even $50, in some of our gift baskets – and as always, your gift will be beautifully designed and filled with all the gourmet goodies we list in the product description. Here’s some highlights – and remember, 2 Day Air is your friend as Christmas nears!

The Ritz At Christmas Gift Basket: Originally listed at $174.99, this robust gift basket is on sale today for only $159.99! It features glittering gold décor, mixed with goodies like caviar, smoked salmon, toffee pretzels, chocolate pastry, Ghirardelli chocolates, and much more.

Home For The Holidays: Frosty the Snowman might be feeling a little chilly, but this snowman-themed Christmas gift basket sends so much warmth! Originally at $94.99 and on sale for $89.99, this is a wonderful gift for your in-laws, a family member’s significant other, or a next-door neighbor.

Grand Christmas Gourmet Gift Basket: This is another of our most-loved Christmas gift baskets, filled with gourmet cookies and cream chocolate bark, seasonal drink selections, butter toffee pretzels, smoked salmon, and more deliciousness! It’s perfect for gifting to an entire family. It’s on sale for $119.99!

We have 14 Christmas Gift Baskets On Sale, all filled with festive goodies that are wonderful for gifting to friends and family, and very economical for gifting to an entire family. We also have three Pet Christmas Gift Baskets on sale too, so cute for all those pet lovers in your life!

Sure, 2 Day Air costs a bit more, but with our Christmas gift baskets on sale, you’ll be able to balance out the cost of shipping it quickly. After all, you want the holidays to be perfect, and we’re here to take the stress away and make them as perfect as possible for you! Happy Holidays!