Gift Baskets

Did you know that the second week of August is actually National Smile Week? With this special occasion right around the corner, it pays to take the time to gather together all of your best cheer and spread it around to your friends and loved ones. It’s so important to celebrate the people in your life who make you smile, plus, when you give a little sunshine back, it’s sure to bring a smile to everyone’s faces! If you’re looking for a great way to celebrate National Smile Week, consider sending a cute and sunny gift basket from BisketBaskets.com. Trust us – it’ll be a complete surprise and it’s something cheery that’s sure to bring a big, beautiful smile!

Here are some of our top picks for spreading cheer during National Smile Week:

It’s Your Sunny Day Bouquet: A cheery blend of roses, carnations, lilies, and solidago come together beautifully in this sunny floral bouquet featuring a great design and a fragrant scent. Someone special will love receiving this lovely gift at home or at the office unexpectedly, surely bringing a smile!

Ice Cream Parlor Dog Gift: Who says that smiles have to come from people? You can also send a special treat to a dog you love by choosing this dog gift basket from BisketBaskets.com. Filled to the brim with bakery biscuits and dog-friendly freeze dried ice cream, this gift basket for dogs is the right amount of summer sweetness. Share with a pup you love!

Sunshine Surprise Gift for Kids: You can also bring a smile to the face of a niece, nephew, grandchild, daughter, or son with this great gift basket for kids from BisketBaskets.com. A box of yummy treats, colorful crayons, activity book, rockin’ pair of sunglasses, silly slinky, and a colorful gift bag help to make up this surprise that’s perfect for that special boy or girl in your life.

Sunshine Care Package: Looking for a scrumptious way to send a smile? Then send this Sunshine Gift Basket from BisketBaskets.com. Rocky Mountain popcorn, raspberry tea cookies, refreshing drink mixes, a ceramic mug, and decadent chocolates are just a few of the gourmet delights you’ll find this this cute and clever care package. Get yours and send a smile with BisketBaskets.com!

Just as clothing styles change every few years (and every season, for some!), websites need a bit of a sprucing up from time to time, too. Our customers are our top priority, and creating an easy-to-navigate website is our utmost concern, as we want you to be able to spend  less time shopping online for our beautiful gift baskets, and more time actually enjoying them! And that’s just what we did – check out the new and improved BisketBaskets.com!

Here’s a screenshot of our redesign:

We’re so proud of the new site, we just adore it, and we think the colors are so warm and friendly! We hope you’ll visit the site, take a look around, and of course let us know if there’s anything extra you’d love to see! A big THANK YOU goes out to all the talented people who helped us plan and design the new site, as well as the great feedback we heard from our friends and loyal customers!

It’s summer and it’s hot. Instead of toiling away in the kitchen cooking treats for the summer parties you’re attending or hosting, instead bring a flower bouquet along! Sure, there is a bit of a cost, but compared to the time you’re saving and the pretty bouquet you’ll be giving to the host, it’s certainly worth it! Flowers are always appreciated, and are a must in the summertime.

Just think, what could be better in a party buffet than a bouquet of colorful, great-smelling fresh flowers? They instantly brighten up any room and they always add a touch of class and elegance. So instead of worrying about whether or not someone will have made the same dish as you, try sending your host a beautiful floral bouquet from BisketBaskets.com.

Not sure which bouquets are a good fit? Here are some flower bouquets that are perfect for many common summertime parties and get-togethers!

Gerber Daisy Flower Bouquet

Perfect for Any Occasion
This cheery favorite includes 12 assorted colored Gerbera daisies that are sure to brighten up any picnic table, dining room table, or counter top. Give this bouquet to your hostess and she’ll instantly know how much you care!

It’s Your Sunny Day Flower Bouquet

Perfect For Backyard Barbecues or Pool Parties
Give your hostess some sunshine and smile at her summer picnic by choosing this sunny bouquet that features roses, carnations, lilies, solidago, and more! Include a gift message to say “thanks!” for the invitation to her get-together.

Snapdragon Floral Bouquet

Perfect for July 4th Parties
These beautiful blooms are a favorite during the summertime and if you want to celebrate July 4th with some “fireworks”, then send these fantastic flowers to your hostess. Each snapdragon looks like a shimmering firework in a vibrant hue. Beautiful!

Polka Dots and Posies Flower Bouquet

Perfect for Baby Showers
Going to a baby shower? Bring along this stunning floral bouquet to delight your host as well as whomever is expecting! She’ll love the spray roses and daisy spray chrysanthemums that come in this pretty bouquet, displayed gorgeously in a polka dotted glass vase.

Sorbet Floral Bouquet

Perfect For Wedding Showers
Gift a bride-to-be or your hostess with a stunning bouquet that showcases all of the best colors of the season. This gorgeous collection of blooms includes carnations, roses, and bupleurum to create a stunning look that’s easy to fall in love with!

Remember, all of these beautiful bouquets are made and delivered fresh by a local florist so that there’s never any risk of those flowers not arriving as beautiful as they could be! Order your floral bouquet from BisketBaskets.com and be ready for any occasion this summer!

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 21 and that’s not too far away. Now is the time to start planning how you’re going to make Dad feel like he’s loved and appreciated on that special day. Luckily, to make it easy, BisketBaskets.com has some great suggestions on how you can spend Father’s Day with a special guy in your life, not to mention, a few great gift baskets.

Take Him Fishing

If your father loves the great outdoors, then pack up your gear and head outside! Your Dad will love going on a father/son or father/daughter fishing trip. Spend the day on the water and when you start getting hungry for a snack, gift your Dad with our Fishing Creek Father’s Day Gift Basket.

Take Him to A Baseball Game

Does your Dad love to watch sports? Then indulge his love of the game by giving him a new hat or jersey and tickets to a major league sporting event this summer. Just don’t forget to give him a great Father’s Day gift basket on game day, like our yummy Baseball Cookie Bouquet. Trust us – this gift is a home run!

Take Him on Vacation

Send your Dad on a great giveaway by booking him a trip to somewhere special. Send him and Mom to a rustic mountain retreat, a cozy beach house, or somewhere where he can work on his golf game. Just remind him that it’s all about taking time to enjoy himself when you give him the Time for Dad Gift Basket.

Hey Dad, do you need some help with Mother’s Day?

If you’re looking to help your child select the perfect Mother’s Day present for that special woman in your life, BisketBaskets.com has a few tips. Our selection of beautiful Mother’s Day Gift Baskets is perfect for shopping when you need to find the right gift for Mom, plus, there are tons of great ways you can personalize your Mother’s Day Gift Basket so that Mom knows just how much you both care. Shop the selection of Mother’s Day Gift Baskets to get started and once you have your gift, it’s time to make a special, personalized Mother’s Day card with your child.

So what do you need for a homemade Mother’s Day card? Well, for starters, you’re going to have to be creative.

You’ll need:

• Paper
• Glue
• Markers or crayons
• Scissors
• Ribbon
• Felt
• Glitter

First, take a sheet of paper and fold it in half so that it makes a card shape. Then, using other colored papers, cut out letters to spell out Happy Mother’s Day. Or, if you’d prefer, you can use your favorite markers and crayons to write it out. Then, accent the letters with glitter and glue to add just the right amount of sparkle. Let dry.

On the inside of your card, feel free to write a note to Mom letting her know just how much you care and appreciate all of the things she does for you. Or, you can always include a special Mother’s Day poem or saying, like:  “Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over.” – George Cooper. Use your crayons and markers to write out your note or to decorate the interior. Also play with felt shapes, ribbon, and glitter to complete the interior and make the card look even better.

Finally, on the back, write your child’s name and the date so that the card will always be remembered for many Mother’s Days to come!

Now is the time of school spring breaks and many of us are traveling the country and some even the world looking for that special relaxing location that lets us get away from it all.  White sandy beaches in the Caribbean with temperatures in the upper 80’s are just what the doctor ordered after a long cold winter; while for others it’s that last trip to the Rockies to get in some final skiing of the season.  With BisketBaskets.com being located just outside of Denver Colorado, we know all about the latter!  We are always bathed in bright warm sunshine here but the snow seems to not want to let go in April either so among beautiful 70’s and 80’s we get that gentle reminder that it’s not summer yet with a fresh coating of white snow every now and then.  

Many of us hit the condos and hotels directly on the ocean or tucked away in the mountains while still others are fortunate to have family and friends in all the right locations!  Be sure you let them know just how much you appreciate their hospitality by sending them a very delicious thank you gift basket.  We send a lot of thank you gifts during the spring break season to thank people for sharing their home and putting up with them for the week’s break but we send even more to the family dog and cat that have shared their backyard or litter box!  So if you’re wondering what would be a great thank you for your hospitality gift; look no further as we have a vast assortment of thank you gifts that would be perfect for recipients of any age.  We offer sweet candy bouquets made with only the most awesome candy like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups or M&M’s and even Skittles or how about a festive cookie bouquet or pet gift baskets along with the traditional gourmet food gift baskets that everyone just loves!  You can select from chocolate gifts, tea baskets, soup baskets, wine themed gift baskets and so much more.  Drop on by and take a look at what we can send to that great bunch of people you just shared their place with. 

We ship throughout the USA and Canada so there is no need to leave anyone out and our ground shipping delivers to about 75% of the USA in just 3 business days!  Say THANK YOU today and let us know your favorite spring travel destination!

Where is your favorite spring break location?

Warm weather, birds chirping, and sunshine are here!  It’s finally spring and that means that it’s time to send a little extra warmth to those you love. After all, it has been a long and dark winter. When you want to show some one

Here is our top five Spring and Summer Gift Basket picks for sharing something special – and springy! – with those you love.

1.) The Tea Garden Gift Basket: This Spring Gift Basket is perfect for welcoming the season in style. Filled with different flavored teas, biscotti, rich chocolates, and beautiful mugs, this gift is sure to be perfect on the patio or out in the garden when someone you love is enjoying the sunshine.

2.) It’s Your Sunny Day Floral Bouquet: Send a little sunshine and a smile when you gift someone you love with this beautiful, bright, and fragrant floral display. Roses, carnations, lilies, and more make this fresh floral bouquet a breath of fresh air that truly celebrates the best of the season.

3.) Caramel Apples Fruit Gift Basket: This yummy gift basket from BisketBaskets.com features crisp, delicious apples, caramel dipping sauce, roasted peanuts, and more to enjoy on a picnic in the park in the warm weather. Simply divine!

4.) Sunshine Care Package: You’ve never seen a Spring Gift Basket this good! Filled with raspberry dip mix, crunchy popcorn, yummy cookies, chocolates, and so much more, this gift basket from BisketBaskets.com is sure to bring a smile. Perfect for sending to college students as a Spring Break or Easter Break treat!

5.) Bee Cookie Bouquet: Hand decorated butter crème cookies make up this fun and festive cookie bouquet that’s perfect for welcoming spring. This gift features a lovely flower and bumble bee theme that’s a cheery way to celebrate all of this sunshine – oh yes, and it’s delicious too!

Taking a few minutes and a few dollars to select a great gift can dramatically brighten anyone’s day, and it really goes a long way in showing how much you care. So go ahead – gift someone you care about with something cheery and in line with the season by shopping the selection at BisketBaskets.com.

How did the Easter Bunny and all those Easter eggs make it into the Easter picture?  This was really an interesting question because we all know that rabbits don’t lay eggs!  For this we needed to do a bit of research just so that you can answer all those tough questions from your youngster.  

The very beginning of the Easter Bunny goes back to Germany in the early 1600’s as that is when the first writings began that talked of this mysterious bunny.  Germans among many other nationalities made their pilgrimage to America in the 1700’s and like others brought their beliefs and traditions with them.  The Germans settled in large numbers in what is now known as the Pennsylvania Dutch Country and the German children all believed that if they were good a magical rabbit (Osterhase) would leave them a nest filled with beautiful colored eggs on Easter morning.  This magical rabbit was very similar to the stories of Kriist Kindle (Kris Kringle) where good boys and girls were given gifts on the night before the holiday. 

As with any tradition, the beginning of that tradition usually begins because of a celebration or the need of a celebration.  In this particular case both the Church and the season blends together to combine both the celebration of Christ and the resurrection and the celebration of new life with spring’s arrival.  These two very different occasions actually cross paths and have merely blended over history. 

According to the Catholic Church, the 40 days prior to Easter is known as Lent and during this time of Lent back in the 600’s Pope Gregory the Great forbade the consumption of eggs.  Therefore upon Easter day, eggs were again able to be consumed and it made for a special treat.  European cultures have expanded on the egg theme where they began to color the eggs in vibrant colors and gave them as gifts. 

The children however made nests out of their brightly colored bonnets and hats so that the magical rabbit (Easter Bunny) would lay the eggs inside if they were good girls and boys.  Then as time passes the Easter Basket was designed to hold these precious eggs and the legend continues as the Easter Bunny now hides the Easter eggs for good children to find. 

The symbolic bunny along with the chick was chosen to represent this holiday.  Once again reverting back to a reason to celebrate, spring was in the air; a changing of seasons and the renewal of life.  With both rabbits and birds being prolific breeders they represented symbols of fertility. 

Today, children and adults love to share Easter Bunny stories along with their views and beliefs of Christianity and the tradition still continues.  It’s always interesting to learn just what triggered a specific holiday but when you have Christian values combined with an Easter Bunny somehow it appeared that something went terribly wrong!  In actuality the two occasions blended into one and our Easter holiday now combines both Christian beliefs along with secular traditions. 

To help in celebrating Easter with your family and friends, be sure to stop by our retail website BisketBaskets.com where you can find Easter Gift Baskets for kids of all ages!  We’ve come a long way since those edible Easter Bunnies that were made of pastry and sugar back in the 1800’s to some fabulous Easter Baskets filled with Reese’s candy or Ghirardelli Easter Baskets or even a dog Easter Basket!  Shop early and we can deliver in time for Easter.

We’re all special in different ways, but when it comes time to gift, we all want to do the same thing: delight someone we care about! This holiday season, as you shop for all of those different personalities on your holiday shopping list, remember that BisketBaskets.com has some fantastic holiday gift baskets that are just perfect for about anyone. Want to gift something that really fits that person? Here’s a few of our favorite picks:

For Someone Who Loves Wine

Wine lovers have discriminating tastes, so you need to be on top of your gifting game when finding the right present. To start out with, check out the Wine Christmas Gift Baskets at BisketBaskets.com. Filled with wine-themed gourmet treats of the highest quality, this basket is sure to please. All you have to add is just a nice bottle of wine and you’ve got a wonderful gift that any wine lover can enjoy. Whether it’s a quiet night in or an entertaining dinner party, the treats in these gift baskets can help your wine lover celebrate.

For Someone Who Needs to Relax

For that person who just needs to slow down and chill, the only gift – short of a vacation – is a Spa Christmas Gift Basket from BisketBaskets.com. Filled with lotions and potions to pamper your loved one, these gift baskets are ideal for giving someone you love the care and attention he or she needs to relax and get that time needed to unwind. Choose from a variety of soothing scents to find the perfect fit.

For Someone Who Loves Pets

The holidays deserve to be celebrated with everyone in the family, including the furry members! If you have a pet lover in your life and you need to find the perfect gift, try any of the Pet and Owner Christmas Gift Baskets from BisketBaskets.com. Filled with goodies for both dog and owner, these gifts are must-haves for the holidays. Get yours today exclusively at BisketBaskets.com and give a gift that gets two paws up!

The shopping is done, the food is all bought and many of us are finishing up the pumpkin pies, bread rolls and breaking the bread for the stuffing for tomorrow’s big dinner.  We can’t help but be thankful for all we receive, the friends we have and the family that live so close by; close enough to share dinner with us on this festive holiday.  After the dishes are washed and the platters all put away we will be reviewing those Black Friday Advertisements looking for that very special deal. 

It has been tradition in our family being passed down from generation to generation to begin Black Friday with an early morning trip out to breakfast to have that much needed cup of java and tea to get our day going, you see if you’re like us it the early bird that gets the worm.  I’ve just learned that Kohl’s is opening at 4 AM and I’m already making my shopping list!  The husbands all think we’re nuts but we know the real meaning of a good deal and it comes in stores on Black Friday!

While most are just starting their holiday shopping on Black Friday, many are finishing up this very same day.  I tend to be one of those people finishing up but love the crowds that Black Friday brings out.  Usually I am down to needing just a couple gifts for those harder to buy for people on my list.  I always know that I can rely on their favorite gifts; Christmas gift baskets!  With all the good tasting treats and sweets included inside our gifts they are always a welcomed gift and good tasting too! 

At BisketBaskets.com we have Christmas gift baskets for families, corporations, clients, dogs, cats and pet lovers; something for everyone!  Come visit us online and shop our lowest prices in years.  You can shop early and have your gift shipped closer to Christmas; our ground shipping fee for the lower 48 is only $9.99 and we ship to Canada too!