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Gift Baskets, Party!, Summer Time Gift, Uncategorized

Not the average bear-eakfast picnic basket

July 28, 2011

Whoops! Looks like I was still a little loopy yesterday and forgot to pick a second winner for our fruit gift baskets. Some of you must be picking up a lot of lucky pennies to get all these chances to win. Congratulations to Swisspotluck (posted at July 19, 2011 at 11:57 pm)! Please send your real name and address to amariscal@1800flowers.com and I can send you a fruit gift basket. Now on with the show!

Picnics! Everyone loves picnics; Adults, kids, bears, everyone! July and August fall into the wonderful time known as picnic season, when it’s guaranteed to be nice, sunny, and cheerful out (unless of course you live in the Midwest where it’s apparently ‘anything goes’). Picnics are a great way to find another use for your gift baskets, and spend some quality time in the great outdoors.

"We love picnics!"- Those guys.

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Gift Baskets, Gift Baskets Catalog, Product Designers, Uncategorized

Exclusive 1800Baskets.com Sneak Peeks!

July 14, 2011

Welcome back Baskets Readers,

Hooray! I think everyone deserves a good pat on the back, high five, or congratulations-method of choice. Our “50 Likes Challenge” on Facebook was a HUGE success; also it appears that everyone here really did make a lot of new friends, which is always something to celebrate. As promised, because you were all so great at getting us to our goal, I have 4 random winners to announce. Congratulations to Patty Mitchell (posted at July 11, 2011 at 4:21 pm), Arturo Cabrera (posted at July 7, 2011 at 5:29 pm), Kathy S (posted at July 14, 2011 at 2:09 pm), and Ashley (posted at July 8, 2011 at 8:45 pm)! You will each be receiving our Tazo® Take A Break Tea & Teapot Gift Set that was featured in last weeks’ blog post. Please send your full name, address and any questions to amariscal@1800flowers.com and we can get your prize sent to you. As always, thank you so much to all of our readers. We really do appreciate and take into consideration all of your input.

Does everyone have access to a non-descript trench coat, black sunglasses and maybe a fedora? Being loyal Baskets readers, I would like to let you in on a couple of exclusive sneak peeks to some incredible treats we have coming your way. First things first: be on the lookout Tuesday July 19, to enter for a spectacular gourmet give-away on our Facebook page. I can’t say too much about it (top-secret, official business stuff) but the prize is valued at over $500! Share the secret and tell a friend to check out our page as well (don’t worry; we’ll still recognize that you heard it first).

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Feedback, For the Love of Coffee, Gift Baskets, Gift Baskets Catalog, Product Designers, Summer Time Gift, Uncategorized

10 Ways to Spruce Up Your Space

July 7, 2011

Hello again, Baskets Readers!

WOW! We had a HUGE influx of commenters to the blog today. Thank you to everyone who has read and participated, I hope you all stick around. Before we get into this weeks post, we have 2 winners to announce from last weeks’ contest. Congratulations to our two random winners, JD Burnsed (posted July 7, 2011 at 11:04 am) and Patricia Sauber (posted July 2, 2011 at 11:55 pm)! You will both receive the Regal Oak Grandeur Gift Basket. Please send your full name and address to amariscal@1800flowers.com and we can help you claim your prize. To our other readers, stick around at the end for another possible contest!

Friendly Baskets blogger at home w/part of the Starbucks® Break Time gift basket!

Mondays! Ack! Okay, so it’s not actually Monday, but it feels like it right? The week after any holiday weekend always feels like a series of never-ending Mondays. Extended holiday weekends are all fun, beach trips, excessive eating and games, until you wake up to find an army of ants making claims of Manifest Destiny over your kitchen. Which, coincidentally is also the time you curse your apartment for its lack of a dishwasher appliance (yeah, that one is probably just me). Maybe you had a fun party weekend in or out of the house, or maybe you’re Joey Chestnut and on your fifth consecutive hot dog eating championship win (woof!). Either way, I think we can all agree that we need a break from our vacations (also we need to clean and rightfully take back our kitchens).

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Gift Baskets, Holiday Gift Baskets, Party!, Summer Time Gift, Uncategorized

Be the “Hostess with the Mostest” at your own Fourth of July celebration!

June 30, 2011
Summer Shrimp Salad Recipe

Hello readers!

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week’s contest, we always love bringing you the best information and hearing what you have to say. As far as this last contest goes, there can only be one winner. Congratulations to our random winner, Bob (posted June 23, 2011 at 4:25 pm)! Please send your full name, address and gift basket selection (from the “gift baskets” gift type page) to amariscal@1800flowers.com and we can help you claim your prize. To our other readers, stick around at the end for another contest!

My grandma

my grandma

The excitement is far from over though, so don’t navigate away from me! (See? I can do internet humor). Are you all still with me? (Phew). This week we’ll be changing things up and featuring some hot summer food trends and ways to solidify your reign as “hostess with the mostest” (Martha won’t even know what’s coming). Fourth of July and summer in general, usually mean a lot of outdoor parties, grilling, and trying to come up with foods that won’t melt or make you melt in the sun. Usually I like to gather with friends or stop by my grandparents for a family party especially for my grandma’s Spanish rice and steak (we got half the holiday right). My grandma (pictured) is the one who typically does all the cooking, even the grilling (if she delivered, I would be set). At one particularly infamous family BBQs she was making her usual home-made salsa and chips and additional sauces for the meat, in which she cooks and adds a hot pepper or two, some cilantro, and usually chills the salsa (it normally helps cool you off). I guess she had too many dishes going at one time and didn’t realize how many peppers she added because what was normally a tasty and refreshing meal had nearly everyone red and drowning in their own sweat (even with the air conditioning). Eventually it became a challenge to see who would “sweat” it out the longest to please her. Needless to say, there is more taste testing during the cooking process now.

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Father's Day, Gift Baskets

When you’re too old to pass off a hand drawn card as a Father’s Day gift, with Alex

June 16, 2011
Alex the Intern

Hello, 1800Baskets blog readers!

I hope none of you have shied away during our little hiatus (not my fault, I promise, I’m new!), because we definitely have a lot of great, interesting topics and give-a-ways to get to this summer. Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming, I would like to introduce myself as someone other than an anonymous face who happens to blog about gift baskets. My name is Alex and I am a recent college grad interning at 1800Baskets.com and will be your new Summer Guest blogger.

Alex the Intern

Alex the Intern

To tell you the truth, I don’t really know too much about gift baskets, so this will be a huge learning process for me. Join me on this exciting adventure and read about my new discoveries, curiosities and even (willingly) help me out with what you want to know about as well. Now if I don’t know about gift baskets, then why work for 1800Baskets you ask? Well dear readers, let me explain. After a few job fairs where no one wanted to look at me unless I had a business degree, I found a booth that lured me in because I was convinced I would get to eat the contents of the gift basket if I talked to them, and if there is one fool-proof way to attract a college student, it’s offering free stuff. After talking to the nicest human resource representative, she told me that they keep getting people with business resumes but were actually looking for someone with a creative writing background (in your face other job fairs!). I was on board to learn about anything they asked of me, starting with that tasty looking gift basket at the booth, which I eventually won in a raffle later that day (Yeah me!).

After several weeks of emails, a couple of interviews, getting lost driving to the building, and a lot of research, I finally get to start my blog assignment of taking a close look at Father’s Day gift baskets. Being a procrastinating shopper myself, I’m always looking for a gift with good value and one that will convince my dad that my gift was planned and not a last minute grab (something tells me he’s not a clearance bin Hawaiian shirt kind of guy).

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Gift Baskets, Gift Baskets Catalog, Sweepstakes

1800Baskets.com BLOG for a chance TO WIN sweepstakes!

December 15, 2010
1800Baskets.com 2010 Catalog
1800Baskets.com 2010 Catalog
Welcome to the 1800Baskets.com BLOG for a chance TO WIN sweepstakes!

 

You could win a gift basket for yourself and one for a friend (each basket valued at $89.99)!

 

Just view our online catalog by clicking on the catalog pictured to your left (or find it at the bottom of the 1800Baskets.com homepage) and tell us about your favorite gift basket featured in our online holiday catalog and why it’s your favorite! Who would it be perfect for and why?

 
5 Winners! Blog Early! Blog Often!

(Click on “Comments” below to submit your comments)

Feel free to share this post with your friends & family – the more the merrier!

Winner Status:

Winner #1) Jen (Post #29 – December 16, 2010 at 8:14 pm) 
Winner #2) Claudia M. (Post #39 – December 17, 2010 at 9:25 am)
Winner #3) Sarah Sandoval (Post #49 – December 17, 2010 at 2:14 pm)
Winner #4) Zanvia (Post #54 – December 17, 2010 at 9:47 pm)
Winner #5) Andra Marino (Post #66 December 18, 2010 at 12:33 pm)

Click here for Official Rules

Gift Baskets, Thank You Gifts

Our Weekly Email (10/05) – Tell us what you think. (3 winners)

October 6, 2010
Gift Baskets
Gift Baskets for Every Occasion

Hi. We send out a weekly 1800Baskets.com email every Tuesday. We were thinking about how to turn that into a fun contest as well.  So how about this. After the email goes out each week (typically on Tuesdays), we’ll make a FB post and provide a link to the blog. On the blog, you tell us what you like and what you don’t about the weekly email. We’ll pick a few winners – again this week it’s 3 (wo hoo!) – and the winner gets one of the products featured in the email.

 

So for your feeback you post below, try and make it about a paragraph and please tell us BOTH the positive and the negative aspects of the email. As many of you know, we think feedback is vital, so that’s why we don’t shy away from asking for negative feedback. 

And as always, we want to let you know, we print out EACH AND EVERY COMMENT with your name next to it. We then bring the printed comments into our Design Room and discuss them.

In case you did not receive the email, please add 1800Baskets@email.1800baskets.com as a contact in your address book. If that doesn’t work, we have a backup for you. Click the link below!

View the Email 

Current Party Status: 

Winner #1)  Sidney Cook (October 8, 2010 at 7:35 pm)

Winner #2) Pamela Hansen (October 10, 2010 at 1:38 pm)

Winner #3) Herbert M (October 6, 2010 at 12:20 pm)

If anybody’s searching, here’s an active coupon code: BSKTS15FB (15% off your entire order).