Are you all ready for this? Can you stand the anticipation? Drum roll please! Congratulations to Kandice Young (posted at August 25, 2011 at 12:29 pm) and Marcie (posted at August 18, 2011 at 7:23 pm)! Please send your full names and address to me at amariscal@1800flowers.com and I can send over your box of Chocolate Covered Strawberries! As always, thank you to everyone for participating and don’t forget to tell your friends to join us on Facebook.
Fall is almost here, everyone! Fall! Don’t get me wrong, I like summer. I’m a summer baby, gets me my vitamin D, lots of fun activities, but it’s humid and makes me question why I can’t just pant like a dog to cool myself down. Also, I get really annoyed every year that I don’t have my own pool to just live in, so there’s that. Autumn has my heart. I love autumn trees, apples, apple picking, apple orchards, pumpkin carving, wearing warm sweaters, good fitting jeans, apple cider, dutch apple pie, apple cider donuts (I know, who do I think I am with all this ‘apple’ talk? Rachel Ray?), crisp air; everything about fall…sign me up please!
August 31 is National Eat Outside Day and providing your weather preferences, whether it’s still summery or takes a brisk turn toward sweater season, this is always a fun thing to do! I know, I know, I hear you guys. We already talked about picnics, but to be fair, we are getting closer to our last days of summer and pretty soon you’re not going to be able to eat outside and then you’ll be snowed in and staring out your window remembering the fun times you had sitting on the grass breathing in fresh air while eating sandwiches. Let us help you pick out something sweet for those peaceful nights reminiscing about summer fun with friends and family or a relaxing afternoon in the park.
Shades of Autumn Gift Basket, product code: 94780
To celebrate the upcoming season, I wanted to give you guys an exclusive sneak peek at a couple of deliciously wonderful fall gifts that we have coming up! First up we have the Shades of Autumn Gift Basket that pretty much embodies most things I love about fall. A real wooden basket using all the beautiful colors of the season, it’s overflowing with sweet autumn treats like spiced apple cider mix, sparkling apple juice, pear chips, a decorated pumpkin cut out cookie, DeBeukelaer® Pirouline® Chocolate Flavor Lined Wafer Rolls, and many more seasonal sweets. How perfect is this for a fall picnic basket? I would take that out in a heart beat with a nice plaid blanket to sit on, my orange knit sweater, a good book…seriously, is it fall yet?
Falling Leaves Sweets Tower, product code: 94779
And then we have the Falling Leaves Tall Sweets Tower, which I don’t know if I’ve ever called a gift tower precious before but this seems like a good place to start. Perfect as a beautiful centerpiece with the surprise of delectable sweets waiting for you inside like The Popcorn Factory® decadent Drizzled Caramel Popcorn, Brown & Haley® Almond Roca® Buttercrunch Toffee, buttery-sweet strawberry jam shortbread cookies, and more. It’s a seriously amazing gift for anyone who loves the autumn season.
Both gifts are like an instant party in a box, just set down and open; perfect for the last campout of summer, any fall parties coming up, a romantic basket for two…anything you can come up with! These great gifts aren’t up on the site yet, but expect them very soon in the next couple of weeks. For now, we’ll be giving away an advanced Shades of Autumn Gift Basket to two very lucky winners! Just let us know here on the blog, in 1-2 paragraphs in the Comments section below, what are you most excited about for fall? Can’t wait to read all of your responses!
