Halloween Gift Baskets

October 2006: Halloween Gifts

We are reminded of Halloween as we look out our windows. The air is getting brisk and the fall leaves are turning beautiful shades of red and orange. Soon the small costumed children will be ringing your door bell looking for treats. Many of our customers do not live near their children and grandchildren and want to send a special gift to let them know they are remembered this Halloween. We have added several new Halloween gift baskets just for your recipients.

Your grandchildren will love our Scare Bear which is a simple black plush teddy bear holding Halloween cookies. The Jack O'Lantern o'Treats is a pumpkin filled to the brim with all of their favorite candies.

Your grown children will enjoy Mrs. Fields Harvest Tower with a variety of fresh fruit from the Fruit Company and Mrs. Fields chocolate chip cookies. The Fall Festival Gift Basket is a reusable scarecrow farm basket filled with a variety of gourmet treats like Italian hazelnut wafer cookies, Corn on the Cob microwave popcorn ear and Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Grandma, Grandpa and your special friends will love the Autumn Medley Gift Basket with its sweet pumpkin cookies, sesame crackers, gouda cheese, spicy mango tea, California herb-flavored almonds and a decadent chocolate truffle bar. Bountiful Harvest is perfect for the recipient who enjoys fresh fruit, smoked salmon, cheese, crackers and nuts.

Happy Halloween from Trishley Gift Baskets.

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August 2006: A Gift of Distinction

Gift baskets full of wine and gourmet foods make an inviting gift for your recipient. Despite our chocolate niche, wine gift baskets were our biggest seller last year and continue to be a popular choice for our customers. Because of the high demand for our wine baskets we continue to expand our selection. Our Wine Gift Baskets range in price from $43.95 to $274.95 so you can find the perfect gift for your recipient.

Trishley Gifts has recently added The California Wine Tasting to our selection. Your recipient will enjoy a California Cabernet Sauvignon, a California Chardonnay, honey roasted peanuts, Gouda cheese, California Crisps, 2 Ghirardelli chocolate bars and beef salami. Our customers can also choose from The Classic Combo filled with delicious fruit, wine and cheese or the Country Gourmet which is a picnic style basket filled with Columbia Crest Merlot, Bon Appetit Nuts, Napa Mustard, Merlot Cheese and Sesame Pepper Crostini. Our Super Grand Gourmet gift basket is stocked full of fine wines and gourmet treats making this a wonderful high-end gift for your business associates, friends and family.

We are thinking of our customers year round at Trishley. Enjoy your summer!

July 2006: It melts in your hands

Trishley Gifts is proud to provide our customers with a variety of gourmet chocolate treats from around the country. Chocolate melts in the warm summer months so many of our chocolate gifts and gift baskets require overnight shipping from June through September. Our summer shipping policy is a necessary precaution so your recipient receives their gift in perfect condition.

To better serve our customers throughout the summer months, we continue to search for new products that do not require overnight shipping. We recommend sending a Wine Gift Basket to the recipient who purchases a new home or has a summer birthday or anniversary. Our Kosher Gift baskets are shipped from New York City and are filled with a variety of cookies, teas, dried fruit, nuts and many other delicious gourmet treats that are perfect for any occasion. If your recipient has a sweet tooth, our Cookie Crumbs selection includes many mouth-watering cookie gift baskets and cookie bouquets that do not require overnight shipping. Trishley Gifts is here for your gift giving needs this summer. Relax and enjoy!

June 2006: Gift Baskets for Father’s Day?

Wow, we got through another busy Mother’s Day. Now it’s time for Dad. For some reason Dad’s get ignored by our gift baskets customers. Mom gets some beautiful gift basket overflowing with gourmet treats and chocolates on her special day. By the time Father’s Day rolls around many Dads are stuck with a tie that looks like every other one in their closet. It just isn’t fair, is it? Perhaps shoppers are not aware that there are many gift baskets made just for men. If you browse our online store you will find many new gifts made for the special men in your family.

This month we have added Rootin’Tootin Root Beer which is filled with Dad’s Root Beer, tortilla chips, salsa, cookies and spicy almonds. Tee Time with Dad is for the golfer and includes a Ghirardelli chocolate mint bar, golf cookies, cheese and crackers. Summer Grilling is perfect for the man in charge of the backyard barbeque and comes with Jake’s BBQ Sauce, BBQ flavored Crunchie Munch and chipotle pepper cheese. Mr. Fix It is for the handyman in the family and includes a full sized set of tools and gourmet treats like smoked salmon, Gouda cheese, pistachios and biscotti.

When it comes to buying a gift for your husband, father, son and grandfather select an extraordinary gift from Trishley Gift Baskets.

Happy Father’s Day from Trishley Gifts!

May 2006: Celebrating Mother’s Day

It doesn’t matter whether Mom is your birth mother, grandmother, adoptive mother, stepmother or foster mother. She is Mom. She is that wonderful woman who is always there when you need her. We at Trishley Gift Baskets want to help you express your feelings on this special day so we have added several feminine baskets to our product line.

Shower Mom with Love is a faux leather tote filled with green tea spa essentials, lemon cookies, chocolate and taffy. Spring Tea Party is a decorative yellow tray which carries everything you need for afternoon tea. Moms are Forever consists of an old fashioned gift tin brimming with tea, cookies and candies. Mom, Sweet Mom is a an attractive green basket filled with sweet treats like milk chocolate strawberry truffles, strawberry 'n cream puffs, white chocolate-covered krispy treats, lemon-raspberry gourmet taffy, and buttery shortbread cookies. A Cup of Love is a darling cup-shaped wicker basket filled with delicious treats including expresso beans, chocolate cherry and shortcake cookies, chocolate bar and a ceramic coffee mug.

Take your time and browse our site. You are sure to find the perfect gift to show Mom how much you love her.

Happy Mother’s Day from Trishley Gifts.

April 2006: Celebrate the Season

This month we are celebrating Passover starting April 13th, the Easter holiday is Sunday, April 16th, and Administrative Professionals Day, aka Secretaries Day, is on Wednesday, April 26th but is celebrated the entire week so keep that in mind when ordering your gifts. No matter what the occasion, you are sure to find the right gift for your recipient.

Our Kosher Gift Basket associate, Kosherline, has exceeded our expectations with three spectacular Passover Gift Baskets. We are proud to offer the Passover Seder Plate Basket which features a seder plate made out of dark chocolate, the Passover Medium Basket is a gourmet gift which features flavored cheese and praline chocolates from Switzerland, and the Passover Gourmet Basket includes a tea & dreams gift box and pure honey from Jerusalem.

Easter Sunday will be a hit with our new baskets - Jelly Belly Easter, Easter Bunny Basket, Bunny Hugs, Especially for Easter, Bunny Love and Easter Egg. All six of these specialty baskets are brimming with delectable treats like jelly beans and chocolate. Did I say chocolate? Yes, our favorite ingredient is included in all but one of these baskets – Jelly Belly Fun. You can’t have Easter without the jelly beans, can you?

Secretaries Day (Administrative Professionals Day) can be fun or fancy, depending on what your relationship is to the recipient. You will find many appropriate gifts throughout our site. Some popular gifts are Fruit Baskets and Flowers. Also popular are the SunFlower Grand Gourmet and Chez Gourmet Gift Baskets from our Gourmet Department, Sky High Chocolates and Chocolate Treasures Gift Baskets from our Everything Chocolate Department, and Java Giant and the Tea and Dreams Gift Basket from our Coffee Break Department.

And don’t forget Mom! Mother’s Day is celebrated Sunday, May 14th and it is our second biggest holiday. Please order early to ensure that your selection will be in stock. If you would like to order now and have your basket shipped on a future date, please include that information in the special instructions section at checkout. We will reserve your basket and ship it accordingly.

March 2006: Luck O’ the Irish

You know spring is on its way when you see tiny leprechauns, shamrocks, and green galore decorating your local stores, your neighbor’s doors, maybe even your own home decor. These cheerful decorations are displayed to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day, also known as St. Patty’s Day or St. Paddy’s Day.

Trishley Gifts has added several new gifts to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Our Irish Eyes Gift Basket has something for everybody from gourmet delights like smoked salmon and garlic beef sausage with hot sweet mustard to delicious key lime cookies and chocolate fudge cookies. Maybe you would prefer our Frog Dreams Gift Box with its green gummy frogs, four leaf clover-shaped chocolates, and amaretto-flavored hot chocolate. We even added St Patrick Day Treats which is a party basket filled to the brim with goodies like cashew nuts, gouda cheese, tortilla chips with salsa, and Ghirardelli mint chocolate bars. Any one of these beautiful gifts is sure to bring a bit o’ Irish luck to your gift recipient.

February 2006: That’s Amore!

Ah, love is in the air! What a great feeling it is to give a gift to someone we love. The feeling we get when we see their faces light up with delight at our gift is priceless.

Trishley Gifts has added many special gift baskets for Valentine’s Day. Our Valentine’s Day Gift Baskets are filled with a variety of items including romantic music, candles, fine lotions, teddy bears, and gourmet snacks. And don’t forget that we also offer fresh flowers and chocolate, our favorite ingredient. You will find something for everyone including your Mom, Dad, Spouse or Significant Other, Child, Grandma or Grandpa.

Check our site often. We add new products each month and will be adding many wonderful Easter and Mother’s Day Gift Baskets over the next few months.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Trishley Gift Baskets!

November 2005: Holiday Season

Trishley Gifts has added twenty beautiful new gift basket designs for the upcoming holidays. Because of the rising fuel costs, fewer people will be traveling for the holidays this year and we anticipate higher than usual internet sales. We recommend ordering early to avoid the holiday rush and ensure that your gift basket selection will be available when you want it. We will hold the order and ship on the appropriate date to achieve the specified arrival date. Please add your future arrival date in the gift recipient's message box before adding your message. Because Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, we will not schedule any arrival after Thursday, December 22nd.

We have several beautiful fall designs that would make a perfect Thanksgiving gift. These baskets include Fall Harvest which is bushel basket filled with gourmet treats including chocolate covered sandwich cookies, California almonds and biscotti. The Fall Festival Scarecrow has a re-usable scarecrow farm basket which you can use for years to come.

Our Christmas gift baskets are all new designs this year. Treat a loved one or child to the Bear-y Merry Christmas to You gift basket which includes a cuddly teddy bear sitting amongst delicious holiday cookies and chocolate. Holiday Heaven is a tower of four gift boxes filled with crunchy caramel popcorn, almond cookies, chocolate non-pareils and more. Sleigh Bells is a Christmas sleigh filled with chocolate favorites. Simply Indulgent offers a bounty of gourmet foods including caviar, smoked salmon, cheese straws, roasted nuts and our favorite, chocolates.

Browse our large Kosher selection for Chanukah/Hanukkah gifts which include the Magic Tea Chest Basket, filled with assorted Wissotzky teas from Israel and an assortment of gourmet kosher cookies, and the Mixed Nuts Basket with it’s medley of nuts, dried fruit, and gourmet cookies and teas. Our Kosher Thinking of You gift basket is a customer favorite and includes a dark wood jewelry box which gives your recipient two gifts in one.

October 2005: Halloween Gift Baskets

Boo! Trishley Gift Baskets is proud to offer thirteen new Halloween and Fall themed gift baskets. We offer something for everyone; from baskets made with kids in mind to gifts for the mature crowd. Every one of these new gift baskets contains our favorite ingredient, chocolate.

Our Halloween Gift Basket selection includes Jack O’ Lantern o’ Treats which is filled with tons of candy favorites like miniature Milky Ways, Nestle Crunch Bars, M&M’s, and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. The Beary-Scary Bear gift box has a plush little bear sitting on top of candy treats. Monster Chocolate Treats is a gift tray bursting with favorites such as Ghirardelli chocolate bars and squares, M&M’s candy, Mrs. Field’s chocolate chip cookies, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Snickers bars, and Baby Ruth bars.

Our Fall Gift Basket selection includes Fall Harvest which is a bushel basket full of treats including chocolate-covered sandwich cookies with double chocolate walnuts, California almonds, Torn Ranch premium dried fruit, and biscotti. Autumn Medley is a beautiful, feminine gift basket filled with gourmet treats like sweet pumpkin cookies, spicy mango tea, and California herb-flavored almonds. Fall Festival Scarecrow is a great gift for Halloween or Thanksgiving with its re-useable farm basket filled with candy corn, Italian hazelnut wafer cookies, pumpkin spice latte, and more.

September 2005: New Fall Designs

They’re here! We have added over thirty new fall gift basket designs and will continue adding more beautiful baskets throughout the month of September. Wait until you see these gorgeous gift baskets. There are just too many to list them all in this newsletter so you will have to visit us at www.TrishleyGiftBaskets.com to view our full product line.

Our Baby store now includes Arrive in Style which is filled with tiny, cozy wearables for the new boy or girl. We have also added Bath Time for Baby to make bathing baby fun with toys and music. Baby Bountiful Deluxe, a basketful of layette essentials, is offered in four different sizes to fit everyone’s budget.

Realtors and friends can feel confident sending our new Housewarming gifts. House Warmer welcomes your recipient to their new home with an assortment of coffee, tea, cookies, crackers, cheese, nuts and much more. Lettuce Entertain You is darling lettuce-look basket filled with raspberry cookies, chocolate sunflower seeds, corncob popcorn, cheese and crackers.

Our themed gift baskets include “I’d Rather Be Golfing…” which is a great gift for birthdays, golf outings or thank you, and Movie Night which features a 10” film reel collectible tin, popcorn, seasoning, and more.

We have some new Coffee and Tea gift baskets, too. You gift recipient will get an eye-opening experience with our Java Giant. Tea Party in a Cup is an oversized cup basket stocked with tea and goodies.

Romance is alive and well at Trishley Gift Baskets. We have included a beautiful candle gift, Calming Candles, with a natural palm wax candle garden. Love and Romance will touch their heart with fine chocolates and caressing music.

Our Chocolate and Gourmet departments offer several new food baskets including Bountiful Gourmet which is overloaded with fine chocolates, cheeses, nuts, gourmet cookies, crackers, jams and other savory snacks. You can also make your own Chocolate martini with the Martini with a Twist gift basket. As our newsletter recipients are aware, chocolate is our favorite ingredient so you will find some in every department.

August 2005: Kosher Delights

While everyone else is shopping for school supplies and fall clothing, Trishley Gifts has been busy shopping for more quality gift baskets to offer our customers. We are happy to introduce our new kosher line of products. Kosher food is prepared according to Jewish dietary guidelines or "Karut" which means proper. All of our beautiful kosher gifts are made under strict kosher supervision of one or more of the following: OU, Kof-K and OK Labs.

Your gift recipients will be delighted with these beautiful gift baskets that are filled delicious gourmet treats like Rugelach, Hamantashen, Marzipan and Wissotzky teas from Israel. Many of our kosher gift baskets contain fine gourmet chocolate, our favorite ingredient. Our kosher trays of dried fruit offer a healthy gift alternative for your recipient. Whether you are shopping for a gift basket as a birthday present, thank you gift, executive gift, housewarming gift, to send your condolences or just to let your recipient know you are thinking of them, you are sure to find the perfect gift in our kosher selection.

July 2005: New products spark fireworks!

The Fourth of July is celebrated in the United States to commemorate the adoption in 1776 of the Declaration of Independence. While we celebrate the freedoms that our forefathers fought and died for, our thoughts and prayers are with our troops and our allies who continue to fight for our independence around the world today.

Trishley Gifts has added some new gourmet baskets to celebrate this great holiday. Our Gourmet selection has been expanded to include the new Sunflower Grand Gourmet and the Galliant Gourmet. The Everything Chocolate department now includes such treats as Chocolate Treasures, Chocolate Gourmet and Chocolate Delights. Our Cookie Crumbs and Fresh Fruit departments now carry Mrs. Fields Classic Tower and Mrs. Fields Harvest Tower. Both baskets are filled with fresh fruit from The Fruit Company and Mrs. Fields chocolate chip cookies. You will find that each one of our new baskets contains some of our favorite ingredient, chocolate.