Gift Baskets
As the holidays are upon us, we find ourselves running around aimlessly looking through every store to find the perfect gift for all those on our chistmas gift list. I am usually one of those people but not this year. This year I am going for the old tried and true gift basket. I used to make gift baskets all the time till all my friends and relatives were sick of them then I quit for years on them. This year they are back in my agenda. I am making them all pretty much the same but will include something special for each basket making them each uniquie. I went the the store where everything is $1 and bout great baskets for my gifts. and I got the celophane bags to wrap them in, there as well. I bought 1 pot coffee samples at 2 for $1 and got a coffee/tea mug for each basket. I also bought a box of individually sealed assorted flavors of tea (so I can just add 2 tea bags per basket with the coffee samples). So all of this stuff will go into the baskets with the home made cookie assortments (thumbprints, chocolate covered pretzel logs, PB cookies and sugar cookies). I also have some movies to thrown in the baskets as well. All in all I think it will be a nice gift. I bought enough for 10 baskets and I will have spent a total of $40 for all the supplies. But for that $40 I have a gift for evveryone on my list.
You can put just about anything in a gift basket and they are much enjoyed as there are many special treats inside each one. Use your imagination, I am making coffee/tea baskets with some movie goodies to enjoy while the gift reciever watches the movies I included. You can taylor the baskets to what ever the need is. Have fun with them and include your kids in making them. They will love it!
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