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If you decide to surprise your loved ones with a non-standard gift, give a gift grocery basket. It can contain anything you want.
The original basket is filled with fruits, sweets, alcohol, low-alcohol drinks, delicacies, tea, coffee, etc. It all depends on who you plan to give the gift to.
Food baskets as a gift can be presented for any occasion: for a birthday, New Year, housewarming, March 8, birth of a child, christening, and even if you just decided to please someone with a pleasant surprise.
In addition, you can bring a basket of groceries as a gift to your mom, dad, grandparents, sister or brother, friend, boss, colleague, teacher, fitness trainer, tutor, etc.
Filling gift baskets
In such a basket you can put fruits, cosmetics, toys, alcohol, sweets, flowers.
A gift basket will be a great surprise for any occasion. It will immediately be noticeable among other gifts.
What to fill
There are many options for gifts that can be placed in a basket. It all depends on who the gift is intended for. Next, specific examples of design for men and women will be considered, and now generalized options are proposed. The New Year's basket differs from the holiday tree in the unity of its decoration. You shouldn’t stuff the wicker with a variety of products. If a coffee and tea theme is chosen, then there is no need to supplement the gift with fruit, wine or champagne. It is better to decorate the future tea party ceremony with high-quality chocolate, elegant cakes and a collection of elite varieties of nuts.
The New Year's basket with champagne is a classic of the genre. It is with this drink that most people associate the New Year holiday. It is important to choose sparkling wine according to the taste preferences of the recipient. Brut is suitable for those who are constantly watching their figure. And yet, you should not skimp on champagne, as it is the center of the gift.
Assortment of New Year's baskets: alcoholic beverages, fruits, tea and coffee sets, chocolate, cheeses, nuts, jamon.
Material for making gift baskets
The material, first of all, is vine. But, if you don’t have thin flexible branches at hand, you can get by with other means. It could be paper, cardboard, thick rope, wire.
A good option would be a basket of pine cones.
A basket made of thick yarn crocheted looks unusual.
If you don’t have weaving skills, then instead of the basket itself, you can use cardboard boxes, plastic containers and salad bowls stylized as it.
Anyone who held glue and scissors in their hands as a child can beautifully weave such containers. Strips of paper, fabric or yarn will help with this.
How to make a gift basket with your own hands? Just use your imagination or watch master classes on the Internet.
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Stages of organizing your own business
The first stage is the purchase of initial goods. They are presented in three categories:
- The container, that is, the baskets themselves. It is advisable to choose containers of different sizes and shapes to provide the buyer with choice.
- Filling. You can complete the sets with food, alcohol, cosmetics, flowers, and soft toys.
- Decor. Not a single basket will look festive without a thread with pearls or a bow that coquettishly sat on the handle like a butterfly.
A big plus for the profitability of the venture will be the entrepreneur’s ability to weave baskets on his own. It is recommended to purchase filling in bulk, this will allow you to save significantly.
Another way to save money is to make some “tasty” filling yourself. For example, the housewife loves to bake cakes, muffins or make delicious chocolates. Why not include them as the centerpiece of one of the sets? This will allow you to improve your culinary skills and earn extra money.
The next stage is the creation of a platform for advertising and presentation of the product range. First you need to collect a dozen sets and photograph them beautifully. The photo can be posted on your own website, which you will have to create first, or in a community/group on one of the social networks. Internet advertising is the most effective.
The target audience can be attracted by organizing small competitions where one of the sets will be the main prize. Many aspiring entrepreneurs work using this marketing model. The main condition for competition participants is to bring friends with them to the community or post a link to it on your personal page.
Another popular marketing model is the “purchase” of fictitious community members, that is, “dead souls”, to whom the customer pays a small reward for referring friends or advertising the company on their personal pages. The budget for such advertising campaigns is very small, but the return can exceed all expectations.
The next step in creating a business selling gift baskets is delivery. This problem does not arise for entrepreneurs who rent retail spaces, because buyers come or run in horror a couple of hours before the “X” moment on their own.
For a home-based business, you will have to think about ways to deliver goods. The best option is to deliver the baskets yourself, including the delivery cost in the total invoice. If the family does not have a personal car, then you can use the services of courier services, which are sufficient in large cities.
The last stage, but not least important, is registering your individual entrepreneur or LLC. Any business must be legal
If there is only one entrepreneur, then the right decision would be to register an individual entrepreneur. For a group of people who organize a common business, an LLC is more suitable. The code that needs to be selected in the All-Russian Classifier of Types of Economic Activities (OKVED) is 47.11.3. Behind it lies trade in a large assortment with a predominance of food products. There is not yet a type of activity called “sale of gift baskets” in OKVED.
DIY gift basket for a woman
Of course, representatives of the fair sex are traditionally accustomed to receiving such unusual gifts.
In early spring, an unusual addition to these baskets would be fresh flowers or artificial snowdrops (if the lady receiving the basket has no prejudice against homemade creations).
In summer, the basket can be filled with berries or fruits, in autumn - vegetables or a beautiful bouquet.
In winter, you can put Christmas tree decorations, champagne or sweets there.
In general, sweets, flowers, fruits, cosmetic or perfume sets can be given year-round. You just need to know what exactly the recipient of the gift basket is using
What products can I use?
The fun part begins - collecting the basket. The first thing that comes to mind is sweets. Of course, we can’t do without them, but let’s go over all the main points.
Sweets
Based first of all on the tastes and preferences of the person you decided to congratulate. Many people strive to buy a newfangled dessert, but it can leave indifferent a person whose tastes have already been formed, and who is philosophical about all fashion trends. Therefore, if you know that your loved one loves candies with truffle filling, look for these.
Teahouse
If you have a collection basket and not a monoset (for example, only tea or only cheeses), it is impossible to imagine the complete composition without drinks. Tea is available in the kitchen of almost every family. If you don’t know your exact preferences, buy assorted tea. It is often packaged in beautiful boxes.
But if it’s only tea, then take expensive, leaf, loose tea. Choose neutral tastes: classic black or selected green. You can also add a jar of honey to the basket of tea; it literally begs to be paired.
Cheese
A lot depends on your finances here. There are budget but very tasty options.
For example, people are often ready to give up expensive Mediterranean cheeses in favor of a Belarusian product). Again, the cheese itself is produced in the form of attractive, appetizing heads, sausages, and flagella.
Meat
This usually includes smoked and dried meats. Keep an eye on the expiration date. If you are not sure about the tastes of the person you are making the basket for, you can replace the meat part with sausage. This is a more neutral option.
Don’t take too peppery or spicy sausages – stick to something universal. These may be products reminiscent of grandma's village sausages. It's easier to guess with sausage than with meat.
Vegetable
If your food basket includes vegetables from your own garden, that's great. A loved one will definitely appreciate such a contribution. But if this is not possible, work carefully in the vegetable department.
Fruity
You also need to try with fruits - ripe apples boasting glossy barrels, traditional oranges, tangerines (in winter) are appropriate. If you want something more exotic, try pomelo and mango, they rarely disappoint those who have not tried them before. Grapes look great in a gift basket. Don't forget to grab kiwi: in terms of the amount of valuable vitamin C, it is ahead of even lemon. By the way, lemon in a fruit basket is also not superfluous.
Nuts, berries, dried fruits
The berry part is especially good in season, when the berries are local, fresh, and beautiful. But if it’s winter outside and the berries are bad, you don’t need to take expensive strawberries (maybe not very tasty). It’s better to experiment with dried fruits: they are much healthier in winter. And they look cute if you pack them in small plastic bags and tie them with a ribbon. Here are also a couple of small bags of nuts. But you shouldn’t take peanuts, despite their cheapness: they have less benefits than other nuts, and on top of that, they are a very allergenic product.
Delicacies
In this part of the basket there is a place for things that do not always clearly fall into one category or another. For example, red caviar - what would a food greeting set be without it? Or canned tuna, a popular salad base that also deserves a place in the holiday basket.
Create “edible” baskets to suit your taste. Perhaps it’s really better for a grandmother or mother to take a prefabricated composition, where there is a little bit of everything. But if, for example, you are bringing someone a gift from a trip (colleagues, for example), then you can bring a small single basket: cheese, tea, coffee basket.
DIY gift baskets for men
Men are also very pleased when people think about them and prepare gifts.
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Connoisseurs of coffee or tea will be happy to find unusual or favorite varieties of these drinks and sweets to go with them in the basket.
For beer lovers, you can put a keg or several bottles of a foamy drink, crackers or packaged fish in the basket, and decorate it all with salty dryers.
A DIY gift basket for February 23 can include traditional shaving foams and lotions, shower gels and even socks. Beautiful design will give these gifts a new, interesting look.
For a friend
You can please your friend with a cosmetics-themed gift. If you know it very well, then you will probably be able to choose the filling for the basket very competently. It makes the most sense to give not decorative cosmetics, but care products. The basket can contain facial and body scrubs, various creams and lotions, shampoos and conditioners. Just remember that some people are allergic to certain ingredients and fragrances. Decorate the basket itself in a cute and unobtrusive way. The decor should not interrupt the main gift.
You can also give themed cosmetic products. For example, the theme of lavender is those products that contain the aroma of this plant or extracts.
You can include a cute jar of this natural product in your honey set of cosmetics. Now think about what theme to make a present for your friend, and start assembling the basket.
By the way, the concept of “basket” can be slightly changed. Use a nice gift box or other suitable container instead.
Gift baskets for children
Children's gifts usually include toys and sweets. The more items there are in such a basket, the more pleasant it will be to give it to the baby.
Pineapple boat
This small sweet gift can be made in less than half an hour. To create it you will need:
- mini roll;
- a pineapple;
- strawberry;
- banana.
You can replace the roll with marmalade, chocolate candies or marshmallows. The design of any composition is your flight of fancy.
So, cut the pineapple lengthwise. Using a thin, sharp knife, cut out the flesh of the pineapple, leaving sides about 7 mm wide.
Wash the strawberries, peel the banana and cut into slices. Cut mini rolls in the same way. The pineapple pulp can be cut arbitrarily or, if you have molds, then cut out figures.
Thread the fruit and roll into long skewers in different orders and insert tightly into the bottom of the boat. The voids in which the skewers show through can be filled with small pieces of pineapple or small grapes.
Birthday Gift Baskets
You can make lovely birthday baskets with your own hands. In this case, you need to know exactly what exactly the birthday boy loves.
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Flowers, perfumes, and sweets will suit absolutely everyone, but it will be especially pleasant to find a unique surprise in the basket - jewelry, a certificate to an expensive store.
And sometimes a set of small garden tools will cause more delight than an expensive ring. And the basket itself will be a useful acquisition.
Family and children's option
On New Year's Eve it is customary to visit family, friends and relatives. A New Year's basket with gifts can be a pleasant surprise for the owners of the house. This is a present for the whole family. Moreover, when you come to visit, you want to respect all family members. Such a braid can accommodate various sets of products. For adults, you can purchase whiskey and liqueur or cognac and wine. That is, a couple of alcoholic drinks, one of which is stronger for a man, and the second for a woman. Fruits will serve as a complement to alcohol: grapes, pineapple, oranges, pears and dark chocolate. A jar of caviar would also be a great addition to your wickerwork.
To make a family gift interesting for children, you need to include unusual sweets in it. You won’t surprise kids on New Year’s Eve with classic candies and cookies. Original items can be: handmade chocolate figures, bright cakes, biscuit balls on sticks. The final stage of collecting the family and children's basket will be the purchase of a soft toy, which will be a symbol of the coming New Year.
Gift baskets for Easter
An unusual gift would be a basket with beautiful eggs and a delicious Easter cake or Easter cake. Such a basket can not be packed in film, but decorated with a beautiful towel or an embroidered towel.
tea jar
An option similar to the previous one, but in a more modest embodiment. Today it is fashionable to present transparent jars with simple gifts.
You can take a special storage jar with a glass lid on a clip. However, an ordinary jar with a metal or nylon lid looks no worse. It will not be difficult to decorate it with a label, tag, “hat”, lace, or a tag on a rope. You can place funny or heartfelt inscriptions on the paper design, for example: - Sweet holidays to you - Keep calm and drink tea - And let the whole world wait... - Anti-stress - Natural sedative
What should I put inside? Assorted tea in bags, small packs of loose tea, candy, teapot, stevia packets, etc. In general, everything related to tea drinking fits in a jar.
A lace ribbon can also help decorate a gift. Wrap it around the gift wrap and secure the ends with double-sided tape.
How to wrap a gift beautifully
- roll of wrapping paper
1. Prepare a roll of gift paper, unroll it on a flat surface (table) with the pattern down (wrong side up).
Gift baskets for the New Year
New Year's offerings are usually filled with jars of caviar, olives, champagne or sweets, expensive cheeses and sausages, tea and coffee.
Such baskets are well suited for both women and men. Making a gift basket with your own hands
It is the design that makes such a basket an attractive and unusual gift. Usually filler is placed at the bottom of the basket. This can be thin crumpled paper, cellophane or natural shavings.
The gaps between objects can also be decorated with filler.
Most often, the tallest or most massive gifts are placed in the center or near the back wall. Smaller objects are placed on the sides in descending order of height. All items must be placed with the front side facing out.
A postcard is placed in the front, if provided.
Now you need to wrap the basket with transparent wrapping paper, cellophane or fine mesh. This will keep the gifts in the right position and give the basket a festive look.
Bright ribbons and charming bows will complement the basket
For my beloved girl
What gift would any girl be happy with? That's right: there is no universal answer. Therefore, before creating a gift for your lady love, try to find out the secret of the desired gift. When this complex, secret operation gives you access to her dreams, you can complete the basket for your beloved.
Buy real fresh flowers in the store. We will make a basket with flowers and a surprise as a gift with our own hands. You will need a basket that is large enough to hold the bouquet.
Lay decorative polyethylene on the bottom and place a special floral damp sponge on top. Ask for it and packaging polyethylene directly at the flower shop. Place flowers on the sponge as your inspiration and imagination dictate. And now an equally important part of the gift is the surprise. Surely it is of jewelry origin and is not very bulky in size. Place a box with earrings, a ring or other jewelry under the flowers. Voila! Your lady will be immensely happy with such a bouquet.
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Bouquet of whole fruits
Creating bouquets is as simple a process as decorating a fruit basket. To create such a vitamin bouquet you will need the following set of “materials”:
- several apples;
- lemon;
- orange;
- mandarin;
- grapefruit;
- sprigs of mint or lemon balm.
In addition, you will need wrapping paper, skewers, ribbon and tape.
Place the fruits on skewers and start assembling the composition. Take the largest fruit as the center of the bouquet. Hold the future bouquet in one hand, and with the other, add skewers of fruit, enveloping the center in a circle. Also insert sprigs of mint or other greenery and flowers into the composition.
Secure all the skewers at the bottom with tape, wrap the bouquet in wrapping paper and decorate with a bright ribbon. A wonderful fruit bouquet is ready.
