The Gift Ideas Blog

A fruit basket gift idea

FTD offers this colorful and delightful Garden’s Paradise Basket, a fruit basket filled to the brim with colorful and flavorful seasonal fruits.

Fruit baskets are a great gift idea, and this gift basket can offer a healthy and sweet present for an important guest or host.

The gift basket includes an assortment of what’s in season. It also comes with a personalized message. It’s great for business contacts as well.

Try this fruit basket and impress your gift recipient!

Here’s a great food gift idea: Smiley cookies from the Popcorn Factory!

These rich, buttery cookies have a charming yellow smiling face in frosting put on top, indicating fun and goodwill. Send this box set of 14 smiling cookies and show your gift recipient that everything is just fine. This smiling gift will bring a smile to your friend or significant other. Each cookie is individually wrapped and the set comes in a charming smiley face box.

A cute candy gift idea. This item from Personalization Mall allows you to put your own message on a candy jar.

Put something like, “I love you, [name of recipient]” or “I love you, Mom; from [name of giver]” on the jar, and the gift will be specific and always associated with you.

This would make a good Valentine’s Day gift, as well as a Mother’s Day gift.

Fill the jar with your gift recipient’s favorite candies, and you’re on your way for a sweet gift. Your sweetheart, who might place this personalized candy jar on his or her desk at work, will think of you every time he or she reaches for a piece of candy.

Now what would make a better gift idea?

Birdhouse gifts

Springtime is here, and a great gift idea during this season is to give a birdhouse! Any nature- or animal-lover will be fond of this structure that has a decorative as well as a functional use. Some are colorful and whimsical, while others are traditional and classic. Put some nesting material, straw, or some birdseed to entice traveling birds to stop by your garden, giving it life and fun.

For example, Target offers the above birdhouse which is a traditional design but is also very colorful. It will look great in your yard hanging from a tree, especially during springtime. All sorts of birds will love visiting it.

This birdhouse has several openings to allow visiting birds to feed and has a rustic, worn, traditional look.

Before considering a birdhouse as a gift idea, think about the gift recipient’s yard and garden scheme. Will it benefit from a traditional birdhouse? Or a modernist, futuristic-looking birdhouse? Does it have spring pastel colors? Or wild crazy colors? A birdhouse can complement a home’s architecture and paint scheme.

Visit your local garden store or nursery for more birdhouse gift ideas.