Product Description

A successful gift basket professional reveals her tricks of the trade in this bible of the business.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #528935 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
Gift baskets are an ideal small-scale business – but not all gift baskets are created equal. The Gift Basket Design Book shows you how to transform your creative ideas into polished professional-looking baskets to give as gifts or use in your own business.
Shirley George Frazier, a successful gift basket entrepreneur, reveals basket-building and design techniques that yield expert results. Her easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and photos show you exactly how to craft delightful gift baskets for all occasions, from holidays to life's milestones to those everyday pick-me-ups.
Inside you'll find:
Guidance on selecting supplies, gifts, and foodstuff
The best techniques for placing and anchoring contents
The most effective ways to wrap your baskets
Special design touches to complete your look
Ideas for using unique containers, such as boxes, bags, teacups and more
Color photos of more than thirty completed baskets
Hundreds of detailed step-by-step photos that illustrate basket-building techniques
A special chapter showcasing four professional gift basket designers and their most successful creations

Create beautiful gift baskets for:
Birthdays
Thank-you
Get well
Good luck
Congratulations
New baby
Spa treatment
Housewarming
Bereavement
Wedding
and much more

About the Author
Shirley George Frazier, a gift and gourmet consultant, writes for trade publications, conducts workshops, and speaks at trade shows and conferences throughout the country. She lives in Paterson, New Jersey.

Customer Reviews

Great Book
This book has become my bible of designing. I am a home business gift basket owner , and thanks to this book I can now design beautiful designs.

Great Reference and Gift basket know how!
I have read this book inside and out at least twice. Shirley Frazier shows you what you need and how to get started selling gift baskets. As a matter of fact the techniques shown in this book provides guidelines in making a professional looking gift basket. I have found that I can make a better gift basket than what you sometimes find at other specialty stores. In October of 2004, I started implementing the techniques she teaches and frankly have received successful results (meaning sales!) I have received orders online and from family and friends. This is a great book well worth the price. A must buy!

Basic
This book contains good info, but only on a VERY BASIC level. It's almost too basic. Not much new or innovative. If you've never made a basket or wrapped a package, then this is your book.