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Shirley George Frazier, a successful gift basket entrepreneur, shares 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. Create beautiful gift baskets for: Birthdays, Holidays, Thank-You, Get Well, Good Luck, Congratulations, New Baby, Spa Treatment, Weddings, Housewarming, Bereavement, and much more! Whether you want to start a small business or make gift baskets for fun, The Gift Basket Design Book reveals everything you need to know to transform your ideas into beautiful creations. Inside you ll find: Advice about supplies, gifts, and prepackaged food items The best ways to assemble and enhance your creations The most effective wrapping techniques Unique container ideas, including boxes, bags, teacups, and more Color photos of more than thirty completed baskets A special chapter showcasing four professional designers and their most successful gift basket designs When she published her first book about starting a home-based gift basket business, Shirley George Frazier blazed the trail for other home-based business owners coast to coast. She also tapped a growing demand for gift baskets, the all-occasion solution for personalized and memorable presents. Her business was such a phenomenon that Frazier turned her experiences into a book to instruct readers how to make these baskets themselves, combining the creative with the practical and even providing designs for those who wanted to start their own business!
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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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The gift basker book is brillaint.
Great photos to illistrate as well as photos for showing how to make baskts up.
It also inculdes other ideas in which you would need
I started out as a novice but it has really helped and i still refer. Good gifts for cheap baskets that make up quickly as well as other bigger baskets for bigger occasions.
Well worth it!
Great photos to illistrate as well as photos for showing how to make baskts up.
It also inculdes other ideas in which you would need
I started out as a novice but it has really helped and i still refer. Good gifts for cheap baskets that make up quickly as well as other bigger baskets for bigger occasions.
Well worth it!
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A Particularly Well Written How-To Book, But...
11 May 2008
Format:Paperback
I have read many how-to books especially business-related ones; however, seldom have I found a more clearly written book than "The Gift Basket Design Book". Ms. Shirley George Frazier's instructions are thorough, easy to understand and follow. Her explanations don't leave you guessing as to why she chose one method over another which will help one avoid costly mistakes. Her "tips" are an added feature that distinguishes her book from so many others. Finally, Ms. Frazier's resource lists and recommendations are on target for getting good prices for supplies, tools and basket ingredients. This book makes me believe that Ms. Frazier wants me to succeed in my new gift basket business and shared all her secrets to ensure I do so.
That said, I do have a criticism. While Ms. Frazier's instructions for arranging baskets are superb, I find that several of her finished products look a bit unprofessional. I believe the problem is two-fold. First, in some cases she has not selected ingredients with packaging that compliment each other, color-wise. Therefore, certain arrangements look bland versus cheerful. Second, in general, the pick embellishments (and some ribbons) do not look to be of good quality; do not share a common bond with each other or the gifts; and/or are skimpily placed. Usually, less is more but I believe the interior of her baskets would look more professional with an abundance of metallic shred, curled ribbon, ting ting and/or star sprays.
These comments are not intended to minimize the benefits of this book. The step-by-step photographed instructions are worth its price, alone. And if you have an eye for color and balance you can overcome the ingredient and embellishment issues. Plus, generously she has provided photos of baskets prepared by others that when studied will give insight into how to better embellish your baskets.
That said, I do have a criticism. While Ms. Frazier's instructions for arranging baskets are superb, I find that several of her finished products look a bit unprofessional. I believe the problem is two-fold. First, in some cases she has not selected ingredients with packaging that compliment each other, color-wise. Therefore, certain arrangements look bland versus cheerful. Second, in general, the pick embellishments (and some ribbons) do not look to be of good quality; do not share a common bond with each other or the gifts; and/or are skimpily placed. Usually, less is more but I believe the interior of her baskets would look more professional with an abundance of metallic shred, curled ribbon, ting ting and/or star sprays.
These comments are not intended to minimize the benefits of this book. The step-by-step photographed instructions are worth its price, alone. And if you have an eye for color and balance you can overcome the ingredient and embellishment issues. Plus, generously she has provided photos of baskets prepared by others that when studied will give insight into how to better embellish your baskets.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The Gift Basket Design book
31 Mar 2008
Format:Paperback
After reading the book I have learn how to present a better finished product. I can stop reading it,this is one of my gift basket reference book now. It goes everytwhere I go.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great information
13 Jun 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a great book. It gives lots of ideas and great visual. A must read for anyone who wants to start a business or just be creative.
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