Sunday, March 15, 2009

Sugar Free Easter Baskets



Send this wonderful sugar-free gourmet Easter gift basket to anyone who is sugar-conscious, diet-conscious or diabetic. It includes sugar-free gourmet candies, cheeses, chocolates and snacks, and features Madelaine’s Sugar-Free Milk Chocolate Easter Eggs in a decorative gift bag. This is sure to be a “sweet” gift basket that they will enjoy!

Easter Lollipop Bouquets



Easter Wishes Lollipop Bouquet

Hip-pity hop right into Easter season with this adorable ceramic mug filled with handmade, hard-candy lollipops. Bunnies, Easter eggs, flowers and chicks are the sweetest way to send Happy Easter wishes. Some of the great flavors include apple, marshmallow, banana, and pink lemonade. The ceramic pot is a great keepsake and will be shipped in one of the many spring colors.

Approx. Size 5x9x13, 14 lollipops

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Easter Jelly Beans



Get the grins going with this irresistible basket full of just-for-the-fun-of-it treats from Jelly Belly® Confections. And who better to share the treats with than Thumper, our snugly plush bunny.

Features a Jelly Belly® big bean dispenser with sour beans, a 10-flavor recipe gift box, licorice bridge mix, JBz bubble gum, and mini box assortment. To complete this treasure we’ve added Marshmallow Peeps® and a solid chocolate bunny.

A sure favorite for kids of all ages.

Easter gift baskets for young girls



Send the fashion-conscious "Glamour Girl" this great Easter basket - just right for girls ages 6 to 9 years. It is filled with traditional Easter sweets, a trendy Animal Print Coin Purse, Two-Tone Lip Gloss, Elastic Hair Pony Tail Tie with Flowers, and so much more! Fabulously designed in a Straw Purse with embroidered Flowers, it is perfect for her to use all Spring & Summer long.

Easter Fortune Cookies at Shop The Gift Basket Store



What a wonderful way to send or give Easter greetings this year....with a delightful pail of Easter fortune cookies!

This is a perfect gift for Easter! It contains six of our exquisitely hand-dipped fortune cookies gently nestled inside our assorted translucent pastel colored Take Out Pails.

Each crisp vanilla fortune cookie is dipped in your choice of Dark, Milk or White Chocolate, Caramel, Strawberry or Peanut Butter Confection. Our Confectionary Artisans decorate it with 100% hand-made Royal Icing Easter Decorations then sprinkled with pastel Candy Confetti.

Each cookie is individually wrapped in its own cellophane bag and heat sealed at both ends for freshness. A signature Lady Fortunes Gold Label graces each Take Out Pail and a beautiful ribbon accentuates the presentation.

This Gift of Fortune is a perfect way to celebrate the Holiday!

(Take Out Pail colors may vary according to availability.)

Easter Baskets at Shop The Gift Basket Store



Pretty soon the Easter Bunny will be hopping down the bunny trail. Will you be ready? We have lots of beautiful Easter gift baskets, Easter Cookies, Easter candy gifts, Easter Gifts for Kids, Easter Baskets for Children and even mouth watering spiral hams. Order your Easter gifts today! Jelly beans, Peeps, Chocolate Easter Bunny, Chocolate Eggs

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Martini Glasses by Lolita




Shop The Gift Basket Store now carries the adorable Martinia glasses by Lolita. These Lolita Martini glasses make any day special and fun. Celebrate life's occasions: birthday, friendship, or any milestone with your own Lolita collectible martini glass.

They come in a special box which is almost as neat as the glass itself. Each whimsical Martini glass has a special martini recipe on the bottom.

Since each martini glass is hand painted, their availability is subject to change. Order yours today from www.shopthegiftbasketstore.com

Lolita Pilsner Beer Glasses


"Gotta Love Beer" pilsner glasses by Lolita® are the pefect gift for the special beer drinker in your life. These gracefully shaped glasses feel solid in the hand. There is a humorous saying painted on the bottom of the glass. Each 22 oz. glass comes individually gift boxed in Lolita®'s signature style.

Lolita pilsner or beer glasses are collected the world over. With their humorous style, they are sure to please as a gift or for your own private pub. These gracefully shaped glasses feel solid in the hand and when he gets to the bottom of the galss a humorous saying is waiting.

Your pilsner glass will arrive in a unique gift box.

Enjoy a truly fun beer drinking experience and start your own beer glass collection!

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Lolita Wine Glasses at Shop The Gift Basket Store


Shop The Gift Basket Store is proud to carry the Lolita line of collectible wine glasses. Whether you order them for a gift or for yourself, we have the perfect wine glass for every occasion: wine glasses for birthdays, divorce, weddings, girl's get together or any milestone that comes your way.

Lolita wine glasses are perfect collectibles. Each 15 oz. glass comes in it's own special gift box and has a special wine cooler recipe on the glass bottom. Treat yourself today!

Each handpainted glass availablility is subject to change.

Lolita Champagne Flutes at Shop The Gift Basket Store


Shop The Gift Basket store is proud to carry the whimsical line of Champagne Flutes by Lolita. Each hand painted glass carrys a different theme and comes delivered in it's own gift box.

Do you know someone celebrating a special occasion? Or are you a collector? Each champagne flute has a special or significant meaning. Send one today to your best friend, or send one to yourself. You can find them at: http://www.shopthegiftbasketstore.com/locogl.html

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Irish Jokes for St. Patrick's Day


Celebrate St. Patty's Day with wonderful goodies and treats from Shop The Gift Basket Store http://www.shopthegiftbasketstore.com

Then, join in the celebration with these Irish jokes:

When the Irish say that St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland, what they don't tell you is that he was the only one who saw any snakes!

Paddy was shaving when he knocked the mirror off the shelf and it fell to the floor and it cracked across the middle. Paddy gazed in horror. 'Bejabbers, I've cut my throat,' he gasped.

"Ah, good morning, Mrs. Murphy, and how is everything?" "Sure and I'm having a great time of it between my husband and the fire. If I keep my eye on the one, the other is sure to go out."

Paddy and Mick were nailing up the side of a wooden house. Mick noticed that Paddy was examining the nails and throwing away every second and third. 'What's wrong with the nails?' he asked. 'Sure the heads are at the wrong end.' 'You are stupid you idiot, can't you see they are for the other side of the house!.

Paddy Was driving his lorry when he saw a bridge with a sign saying 10 foot max. headroom. He slowed down wondering if he could drive under it or not , 'A shure I'll give it a go, he thought only to find that his lorry got stuck underneath it. Paddy sat back in his seat, poured out a cup of tea and lit a cigarette. A policeman arrived a short time later and knocked on the cab door which Paddy then opened, 'what do you think you are doing? asked the policeman in a sharp tone, 'Sure I'm having me tea break, replied Paddy, 'And what do you work at? asked the policeman, 'Agh shure I deliver bridges,! smiled Paddy!

Finnegans wife had been killed in an accident and the police were questioning him. "Did she say anything before she died?" asked the sergeant. "She spoke without interruption for about forty years," said Finnegan.

Why did God invent whiskey? So the Irish would never rule the world.

Two farmers were driving their tractor down the middle of a country road. A car comes around the corner backs hard to avoid them , skids, tumbles twice and land in a field. Jimmy say to Eamonn it's just as well we got out of that field.

Seamus do you understand French, I do if its spoken in Irish

Two Irishmen had just won $5000,000 in a lottery. Having a pint in a pub Tim say to Sean, what about all them beggin letters, Sean replies, we'll just keep sending them.

O'Connell was staggering home with a small Paddy in his back pocket when he slipped and fell heavily. Struggling to his feet, he felt something wet running down his leg. "Please, God," he implored, "let it be blood!"

An Irishman, Englishman and a German are caught in Saudi Arabia drinking. "Under Saudi law you are sentenced to 30 lashes then deported. Before you begin you are entitled to something on you back, what would you like?" said the prison guard to the Englishman just before lashing him. The English man, being a bit of a cricket fan, asked for linseed oil. When they lashed him on a post and let him go to catch his flight back to London he groaned and crawled to the airport. Next came the German. "Under Saudi law you are sentenced to 30 lashes then deported. Before you begin you are entitled to something on you back, what would you like?" said the prison guard "Nothing" said the German and, after receiving his lashes spat on the ground, called the prison guards Schisers and started off towards the airport. The guards then came to the Irishman. "Under Saudi law you are sentenced to 30 lashes then deported. Before you begin you are entitled to something on you back, what would you like?" "Oh", replied the Irishman, "I'll take the German".

An Irish man walks into a pub. The bartender asks him, "what'll you have?" The man says, "Give me three pints of Guinness please." So the bartender brings him three pints and the man proceeds to alternately sip one, then the other, then the third until they're gone. He then orders three more. The bartender says, "Sir, I know you like them cold. You don't have to order three at a time. I can keep an eye on it and when you get low I'll bring you a fresh cold one." The man says, "You don't understand. I have two brothers, one in Australia and one in the States. We made a vow to each other that every Saturday night we'd still drink together. So right now, my brothers have three Guinness Stouts too, and we're drinking together. The bartender thought that was a wonderful tradition. Every week the man came in and ordered three beers. Then one week he came in and ordered only two. He drank them and then ordered two more. The bartender said to him, "I know what your tradition is, and I'd just like to say that I'm sorry that one of your brothers died." The man said, "Oh, me brothers are fine - I just quit drinking."

The local District Judge had given the defendant a lecture on the evils of drink. But in view of the fact that this was the first time the man had been drunk and incapable, the case was dismissed on payment of ten shillings costs. "Now don't let me ever see your face again," said the Justice sternly as the defendant turned to go. "I'm afraid I can't promise that, sir," said the released man. "And why not?" Because I'm the barman at your regular pub!

History of St. Patrick's Day


The O'Briens and Ryans and Sheehans and Meehans all come from Ireland. Help celebrate the season by sending a mouth watering St. Patrick's Day Gift Basket from Shop The Gift Basket Store to someone with smiling Irish eyes.

Then, treat them to the history of St. Patrick's Day:
Saint Patrick is believed to have been born in the late fourth century, and is often confused with Palladius, a bishop who was sent by Pope Celestine in 431 to be the first bishop to the Irish believers in Christ.

Saint Patrick was the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland who is credited with bringing christianity to Ireland. Most of what is known about him comes from his two works, the Confessio, a spiritual autobiography, and his Epistola, a denunciation of British mistreatment of Irish christians. Saint Patrick described himself as a "most humble-minded man, pouring forth a continuous paean of thanks to his Maker for having chosen him as the instrument whereby multitudes who had worshipped idols and unclean things had become the people of God."

Saint Patrick is most known for driving the snakes from Ireland. It is true there are no snakes in Ireland, but there probably never have been - the island was separated from the rest of the continent at the end of the Ice Age. As in many old pagan religions, serpent symbols were common and often worshipped. Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably symbolic of putting an end to that pagan practice. While not the first to bring christianity to Ireland, it is Patrick who is said to have encountered the Druids at Tara and abolished their pagan rites. The story holds that he converted the warrior chiefs and princes, baptizing them and thousands of their subjects in the "Holy Wells" that still bear this name.

There are several accounts of Saint Patrick's death. One says that Patrick died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, on March 17, 460 A.D. His jawbone was preserved in a silver shrine and was often requested in times of childbirth, epileptic fits, and as a preservative against the "evil eye." Another account says that St. Patrick ended his days at Glastonbury, England and was buried there. The Chapel of St. Patrick still exists as part of Glastonbury Abbey. Today, many Catholic places of worship all around the world are named after St. Patrick, including cathedrals in New York and Dublin city

Why Saint Patrick's Day? Saint Patrick's Day has come to be associated with everything Irish: anything green and gold, shamrocks and luck. Most importantly, to those who celebrate its intended meaning, St. Patrick's Day is a traditional day for spiritual renewal and offering prayers for missionaries worldwide.

So, why is it celebrated on March 17th? One theory is that that is the day that St. Patrick died. Since the holiday began in Ireland, it is believed that as the Irish spread out around the world, they took with them their history and celebrations. The biggest observance of all is, of course, in Ireland. With the exception of restaurants and pubs, almost all businesses close on March 17th. Being a religious holiday as well, many Irish attend mass, where March 17th is the traditional day for offering prayers for missionaries worldwide before the serious celebrating begins.

In American cities with a large Irish population, St. Patrick's Day is a very big deal. Big cities and small towns alike celebrate with parades, "wearing of the green," music and songs, Irish food and drink, and activities for kids such as crafts, coloring and games. Some communities even go so far as to dye rivers or streams green!

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