March is a great month! There are so many fun holidays that fall in this month that I just love! Not only is my birthday, and my son's birthday, in March but there is an awesome and very fun holiday……St. Patrick's Day!

What a fun time to celebrate and pass out handouts to your friends and clients. This is not your typical gift giving holiday which makes it an even better day to give a memorable gift to someone! There actually are some really fun items that are designated just for St. Patrick's Day. Everyone knows that on St. Patrick’s Day you must wear green or you will get pinched! Don’t come around me on St. Patrick’s Day not wearing green! If you do, you can expect to get pinched! St. Patrick’s Day is one of my favorite holidays! Last year I wore a green boa from my first meeting at 7:30 up until dinner with my family! What a fun day! If you want to be remembered on this fun and unique day then there is still time to get your items ordered and delivered on time!

Not only are there wonderful events in March but it also means that Spring is right around the corner! Welcome Spring! I am ready for you to get here!

Labels: holiday gifts, March, Promotional Products, St. Patrick's Day

Well, the gift giving season is upon us. Many people have already started their Holiday shopping. This means that the wrapping will begin. I know the normal way to wrap up a gift is with wrapping paper. Some people, including myself, also wrap gifts with paper gift bags that are used once or maybe twice if re-gifted.

How do you wrap up a customer's gift?

Do you use logoed wrapping paper? Have you ever thought about using wrapping paper that has your logo imprinted on it? Think about all the different times throughout the year that you give gifts and would be able to use this unique logoed item! What a great way to let you customer know IMMEDIATELY who the gift is from!

The next item I want to show you I love! If you are looking for a way to wrap up your customer's gift but don't like the idea of it being used once and then thrown away. . . then this is for you!!! It will be used much more often than the ones listed above!

When you go grocery shopping, do you come home with the store's loged bags? What do your customers come home with? Why not have them see your logo each time they go shopping? Why not have them reminded about you each time they get out a cooler? So many people are getting into green products. One of the easiest ways to do this is by reusing their shopping bags.

The item on the left is the Therm-O-Tote. It is great for keeping the cold items that you purchase cold. Not only is this a great shopping bag but it has a zipper so it can also be used as a cooler! I keep one of these in the back of my car filled with other reusable shopping bags including a couple of the bags on the right. These bags are the most popular non-woven bags. They can be imprinted with a one color logo or with multi-color imprinting. The best thing about these is that they are EARTH FRIENDLY BAGS:
20% post-industrial recycled content

Labels: Gift Wrapping, gifts, holiday gifts, Logoed, Promotional Products

Labels: blog, Embroidery, Gift Ideas, gifts, holiday gifts, Kristie's Kreations, logos, Newsletter, Purchasing, Shopping

OK, so I am back to the holiday gifts.  I want to go back to this subject for a couple of reasons.  The first one is that the last few days I have seen the exact same commercial and it makes me think of my blog/newsletter every time!  The commercial is for Kmart and is advertising their layaway department.  If you start shopping now you can put the presents on layaway. . . pay for them little by little. . . and have them paid off in time for the gift giving!!

When I sent out my first newsletter a few weeks ago, I mentioned that many of you might think that it is too early to start thinking of purchasing for the holidays.  Well, was I ever wrong!  Since then, not only have I seen the Kmart commercial many times, I have also spoken with several different business friends.  They told me that they have already started shopping. . .one started shopping in August, another started in September and another has almost all of her shopping completed!  WOW!  I guess great minds think alike!  It is never too early to start thinking about the holiday gifts and Kmart is telling everyone!

The second reason that I wanted to go back to this subject is that there are some really nice options for gift giving with your corporate logo.  If you are one of the people that like to give nice gifts but want it to have your logo on it, let me know . . .I can help.  I totally understand and have several options.

I mentioned this to the NAG group this morning but you may not have been there.  If that is the case, you are in luck!:)  There are many ways to give your friends, family, employees and customers holiday gifts that also can come from the company.  The person you give the gift to can advertise for your company all year. Not only that, they also will show that your companies' image is important to you.  A nice pen is great but sometimes you want to give something different.  If you are looking for a gift that will last, why not put your logo on a nice jacket, fleece pullover, sweater or hat?  The person you give it to will wear your logo around town and continue advertising for you!

If you are thinking, "I want to give a nice gift but I do not want it to shout out our logo because then it might not be worn."  Do not worry because there are ways to get around that!  Logos can be placed in different locations.  They do not always have to be on the left chest of a shirt or jacket.  You could put them on the sleeve, on the shoulder or the back by the tag.  These are nice, different locations to put logos.

Logos can also be embroidered as a tone on tone.  This means that the thread used will not be the colors of your logo but will match the color of the garment being embroidered on.  For example, if you have a nice brown, suede jacket and you want your logo on it but you want it in the left chest area and you do not really want the bright colors of your logo, we can embroider the logo in a brown a little bit darker or lighter than the brown of the jacket.  This way your logo is on it . .  it is still visible but it goes well and does not shout out to those that see it!  We have done this very successfully for several of our clients.  It always looks really nice.

Do I have you thinking?  What have you seen embroidered that you really liked?

Do you need some more ideas?  Let me know and we can meet!

Labels: Embroidery, gifts, holiday gifts, Kmart, logos, NAG - Non Affiliated Group, professional, tone on tone