Friday, October 31, 2008

Tea Gift Basket

By Fred Stewart

I like a nice cup of tea in the morning and at many intervals through the day. Brewing and drinking tea is a pleasurable rite that provides me with all the water I need to live, that stimulates my taste buds and that revives my spirit. Gift tea baskets let you give all this to friends and family too.

I find it a fun challenge to design tea baskets for my loved ones and it is a more meaningful and personal present. Bear the receiver in mind as you peruse the multitude of tea varieties and you can compile a gift that will give both joy and health benefits. What is it about their character or lifestyle that you want to support?

I recently made up a unique gift tea basket for a friend who worries constantly about her body shape and weight. She is a gorgeous woman but insists on worrying about staying in shape. I had a brainwave about expressing this contrast in an ironic and helpful way that would give her pleasure. Making up the tea basket itself took very little time once I had the concept to work with.

In this particular presentation I included a number of articles and testimonies about the amazing effects of green tea for dieters. Of course, the green herbs were included in the presentation. However, I surrounded the green teas with a bunch of fattening cookies and cakes. The contrast in this tea gift basket was ironically funny.

Another great tea gift basket idea is to work with flavors. If you know someone who loves fresh fruit why not combine some of her favorite fruits with some fruit flavored teas. This makes a wonderfully healthy present that any fruit lover would appreciate. Some fruity cookies wouldn't hurt in this arrangement, either.

There are a myriad of flavours within a large number of categories of tea and this allows each gift basket to be unique and adapted to the receiver. Imagine a basket of fruit teas mingled with colourful real fruit or herb teas with flowers for mothers day.

Or how about helping a 'non-morning' person that you know, with a gift basket of all the breakfast blends and some breakfast breads for toasting and covering in different marmalades. All done up in sunshine yellow gift wrapping. At the other end of the day someone who struggles to relax would benefit from a lavender theme.

Let your imagination run free with this tea gift basket idea and you will enjoy delighting your friends with individual, personal, and endlessly variable presents.

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