The Perfect Basket: How to Make a Fabulous Gift Basket for Any Occasion

by Diane Phillips

Book Overview

Here's the perfect solution for everyone who strives to give the perfect gift This stylish and user-friendly guide offers baskets for every occasion and at every price level, and is filled with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558322949
• ISBN13: 9781558322943
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Basket

This book has a lot of good ideas and is well photographed. It will make a good addition to a home based basket business library You always need more ideas.

Such a Creative Resource

I really like this book, with all the wonderful ideas for gift baskets. Even thought her basket ideas are adorable, I actually like the mix recipes best. She has an older book, The Perfect Mix, that is also a keeper, with great recipes for easy gifts.

NOT about statring a business!! For personal use only.

Maybe I didn't read the editorial comments correctly before I ordered this book, but it is not what I wanted. I was looking for information about starting a gift basket *business*. This book does not cover that topic. It is a very nice book about making baskets as gifts for friends, neighbors, teachers, service people, etc. There are some full-color pictures, though not of every basket idea. The resource list is strictly retail. Recipes are included for basket items, a no-no when you're selling baskets unless you have a licensed commercial kitchen. So, while the book might jump-start your brain for basket ideas as gifts, it is not a business book. My problem, not the book's.

Excellent ideas on gifts - innovative.

Though pictures are nice, they can inhibit one's own creative thought. This book gives well-organized lists of gift baskets for a large variety of people: college students, various individual sports, even a French basket.

Great for non-creative types like Me.

When it comes to "creative gift ideas," I have none. This has given, and continues to give me great gift basket ideas. Everyone now thinks that I always bring the coolest gifts when I put together a basket like any in this book. I also recommend Diane Phillips' "The Perfect Mix."