This selection was viewed as the natural choice to accompany fruit in the basket

The original, the granddaddy of all of today’s items bought and sold as fruit baskets, was in fact a basket full of assorted fruits. While there is no clear cut evidence when the first Wholesale Bumper Mould Factory fruit basket was wrapped up and delivered to it’s overjoyed recipient, it is known that in ancient times fruit baskets were routinely given to kings and feudal lords all over the world as a sign of respect and loyalty.

For whatever occasion applied, the coronation of a new king, a royal birth or even a wedding, the kingdom was carefully searched and only the best of all the fruits available were carefully assembled into a wicker basket and presented to the royal family. It wasn’t until sometime later that other products, perhaps spices from far away lands, plants, wines and other products not indigenous to the kingdom, were included with the fruit. That’s how it all began. From that point forward, whenever that was, fruit baskets became a name only for any conglomeration of goods, almost always containing some amount of fruit, that were given as gifts and delivered in baskets.The first items included with the fruit were flowers, wines, nuts and chocolates.

For some reason, this selection was viewed as the natural choice to accompany fruit in the basket. As the world slowly became a smaller place and products from one side of the globe began to routinely travel to the other, fruit baskets became more and more diverse. Can you imagine the look on the face of a European King when presented, in the dead of a cold winter, with a basket of fresh fruit from some far away land he’d never seen? It’s the same look people have today when their fruit baskets arrive at any time of the year.One of the popular manifestations of the original fruit basket is the “Fruit of the Month” basket.

Shipped in traditional wicker baskets, these pure, fruit-only baskets arrive monthly all year round with the finest fresh fruits grown somewhere on the globe not affected by seasonal weather. Fresh cherries arrive in December, grown in South America. Oranges arrive in New York in January, grown on organic farms in California. Plums and grapes arrive in October. Everybody, everywhere is constantly searching for a way to make the original fruit basket more exciting and new again to capture a share of this huge, growing market.            

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Silver shaped into tiny tools or trinkets will be kept for a lifetime

Some gift baskets offer a delightful miscellany of items. But successful gift baskets often attract attention because they're built around a unifying theme. Those themes can run the full range of creativity. They may be as simple and obvious, but still as lovely, as the items desired for an upcoming wedding. Perfumes, dried flowers, or small jewelry will be appreciated by bridesmaids. Or the theme may run in an entirely different direction connected to no single event at all. A gift basket of potpourri or forest-related items can bring joy to any recipient. Combination themes always make for a great gift basket. Chocolates can well stand alone in a delightful container of straw or wood.

But how much better to add a small bottle of champagne or wine to mix in with the sweets? Sometimes a combination makes for a unifying theme itself, as when sewing accessories are combined with beautiful buttons or cloth samples, for example. The traditional fruit basket is sometimes mocked. But there's always the possibility of giving a new twist to an old idea. Pick exotic fruits from a certain country, or combine them with unusual nuts. Lay some flowers from the fruit trees themselves among the produce and create an explosion of color. The result will be not only something delicious, but a work of art as well. Gift baskets that are associated with a particular state or country are very popular. Everyone loves to see the familiar items from home joined together in creative ways.

The pine cones of Idaho or the native flowers of Colorado are only two possibilities of natural items that will be welcomed. But miniature toys like oil wells from Texas or skyscrapers from New York can equally fill the bill. Go international and include some stuffed lions from Africa or turtles from the Galapagos islands. Announce the time in a gift basket with a reproduction of London's Big Ben. Handicrafts make for a great gift basket theme and the choices are endless. Small, hand-made jewelry of jade quickly become collector's items.

Silver shaped into tiny tools or trinkets will be kept for a lifetime. Tiny bears or badgers carved out of ivory or sandstone can fill a basket with reminders of happy vacations. Holiday gift baskets are a natural theme. There are many to choose from. Christmas is an obvious, but still perfect option. Tiny toys or traditional foods can be surrounded by a perfect wreath. Miniature reindeer happily pull a sleigh filled with Santa and his package of gifts. But the 4th of July, Halloween, and many more Wholesale Bumper Mould make it just as easy to devise a great set of gifts for friends and loved ones. Let your imagination soar. The possibilities for a gift basket theme are bounded only by the creativity you possess.

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