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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
 When you're ordering engraved gifts, its very important to choose the correct engraving font. The best font for your gift will often vary depending on the engraving you're requesting. For example, let's say you're getting three initials on a flask, you'll want to avoid the script font. Script lettering is best if you're having words done as the letters are made to connect. Old english or Century Block are great fonts for initials. How about if you're having a name and date? Script is always a great choice for something like this. Century block looks fantastic too but you may want to avoid Old English. While some may disagree, I find that the Old English font looks best with initials, not so great with long engraving. It is very intricate and if you're having a few words done, all of the lines can tend to blur together. Looking for a long quote or inspirational message for your groomsmen gifts or corporate awards? A cursive font like Script of Vanessa or a block font like Century Block or Avant Garde are your best bets here. You'll want to choose a font that is very legible and these all fit the bill. Finally, the last engraving style to consider is the monogram. There are two types, the Circle Monogram and the Script Monogram. These are to be used only for a person's initials and only with three initials. You cannot use these fonts with one or two initials. The other thing to be sure of is to enter your engraving instructions in the order you'd like them - whatever initial (the last name initial) you want in the middle, be sure to place it in the middle. For example, say you're ordering a business card case and your name is Michael Alan Smith, enter the initials in the intructions area as MSA. Our engravers will engrave your gifts in the exact order you enter the instructions. by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments
Friday, March 21, 2008
 You have so many details to worry and obsess over for your upcoming wedding that you can forget about a lot of the little details. Groomsmen gifts are a perfect example. You're so busy worrying about the menu, the tablecloths, the limo or the photographer that you forget to get something for your best friends to say thanks, thanks for standing up for you on the biggest day of your life. Maybe you remember the night before and you get them something at the local mall or you buy them a round of beers. Don't let it come to that. Like everything else in life, they key is not to procrastinate. Leave yourself a couple of weeks at the minimum and you should have no problem. You can go online and with a simple Google search, you can find the perfect gift for all of your groomsmen. Got a beer drinker - How about a personalized mug? Maybe one of your buddies is a budding Wall Streeter - how about a business card holder with his name and job title? You can always go with the old standby, an old fashioned liquor flask that he'll be sure to employ on the night of your wedding! Again, I hate to sound redundant, but the key is to leave yourself plenty of time. If you try and order your groomsmen gifts 3 days before your wedding, one of three things will happen. First, you may get turned down flat. The company you order from may not be able to deliver in time. Second, even if they can deliver your gifts, they may not have enough time to engrave them, losing their personal touch. Finally, even if they can get the gifts to you in time, and they can engrave them, you will probably get stuck with an exorbitant overnight charge. You can avoid all of these problems by buying your gifts with time to spare. The added benefit is that you can really shop around for the perfect gifts to fit each groomsman's personality! Labels: groomsmen gifts personalized gifts engraved gifts by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments  Money clip wallets combine the best features of both a money clip and a traditional men’s leather wallet. These handy items are usually, if not always, contructed of leather and offer features you’d find in a traditional wallet as well as a sturdy clip for carrying your billfold. The wallet section will usually feature multiple slots for your credit cards and ID. Whereas a traditional wallet will allow you to carry all of your credit cards (within reason) as well as your ID and some business cards, a money clip wallet will normally only allow room for 2 or 3 credit cards and an ID. The obvious advantage to this is the space in your pocket that this frees up. The main disadvantage being that you can only carry a few of your important cards. If you have one main credit card that you always use, however, this shouldn’t be much of an issue. The money clip section of a money clip wallet is usually composed of a hard flap with leather wrapped around it. For magnetic money clips, there will be a magnet in the flap as well as in the wallet section. These are very handy but they do have their limitations. If you’re holding an unusually large amount of bills, the magnet may not hold them as tightly as you’d like. For the most part though, if you’re not Donald Trump and you have less than 20 bills in your wallet, the magnetic money clip should provide secure enough hold! For non-magnetic money clips, your bills will be cinched to the wallet via a firm clip pushing against the wallet. The clip is designed to hold firmly against the main body of the wallet and you’ll just slide your bills between the two. These money clip wallets provide a firm grip and, contrary to popular opinion, that grip will last for years to come. Labels: leather money clip wallets personalized gifts engraved gifts by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
First off, let us wish a happy and healthy New Years to all! We wish you the best of luck this coming year. We'd also like to thank all of our loyal customers for your patronage and kind words this past year.
We've been adding a lot of new items and features at Executive Gift Shoppe. We are expanding our Poker Chip Sets section, look for more product here in the coming weeks. We have also added gift baskets and again, we will be adding more product here in the coming weeks as well. We will also be adding more and more Trophies and Awards this year as well to help you with your corporate gift needs. Finally, if you haven't checked out our new travel accessories section, please do so. You'll be sure to find a great gift for a loved one or co-worker or a special treat for yourself! Thank you from all of us at Executive Gift Shoppe - Simon Ekizian, Owner by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments
Congratulations Penny! You've won a 100 dollar gift certificate redeembable at Executive Gift Shoppe
I once had a small, dimly lit restaurant intended to be a romantic setting. One evening, just after dark, a couple came in to dine. Judging by their clothes, they appeared to be fairly well-heeled, and I wanted to be sure they had a great dining experience. The woman had long hair, about four inches longer than shoulder length. It was fine and curly and tended to fluff out away from her face and shoulders. My waitress, Sarah, seated them, and while she left to get menus and drink orders, I took a clean ashtray to the table and lighted the candle on their table. As I was placing the ashtray on the table more or less between them, the woman said, “Give it to him; I don’t smoke.” Then she added, “You know, I’ve never smoked only because I was always sure I’d probably catch my hair on fire.!” The man said, “She’s probably right – she’d catch her hair on fire, and that would be a real shame.” We all laughed a little obligatory laugh, and I went on back to the kitchen. Soon the waitress came to get their complimentary “bread and spread” basket and the appetizer plates. She delivered these to the table, took the couple’s entree order and returned to the kitchen. While she was assembling their salads and I was beginning to work on their entree, I heard a scream from the seating area, and we both ran out to see what was the matter. Sarah left the kitchen first and yelled, “Fire!” I quickly turned and grabbed a fire extinguisher. The man was busy beating out flames on the table while the woman was pulling at a lock of her hair. Other customers were standing and heading for the door. I grabbed a water pitcher and doused the napkin, tablecloth and candle, dabbing everything with a cloth, trying hard not to allow it to drip off the table and ruin these folk’s nice clothes and assured everyone that all was under control. When all fire seemed to be extinguished, the couple explained: It seems that the man had presented the woman with an engagement ring and proposal. As she turned to kiss him and say, “yes,” she dropped her napkin on the table near the candle, catching the cotton napkin and then the tablecloth on fire and, leaning over as she was, subsequently singed a large section of her long hair. I was just glad they were both OK and that the woman’s hair had not actually caught fire. The woman, who was blushing bright red by this time, sheepishly apologized to everyone for starting the fire and burning the napkin and tablecloth. After I assured her that I was not upset in the least and was just glad she didn’t actually start a fire on her head, she turned to her husband and said, “Well, honey, light me a cigarette. I might as well take up smoking!” They returned some months later, married, and the woman had a stylish new short haircut. by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments
Monday, January 7, 2008
  Thank you to Kelli, our week 4 winner! Sorry for the break in the contest, we were busy trying to get orders shipped throughout December. We're back on track now, so keep sending those entries! A few years ago, my parents took the whole family to Disneyworld for Christmas. My dad’s birthday is a few weeks before Christmas and so my mom decided to give him some gifts to get ready for our vacation to Florida . The first few gifts were just fine, but then when my dad opened this one, the look on his face should’ve told it all. He pulled out what was in the box and just kind of stared at it. Then he unfolded it, to take a better look. You could tell he was trying to think of something nice to say, but failing miserably. As soon as I saw what it was, I had to hide my face and try not to laugh. So it sounded like a combination of a snort and me choking. When my dad saw what I was doing, he just bust out laughing which in return got me laughing. Then my brother and the rest of the gang must have thought it was okay to laugh also. My mom kept saying, “What? What’s so funny?” My response was, “If Dad wear’s that to Disneyworld , he’s either going to get his butt kicked by somebody or he’ll be walking around alone, because none of us will want to be seen with him.” By this time, my dad had forgotten all politeness and he was laughing so hard he was crying. While my mom continued innocently saying, “But I thought he’d look good in it! You two are so rude. That’s the last outfit I will ever buy your dad.” Thank goodness! The gift was a navy blue and black floral print shirt with matching short shorts. I know it doesn’t sound very funny, but you should see the thing! The funniest part was, my mom and her best friend go shopping together a lot and her friend had bought the same outfit for her husband. To our embarrassment, he actually wore it. Guess he didn’t have anyone to warn him. Just the other day my mom got an email with old JcPenney ads in it. The title to the email was- If you want to get your a** kicked wear this outfit to… It had different outfits from the old ads. I swear one of them was this same outfit. The caption next to it said- If you want to get you’re a** kicked on vacation, wear this. So it proved our point to my mother. To this day, if anything is funny, we compare it to “Dad’s Disneyworld Outfit”. My mom still thinks we are rude and even now is hurt by our reaction years ago. I attached a few pictures to show how hard we were laughing. You can see the outfit on the counter, but the picture doesn’t do it justice!! by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Congratulations to Tom, our Week 4 winner. Congratulations Tom! Here's his story:
Back in my college days, I had one of the weirdest, most awkward moments I've ever had in my life. We were at a typical college birthday party when my friend who was sober and I, who was a little buzzed, found ourselves hungry and decided to get some burritos at around 11:15pm (nighttime) or so. So we left the birthday party to go to a familiar little taco shop down the street with outdoor seating that we always went to. It seemed like a typical night, we ordered our food, got our burritos, and found a table to sit down. Then we started eating. After a few minutes of regular chit chat, everything was normal up until this point when all of a sudden out of nowhere, literally out from behind the bushes this short little middle-aged-looking Japanese lady just appears out of nowhere, greets us with a bow and immediately with a very thick Japanese accent, she starts talking about family values and divorce rates in America. I was thinking "What the heck?" the entire time she was talking as I couldn't understand most of what she was saying because she talked extremely fast and I had a few beers in me. Apparently, she was from some charity or something called "family 'something' world 'something' federation," I don't remember too clearly. Anyway, after she was done with her three minute speech, she sets this big black briefcase on our table and opened it to show us what looked like jewelry from a local 99 cent store and asked for a donation. It was apparently a donation to help promote world peace. There was an awkward silence of about 5 seconds, the longest 5 seconds ever. I was still just thinking "what in the hell?!" when I looked at my friend and he had the blankest look on his face that I probably have ever seen on him. Then my friend snapped out of it and said he spent all his cash on his burrito. When she looked at me, I felt the urge to give her a dollar for some reason. Maybe it was because of her effort, I don't know why. I ended up buying the best looking two dollar bracelet she had. After she was done with us, she approached a group of dudes sitting two tables down from us. It was hilarious watching the expressions on their faces. Then she left with some guy in a Honda and saw her go across the street into a local Jack-In-The-Box to do her presentation to the people in there. I later justified my purchase as a donation helping to promote world peace as well as I was buying a gift for my girlfriend at the time. I gave her both the bracelet and the story of how I acquired the bracelet and it was very well-received. That particular event that happened that night ranks as one of the strangest most random thing to ever happen to me. I mean who does that at 11:30pm at night?--seriously? and of all places, a tiny little outdoor taco shop? by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Congratulations to Kim Carson, our Week 3 winner! If you're not familiar with our contest, each and every week, we reward one person with a 100 dollar certificate. This goes to the person who submits the funniest gift giving or gift receiving story. Well here's Kim's story:
Ever since I could remember, my brother and I had a deal… You see, my mother is a very difficult woman to buy gifts for. She will only ever reveal one thing that she wants, and is very specific about that thing. The trouble with this is that there are two children who are looking to get her that one specific gift. So the deal is this: Whoever finds it and buys it first is safe. His or her gift will be the best loved of the holiday. The other must sweat and scrape and dig and pray for a present that Mom will like almost as much as the specified gift. One particular Christmas, my mother found a winter coat that she was dying to have under the tree this year. She revealed it’s location, size, color, and make to me. I thought I had the scoop over my brother and headed to the mall the first chance I got. I parked in the Macy’s lot – a short cut into the part of the mall where the coat was located. I made my way toward the glass entrance doors, a gentleman holding one open for me…until I was close enough to see his face… My brother. There he was. And we saw each other at exactly the same time. The game was on. He let go of the door, letting it shut in my face, and began to run. I began to run too. We were both only moments away from being best loved this Christmas and it was going to be a photo-finish. My brother took off towards luggage. I hurried past the shoe department, through women’s lingere, down the escalator, and around the perfume counters toward the entrance of the mall. I could see the window of the shop where the coat was. But I didn’t see my brother. I had beat him! Suddenly, I heard loud buzzers and little red lights were spinning around. In less then a moment, a Macy’s security guard had his hand on my shoulder. “You can’t leave with that,” he said sternly, as though I knew exactly what he was talking about. “Do you have anything else in your pockets?” My pockets? What did he mean? I looked down at myself and saw that a pair of ladies’ silk underwear had gotten caught on the zipper of my coat, and I had carried it there to the security detectors at the front of the store. My brother then came running by, disheveled, laughing at my accidental misfortune. I pointed him out to the security guard while explaining my ridiculous story. I showed the guard my pockets and purse and apologized with success… I didn’t go to jail that day. But my brother had won the race, bought the coat and had it gift wrapped by the time the guard had finished searching my purse. I drove home, beginning to think of another gift I might get for my mother. Later that night, I got a phone call from my brother… He was in the same position as I was now… After all that, it turns out that my father had purchased the coat two days earlier! by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments
Monday, November 12, 2007
Congrulations to Kyle Taylor, our week 2 contest winner. Here's his hilarious story:
WORST BIRTHDAY EVER When I was in the eighth grade, I became old enough for the first birthday when my parents really started to miss the boat on gift giving. Up until this point my parents did pretty well with gifts: a bike, basketball goal, etc… So this year I had no reason to believe the level of gift giving would be any less. As was typical on birthdays, after everyone got home from school and work the five of us (my two sisters, parents, and I) gathered in the living room. Grandma had given presents to my parents and I started opening those first. To set the stage for this Grandma has always given terrible presents. Presents so dumb you just try to figure out how anyone could think this item could be a gift. This year was no different, but that was as expected. This year I started out with a toffee chocolate candy bar – highlight of all presents and given every year for Christmas and birthdays. Next, I opened up and old shoebox filled with packaging peanuts. As I tore through the box I found the first item, a roll of scotch tape. I gave the quizzical look I gave every year, and continued through the box hoping this year might be different than all the rest. Nope. Item number 2 was a roll of AVON chapstick, with a not attached that said, "Has the yearly calendar on it!" Oh how convenient! If I ever forget what day it is, I can just go to my trusty roll of chapstick, what a lifesaver! After finishing out the box with a standard sticker book, yes at the age of 14, I was still getting sticker books, I moved on to mom and dad's gifts. Mom hands me the first bag, after opening grandma's gifts I was excited to get something worth opening. I tear it open, and stare. What is it? I COULDN'T EVEN FIGURE OUT WHAT IT WAS. All I could see is that they were black and ninja turtle green foam pads of some sort. I thought maybe they were masks at first, but I wasn't sure. So I turned back to mom and asked, "They're shin guards, for soccer" she replied. To give some background, I lived 6 miles outside a town of 2,000 people in rural Indiana. My school doesn't offer soccer, I've never played soccer, we didn't have cable thus I'd never even seen anyone play soccer on television. As I turned back to my gift something caught my eye, an orange sticker on the top left corner of the packaging. I focused in on it and read "CLEARANCE 75 CENTS." I was so mad and disappointed I just threw them down and left the room, not even opening the rest of my presents, which I got grounded for doing, on my birthday. After this birthday I either handpicked my birthday presents or got money, talk about a step in the right direction. My mother to this day, apologizes for buying such a terrible gift. Labels: Birthday Gifts, Worst Birthday Ever by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments
Monday, November 5, 2007
Congratulations to Julie, our Weekly Contest Winner for week 1! She has won a $100.00 gift certificate to Executive Gift Shoppe!
For details about our weekly contest click here: Weekly Contest Here is Julies hysterical story: By the age of twelve, I was a "well-rounded" child-- an early bloomer, to say the least. On the playground, I heard all of the jokes about being Dolly Parton, and, except for that one time I beat up a boy and made him call me uncle, I learned to live with it rather gracefully. By my senior year in high school, in the early 90's, I had learned to hide my assets to some degree. I chose to wear a lot of baggy clothes, and I never left the house without a jacket so that my chest wouldn't draw too much attention. Of course, my true friends never teased me for being a little top heavy. It never mattered to them. In fact, none of them ever even seemed to notice. In a lot of ways, they were a second family to me. We were such a close-knit group that we spent our school days together, our afternoons practicing in the high school band, and at least one night a week, the four of us would get together at my house to watch our favorite prime time television show. It became a routine for us. The Christmas of our senior year, the band director decided to let us have a Christmas party at the school. All of the students got to have snacks and exchange gifts with their friends during the first class of the day. My buddies and I were really excited about this. We were prepared with tons of gifts and the knowledge that everybody would get to see the cool presents we got each other. Some of the gifts were comical - a Millie Vanilli spiral notebook was the gag gift I got my best friend, Michelle- but most of the gifts were extremely fitting and thoughtful, the kind of gifts that only true friends would think to get for each other. I still remember opening the Christmas gift from my buddy, Michelle. Everybody had gathered around to see what we had gotten for each other, and the crowd all seemed curious about the soft red package I was about unwrap. As I removed the gift from the paper, I was surprised and extremely embarrassed at the present my naive friend had given me. Outdoing herself yet again, she had managed to find a form fitting t-shirt featuring the logo of the television show that we had been getting together every week to watch : Twin Peaks. Nowadays, I would wear it with pride, but, at that moment, when everybody chuckled, got out their cameras and asked me to pose with the shirt, I turned six shades of red. by: Executive Gift Shoppe 0 comments |
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