Pollaro Custom Furniture Chosen for 76th Annual Academy Awards® Gift Baskets

February 24, 2004--The exclusive custom-furniture maker, Pollaro Custom Furniture, which has crafted fine pieces for Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Carole Bayer-Sager, Clive Davis and other celebrities, was selected as an honored participant in the 76th Annual Academy Awards® Gift Baskets.

The Gift Baskets are given to the presenters, performers and other special guests at the Academy Awards® ceremony, which will be held on Sunday, February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. For a list of presenters and performers consult the official Academy Awards® website www.oscars.org/76academyawards/presenters_performers.html .

Pollaro Custom Furniture is presenting a $5,000 gift certificate that will be accompanied by a handsome 8-page brochure specially printed on the occasion of the 76th Academy Awards®. The certificate can be used toward the commission of a custom piece of furniture from the Pollaro workshop, which is based in New Jersey. Pollaro has built and shipped furniture to discriminating clientele around the world.

Academy Awards® gift baskets contain a selective array of merchandise, such as jewelry and fashion accessories, cameras and chocolates, and certificates for spa treatments and, this year, a custom piece of furniture.

Pollaro Custom Furniture produces hand-crafted museum-quality furniture, cabinetry and architectural woodwork. The workshop, founded by Frank Pollaro in 1988, has built a solid reputation for creating complex veneered and inlaid furniture among noted architects and interior designers, including Peter Marino, Charles Gwathmey, Harry Schnaper and Michael LaRocca, private residential clients and corporations worldwide. Pollaro created the elaborate marquetry reception desk for the headquarters of Jim Henson Productions in New York using 90 species of wood veneer to create three scenes featuring Muppets characters in action.

With more than 400 projects completed in the past 15 years, Pollaro has designed and built wood-paneled offices, bedroom sets and entire suites of furniture, in addition to tables, chairs, sideboards, desks, cabinets and other single pieces of furniture as commissioned by clients. Much of Pollaro’s work, which often is in the Art Deco style, incorporates exotic wood veneers; inlays of gold, silver, mother of pearl, precious stones and antique ivory; and such rare materials as shagreen, parchment and vellum.

In November 2001, HGTV’s Modern Masters featured Frank Pollaro for his designs and woodworking skills. Architectural Digest, House & Garden, Elle Décor and numerous other publications have written about Pollaro’s work. There is an article about him in the March 2004 issue of Architectural Digest that is currently on the newsstands.

For more information about and a portfolio of Pollaro Custom Furniture, go to www.pollaro.com.

Pollaro Custom Furniture
Frank Pollaro
973-675-7557

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Tamar Mahshigian
310-276-5001

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Unforgettable Custom Made Gift Baskets for the Mind, Body & Spirit

Bogota, NJ July 1, 2004 -- Rapunzel Gifts (www.rapunzelgifts.com), is a Web site offering handcrafted gift baskets, gift sets and jewelry for yoga, meditation, stress relief, healing and spiritual growth. The company is now giving customers the chance to build their own customized, new age themed gift basket for a loved one. Owner, Lynn Gregorski says, “Many of our customers were asking for a special design or theme, so we decided to provide that option right on the site. Now people can pick and choose the items they want in their gift basket and how they want it packaged.”

The site features spiritually themed gift sets, such as the “Breathe Relaxation Box,” “Buddha Basket,” and “Om Gift Set”. They include a variety of aromatherapy candles, herbal soaps, bath salts, incense and spiritual tools. Every item is carefully wrapped in mango bark papers with earthy accents and Chinese I-Ching coins that give the gift sets a natural, rustic feel. Many of the high quality products originate in Nepal, India, Thailand and Tibet and some of the gift sets come in re-usable banana leaf jewel boxes custom made for Rapunzel Gifts in Thailand. Each gift set can now be changed to include any variety of the products offered on the site. Gregorski says they also expanded their product line to give the customer a wider variety of individual products to add. The site will introduce a new area for shopping a la carte next month.

RapunzelGifts.com is the brainchild of television industry veteran Lynn Gregorski. A former manager at CNBC and CBS Marketwatch.com, Gregorski found a peaceful refuge in the practice of yoga. “I combined my experience traveling to places like Nepal and Peru with my own yoga practice to design gifts that help people on a journey toward relaxation and inner peace,” she says.

When Gregorski says, “We are committed to helping you find your peacefulness in physical body and spiritual mind,” she’s talking about beautiful gift baskets and jewelry, but she’s also about the joy of helping others.

For more information on wholesale or retail opportunities, contact Lynn Gregorski at (201) 489-9849.

Media Contact: Terri Thornton 404-932-4347, territhornton@mindspring.com


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“New Ideas in Gift Giving”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Ideas in Gift Giving
Duluth, GA, June 30, 2003

A new web site, budideas.com launched June 16, 2003, it is an Atlanta – based online retailer that features quality crystals, vases, gift baskets, edible baskets, and cookies for special occasions.

At www.budideas.com, we offer a great experience for gift buying with efficient usability, high performance, impressive speed, and a clean, alluring look. We also offer free ground shipping. All of which makes it very convenient for you to purchase that perfect gift, stress free, for that special someone.

About budideas

Visit us at http://www.budideas.com.

Established in 2003, is a gift giving company providing a wide array of gifts including crystals, vases, gift baskets, edible baskets, cookies, and more. budideas is based in Duluth, Georgia. For more information on budideas and its services, please contact Laretta Houston at (770) 714-0768 or lhouston@budideas.com

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Bernardus Lodge includes Luxury Gift Certificates in Gift Baskets at the 76th Annual Academy Awards®

CARMEL VALLEY, CA March 3, 2004 -– Bernardus Lodge in Carmel Valley, California has been selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be included in the gift baskets offered at this year’s Academy Awards. Among the array of goodies, recipients of these marvelous baskets will enjoy a two-night weekend escape for two at the serene resort. This getaway also includes the popular Loving Luxury Massage, an aromatherapy bath for two in the outdoor tub garden followed by a candlelit essence massage.

Bernardus Lodge is dedicated to marrying the finest epicurean experiences with exceptional hospitality in one of America’s loveliest locales. It features 57 comfortable guestrooms, each of which has a fireplace and spacious patio or deck with sweeping views. The resort also boasts a soothing spa, heated swimming pool and outdoor warming pool, tennis courts, a croquet lawn, a vineyard and meeting and banquet space. Bernardus’ range of unique amenities and services include a wine and cheese greeting upon arrival, complimentary wine and generously stocked gourmet pantries in-room, fresh fruit and flowers in every room, and Italian linens.

Nestled among stately pine trees, California oaks, vineyards and the Santa Lucia mountain range, the resort capitalizes on its awe-inspiring setting and warm, sunny year-round weather in Carmel Valley, located just inland from Carmel-by-the-Sea. Bernardus Lodge is an accessible 20-minute drive from the Monterey Peninsula Airport and within an easy drive from many of the Monterey Peninsula’s famous attractions and landmarks.

Bernardus Lodge is managed by Valley Resort Management and located at 415 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, California 93924. Information is available at www.bernardus.com or for reservations travelers can call 1-888-648-9463.

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Middleton & Gendron
212-980-9060
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Last Minute Father's Day Food and Spa Gift Ideas at The Gifted Ones of New York City

June 14, 2004 -- For all you last minute shoppers, The Gifted Ones, a New York City based gourmet gift basket and corporate gift service, has a wonderful collection of Father’s Day gifts and gift baskets, ranging from toolboxes loaded with BBQ sauces to antique clocks filled with chocolate truffles, all available online at www.thegiftedones.com.

There is still time to ship anywhere in the continental U.S. in time for Father’s Day on June 20th, and The Gifted Ones is also offering hand delivery by messenger in New York City.

The Father’s Day collection is true to The Gifted Ones' reputation for personalized service and tasteful, stylish products; they still eschew anything mass-produced and change their inventory to match the season.

With a large variety gift selections ranging in price from $30 to $200 and up, their collection is designed to meet the needs of every budget and are unique yet sophisticated.

Some of the wonderful gifts include:

For only $39, they have the gorgeous Sweet Words of Fatherhood - a classic set of book boxes packed with hard candy, Willingham cheese biscuits and Uniquely Together’s martini, margarta and bloody mary biscuits. A “novel” gift for any Dad!

The All American Dad, for $49, is a wonderful rustic Americana star basket loaded with DiCamillo’s almond diprato, American fortune cookies, black walnut Moravian cookies, mocha almonds, Americana snack mix, America The Beautiful Designer cookies, and All American red-white and blue malted balls. What better way to salute your Dad!

In the Treasured Dad, for $59, you’ll find all the tools you’ll need to win your Dad’s heart this Father’s Day with this great looking toolbox packed with all the essentials needed for good snacking. Your dad will love trying the dip-stick pretzel rods with hot mustard, cheese snacks, Swiss chocolate cigars, sunny seed drops, biscotti. Caramel corn, pumpkin cookies, and mocha chocolate almonds. A gift we know your Dad will treasure!

The Patio Daddy-O, for $75, is a wooden toolbox filled with gifts for your backyard-barbecue King. There’s a great printed apron, four incredible sauces from the Danger Men Cooking collection, barbecue snack mix and barbecue peanuts. For the Dad who is truly “cooking with Gas”.

The Executive Dad Spa, for $89, is filled with The Gifted Ones new Men’s bath line. It has a wonderful fresh scent and comes packaged in an old-fashioned silver lunch box. There’s shave gel, after-shave lotion, shea butter hand balm. Shower gel, an extra-large bar of soap, a travel candle tin and a body sponge. The ideal gift for the busy executive in your life!

A great find is the Father Time, for $95. – an antique clock box which makes the classic Father’s Day gift. It arrives filled with a crate of imported Belgian liqueur-filled chocolates, Buckley’s amaretto cake, cocktail nibblers, DiCamillo’s almond diprato, Swiss chocolate cigars, Willingham Manor’s cheese biscuits, and Uniquely Together’s champagne biscuits. A distinctive Father’s Day gift that will definitely become a timeless treasure!

Since 1986, a little West Village shop called The Gifted Ones, nestled between Greenwich and Waverly Place at 150 West 10th Street, has quietly been bringing smiles and panache to just about any occasion with its unique gourmet gift baskets. The Gifted Ones is available online at www.thegiftedones.com and toll-free at 1-866-443-8332.

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Last Minute Mother’s Day Gift Ideas at The Gifted Ones of Greenwich Village in New York City

New York, NY May 5, 2004 -- For all you last minute shoppers, The Gifted Ones, a New York City based gourmet gift basket and corporate gift service, has a wonderful collection of Mother’s Day gifts and gift baskets, all available on its website, www.thegiftedones.com.

There is still time to ship in time for Mother’s Day on May 9th, and The Gifted Ones is offering hand delivery by messenger in New York City up until Mother’s day.

The Mother’s Day collection is true to The Gifted Ones' reputation for personalized service and tasteful, stylish products; they still eschew anything mass-produced and change their inventory to match the season.

With a large variety gift selections ranging in price from $30 to $200 and up, their collection is designed to meet the needs of every budget and are unique yet sophisticated.

Some of the wonderful gifts include “Moms Sweet Tooth” ($39) - a market basket brimming with mocha-covered almonds, pumpkin cookies, an amazing white chocolate macadamia cake, and much more.

The “Momma Mia” ($49), arrives in a wonderful silver colander packed with pasta, Italian crisp bread, almond biscotti, French vanilla cappuccino, cookies and cakes.

The “Bath Bouquet” ($49) is a great way to pamper your Mom with this adorable tin planter sprouting Upper Canada’s new Fresh Cut Bath collection of magnolia or lavender, plus a box of chocolate pansies.

The “Super Mom” ($75) is sure to be a big hit. It's an adorable metal shopping cart comes loaded with, gardening pasta, granola snacks, a fruit can candle, coconut carrots, strawberry-shaped marzipan, Stonewall Kitchen’s lobster bisque and much more for the “Overworked Mom”.

Another great find is the “Earth Mother” ($129), an Amish-made wheelbarrow planter pieced together from old Maine barn wood which makes the perfect container when filled with gardening pasta, a unique chocolate gardening kit, sugar crème daisies, a tulip tin of English cookies, a box of chocolate Bumble Bees and other decadent confections.

Other gift baskets and keepsakes include an antique clock box overflowing with teas and treats, and a wide variety of old fashioned and modern picnic baskets.

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The Gifted Ones Introduces Valentine’s Gift Basket Collection

New York, NY February 2, 2004 -- The Gifted Ones, a New York City based gourmet gift basket and corporate gift service, has introduced its 2004 Valentine’s Day line of gifts and gift baskets, all available on its new website, www.thegiftedones.com. The Valentine collection is true to The Gifted Ones' reputation for personalized service and tasteful, stylish products; they still eschew anything mass-produced and change their inventory to match the season.

With an assortment of over twenty different gift selections ranging in price from $20 to $200 and up, their 2004 Valentine catalog is designed to meet the needs of every budget.

“Our Loving Cups” are wonderful red and pink retro cups with heart-shaped saucers and filled with Saxon’s chocolate enrobed sugar cookies, a perfect-pot of coffee, two chocolate spoons and milk chocolate hearts. What better way to “espresso” your feelings!

Whether you’re sending the "Young at Heart" gift basket to your favorite little ones or you want to awaken the kid in your valentine, this is the ideal gift. They will love the jelly bean heart, the iced sugar cookie, Peeps, a choco-pal, a bag of jube hearts, a bubble gum buddy, a Valentine bobble-head, and white chocolate-covered Oreos. A “childish” gift for the kid in all of us!

The outrageous “Good Clean Fun” is a paint can stuffed with everything you need for some bath time fun. There’s a champagne bottle of “passion” bubble bath, Robinwood’s temporary instructional tattoos, a vanilla-scented votive candle, cherry body paint, chocolate shower bar for two, and pomegranate crush scented heart bath bomb and soap. Rub-a-dub-dub!

What better way to send Valentine wishes than the “Warm Hearted Wishes” - a silver wire heart filled with a Linzer torte, Cupid’s Arrow tea, a bag of cashews, old-fashioned peppermints, a tin of Kopper’s chocolate sweethearts, Too Good Gourmet’s raspberry tea cookies and a bag of microwave fudge. Guaranteed to “melt the heart” of family, friends and clients.

Your message will be very clear when you send the “You’re Hot Stuff” red wicker pepper basket stuffed with Buffalo Bill’s tortilla chips, Gifted Ones salsa, Byrd’s jalapeno cheese biscuits, jalapeno chocolates, strawberry daiquiri mix, and a tin of cinnamon red hots, hot cinnamon malted balls and a plush bear devil. We really “turn-up the heat” with this gift!

The words will not get in the way with the “Sweet Talking” classic silver heart basket overflowing with a tin of chocolate peppermint cocoa, Byrd’s incredible Conversation cookies, DiCamillo’s almond biscotti, a tin of old-fashioned conversation hearts, delicious chocolate turtles, Joseph Schmidt’s truffle hearts, a bag of jelly hearts and a truly unique “Sweet Talk” ball. Let this gift do the talking!

Just add a little mood music to the “Cocktails for Two” and together you and your Valentine can create your favorite bar right at home. There’s a tube of chocolate vodka shots, a tin of hot buttered rum spice, two cocktail nibblers, chocolate sardines, pina colada cordials, bloody mary biscuits, bloody mary nut mix, margarita nut mix and a large bottle of delicious strawberry daiquiri mix. There will be no next morning regrets when you send this gift.

Other Gift baskets and keepsake gifts include antique clock box comes overflowing with elegant gifts of romance, a wide variety of old fashioned and modern picnic baskets, velvet stacked boxes and gift baskets.

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