Gift Basket Stores

Customer Review: The Gift Basket Design Book

If I could give this a 7 star I would this book is that good. Ms Frazier is an excellent designer and teacher and I can't wait to meet her at the next trade show in Reading, PA so that I can tell her so!

Customer Review: Informative on a business level

Shirley George Frazier's strength seems to be her knowledge of the gift basket business, rather than her design style. The most creative and professional looking baskets in the book are from other contributors. All the "how to" pictures are black and white, with a section in the middle of the book showing the finished designs in color. I certainly got some good business information from the book, but I'd rather have had more pictures of the designs of Flora Brown, Elaine Essary, Lisa Schleicher, Marie Pessolano, and Marian Donnelly. I wish I had realized before I got the book that it would be more helpful in giving me an idea about basic basket construction (filler, stabilizers, etc.) than in giving me design ideas. Ms. Frazier has another book, How to Start a Home-Based Gift Basket Business, but it doesn't go into as much depth on putting the baskets together as this book does. This book does have very detailed pictures showing step-by-step how to put the basket together. A good book for a beginner, but not very helpful if you've done baskets before.
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