Hello all, Cristie here! I hope my mom’s post on her Santa collection helped get you in the holiday spirit! I was thinking what to post about this week and I wanted to help with gift ideas for you. I am a manager at a restaurant and every year we have what we call “Holiday Happy Hour” for the amazing folks in our corporate office who make our lives so much easier. It looks very different this year due to COVID but we still wanted to do something nice for them!
Typically we host a happy hour with food, drinks and prizes. Since that is not an option I decided to make fun gift baskets that included items we would usually enjoy together.
I work at a Mexican restaurant so the first thing I wanted to put in the basket was a margarita kit. We have these cute mason jars that we serve our margaritas in, which worked perfectly because I could just fill and put the flats and rings on them. We currently have take home margaritas (just add your own tequila) so I filled the jars with that.
At this point I went to Hobby Lobby for inspiration and found these tiny clear ornaments. An alarm went off in my head and said use these for holding salt to rim the margaritas. I knew I needed a tag of sorts to tell them to just add tequila so I grabbed some blank tags. I have recently become obsessed with stamps so I wandered over to the stamp aisle and found this cute thank you stamp for the tags.
Next I needed a basket to put the goodies in and came across these farmhouse Christmas themed ones. We were going to do some cake balls at other parties we were going to have so I knew I needed to incorporate these into the basket. I found these clear treat holders that would neatly display the cake balls. I also saw these tiny cupcake liners and grabbed those too! I needed some filler for the baskets and treat holders and they have some already made for you.
On my way out of Hob Lob (before buying way too much stuff) I saw these thank you cards out of the corner of my eye. They fit perfectly with the theme and knew it was a great way for everyone to get to sign their appreciation.
Finally it was time to put them all together! I do not have the best handwriting so I asked for some help with the tags and envelopes. I used the tags to tie the salt filled ornaments to the margarita to make these adorable build your own margaritas. My boss grabbed some mini tequila bottles to complete the basket. I divided up the cake balls and put the treat boxes together.
The final touch was the thank you card with the recipients name on it. How cute did these turn out to be? I would love to hear what you all do for gift baskets or gifts for your friends and co-workers!!
-C
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