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Hot PINK Gift Guide
Searching for the perfect gift for the woman who loves her career? Look no further than the Hot PINK Gift Guide for the best Valentine's Day gifts.
With the help of gift guru Robyn Spizman, author of Giftionary: An A-Z Reference Guide for Solving Your Gift-Giving Dilemmas…Forever! (St. Martin's Griffin, 2003), PINK lists 15 must-get gifts from decadent sweets and fresh flowers to sophisticated stationery and customized artwork.
One thing's certain: no matter what you buy or who you're shopping for, these gifts come straight from the heart.
You'll Take the Cake!
Sending a gourmet cake from Bake Me A Wish!, a nationwide gourmet cake provider, is the perfect gift that gives back. Five percent of online cake sales and 30 percent of sales from the fabulous Make-A-Wish Specialty Cake benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America! Elegant and sophisticated cakes with custom chocolate greeting plaques are made with only the finest, freshest ingredients by an award-winning family-run New York bakery. Cakes are packaged in a customized box with a personalized note and guaranteed on-time delivery.
$39.99, bakemeawish.com
Memories for a Lifetime!
Pass treasured memories on to future generations with "Dear Daughter...With Love From My Kitchen: A Collection of Recipes, Tips And Treasured Memories." Record your favorite family recipes, life advice, household hints, cooking "secrets" and memories in this beautiful blank recipe book, thoughtfully divided into 12 sections with dividers to organize recipes on the 264 illustrated pages. This labor of love will create a cookbook like none other in the world, and the recipient will treasure it forever!
$18.95, deardaughtercookbook.com
Flip for Fudge
Give a party in a box when you send some Flippin' Fudge. One-inch-square cubes of dark chocolate fudge – less than 100 calories each – come individually wrapped in pink foil and nestled in colorful paper shreds for a unique and fun gift. Flippin' flavors include Wake-Up Call (espresso), Fuzzy Bubble (champagne peach), Island Retreat (coconut), Skippy's Surprise (peanut butter and dark chocolate), Berry Nuts (raspberry walnut), Citrus Shot (orange), Lighten Up (milk chocolate), and Toffee Crunch!
$7.75-$35.00, flippinfudge.com
Personalize It
Red Envelope has tons of personalized gift ideas, and their boxed set of four triple-milled, vegetable-based monogrammed holiday soaps is a real winner. Pamper your sweetheart with soaps offered in green tea, lavender mist, vanilla almond or freesia as a matching set or an assortment. Each soap weighs 6 1/4 oz. and is debossed with up to 10 characters or a three-initial monogram.
$36, redenvelope.com
Bounce Into Her Heart!
For the woman who's a kid at heart, Bounce Greetings has the perfect one-of-a-kind alternative gift to flowers and chocolate – a personalized greeting ball! Each has a bouncy message and is hand-delivered by the mailman. She'll never see it coming (or bouncing)!
$10 (includes S&H), bouncegreetings.com
Worth a Thousand Words
Show her how beautiful you think she is by turning her photo into art – an Andy Warhol-esque print. You select a design and a product and upload your photos. Make sure to allow plenty of processing time for this gift which will immortalize your sweetheart.
$125 to $650, photowow.com
It's Personal
She can slip this Leather Portable Photo Case full of pictures of her two-and-four legged children into her briefcase with that winning proposal and no one will be the wiser. Envelopes hold 36 photos.
$115, buddleather.com
Lost Luggage No More
Whether she is a chronic checker or only carries on, these Fit for Flying detailed luggage tags are tough, dependable and, best of all, conspicuous in the baggage claim sea of black suitcases.
$20 for a set of two, uncommongoods.com
Oenophiles Only
Engrave the top and trust in the airtight seal of the Wine Stopper, which is effortless to insert and remove. Include her favorite bottle of wine and a home cooked (or catered) meal for a V-Day to remember!
$32 for a set of two, redenvelope.com
In Bloom
She may miss you when you're not there, but a monthly delivery of flowers, like stargazer lilies, will brighten up any day. You can subscribe for three, six or 12 months.
$129.99 and up for three months, 1800flowers.com
For Her Desk
This 100% lead-free pewter paperweight features five simple rules for happiness. She'll set it on her desk for a daily reminder of you – and all the other things that make her happy.
$34, uncommongoods.com
Retro Cool
A sweet tooth is always in fashion; what adult woman wouldn't wax nostalgic over that "Big Hunk" candy bar from her childhood?
$20 and up, woodstockcandy.com
Custom Cards
Give her personalized stationery that actually resembles her. Every note she sends out will be ultra-personalized.
$60, designhergals.com
Sweets for Your Sweetie
Delectable French chocolates and pastries, packed in signature pink boxes. The perfect chocolate gift for the woman who knows chocolate.
$20-$150, fauchon.com
PINK: A Beautiful Career, a Beautiful Life
What's the ultimate gift for the woman you love who loves her career? A subscription to PINK magazine, of course. PINK offers the tools, tactics and strategies she needs to get ahead at work, land the job (and salary) of her dreams, start her own business and discover work/life balance – delivered to her seven times in 2007.
$19.95 for one year, click here for gift subscriptions
