thanksgiving gift ideas

Thanksgiving gifts Ideas

If you are headed over the river and through the woods to a Thanksgiving dinner and are looking for some Thanksgiving gift ideas so you don't arrive empty handed, Think flowers Providing a tasteful gift to the host or hostess is a tradition as old as the holiday itself. Whether you are headed home for the holiday or enjoying a bountiful meal at a friend's house, you want a gift that will be both beautiful and useful.

If you are tired of the same old hostess gifts, consider giving the gift of fresh flowers this year. There are many reasons why flowers make the perfect gift for the Thanksgiving holiday, and your hosts are sure to appreciate your thoughtfulness and creativity.

Brighten Up the Cold

One of the best things about giving fresh flowers for the holiday is that they bring a touch of greenery and a taste of spring to what is a cold time of year in many parts of the country. If you are lucky enough to live in Florida or Southern California, you might forget that a winter snowstorm is raging outside. If your Thanksgiving dinner is taking place anywhere else, chances are your hosts will appreciate a touch of color when you arrive.

Bringing fresh flowers to the Thanksgiving feast is like giving the gift of springtime, and who wouldn't want that? No matter what kind of flowers you choose or what type of arrangement you favor, fresh flowers are a welcome gift at this special time of year.

Your Host Gets an Instant Centerpiece

Being invited to Thanksgiving dinner is an honor in more ways than one. When you host the feast, you have a big job ahead of you. Thanksgiving hosts have to create a feast worthy of royalty while making sure that all the dishes emerge from the oven at precisely the right time. As the guest, your only job is to enjoy the results of all that hard work -- and bring a heartfelt gift.

When you choose fresh flowers, you give the gift of beauty and summer charm. All you need to do is add a vase and you have an instant centerpiece. Your Thanksgiving day host or hostess has been spending all day in the kitchen. Decorating the table may be the furthest thing from their minds, but you can lift that burden with a bouquet of fresh flowers.

Show How Much You Care

Finding a thoughtful gift for your loved ones is not always easy, but flowers are always a welcome sight. Giving the gift of fresh flowers shows your thoughtfulness and creativity like nothing else. You can bring a taste of warmer weather into the home, create a tasteful centerpiece and show off your style, all with a handful of fresh flowers.

Whether you are headed across town or across the country, flowers make the perfect gift for the people you are visiting. It can be hard to find a gift that is suitable for the Thanksgiving holiday, but the gift of fresh flowers is sure to be well received.

Flowers go with everything, and they match any decorating theme. Whether you choose a bouquet of colorful roses, a tray of fresh lilacs or an array of geraniums, you will brighten up the home you are visiting and give your Thanksgiving day hosts a gift they will appreciate and put to use.

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Pumpkin Pie Spice and Flowers!

Its that time of the year again...

Fall! Pumpkin pie spice, patches, cornstalks, turning leaves, fresh-baked pies, football and of course the new Fall TV schedule are just some obvious signs of the most favorite season of the year for many. There is no doubt of the growing love and obsession of these 3 months of the year, the signs are all over Social Media sites. Puppy dogs rolling in fall leaves, images of the first wearing of comfy-sweaters and leggings mixed with pictures of fallen-foliage laden paths with people taking brisk walks in the crisp air fill these sites where everyone is pictured sipping their pumpkin-spiced lattes.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

― Albert Camus

It is also time to usher in the quintessential Autumn flower; Chrysanthemums. Bronze, gold, purple, russet, saffron and scarlet are the saturated colors that are the accepted intense blendings of the season. Though they are available all year, in every color and in a variety of styles, natural and dyed, it is during the Autumnal months that these rich, vibrant colors of the ‘mum’ come to life. It is these flowers that often bring back some of the strongest memories of the season. Whether in a cool, crisp environment or a tropical climate, mums evoke the feelings of Fall.

Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.

― Siobhan Vivian, Same Difference

These emotional ties to our recollections of personal and family shared activities like Oktoberfest, Halloween and Thanksgiving are the perfect combination of memories that evoke that special warm and cuddly feeling of that ‘time-of-year’.   According to Dr. Ben-Shahar Tal, Harvard grad and multiple-book author, who specializes in positive psychology, “As far as we know, there’s nothing inherent in autumn that makes it a happier season. However, when people inject meaning into it, then it can become a happier season,” Dr. Ben stated. “So if I choose to focus on how wonderful the apple pie, pumpkins, and leaves are, and romanticize these things, then I’m more likely to enjoy the season. Much of what we experience in life depends on the meaning or interpretation we give to it.”

… and not to forget a few other warm and cozy feelings:

Pumpkin Beer

Pumpkin Butter

Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin Ice Cream

Pumpkin Muffins

Pumpkin Pasta

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkin Spice Candles

Pumpkin Spice Latte

Pumpkin Pie Spice

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My very first weekend delivering - by myself, I was tasked with delivering wedding flowers to a bride's home and I could have the vehicle after that.  Well, I made the delivery and went to my job. I didn't get home until almost 2:00am.  When I walked into my home, my mother was standing there, waiting for me.  I thought I was in trouble - I was - but not for the reasons that I thought.  She wasn't mad, she was in a state of anxiety. She wanted to know what the bride thought of her flowers. I told her.  I went in the house and like I watched her do a hundred times, carefully laid out all of the bouquets and corsages and pinned bouttonierres on the men that were there.  The bride loved her flowers, she cried, hugged me and kissed me on the cheek, her father shook my hand and gave me a cash tip and her mother walked me to the door and told me to make sure I told my mom, "Thank You, everything is perfect."  Relief washed over my mother's entire being and I finally understood.  My mother was in the business of selling, purchasing and designing flowers and running a flower shop, but it wasn't what she did for a living: my mom was in the business of making people feel good.  She was in the people business.

What you probably don't understand was that the front door of my house was our family's flower shop.  My childhood chores were sweeping the store, emptying and cleaning flower buckets, selling plants and bunches at the holidays, making deliveries with my mother, etc.  I didn't even take flowers to my dates because I was afraid of being thought of as 'cheap' because my family owned a flower shop.

I didn't pay attention to the importance of flowers in everyday life ...

at least, not until that day. When I decided to officially enter the family business, I made it a point to be my own driver for at least 1 or 2 deliveries a week.  I did it to remind myself what it means for people to receive flowers. To see them smile.

When I first met with GEMS, the very first thing they told me about the company was that GEMS is in the people business and that they wanted to make people feel good.  A great connection!

"If you have two pennies, spend one on bread to give you life, and one on a flower to give meaning to your life."  – Anonymous

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