It’s the First Day of Summer – Happy Summer!

Great News- We’ve been very busy! The last few weeks EXCLAMATIONS! has been inundated with incredible custom orders truly proving we are San Diego’s best gift shop and full service gift and gift basket company! Look at what we’ve been up to!

Congratulations graduates! We custom designed one of a kind party favor gifts celebrating several awesome San Diego graduates – completely personalized with photos, themed chocolates, imprinted ribbon and more!

We created hundreds of custom gift packages – filled with our delicious logoed cookies for a prestigious San Diego law firm.

Spray Hand Sanitizers, Pens, Tote Bags, Mouse Pads, Sticky Notes, Golf Tees, Bouncy Balls – Oh My! We have been custom printing promotional products and adding them to our client’s gifts and gift baskets for a completely custom branded look!

Party Party Party! We went “wild” about custom designing hand painted chocolates for the San Diego Zoo and Helen Woodward Animal Center.

Fore! We created custom embroidered golf shirts and caps, along with custom imprinted golf tees and golf balls for exciting summer golf events and tournaments.

Aloha! Within 24 hours we designed and delivered 80 unique gifts for a Hawaiian retreat!

Our custom designed gift baskets helped celebrate birthdays, congratulate new home owners, thank business associates, welcome precious new babies…and more!

We are honored to be requested as a presenter at the 2010 San Diego County Fair! Claudia provided an educational and exceptional Gift Basket Demonstration Speech on Opening Day! The fair is one of our most favorite San Diego summer traditions!

We LOVE being your “one stop shop” – providing innovative and unique gifts, promotional products, branded apparel, custom chocolates, party favors, gift baskets and more – for all corporate and personal occasions! Here’s to more summer fun!

Let us make your Valentine’s Day extra special!  We can help you Celebrate with Gifts from the Heart!  For Valentine’s Day and every day, we have exciting gift ideas at every price point – from adorable drop off gifts to fresh baked treats & hand decorated cookies, stunning gift baskets & everything in between!

After 8 weeks of competing and as the front runner for the first place title as San Diego’s Best Gift Shop – the votes are in!  The results of the 2009 KGTV 10 News A-List contest will be announced next week!  We can’t wait!

Throughout the 8 weeks of voting, our remarkable clients and fans provided us with extraordinary support and enthusiasm!  We are very grateful and so excited!
When voting closed, EXCLAMATIONS! had been acknowledged with hundreds of non-written votes and an awesome 284 wonderful written recommendations!

Here is a sampling of what some of our clients had to say about EXCLAMATIONS!

Qualcomm Staffing LOVES Exclamations! Gifts…they have the best ideas to WOW our executive candidates and their families!  Thank you, you are #1 in our book! Linda

They are the best! Have done many gift baskets for the BBB and we have always been very pleased. Lauren H.

EXCLAMATIONS! Gift Baskets have a unique personal touch. I think Claudia and her team sprinkle pixiedust on their baskets to make them like no other! They are “Giftlologists!” Rose S.

Their gift baskets are a thing of beauty and their customer service is like Nordstrom’s — flawless.  Marta L.

Very professional and organized! Dedicated to creating gifts that feel unique for each recipient – whether they are creating one gift for a friend or one thousand gifts for corporate sponsorship. TTC

I have been working with Claudia and EXCLAMATIONS! to provide corporate gifts to my customers for nearly 12 years and have never been disappointed. Their creativity and ingenuity always provide a unique product which is absolutely stunning in presentation. The team is fabulous to work with as well, professional and friendly.  Barbara P.

We are truly appreciative for the tremendous confidence and loyalty of everyone who voted!  Stay tuned as we discover the exciting results when the winner of San Diego’s Best Gift Shop is revealed!

Here at EXCLAMATIONS! we are getting excited about our new holiday gift collection! Yes, in August! As the weather proves that it’s certainly summertime here in San Diego, we have harvest foliage, wintery snowflakes, cheerful reindeer, woodland pinecones and holiday glitz on our minds!

Claudia has been out & about – from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond, scouring the holiday gift shows for innovative & exciting gift designs and ideas! Our shipping & receiving area is packed wall to wall and floor to ceiling with brand new gift baskets, unique containers and festive ribbons! We have wonderful samples of the latest in gourmet foods and unique chocolate confections!

Now it’s time to pull it all together and create our 2009 Holiday Gift Collection!

As always, EXCLAMATIONS! promises to offer San Diego’s very best…

• Corporate Holiday Gift Baskets & Gifts
• Unique & Festive Gourmet Gift Towers
• Custom Branded Holiday Business Gifts
• Gourmet & Chocolate Gifts featuring your Corporate Logo
• Perfectly Themed Party Favors
• Elegant Hostess Gifts
• Personalized Promotional Products and Apparel
• Keepsake Holiday Gifts
• Distinctive Home Décor …and More!

Back by popular demand…we will also feature our traditional favorites and best selling Holiday gift designs from years past! 

Enjoy the delightful San Diego summer sunshine! We will be busy at work, creating & designing our new collection of San Diego’s very best custom holiday gift baskets and gifts…especailly for you! 

Don’t forget – it’s wedding season here in San Diego! Our custom welcome gifts are created to coordinate perfectly with your wedding theme & color scheme.  Truly a lovely touch for welcoming your out of town guests to San Diego!

We recently assisted the well known San Diego landmark, The US Grant Hotel, with a special collection of welcome gifts for a group of VIP clients visiting San Diego. We filled our rich textured gift boxes with our best gourmet selections. We included an assortment of sweets and savories, just right for munching during a busy convention day or after a long meeting! Each custom gift arrived custom wrapped to coordinate perfectly with the color scheme of the US Grant Hotel and was accented with custom imprinted “Welcome” ribbon! The finishing touch – a custom gift card featuring a personalized welcome message and the US Grant logo. Corporate branding at it’s best!

Our San Diego meeting & convention gifts always get Rave Reviews!

Hello Amy (Hello Claudia)!  I just want to say thank you so much for getting those VERY sophisticated gift boxes set-up and delivered. They were really nicely done….Amy thank you for also placing my client’s names on the tags. FYI, I showed my sales team the boxes and they loved them! Definitely will use your services again! We truly appreciate your partnership and also loved the dark chocolate gifts—-thank you for the treats!  Have a great day!   ~ KN | Senior Sales Manager – THE US GRANT | A Luxury Collection Hotel

It is an honor to be competing in this year’s 10News.com A-List contest! …But we need YOUR Vote!

Each year, a contest is held to discover the best local businesses on our local KGTV 10 News A-List. The contest runs July 13 – September 4, 2009 during which time thousands of locals vote for their favorite art gallery, day spa, burger, boutique, bakery, gift basket business and more!  The 2009 10news.com A-List is chosen by real people from all over San Diego. Winners of each category will be announced during the week of September 14, 2009 on 10News.com

Click Here to visit the A-List website and PLEASE VOTE FOR EXCLAMATIONS!

You will be rewarded!  Your vote along with a written recommendation will be rewarded with one FREE DELIVERY on your next Gift Basket order of $50.00 or more!  Simply mention offer code  ”ALIST09″ upon order. This special offer expires 10/1/09.

We truly appreciate your time and enthusiasm!

So, we’ve decided to introduce a new San Diego Gift Basket Blog feature – “Photo Friday”. This will allow us to present our best San Diego Gift Basket designs, new gift ideas, company updates and more – no words necessary. 

For our first entry, we wanted to post one of our core values here at EXCLAMATIONS!