Sorry I Forgot Your Birthday

You are busy. Life is busy. And sometimes special events, anniversaries, and birthdays get forgotten. It’s a fact of life.

Browsing the internet I thought I would see what funny excuses there were for forgetting a birthday or sending a belated gift. These are some of the ones I stumbled upon.

(Note to readers: Please do not use these excuses unless you wish to be in the doghouse for quite a while.)

•          I sent your gift late to increase the suspense factor.
•          I am saving up for your {pick one: Christmas/birthday/anniversary} present.
•          The rabid squirrels mugged me and stole it.
•          The alien probe wiped out portions of my memory.
•          I would have remembered if I didn’t have diarrhea.
•          I thought I was doing you a favour by forgetting.
•          I was busy documenting a Big Foot sighting.

And of course, there is always the ever-classic excuse, the dog ate it!

We would love to hear some of your own funny excuses!

In all seriousness, if you do happen to forget your beloved’s birthday, remember that Rainbow Designs has your back. We can quickly send your gift hamper by Express Post if necessary. Just add it to your shopping cart before checkout. Remember that our chocolate and lolly gifts will go a long way in gaining their forgiveness for forgetting in the first place.

B Is For Birthdays

It's your {insert relationship:  father, mother, best friend, sister, aunt, etc}'s birthday and you are looking for a delicious, affordable and quirky gift to celebrate their getting older - well you have come to the right place.  We have plenty to choose from with hampers and treats for all ages.  We just love birthdays and are always looking for fun ideas to share with our loved ones.

Here are some fun birthday facts we recently discovered.

*The well known Happy Birthday song actually originated in 1893 - Mildred Hall came up with the tune while Mildred's sister Patty thought up the words.  The original title of the son was Good Morning To All until it grew in popularity and became the song we know today.

*Landmark birthday messages have been sent out by the queen since 1917.  In 1917, 24 birthday messages were posted to celebrate 100th birthdays and in 2011, an amazing 917 celebratory cards were delivered honouring 105th birthdays and above.

*Marilyn Monroe's Happy Birthday Mr President is the most famous birthday song rendition ever.

*August is the most popular birthday month accounting for about 9% of the birthdays all over the world.

*According to Chinese tradition, they count age disregarding the zero.  A newborn baby is one, a 12 month old child is two, etc.

*A golden birthday is when your age of date of birth share the same number.

See; told you we love birthdays - it happens to be our most favourite topic to talk about, second to chocolate of course.

And if you need a birthday song to go with your gift, then have a quick look at this site.  It features (at last count) 19,019 names to choose from and all for free.  You might want to bookmark this one for me later!

Happy birthday to me...

"All you need is love.  But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

- Charles M. Schulz

10% Off Our Gift Hampers Until Sunday 10th August

Know someone with a birthday in August?  Thinking of sending someone a gift hamper?  Well now is a great time, as from today until Sunday 10th August, we are offering 10% discount on all of our traditional gift hampers.

And while the gift hampers are traditional, they are far from dull.

Take the Chocoholic Gift Hamper as an example.  It includes an Ogilvie Chocoholics Quad Sauce Pack with Cherry Choc Ripe, Chocolate Liqueur, Rich Chocolate Mocha and Chocolate Marshmallow.  The recipes you could enhance with those are endless.

And the Sweet Celebration Hamper features 15 - yes fifteen - noodle boxes of lollies including chocolate honeycomb, jelly beans, raspberries, party mix, liquorice allsorts, Cadbury fruit rings, chocolate bullets, coconut rough, fruity frogs, choc freckles, smarties and more.

I love a traditional afternoon tea and the Afternoon Tea Hamper includes chamomile tea and delicious manuka honey meringue moments.  There is also a bottle of Veuve Ambal Brut to really celebrate the event in style.

We even have one just for him.  His Favourite Hamper comes with chunky salsa, corn chips and beer.  Hmm that might almost be my favourite hamper.

Although I would be hard pressed to pass up the Sweet Sensation Gift Hamper with the rum and raisin fudge and the chocolate coated macadamias.

The discount on all these hampers and more will show up once you add the gift to your cart - no special code necessary.  So order up before Sunday 10th August and make someone's day special.  Please note that next day delivery is not available on these items so please make sure you allow enough time for these gifts to get to their destination (2-7 days depending on the address).

The hardest decision in my opinion, is which one to choose!

When Life Gets In The Way

Okay, I admit it, today is a tough day; the last week overall being tougher than most.  Personal responsibilities have had to take preference over the business world and for that reason I have had to close the doors on Rainbow Designs for a few days here and there.

And that makes me especially sad as I really love what I do.  Every business has its frustrating moments, of that there is no doubt, but overall being able to do what I do each and every day is a blessing.

I love being able to help make people happy.  If I could, I would be a fly on the wall every time a recipient opened one of my gifts just to share in their happiness, but alas I just have to be content with the wonderful emails and reviews that get sent in thanking me for the gift.

But of course it isn't really me.  It's you guys!  You are the ones with the big hearts sending out gifts all over Australia making people happy, allowing people to fall in love with you and helping the sick recover just that little bit quicker because you care.  We all care.  And that's what makes this world a wonderful place.

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

 

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

 

By Emily Dickinson

Get Your Last Minute Gift Orders In

You wake up early, make a cup of coffee and log into your Facebook account only to see it is your best friend's birthday tomorrow.  You berate yourself because you made a promise not to forget her birthday yet again.  But then you realise that Rainbow Designs has your back with a  great selection of last minute gift ideas to choose from.  You take a deep breath and head over to www.rainbowdesigns.com.au to see what she may like.  You find the perfect gift for her and to celebrate, you order yourself a box of lollies too because you know her gift will arrive on time on her special day all wrapped up with tender love and care. 

Then you take a big sip of coffee and continue on with your day knowing that your day will be super awesome!

This may sound like a work of fiction but take it from us it happens regularly.  But we really do have your back.  Our Last Minute Gift Ideas section has 24 gift ideas to help you out when you need it.

Here are some of our favourites:

Sweet Treats Lolly Gift Box - a fabulous red sweet treats gift box filled with half a kilo of yummy lollies and chocolates.  Think pineapple chunks, fantales, milk choc buds, gummi bears and red frogs.

English Lolly Hamper - a fabulous, reusable Emma Bridgewater designed polka dot tin filled with a 2kg mix of delicious English sweets includes fruit pastilles, dusted jelly babies, wine gums and fruit salad gums.

Big Chocolate Box - a very very impressive kilo of "lipsmacking, can't stop at one, do I have to share?" chocolate box including milk choc buds, white chocolate freckles, cobbers and jaffas.  Yum!

The Sweetie Tin - a fabulous, reusable round "Welcome to the Sweetie Tin'  tin with a delicious 1.5kg mix of yummy mini English sweets includes jelly babies, dew drops, allsorts, dolly mix and M&Ms.

So now you know what to do when you have to place those last minute gift orders.  There is  no need to panic - just browse our gifts and place your order.  Then sit back and wait for the compliments to come flooding your way.

Reasons people send gifts

During the last 9 years we've sent out a lot of gifts for birthdays, probably one of the most common reasons for people sending a gift actually! I think that it's great that we can help people with their gift giving needs and love the fact that with the internet it makes it so much easier and faster! Quite a few of our gifts are 'oh no I forgot such and suchs birthday' I need it delivered FAST, please please please. We do everything we can but there are times when it is just impossible for us to deliver on the date requested, especially when it is needed the same day but it's going to Perth - just can't do it. In these instances we let our customer know that we are unable to deliver on their requested and do suggest that if they require same day delivery to look for a business that is on the same area or even to try a florist. Florists are generally all linked by larger companies (such as Interflora) so use local businesses to do the order requests. Wouldn't it be great if Rainbow Designs had little shops scattered all over Australia!!



Another popular reason for people sending a gift is to say 'sorry' - whether it be for saying something not very nice, for forgetting a special day or for not ringing more often. A little box of chocolates is a great way to say sorry and I'm pretty sure you'll be forgive for whatever it is you did!

 



Anniversaries have been celebrated a lot with a big box of lollies - from 3 month anniversaries right up to golden and everything in between. It could also be the anniversary of buying a house or getting a job - so many special dates to remember and celebrate!



Main events such as Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day and Christmas can always guarantee a flurry of orders - generally last minute! It can have me worried at times thinking what terrible sales we've had but them low and behold in they all come, with only moments to spare. Sometimes I do wish people were a bit more organised :-)

 

 



So, who's birthday have you forgotten??

Until next time, share a box of chocolates with someone you love

Jacqui