Mar 4 2015

Wedding morning gifts for the groom…from the bride.

Meet you at the alter,

don’t be late!

Love Mrs Burns xx

26th July 2015

Yes, the wedding season for ’15 is arriving, spring is in the air and the windows here in our studio are wide open.

In recent weeks we have been engraving gifts dedicated to the groom on the morning of his wedding, of course these include cufflinks but especially our hip flasks, in particular the brides seem to choosing our ‘neat’ flasks, I’d say the is because the groom will not be temped to enjoy the morning too much but just enough for a bit of Dutch courage.

My favourite engraving this morning is

Meet you at the alter, don’t be late!


Oct 15 2014

Presents With Personality – personalised gift ideas blog

Presents With Personality

Picking the perfect pressie for someone you care about is always a bit of a challenge, but if you shop smartly online you can find some unique bespoke gifts being offered up at fantastic prices.

 

Gift Idea To Make A Really Special Impression

If you’re stuck for ideas on what to give someone, nothing says you’re special like a personalised pressie, and there are an absolute array of wonderful customisable gifts available for those who know where to look.

A present that allows you to customize it with your recipients name is a lasting and memorable keepsake, and one that, providing you choose wisely, will last them for a lifetime. When shopping for a personalised gift, always go for quality, but this doesn’t have to mean you have to spend the earth, as there are some astounding bargains out there to be had.

If you want to make a really special impression then bespoke is the only way to go, but don’t just rush in and buy a low quality item from the first site you see offering personalisation services, even if it’s tempting because you’re on a tight budget.

If you’re watching the pennies what you should be looking for is real quality that’s offered at a bargain price, such as this sleek classic hip flask with a cool mirror finish, that comes with free engraving – for just £15!

Gift For Dad & Boyfriend

This slick silver coloured bargain beauty would make the ideal gift for a dad or boyfriend who appreciates a modern, minimalistic style, and would also make the perfect present for a special friend or colleague, or even your boss.

The sleek modernistic styling makes it the ideal personalised engraved hip flask for Christmas, but it would also make a great birthday or anniversary gift for someone special too.

If your budget can run to just a little more, and you want to give a super luxurious gift that doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg, then how about thisbrown Spanish leather covered stainless steel hip flask presentation set?

This quality flask comes in a gorgeous box set, complete with a set of cups and leather covered storage holder. At just £49.00, including bonus engraving, this has to be one of the lowest prices available on the internet for a flask set of this quality.

A gift like this would make the perfect present for a husband or father who loves timeless classic styling, and if you give this to someone, you’re sure to leave a lasting impression on whoever is the lucky recipient.

We all like to feel a bit special from time to time, and giving someone an item like a personalised engraved hip flask shows them you’ve put a lot of thought behind your gift, which at the end of the day counts for much more than what you actually spend.

Make An Impression At Wallet Friendly Prices

Sometimes though, it can seem ultra-difficult to pick out that perfect present for that picky someone you want to impress. If you are struggling to pick out a present for someone who has slightly alternative tastes, then why not give them this unusual round style hip flask that comes in its own sleek black presentation box, for the wallet friendly price of £27?

The sleek stainless steel design is just the right side of different, and the flask comes with free personalised engraving too, so you can customize your gift and make it truly unique. Round flasks like this make a great, slightly quirky alternative to the more traditionally styled hip flasks, and would make a superb stocking filler or main present for the hipster in your life.

A customisable item like one of these personalised engraved hip flasks will ensure your gift is tailored perfectly for the person it’s intended for, making it a truly personal present, which is exactly what every good gift should be.

 


Jul 25 2014

I love to party – Wrap party.

After some good ol intense negotiation and working to strict short deadlines Gifts of Distinction and Flaskstore have developed an exclusive hip flask for the crew of a new ‘Marvel’ movie being made at the moment, I know which film it is but the party is next week so I will reveal it after the after party – geddit. Meanwhile to whet you taste buds here is a pic of one of the props from the film set.


Jun 23 2014

A guide to engraving your silver gift – emotional, funny, inspiring or down right insulting? It’s up to you.

Here are some creative gifts engraving suggestions for you.


As speicalists in personalising your silver and occasional gifts we would like to share our gift engraving experience with our clients and readers with a view to assisting you to be creative and thoughtful with the engraving and personalisation of your chosen silver gift, hip flask and tankard engravings.

The team here at  Gifts of Distinction, Flaskstore, Tankardstore and TheOnlineGiftsCompany are privvy to many emotional, funny, inspiring and down right insulting engravings. These engravings have, over the years, given my associates  Alice, Kate, Pippa and myself cause to laugh along out loud or wipe a tear from our eye and in some cases both. I, David-Louis, like to think of the engravings we are asked to do as a window to the world and lives of our clients, a simple snap shot giving us an insight into our customers life events and we would like to share these snap shots with you so you can be creative and thoughtful with your gift engravings.

We have been compiling this list of engraving suggestions for a long time now and it has dawned on me that I will never have it actually finished so here we are as the 1st Duke of Wellington once said- “Publish and be dammed”

We intend to build on this engraving resource so please do visit us again for further creative engraving ideas.


Here are some of the best engravings I have come across in recent years, I will add links to the items we have engraved it on as we go.

Book marks and romance, yes you can mix both and how about this beautiful engraving I recently put on our lovely silver bookmark:

With you until the very end.

or even this one:

‘A good book has no ending’

our round bookmark got this inscription this morning

Memories and friends become our story

Hip Flasks

To our eternal laughter

Handmade engraved tankards

There can’t be good living
where there is not good drinking.
Happy Birthday!


From the bride to be to the groom

Jon
Meet me at the church 1:30pm
Love me forever xxx

A guitar plectrum from the Bride to the Groom

Chris

A Great

Pick

Retirement gifts

Retired !

Goodbye tension, Hello pension !

Retirement

Retirement only means

that it is time

for a new adventure.

Enjoy

Retirement Tankard

Cheers Dave
Enjoy a quiet drink and
remember your friends

Romance

You are my mountain

You are my sea.

Wedding Anniversasy

I sill do xxx

Silver Chip Fork

Love you more than chips!

Another turning point
a fork stuck in the road…..

Plectrum

I Pick You!

Travel & Latin

Aut inveniam viam aut faciam” (or “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam”) is Latin for “I shall The first part of the sentence, “inveniam viam”, “I shall find a way,”

To your brother

A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.

A friendly rude one !!!!!
Happy 21st
Remember
It’s all s***s and giggles,
until someone giggles and s***s

The Big Birthdays:

On a silver chip fork -

Louis – On Your 18th Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!

Forty years young

…………………………..

Forty isn’t old,

If you’re a tree……

…………………………

Weddings and the wedding party.

You can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.

The liver is evil and must be punished.

There’s nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

Never cry over spilt milk. It could’ve been whiskey.

Best Man

Best man for a day
Best Friend for life
Thank you
Best man – on the plectrum
We pick you as our best man xx
Usher
Thank you
For being a great
Usher & friend
Romantic message from a woman in Jamica to her husband in Birmingham on the Jigsaw Keyring
You are my missing piece -
Found 16-08-12
New Kitchen built?
Xen bottle opener – on the table ready to use.
Enjoy your new kitchen!
x x x
Latin
Carpe Diem
Latin on our silver bottle opener

Numquam Diem Sitiens  / never dies thirsty
We hope you enjoy our engraving ideas and if you need anything just visit our sites and get in touch.
David-Louis

Dec 8 2013

Last posting dates – 2013 – Gifts of Distinction

Here are the last posting dates for Christmas 2013 for our online businesses.

Gifts of Distinction.

The Online Gifts Company.

Flaskstore.

Tankardstore.

David-Louis.

Bottle Opener Store

Wednesday 4 December Asia, Far East (including Japan), New Zealand
Thursday 5 December Australia
Friday 6 December Africa, Caribbean, Central & South America, Middle East
Monday 9 December Cyprus, Eastern Europe
Tuesday 10 December Canada, France, Greece, Poland
Friday 13 December USA
Saturday 14 December Western Europe (excluding France, Greece, Poland)
HM Forces Mail – British Forces Post Office
(BFPO)
UK Services
Inland Services
Wednesday 18 December 2nd Class and Royal Mail Signed For™
Friday 20 December 1st Class and Royal Mail Signed For™

 


Nov 24 2013

Wrapping party.. Try again

 

Great news we have just made a lovely gift for established star and funny man from Mock the Week, Chris Addison, he is filming a new sit com for Sky Living called “Trying Again.”


We hope every one involved breaks a leg. We also know this wrap party was on Friday 22nd Nov. 2013 so we promised not to publish this post until after the event.

 


Oct 11 2013

Pop Quiz – Superstars…and hip flasks

 

What do McFLy member, Dougie Poynter, One Directions Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, and super model Cara Delavingne have in common?

Besides all being pals they were all present at the launch of McFly’s Dougie Poynters new fashion label ‘Saint Kidd’ sporting gifts and hip flasks made by theonlinegiftscompany.com and flaskstore.com

We hope they all has a ball at the launch and please do let us know if you see them sporting a chic and cool hip flask any time.

McFly launch new clothing brand and uses flaskstore hip flasks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Oct 8 2013

Cut, Cut Cut… it’s a wrap…

In recent days we have been working on a few goodies for one or two of the crew for a new movie by Marvel Comics, the name of the movie seems to be under wraps but its working title is ‘Full Tilt’ … we don’t expect to see them on the big screen this time though… it’s animated.Online gifts store and flaskstore collaborate for gifts for movie crew.

Thanks to the team there for the order though.


Nov 14 2011

Top 5 Stocking Fillers for Christmas 2011

At some stage during Christmas 2011 I know I will need a stocking filler, a quick, lovely gift that will be appreciated by the recipient & I suspect you will need one too. So here is a list of our top 5 stocking filler gifts, they will be in stock, can be engraved, shipped worldwide & are not too expensive.

Stocking filler gift No. 1.

The David-Louis Bottle Opener, its magnetic and sticks to the fridge, we will engrave it for free and ship it really quickly.

Magnetic bottle opener

The Beer Cube

Stocking filler gift No. 2

Small yet perfectly formed, back pocket, front pocket, breast pocket, polished steel, robust and stylish 3oz hip flask, engravable and great value for money.

Neat highly polished hip flask

The sleek, neat steel hip flask

Stocking Filler Gift No.3

The NEW stack of post-it coasters.

Pre coffee stained coaster post-its, make your desk fun and funky with a stack of paper coasters that double up as post-its..

Post it coasters

Post-it paper coasters

Stocking Filler Gifts No. 4

The Steel Tankard

 

A stylish stainless steel tankard in a beautifully polished finish.

This tankard holds 16oz, and the high quality stainless steel will retain it’s lovely bright finish over time it is also ideal for engraving, we hold it in stock and can ship it quickly.

Steel tankard polished

Our steel tankard

Stocking Filler Gift No. 5

The Plectrum Rockstar Coaster & Bottle Opener

 

The Plectrum Coaster & Bottle Opener

The Plectrum Coaster & Bottle Opener

Don’t forget to peruse The David-Louis Group of comapnies.

http://www.gifts-of-distinction.co.uk
Gifts of Distinction I Sterling Silver goodies for that very special gift – engraving is available.

http://www.david-louis.com
Lifestyle giftware for the home – designed by our lead designer David-Louis

http://www.flaskstore.com
A vast array of exceedingly well made hip flasks and all can be engraved for free.

http://www.tankardstore.com
A specialist web site focusing on an exquisite range of tankards for every occasion.


Feb 13 2011

We give a damn!

about great product design, about our customers and about new design entrepreneurs.

All in all watch this space for Brand Explosion, excellent customer service and all round we give a damn attitude.

We are working creatively, informatively plus, with the customer first and foremost in our mind we are having great results.

David-Louis

Celebration

What a great time we have been having here at Gifts of Distinction and David-Louis. We have been managing to create growth in our business by raising our game. As our testimonials on the web sites show we have focused on exemplary customer service along side improving dispatch times on all the gift items we sell online.

Mentoring new Designers on TV.

Of late David has been dispensing sound advice to new designers at the School of Jewellery for the students on the Design for Industry course as well as giving a few talks on marketing and writing the perfect press release for new creative entrepreneurs at Design Space. This work was recognised recently and David-Louis has recently featured on ITV news as a mentor, over the coming months ITV will be revisiting David and talking with some of his mentees so keep an eye on our blog for links to the interviews.

Spring Fair 2011

Under the flaskstore and tankardstore banner we recently visited the Spring Fair 2011 and picked up many new suppliers and pressed the flesh with existing customers and suppliers, I was delighted when Alice made time to visit the existing suppliers I couldn’t find, I personally did four halls in four hours, met 20 people and swapped details with 10 new people. So quick and to the point visit this year, we are really lucky the NEC is beside us here in Birmingham.

Pulse 2011

Talking about trade fairs David-Louis.com is exhibiting at Pulse in June 2011 so we will be developing our brand, raising our profile and introducing new products over the next four months in preparation for the event.

New designers and new ideas

David-Louis also hope to work with Simon Pattison the new designer on the scene here in Birmingham and will be commissioning him to produce CAD drawings and turn our concepts into reality, we can see Simon is going somewhere in the design word but before he fly’s the coop and becomes a household name we will be supporting him here in Birmingham.

Finally David-Louis will be engaging a PR Company to focus on driving sales of the David-Louis Beer Cube, we are currently negotiating with Zombie Kitty and are excited about their ideas.

All in all watch this space for Brand Explosion, excellent customer service and all round we give a damn attitude. We are working creatively, informatively and with the customer first and foremost in our mind with great results.