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

Apr 8 2010

Cleaning a hip flask or Tankard

The (actual) famous ladies hip flask.I am quite often asked about the technical side of maintaining and cleaning your hip flask and/or Tankard after purchase and to this end I have put together a care for and cleaning of your hip flask or tankard guide. Please do feel free to add to it or to send us any hints or tips you have come across or if you need clarification on any issues contact us through one of our websites, Flaskstore, Tankardstore, Gifts of Distinction or David-Louis Product Design.

The metal and hip flask exterior:

We supply hip flasks and tankards in both steel and pewter.

Pewter is a soft metal and normally its lustre mellows with age but should you wish to return it to its original high polish, use a reputable brand of liquid polish such as ‘Haggertys’, ‘town talk’ or ‘Johnsons’. Always clean with a soft cloth, rubbing gently in one direction to avoid leaving deep scratch marks.

Pewter hip flasks age and develop character over time.

Stainless steel is a very hard metal and essentially will retain its finish indefinitely.

Stainless steel hip flasks tend to be manufactured using machinery to press, blank and shape the item, and are normally made in high volume.

Pewter hip flasks are hand made to order by a pewter smith, each one is crafted by hand here in the UK.

To clean the inside of a hip flask or pewter tankard:

Hip flasks and tankards should all be washed before first use.

1) Thoroughly wash the inside using a solution of clean, warm water and several drops of washing up liquid, then rinse thoroughly with clean water before use.

2) With new hip flasks, before first use, fill the flask with plain water, screw the top down hard and shake vigorously to ensure the flask is watertight before filling with spirit.

3) Always keep your flask clean on the outside, and clean the inside of the flask in between uses for reasons of hygiene.

4) For pewter flasks, spirit can be retained in the flask for a week or so and no more.

5) Pewter flasks are not suitable for use with soda water or carbonated drinks.

6) They are not suitable for use in a dishwasher.

I hope the information I have provided is useful to you; if you need some specific information, please do get in touch.


Dec 1 2008

David-Louis Flaskstore Chivas Regal Hip Flask

Originally uploaded by giftsofdistinct
 
 

 

Update – here is the image of the flask as take at the event.

I have completed a bespoke corporate hip flask commission for fashion designer Todd Lynn to produce his bespoke, limited edition hip flask on behalf of and to promote  Chivas Regal and the Chivas Studio, this fine whiskey has been relaunched world wide over the last few months and the three day event in London was what I consider to be totally fabulous, I will upload some images of the event and the hip flask itself over the next week or so. Alexander McQueen also designed an exclusive bottle top for the Chivas Regal bottle which were a limited edition and handmade. I was delighted to see the Hip Flask being exhibited along side the bottle in very contemporary style and being viewed as works of art as opposed to total consumer products. Of course I need to thank Todd and all his team for entertaining me at the do and hope we can do it again. I also would say the cocktails we had using the Chivas Regal were delicious.. more please :-)