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

Jun 3 2013

Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Tankards

This week we have been finishing off the Tankards for Jamie Oliver’s new branch of his Fifteen restaurant and boy have we learned a lot about commercial beer tankards… and quickly.

Many thanks to the restaurant for commissioning the goods from us plus if other restaurants or bars are looking for tankards to sell beer over the counter Gifts of Distinction and tankardstore can offer Excise Verification Mark service to legally say you are as a commercial restaurant or bar selling a legal pint and the consumer is buying a legal pint of English beer.

Weights and measures mark for 1 pint tankard Tankardstore

Weights and measures mark for 1 pint tankard Tankardstore

If your commercial restaurant or bar needs tankards that are verified for the purpose of trading standards and excise just give us a call here to discuss you requirements.


May 29 2013

Fame & fortune… TV roles for theonlinegiftscompany

We are now supplying some props for Him & Her on BBC 3, at this stage we are unable to say what the goods are as the story line involves the props:

TheOnlineGiftsCompany supply TV and Film

TheOnlineGiftsCompany supply TV and Film

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plus we are also working on a new production at Pinewood studios – which I can reveal the name of but that is it for now:

POSH – Laura Wades critically acclaimed play

We are very pleased to announce we are working with the X Factor this week and making and engraving some very special gifts items, which of course we cannot reveal yet, for all the lovely judges on The X Factor. They will feature in the show so if you spot our gifts please do let us know via our facebook group. Here is a run down of the TV shows and Movies we have been involved in.

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Thanks to everyone who spotted our hip flask in Eastenders

Peggy 'avin a nip....

flaskstore and theonlinescompany present TV props

flaskstore and theonlinescompany present TV props

flaskstore and theonlinescompany present TV props

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and our silver alphabet keyring that features in Made in Chelsea

we did supply some props for prometheus but these have not been spotted as yet, maybe they hit the proverbial cutting room floor… you can never tell :-)

We do hope that theonlinegiftscompany can get involved in providing more props for film and TV and ask that you get in touch if you need something for your show.