Monogrammed Gifts for Graduation from The Palm Gifts

Monogrammed Beach Towels are HOT for Personalized Graduation Gifts from The Palm Gifts http://www.thepalmgifts.com

Monogrammed Gifts from The Palm Gifts
We’re tackling Graduation with our Monogrammed Graduation Gifts! Monogrammed Beach Towels and Monogrammed Beach Tote Bags continue to be some of our best selling Personalized Gifts for Graduation!
One customer commented just this week “WOW!” and how she “loved our packaging”. We wrap our Monogrammed Beach Tote Bags and Personalized Beach Towels in a clear cello bag with coordinating wraphia ribbon.
Monogrammed Beach Tote Bags are $24 and Personalized and Monogrammed Beach Towels are $20! Affordable Personalized Gifts for the Graduate from The Palm Gifts!
submitted by Rebecca Stickels, Owner The Palm Gifts http://www.thepalmgifts.com

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Cinco de Mayo Salsa Recipe from The Palm Gifts

Cinco de Mayo Salsa Recipe from The Palm Gifts http://www.thepalmgifts.com

Get your Fiesta started with Cinco de Mayo Salsa Recipe from

The Palm Gifts! Enjoy!

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Fresh Tomato Cinco de Mayo Salsa
Ingredients
2-3 medium sized fresh tomatoes (from 1 lb to 1 1/2 lb), stems removed, finely diced
1/2 red onion, finely diced
1 jalapeño chili pepper (stems, ribs, seeds removed), finely diced
1 serano chili pepper (stems, ribs, seeds removed), finely diced
Juice of one lime
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
Salt and pepper to taste
Optional: oregano and or cumin to taste
Method
1 Start with chopping up 2 medium sized fresh tomatoes. Prepare the chilies. Be very careful while handling these hot peppers. If you can, avoid touching them with your hands. Use a fork to cut up the chilies over a small plate, or use a paper towel to protect your hands. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and hot water after handling and avoid touching your eyes for several hours. Set aside some of the seeds from the peppers. If the salsa isn’t hot enough, you can add a few for heat.
2 Combine all of the ingredients in a medium sized bowl. Taste. If the chilies make the salsa too hot, add some more chopped tomato. If not hot enough, carefully add a few of the seeds from the chilies, or add some ground cumin.
Let sit for an hour for the flavors to combine.
Makes approximately 3-4 cups.

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Party Planning for Kentucky Derby Party

Giddy Up for a Kentucky Derby Party! May 2, 2009

The 135th Kentucky Derby is on the way! Polish up your Mint Julep Making Skills, Make some Mint Julep Cupcakes, Marinate the Shrimp, and get ready ya'll!

Mint Julep: A Kentucky Derby MUST HAVE! You can't celebrate the Derby without these!!

Southern Living

Mint Julep Recipe
Yield
1 serving
Ingredients
1/4 cup bourbon
1 tablespoon Mint Syrup (Recipe below)
Garnish: fresh mint sprigs

Mint Syrup Recipe
Yield
2 3/4 cups
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped fresh mint
2 cups sugar
2 cups water

Preparation
Tie mint in a cheesecloth bag, and place in a saucepan. Add sugar and 2 cups water; bring mixture to a boil. Cook, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves.
Remove from heat; cover and let cool. Remove and discard cheesecloth bag.

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Mint Julep Cupcakes

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1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon mint extract
4 eggs
2 3/4 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1/2 cup Jack Daniels (or other whiskey/bourbon)
1/2 cup Creme de Menthe
3 cups sifted powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon mint extract
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 stick unsalted butter
meltedmilk

1. Preheat the oven to 350F, and grease or line 36 cupcake cups.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Add the extracts, salt, baking powder, and 1 3/4 cups of the flour.
3. Add the milk and liquors to the batter, then the rest of the flour. Mix as little as possible, just until the batter comes together.
4. Divide evenly (I use an ice-cream scoop) among the cupcake cups. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Let cool.
5. To make the icing, combine the powdered sugar, salt, extracts and melted butter. (I think this works best with a stand mixer with the whip attachment or a hand-held mixer.) Add milk very slowly until the texture is right for piping.
6. When the cupcakes are completely cook, pipe or spread the icing on top and enjoy!

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Lulu's Perfect Peel-and-Eat-Shrimp

Hey Ya'll! If you are ever in the Gulf Shores in Alabama, you'll just HAVE to go to Lulu's at Homeport Marina. My family went on a Gulf Shores Beach Vacation about 3 years ago. We fell in love with Lulu's.... peel-and-eat-shrimp (recipe below) and their awesome fried okra!

Lucy Buffett (LULU) is the sister of Jimmy Buffett! Her restaurant is full of fun, drinking, music, pink and bright tropical colors!

Our NEW Fashion Jewelry would be a wonderful accessory for all of your summer cookouts, beach, lake and pool parties! Bright and colorful earrings, necklaces and bracelets! Get yours today!

We found a recipe for their FAMOUS Peel-and-Eat-Shrimp and wanted to share it with you!

Lulu's Perfect Peel-and-Eat-Shrimp

from Lulu's at Homeport Marina, Gulf Shores, Alabama

1 cup hot sauce

1 1/2 cups liquid shrimp and crab boil seasoning

3/4 cup fresh lemon juice (about 4 large)

1 (3oz.) package boil-in-bag shrimp and crab boil

1/2 cup Creole seasoning

3/4 cup salt

5 bay leaves

3 pounds of unpeeled, large fresh shrimp

1. Combine 1 1/2 gallons of water and first 7 ingredients in a large Dutch Oven, stirring well, Bring to a boil. Add shrimp, and cook over high heat 3 min. or just until shrimp turn pink; drain.

2. Place shrimp immediately in a single layer over ice on a rimmed baking sheet. Let cool 5 min. Remove shrimp with tongs to a bowl; cover and chill. Makes 4 servings.

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Sip N' See ~ A Southern Tradition

Sip N' See Parties are part of a Southern Tradition. Ladies drop in to "sip" on something and "see" something. The "Sip" part can be punch, lemonade or tea and the "see" can be wedding gifts or a newer trend is a newborn baby!



So get out your tea sandwiches recipes, silver trays and punch bowls and host a Sip N' See Party! If you have been invited to a Sip N' See Party, may we suggest some of our Personalized Baby Gifts! Our Monogrammed Baby Hooded Towel, Personalized Baby Bib, and Monogrammed Diaper Bags will surely get some oohs and aahhs!

One of our customers just purchased some of our Monogrammed Beach Totes for her Sip N' See Party Favors. We know they will be a huge hit.

Here's a recipe that is sure to be successful at your Sip N' See Party or any Wedding Bridal Shower. Hope you enjoy.

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Creamy Vegetable Sandwiches

Ingredients
1 medium cucumber
1 medium-size red bell pepper
3 carrots
3 garlic cloves
1/2 cup sliced green onions
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon salt
16 thin rye bread slices
Preparation
Peel and seed cucumber; dice cucumber and bell pepper. Grate carrots, and mince garlic.
Combine cucumber, bell pepper, carrot, garlic, green onions, and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl, stirring until well blended. Spread mixture on half of rye bread slices, and top with remaining slices. Cut vegetable sandwiches in half diagonally.
Southern Living, MAY 1997

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Easy Easter Egg Decorating Party How To and Pointers!!

Last year I decided to host an Egg Decorating Party! Simple Easter Party Planning Tips from The Palm Gifts!

The list kept getting larger and larger until I had over 30 kids RSVP! One simple thing I did not read up on was how to boil this many eggs for so many kids! I decided to read up on this and have handy just in case any of our readers need help. ONE KEY NOTE: DO NOT BOIL MORE THAN 24 EGGS in one pot at a time! This will save you many trips to the local store at midnight the night before 30 kids come to your house for a party!

OTHER POINTERS:
Have the eggs ready before kids arrive. Go ahead and color them yourself. Parents will LOVE you for this! Don't forget to have some blue ones for the boys!

Limit number of eggs per child.

Have stickers, glitter pens, markers, crayons etc on tables in your yard ready for the kids to start decorating.

Purchase in-expensive Easter Baskets or have children bring their own to take their creations home in.

Have Easter Music (you can find tons on itunes.) Play during the decorating.

Have a little refreshment table. We had pink lemonade for drinks, orange slices, fresh strawberries, blueberries, grapes. Keep it light and simple.

Have a goodie bag full of Easter stickers, candy and or easter bunny cookies for kids to take home. Keep it simple with a clear cello bag and ribbon tie.

On a side note: Last year, I thought I'd host a "WINE and EASTER EGG BOIL" for the moms prior to our Easter Egg Party for the kids. The moms would meet a day before the party and boil the eggs and socialize. This will help you with your workload because BELIEVE ME boiling 10 dozen eggs takes TIME!

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How to boil your eggs: The Perfect Hard Boiled Egg 1 dozen eggs 1 teaspoon salt Boiling the perfect egg isn't difficult, but it does take patience. Cooking the eggs at a low simmer will make them easier to peel and help prevent cracks. Cool immediately after cooking to eliminate the unattractive grayish green circle that can form around the yolk. These hard-boiled eggs can be used immediately, or dyed and decorated and featured first in your Easter egg hunt and later as deviled eggs. Place the eggs in a single layer, without crowding, in a 2- or 3-quart saucepan. Add water to cover by 2 inches and then the salt. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes. Immediately remove the eggs from the hot water and plunge them into a basin of very cold water to cool down, or rinse under cold running water for about 5 minutes. To peel, roll the large end of the egg on a countertop to crack the shell. Hold the egg under cold running water, and peel away the shell. Store unpeeled hard-boiled eggs in the refrigerator until ready to use.

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Monogrammed Beach Towel ~ Personalized Beach Towel

Monogrammed Beach Towels from The Palm Gifts

NEW!! LARGE Monogrammed Towel from The Palm Gifts. We are so happy to offer these to our customers! Monogrammed Towels come gift wrapped in a clear cello bag with coordinating wraphia ribbon.

TOWEL COLOR CHOICES: Hot Pink, Light Pink, White, Lime Green or Royal Blue.
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Suggested Color Combinations:

White Towel with Hot Pink Thread

Hot Pink Towel with Lime Green Thread

Lime Green Towel with Hot Pink Thread

Royal Blue Towel with Lime Thread

Light Pink Towel with Lime Thread

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What our Customers are Saying!

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The Palm Gifts cares about their customers, quality of products, and speed of shipment. We wanted to post some compliments (keep them coming!) from customers that we received recently. THANK YOU!

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Thank you so much for your help! The Palm Gifts has been my absolute
FAVORITE place to buy gifts! I truly appreciate everything you guys
do! :)

Courtney S.

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Our totes came today while I was at work. My daughter, Katie, was home when they delivered and called me to tell me they arrived. She was so excited by how cute they were!. Katie recently became engaged and is taking the girls she plans on asking to stand up in her wedding to dinner on Friday night and asking them all at once to be in her wedding. We thought the tote bags with the girls name on them in the colors of the wedding would be a great way to thank them for their friendship and let them know how important they all are to Katie. I could hardly wait to get home to see them. Rebecca, you and your husband just made my day as well as my daughters. I wish I had taken a picture so you could see how Katies' face lite up as she was showing me all the totes. I just had to send you this little note of appreciation. Please thank your husband as well. I spoke to you on the phone the night I placed the order to ensure we would have them on time, and you were so sweet! Thanks again, and I will tell all I know about your .com business and the GREAT service you provided. I wish you years and years of success and happiness!With much gratitude,Sue G.

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I was shopping online for some tote bags, and came across thepalmgifts.com.So, last thursday afternoon (3-19-2009) I placed an order for 4 lightweight tote bags and 2 eco-tote bags. Thinking this would take 2-4 weeks (I feel like thats what your website said), I basically forgot about the order. Figured in 2 weeks I would start to think about it again. On Monday, UPS came to the door with a small package. I was confused, I didn't know what I had ordered. To my surprise, there were 4 beautiful monogrammed tote bags. I couldn't believe you processed and shipped them so quickly. When I ship things to my family in NC it takes at least a few days. Shipping and mongramming together, and it was at my door in 3 days?! I figured it was because they were "lightweight" and not terribly hard. Then today, Thursday (3-26-2009) UPS arrived with another package. The Eco Totes were here! They look soooooooo much nicer than I thought they would! I figured they would be nice, but not THIS nice! So in a week your company managed to process, complete, package and I guess you lit a fire under UPS to get them here so quick?
Well, I just wanted to say that you have made another couple VERY happy. Please, post any or all of this on your site or wherever to let people know how amazing your company is. Definatly will think of thepalmgifts.com the next time I need to order something personalized!!!! (I'm already looking on the site again and I don't actually need anything..)
Thank you soooo much for amazing and quick service. Everything looks so nice!!!

Sarah D

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My beverage coozy arrived today and I LOVE it! Y'all did an amazing job and I'll make sure to send folks your way.

I really appreciate you going the extra mile by calling me after I hadn't responded to your e-mail. Businesses with that kind of "go the extra mile" customer service are, unfortunately, rare these days and I wanted you to know just how much I appreciate that. So, thank you one million times over. It was a pleasure working with you.

Sincerely,
Kate P

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Personalized Easter Baskets VERY LIMITED!

Get your PERSONALIZED Easter Baskets TODAY before the Easter Bunny Hops off with them! We have a very limited amount of them left! They have been super popular this year! There will be LOTS of happy children when they see their very own name on their basket!

Hop on over to The Palm Gifts!

The Palm Gifts sponsors Tyson B. in Boosterthon Run

WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU TYSON! The Palm Gifts recently sponsored little Tyson B. of Ft. Mill! Tyson ran a total of 24 laps in Fort Mill's Orchard Park Elementary School's Boosterthon Run!! We think MOM Hayley did a WONDERFUL job on the cheer sign for Tyson!

WAY TO GO TYSON!!!

Monogrammed Keychains - BIG SELLERS from The Palm Gifts!

MONOGRAMMED KEYCHAINS $10

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Monogrammed Acrylic Keychains are SO popular! Pick Zebra Print Fabric, Solid Black, Black and White Polka Dots and more! Design your own with your choice of Single Initial or 3 letter monogram!

Perfect Graduation Gift, Gift for Girlfriends or GIFT FOR YOU!!

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Pointless Question of the Day! What is your FAVORITE Mixed Drink???

We want to know what your FAVORITE mixed drink is! Mojito, Margarita, Cosmo?? Let us know!

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Pointless Question of the Day: What are you SNACKING on?

Put your Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Pretzels in our Monogrammed Lunch Box/Cooler for a quick mid-day snack! ON SALE this week for only $14!!

Monogrammed Lunch BOX/Cooler CLICK HERE

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Bring Your Lunch To Work with our Monogrammed Lunch Bags

Monogrammed Lunch Bag/Cooler ON SALE $14

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We're all trying to cut back where we can. Why not carry your lunch in style? Our Monogrammed Lunch Bag/Coolers are so hip, chic AND affordable!

ON SALE this week for Reg. $16 ON SALE $14!!

Pointless Question of the Day ....What's Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor???

You can find PINK AND GREEN Preppy Gifts at The Palm Gifts! Let us know your FAVORITE Ice Cream Flavor!!

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Monogrammed Boat Tote $24

Monogrammed Boat Totes make the PERFECT beach bag! WE LOVE THESE! Recently purchased by a CELEBRITY! Get yours today!

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Monogrammed Stainless Steel Water Bottles AND Personalized Stainless Steel Water Bottles from THE PALM GIFTS

You've asked...we have them! Monogrammed Stainless Steel Water Bottles AND Personalized Stainless Steel Water bottles! Pick White OR Stainless Steel Finish!

Awesome Designs are FUSED onto Water Bottles! Pick Martini Circles Black and White with Monogram, Pink and Green Monogram, Sally Dots with Name, and Pink and Green Stripes with Name!

Makes a wonderful Monogrammed Gift for Bridesmaids, Girlfriends, Hikers and Bikers! Comes with a carabiner so it can hook onto bags, bikes etc.

Large size 20 oz holds hot or cold!

We LOVE having the latest and greatest to offer our customers! Be the first to know what is HOT and TRENDY....SHOP THE PALM GIFTS!

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Lilly Pulitzer's New Arrivals One Word ADDICTIVE!

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OHHH AHHH! The Palm Gifts is IN LOVE with Lilly Pulitzer's New Arrivals! Thought we'd share some of our favorites from Lilly Pulitzer!

Lathan Top from Lilly Pulitzer as shown on Martha Stewart show...

Kelby Dress from Lilly Pulitzer
(Shown on Martha Stewart show)

Tinley Shift Solid Pique from Lilly Pulitzer

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The Palm Gifts' Monogrammed Jewelry and Preppy Accessories would complete the look!

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