Valentines Day Gift Ideas To
Monroe, WI (PRWEB) January 31, 2012
The top three gifts for Valentine?s Day are cards, chocolate and flowers. Take the guesswork out of choosing the perfect gift by giving hand-decorated chocolates or desserts created by the artisans at The Swiss Colony (http://www.swisscolony.com).
Each season, the Wisconsin-based bakery and confectionary offers more than 500 delectable products in their catalog and online shopping site. What makes Swiss Colony gifts even more special is that over 80 percent of the tasty delights are decorated by human hands.
Only the most highly skilled bakery employees are chosen for the special duty of hand decoration. ?It takes amazing artistry and precision to hand letter and decorate Swiss Colony?s novelty designs found on our chocolates and famous desserts, such as petits fours,? says Becky Henke, vice president at The Swiss Colony. ?We offer the largest selection of hand-decorated sweets in the country.?
Ideas for specially decorated Valentine?s Day gifts include:
Conversation Cakelets ($ 19.95); each vanilla, strawberry or butter creme layered cakelet has a Valentine?s sentiment written in frosting such as ?Kiss Me,? ?Be Mine? or ?XOXO.?
Emoticon Chocolates ($ 19.95); delectable truffles with whipped chocolate centers and brightly colored Swiss creme shells hand-decorated with smiley faces based on email fame.
Personalized Valentine Petits Fours ($ 19.95); little cakes layered with strawberry butter creme and covered with Swiss chocolate or Swiss creme hand lettered with the Valentine?s name up to nine characters.
Sweetheart Meltaways ($ 19.95); scrumptious toffee filling enrobed with fudge or Swiss creme each hand decorated like smiling little tykes.
Sweet Conversation Cookies ($ 16.95); pink or white Swiss creme covered soft chocolate cookies written with ?Be Mine? or ?XOXO.?
Like snowflakes, no two hand-decorated chocolates or desserts will look exactly alike. However, the skilled decorators at Swiss Colony have been trained to be incredibly precise.
About The Swiss Colony
The Swiss Colony is a family owned Wisconsin company that has been creating award-winning food gifts for more than 85 years. Affectionately known as ?America?s Holiday Bakery,? Swiss Colony insists on the highest quality ingredients for a large selection of festively packaged gifts for every occasion. Exclusive recipes developed by their European Master Bakers and hand-decorated novelties like no other are just two of the reasons customers include The Swiss Colony as part of their holiday and gift-giving traditions year after year.
On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World
Despite the humble origins of its name (Anglo Saxon for “the speck at the head of a boil”), the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication, to the point that it has become virtually indispensable. Now, in On the Dot, Alexander and Nicholas Humez offer a wide ranging, entertaining account of this much overlooked and miniscule linguistic sign.The Humez brothers shed light on the dot in all its various forms. As a mark of punctuation, they show, it plays many roles—as sentence stopper, a constituent of the colon (a clause stopper), and the ellipsis (dot dot dot). In musical notation, it denotes “and a half.” In computerese, it has several different functions (as in dot com, the marker between a file name and its extension, and in some slightly more arcane uses in programming languages). The dot also plays a number of roles in mathematics, including the notation of world currency (such as dollars dot cents), in Morse code (dots and dashes), and in the raised dots of Braille. And as the authors connect all these dots, they take readers on an engaging tour of the highways and byways of language, ranging from the history of the question mark and its lesser known offshoots the point d’ironie and the interrobang, to acronyms and backronyms, power point bullets and asterisks, emoticons and the “at-sign.” Playful, wide-ranging, and delightfully informative, On the Dot reveals how thoroughly the dot is embedded in our everyday world of words and ideas, acquiring a power inversely proportional to its diminutive size.
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