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Connecticut Products Featured In Local Business Owners’ Gift Baskets
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SUFFIELD - Lorraine Mancini and her husband Mike own more than the stately, Victorian Lily House Bed & Breakfast in the heart of Suffield. Lorraine has grown a unique gift basket business within her Bed and Breakfast called Basket Full of Connecticut (www.BasketFullofCT.com), working with all local, Connecticut folks producing Connecticut made items. She considers it a unique way to highlight and support local businesses, many of whom use organic and certainly all natural ingredients in the food items. Lorraine also offers unique hand crafted and handmade or hand painted gift items. She adds her own creativity to the baskets, making beautifully arranged and thoughtful gifts, but she will also put together custom baskets on request. For example, on her dining room table for Small Business Saturday, Lorraine had “Breakfast Baskets” with local ceramic
mugs, Connecticut produced jams and coffees, and hand-crafted glass and stainless spoons; “Pamper Yourself Baskets” for him or for her with Connecticut made shaving creams, balms, and locally produced soaps and lotions out of all natural ingredients, and “CT Culinary Baskets” with locally crafted serving dishes full of tapenades, condiments, and sauces and spices of all types. There were many others as well and shoppers came to “create their own basket” filling them with choices of their own. With Basket Full of Connecticut, Lorriane has made a commitment to her fellow Connecticut small business owners to support one another and help to keep Connecticut strong. Please call Lorraine at 860-668-7931 to order your Christmas gift baskets or to get your locally created product into her “mix.”
Suffield’s Lorraine Mancini creating one of her customized ‘Made in Connecticut’ gift baskets that features all local products.
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