Holiday Gift Guide
Giving
with BeBoxed Style
Thinking inside the box By Joy Lawrance, Photography by Jennifer Olson Photography
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COMING UP WITH A FRESH IDEA about gift giving might be like concocting a new recipe. It takes a variety of ideas or ingredients; experimenting with ways to put contents or flavors together; and making decisions around packaging or presentation. For Alisa Zapiler of Creative Events + Occasions, and Paula Newberry Arnold of Newberry Brothers, their unique concept took its time to develop, simmering for years on the back burners of their minds. “Alisa and I always wanted to do something together in the industry, something different,” Arnold said. A business friend asked her to collaborate on gift baskets—and that sparked an idea. “We’ve been shopping for clients for years for fruit
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and gift baskets. But they look dated. We needed an idea that was easy, doable online, but sophisticated,” she added. “Paula and I had met and brainstormed for years for something that was needed in our industry that was
