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Happy National Pie Day!...Celebrate Everyday!

Happy National Pie Day!

Dorothy Nielsen,one of the founders of Nielsens Exclusive Gifts, was also a founding member of the International Pie Society along with Beth Leonard and Marie Cantrell in the 1950's.  They wanted to make delicious pies- why ? ... To make people happy and to celebrate every chance they had!  They enjoyed serving the pies in style wearing frilly aprons and high heels and serving on beautiful china dessert plates!  Dorothy Nielsen enjoyed finding the most beautiful china patterns made in the world to offer her Nielsens' customers.  I, Andrea Nielsen, her daughter, have carried on the tradition of finding the best for Nielsens.  

In celebration of National Pie day and of celebrating in general...just mention this blog to receive 30% off any dessert plates that are in stock at Nielsens!  If special order for  you, you will receive a 10% savings!  This offer is good until May 1, 2015!

So...let's make pies!  Take a slice to a neighbor or invite them over for tea and pie! And serve those delicious offerings on artistic china and pottery from such famous makers as:

Herend- truely art you can use.  Herend is the only china maker who still hand paints all of the beautiful decorations. It is all made by hand in Hungry. They make many great patterns and do not discontinue the patterns.  Some have been made since the 1800s!

Vietri- Italian Pottery

Lenox- American made China

Juliska- Italian Pottery

Simon Pearce- American Made Pottery

Also...Wedgwood and Waterford make beautiful china and pottery

Even Julia Knight has small hand enameled plates that would be great for pie

Penelope Penzo now makes beautiful French Limoges China using fabulous African Art on fine china.  They are also offering some patterns for everyday use.  It is all new and fabulous!

Click below link to one of Dorothy Nielsens' pie recipes.  And make a pie today!

Dorothy's Lemon Chiffon Pie Recipe

Visit Nielsens at 81st and Lewis in Tulsa and enjoy!  We can not wait to see you and tell us about your celebrations! Also... NielsensGifts.com...we gift wrap, pack and send too!

Bring a picture of your homemade pie for 20% discount on any item of any kind in stock at Nielsens!  Mention this blog for your savings!  Just like the International Pie Society, we at Nielsens just want to make you happy!  Shop early and save for Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Easter, Birthdays and Anniversary and SAVE! 

We love you at Nielsens!  Thanks for reading! ... Happy Celebrating! Andrea Nielsen

Julia Knight Signing - Nielsens Gifts - Thurs. Dec. 6 & 7 - Don't Miss Out!

New Julia Knight Florentine Bowls with Pomegranate and Gold!

Julia Knight can not wait to meet you!   She wants to know what you think of her new red trimmed in gold.  Julia wants to know if you love her 3 new tables - yes- Julia Knight tables!  Julia wants your opinion of the Florentine trim pieces and her new holly 3 part server and holly tree platter.  Link to Florentine Gold Section on NielsensGifts.com

Julia Knight wants your opinion!

Julia wants to meet you and hear what you want her to do next!  Is there another color that you want certain serveware to be available?  Do you wish she would do more for your lake or beach home? Have you seen her new sea horse and fish pieces?

Do you love Julia Knight's new wood pieces?  She wants to know if you think the wood pieces will be great for outdoor entertaining too? Do you want her to do more in wood?  Link to the new Julia Knight Accent Furniture Section on NielsensGifts.com

Julia Knight will be at Nielsens Gifts at The Plaza Thursday & Friday!

Julia will be at Nielsens Thurs eve from 5-8 to talk with you!  She will also teach us more easy ideas for home entertaining and causual elegant home decor!  But she wants your input too.  Do you want other organic shapes like the flower and leaf bowls?  What are your favorite flowers? Link to Julia Knight on NielsensGifts.com and Julia's 2012 Inspirational Video

Andrea Nielsen wants your opinion on how Nielsens can serve you better!

I would love to know who you have given Julia Knight to and if they absolutely loved it.  I want your input on how we at Nielsens may serve you better.  What may we do for you?  Do you like our hand tied bows?  Do you like our Free gift wrap?  Do you give our Nielsens Gift Cerificates that never expire?  Do you like our convienent shipping?

Please come and share refreshments Thurs eve and Friday morning with us and Julia. Also share your opinions with us!  Julia will Sign and Personalize your selections and you will receive a FREE Gift of a beautiful Julia Knight Vase for selecting during her visit! (min purchase of 150- one per person).  See you this Thurs and Fri at Nielsens at 81st and Lewis Tulsa!  

If you can not be at our Julia Knight party in person then click here! http://bit.ly/eKRWMh 

Send us your ideas and opinions!

Email me your ideas and opinions to [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!  I will share your thoughts with Julia Knight

I appreciate you!  Andrea Nielsen

 

World Famous Julia Knight to Exclusively Visit Nielsens in Tulsa- Dec. 6th & 7th! FREE GIFT with Purchase!

 

We are thrilled to host world Famous Julia Knight at Nielsens Exclusive Gifts at The Plaza in Tulsa- Dec. 6th & 7th! Come in today to either Nielsens and you will see one of the world's largest selections of Julia Knight exciting hand crafted serveware!  Select now and receive a great GIFT WITH PURCHASE of $150 or more - you will love it!  

Have your Julia Knight selections Signed and Personalized by the world famous Julia Knight!  Signed pieces are exciting to use yourself and make extreamely thoughtful gifts!  You will enjoy meeting Julia and learning her tips to easy home entertaining and how to make the ordinary extrodinary!  

Make your parties easy, beautiful and fun by using Julia Knight serveware from Nielsens and Julia's great entertaining tips!  Come to Nielsens to learn her great Five Minutes to Fabulous party ideas! You will still have the energy to enjoy your guests and they will remember your parties forever! 

Do you ever wonder how it is that something suddenly catches your eye? Or why, when you see something so unusually stunning, you immediately want to share it with someone?

Julia Knight's driving ambition is to create designs that insist on attracting your eye with their unexpected beauty – a beauty that transforms even the everyday into something simply and completely wonderful. That’s why she meticulously works on patterns and shapes until they are just so. She works on color and hue. Each piece is designed with every other piece in mind; to complement… coordinate… contrast.

Julia Knight's artisans breathe life into each individually hand-crafted piece, ready for you to expressively combine them into your own eye-catching-statement-making signature array of bowls and trays, glassware and serving pieces…into “Wow!”

Come to Nielsens 3515 South Peoria or 81st & Lewis and take in the beauty of Julia Knight seveware and SELECT NOW FOR SIGNING DEC. 6TH & 7TH at Nielsens 81st and Lewis!

Nielsens will make the Julia Knight Signing Event a memorable party!  You are invited!

 Order by phone 918-298-9700 or 1-800-665-1233, or click here for Julia Knight on NielsensGifts.com

Both Nielsens Brookside and The Plaza are open Thurs eve and Sunday afternoon until Christmas...FREE Giftwrap and Delivery!

Thank you, Andrea Nielsen and...

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Christmas in July ? Best Christmas/Winter/Holiday China for 2011 and Beyond!

My favorite Christmas dishes are Old Saint Nick by Vietri, for everyday and casual entertaining, and Starfluted by Royal Copenhagen for beautiful family gatherings and lovely home entertaining. These two patterns are the best of the best and will last forever and beyond!

Starfluted by Royal Copenhagen is my personal winter china! I set our table with it as soon as a cool wind starts to blow. Every day, we enjoy looking at it on our formal dining table and it is ready for company at a moment's notice! Julia Knight Holly Bowls, Holly Leaf Platters and any snow, pomegranate, mojito or mother of pearl Julia Knight serveware goes perfectly with this elegant Royal Copenhagen china! It is not just for Christmas - this is a winter china for the whole season, with lovely red bows, hearts and stars. You will love it too! Put 8 place settings in layaway at Nielsens now and you will have it out just in time for cooler weather! If you buy 8 or more place settings(Dinner, Salad, Cup & Saucer), I will give you the lovely new Oval Serving Platter! You will love it! Many of the serving pieces make great stand alone gifts. You do not have to have the china to enjoy these sweet pieces!

Vietri is a very popular pottery at Nielsens Gifts. This year the Old Saint Nick pattern has several great new pieces including salt and peppers! They also have produced a very limited signed platter for 2011.

Order yours now to be sure to not miss out and Nielsens will give you an Old Saint Nick ornament as our gift to you!- while supplies last!

If you buy 8 or more place settings (one place setting includes a dinner plate, salad plate, mug, and bowl) of Old Saint Nick I will give you the new Salt and Pepper as a gift! I know you will love this very happy pattern, all hand painted in Italy! Pieces of Old Saint Nick also make great gifts starting at around $20. My daughter has given the small bowls and the mugs as teacher gifts!

Come to Nielsens Gifts at 81st and Lewis in Tulsa to see both of these fabulous patterns. Brides should remember to add one- or both- of these patterns to their registry at Nielsens. You may also see them at www.NielsensGifts.com.

If you have not been in to see what is on sale for July at Nielsens - please- hurry in. If you wish, create your own sale! You may take 20% off any one item in stock!! Is there something you have always wanted? A Jay Strongwater piece, perhaps?

Thank you so much for being a Nielsens Gifts friend! Please bring your friends in with you for refreshments and a feast for your eyes!

Andrea Nielsen

Summer Flowers- Friends- Family- Fun!!!

Summer flowers are in abundance- even Black Eyed Susans, Crape Myrtle and Sunflowers will look elegant in beautiful Waterford, Simon Pearce, Julia Knight or your grandmothers vases. I am having fun pulling out all my vases of all different sizes and shapes and making an arraignment on my dining table. Try it- it is fun! May I also suggest that you get out your grandmother or great grandmother's doilies and runners or tablecloths that she spent countless fun hours creating. Touch them, think about her and then put those cherished heirlooms in your display! This may be the moment that you have been saving them for! Now go to the yard and fill the vases with flowers in a casual way.

If you want to send a friend a gift or need a lift yourself consider a fun vase from Simon Pearce chelsea collection or Julia Knight's new vase with the raspberry color inside or a new green vase from Waterford. Nielsens Gifts has them all and more! Gift wrap, delivery and shipping too. Nielsens makes gift giving and home entertaining easy and fun!!!

Back to our table- now that it looks so festive, why not get the china and crystal out too? Set the table and include a few Julia Knight serving pieces- order carryout food and invite the neighbors! Invite your family! Truly a "Five Minutes to Fabulous" summer fun party! You may want to have several rounds of this party while the flowers are arranged.
Who knows- sitting around the pretty table with easy food- may even spark some great conversations that will lead to lasting friendships! I am all for easy food on beautiful plates and serving dishes so you can enjoy your own party!!!

Short on Julia Knight happy colorful serving pieces ?- just call 918-298-9700 and "order out" for some! We will deliver in Tulsa and send anywhere! www.NielsensGifts.com

Mention this blog when ordering at Nielsens Gifts and I will give you 10% off!

And be sure to give Nielsens your email address! If you did not get the latest "create your own July Sale", be sure to ask to have a copy emailed to you! You will like the savings!

Love and appreciation, Andrea Nielsen

 

P.S. Below is Waterford Crystal's new Fleurology Vase Collection.

Market 2011 Brings New Exciting Gifts and Home Decor to Nielsens!

I cannot remember a more exciting market!  The products were fresh, the buyers in great moods and Doug was always ready with a funny quip! Doug, George and I were in easy agreement to bring many new and some contemporary new lines to you at Nielsens.

Vagabond is a new line filled with nature inspired wood and metal serving items - even a cow and pail sugar and creamer and shell and coral shaped serving spoons!  Vagabond will have the perfect gift for the person who has everything. There are great things for those with a lake, beach or mountain home!

We love the elegant simplicity of our new Simon Pearce bowls and vases.  We are thinking they will be great for Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.  Simon Pearce will even engrave your special saying on the rim of a beautiful clear bowl for you!  We ordered one with XOXO all the way around!  Brides will love the Simon Pearce stemware too. This beautiful glass is made in America!

Table Art is a wonderful handmade in America art items for your table.  Napkin rings, serving spoons, and salad servers in wonderful shapes of natural leaves and flowers.  They also have a lovely dogwood frame for mom!

Faye and Annika's new Gourmet room at Nielsens will have some wonderful new baking pans that the girls love using.  God mother, Lucia had given them one that they make garden bug shaped muffins in- now they bring them to you!  There are also pans to bake heart shaped cakes for Valentine's Day! They have also added the best Vanilla in the world in big pretty bottles!  And our family loves Door County Wisconsin - so we have added Door County Gourmet coffee!  Hope you will like their great flavors too!

Wooden salad bowls will make great wedding gifts!    Our new very natural bowls handmade from reclaimed wood will also be great gifts for the man in your life!  Nambe also brings to Nielsens new salad bowls, servers and great cheese boards! My parents stared carrying Nambe in the 1950s at Nielsens, so I am so happy to have a new offering from this Native American company. Waterford has lots that is new also.  We are so glad that they are doing a new cased crystal flute with the cut of snowflakes.  You can acquire one color per year and all the snowflakes will be different each year!  This year is red and gorgeous.  You may just want 12 red ones!  We bought lots of Waterford Vases for Valentine's Day gifts and for Mother's Day.    The new black and clear John Rocha Waterford has a fabulous new ice bucket!  And we all want the individual Marquis wine carafes.  They are a fun shape and very reasonably priced.  Lismore Essence is Nielsens' bride's top pick!

Lladro has great new pieces for Mother's day .  We love the new Limited Edition Tango piece- you have to come and see it!  Lladro makes the prettiest wedding cake toppers you can find.  Nielsens has them all.  For Valentine's Day there are many romantic pieces.  I like Endless Love and the little girl holding a heart full of handmade flowers!

Oprah's favorite china tea cups are at Nielsens now- in a set of each a different color with a heart shape showing as you sip!  They are very reasonable, so give them as gifts to girl friends with a delicious package of Nielsens' Republic of Tea flavor.  It makes a great reminder that we should sit and sip and share with friends more often!

Penzo handmade African Pottery had lots to share with their art that benefits women, children and wild animals in Africa.  We purchased several one of a kind hand thrown pieces for you along with more serving pieces and fun bowls.  No two are ever alike and each is signed by the artist!   George and Annika and I had the wonderful pleasure of meeting Penny Vincent  who coordinates the artists.  She is delightful and a wonderful artist in her own right.  I hope she will visit Nielsens and meet you all!  You will love and admire her too for all she does for so many!  You help too by enjoying the beautiful Penzo pottery!  What great gifts it makes - it gives in many ways!  How wonderful!

We also had the wonderful experience of visiting Tervis Tumble factory in Venice, Florida.  Tervis Tumblers keep things hot or cold, don't sweat and can be put in the dishwasher and microwave.  They are made with the utmost care and love in America by the nicest people!   It was great to see it firsthand.  Nielsens will have a design in stock that will appeal to anyone.  You will find a great gift in the new designs by Tervis!  Nielsens is happy to have a large selection for you.  We can also do corporate custom orders for you!

Herend's new Guild piece is the Penguin!  It is fun and you will really like it.  Rothschild Bird has added many serving pieces to their new Branch pattern for the 150th birthday of the Rothschild Bird pattern.  Herend continues to be a favorite china for brides and everyone.  It is all handpainted - art you can use!  

 One of Doug's accomplished goals at market was to find great gifts $50. and under.  You will love the Tuscan pot filled with a scented candle - perfect for use inside and outside.  What a perfect gift for all occasions!  He also chose fun - really funny cocktail napkins and great signs with inspiring sayings and great gift notes.  You will love all the gifts- come to Nielsens to see and let Doug and Sadie suggest the perfect gifts for all your friends!

Julia Knight has designed beautiful new trays, vases and bowls.  You will love every one!  I will purchase the green water lily platter and the pink raspberry glass bowl and the beautiful vases in 3 sizes with the bright color inside.  And the new elegant tray will be perfect on my Ottoman!  You will be tempted too!  Julia Knight makes great hearts for Valentine's Day and the Vases will be the best for Mother's  Day gifts!   We loved spending some time with Julia.  She is so creative and inspiring.  She has more wonderful things for us on the drawing board.  Nielsens looks forward to her visit again next fall!  She makes entertaining our friends fun!

Valentine's Day is almost here and Nielsens has the best gifts ever! Julia Knight hearts, Simon Pearce heart bowls, vases in all brands and shapes and sizes, Lladro, Herend, Waterford and Lalique hearts, and Nielsens even has chocolates for your love- Come and see the chocolate heart shaped dessert cups!

Nielsens will gift wrap and deliver or ship for you to make your gift giving easy!  My gift for you is mention my blog and receive 10% off any new purchase from now until Feb. 14th - mention "Andrea's Blog" in store or put "andrea" in coupon code box at our website online checkout.  

Wish you could have been at market with us, but come to Nielsens - we brought the best of market to you at Nielsens!  George is working at putting some of these great offerings on http://shop.nielsensgifts.com/.  You may also shop by phone 1-800-665-1233 or in Tulsa 298-9700! 

With love and appreciation to you!  Andrea Nielsen

 

Julia Knight Signing 2010---Fab Gifts to Get and to Give!

Julia Knight is on her way to Nielsens Gifts!

Have your selections signed Thurs. Dec. 9th and Fri. Dec. 10th!  

Nielsens Gifts has received hundreds of new Julia Knight serving pieces and glassware for Julia Knight to sign and personalize for you! 

My favorite new items this year are the Cheese tray with cheese plane and knife with the new oval bowl for soft cheese or dips!  I also really like the new ladle, cold meat fork and large serving spoon.  Don't miss these in Pomegranate red trimmed in white mother of pearl- fabulous!  

You must come to Nielsens, 81st and Lewis in Tulsa or our website, http://shop.nielsensgifts.com/to see her glassware also!  It is festive!  It is substantial - the men will like it too!  The new Julia Knight glassware is hand blown in Italy and is dishwasher safe!  It just looks like a party!  This year she has added glass bowls.  Julia Knight has once again helped us all get excited about having an easy fun party!  Her philosophy is "Five Minutes to Fabulous" and I guarantee that with her colorful serving ware and now her beautiful glassware, your parties will be fabulous with very little effort!

Please come to Nielsens 81st and Lewis in Tulsa, OK Thurs eve Dec 9th from 5-8 for wine and cheese and fun party and again Friday Dec. 10th,10 to 4!  I know that you will enjoy meeting the famous home entertainer, Julia Knight!  She will give you entertaining tips and sign your Julia Knight selections!  She will sign both the serving ware and the glassware!  You may also purchase on line: http://shop.nielsensgifts.com/! 1800-665-1233 or 298-9700

You will love all of the Julia Knight designs for your own home and they make perfect gifts!  There is something wonderful in all gift price ranges!   I hope to see you soon at Nielsens! Bring your gift list- there is literally something for every person and we will help you select, gift wrap and mail or deliver! "Easy Peasy" as my daughters would say!

To make it even better...we have a gift with purchase- just for this signing event!  

If you buy $150. of Julia Knight you will receive a Julia Knight 6" cake stand- FREE

If you buy $300. of Julia Knight you will receive a Julia Knight 8" peony bowl in the color Blackberry- FREE

If you buy $500. of Julia Knight you will receive an 12" Hibiscus Bowl in Pomogranate FREE.  

One gift per customer, please.

Please come and meet Julia Dec. 9th and Dec. 10th and Select pieces to be signed and personalized by her now!!! 

You and your gift recipients will love Julia Knight !!!  How cool to have 2010 engraved on your signed pieces too! Another decade completed!  Let's toast the next decade with Julia Knight toasting flutes in red and promise to make every day FUN!

I enjoy all of my pieces so much- they just make having a party easier and lots more fun!

I appreciate you.  Thank you so much for shopping with our 64 year old family business!

Sincerely, Andrea Nielsen

New Extended Store Hours until Christmas:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 10am to 7pm

Thursday: 10am to 8pm

Saturday: 10am to 6pm

Sunday: 1 - 5

 Nielsens Gifts - 8138-A South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, OK 74137

918-298-9700 or 800-665-1233

 

Variety is the Spice of Life! Nielsens Gifts is not copied anywhere!

Nielsens Gifts - An Original... One of a Kind!

Have you noticed when visiting another city that all the stores are the same ones you have in your home town?  I remember when it was so much fun to shop in a special store unique to Chicago, a special one in Dallas, one only found in New York. Now all of those stores are in many cities-but they have lost their personality.  The owners are not individuals, but big conglomerates.  The stores have prestigious names, but many out source their work and are mere shadows of what made them famous. Big business was never Nielsens Gifts' goal. Nielsens loves knowing their wonderful customers in Tulsa and on the phone and on NielsensGifts.com. That is the way Nielsens' founders planned it.  

Founded in 1946 at the edge of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I have been thinking so much about my parents, Dorothy and Arthur Nielsen.  They had a vision for their gift store 64 years ago.  They did not want a chain of stores. They wanted only one very unique business.  The store, Nielsens, started in a rental house in Tulsa.  They lived in the back and sold their wedding gifts in the living room and my dad made lamps of customers lovely vases and figurines and my mom made the hand sewn silk lampshades.  They wanted to bring beautiful decorative things to Tulsa from all over the world. Lovely things had not been easy to find during world war two.  They began bringing china and decorative accessories to help fulfill peoples dream of peace and prosperity.

New merchandise comes in almost every day!

I worked all weekend in Nielsens Gifts cleaning and doing some new displays of Julia Knight Serveware and Lladro and Kinzig Design Lamps.   We are excited to have Rosa Lladro visiting Nielsens on Oct. 16th. I got to thinking how much fun I was having and that there is not another store in the entire world with our exact mix of merchandise!  Although the choices are now made by myself,my husband, my daughters, Doug, George, Rhonda, Sadie, other Nielsens' sales associates and by our customers-not by my parents, we still abide by Art and Dorothy's  philosophy that Nielsens carry all price ranges of gifts and objects of art, but of only items of the highest quality!

Please visit our one and only Nielsens Gifts in Tulsa and on the web. Our son, Greg, designed our site and George works night and day on our web site.  There is not another like it! NielsensGifts.com.   There is no "out sourcing" at Nielsens!  

We are also available to talk with you on the phone 298-9700 or 1-800-665-1233 to help you find the perfect gift or china or flatware or crystal or home accessory.  We are happy to special order for you.  We gift wrap your selection for free and deliver in Tulsa and ship all over the world! We have Bridal & Gift Registry. Please let Nielsens be your unique gift store. Please let us be your personal shopper whether you need a special birthday, wedding or anniversary gift or if you need special corporate gifts, we will be honored to help!

A Gift from Nielsens is Treasured Always!

My parents always said..."A Gift from Nielsens is Treasured Always!"  They helped people send and give love to their friends and family through beautiful gifts - just as we do today.

As my gift to you for reading my thoughts...mention this blog and receive 10% off your selection - good through Sept 14, 2010 ! On NielsensGifts.com - please use code: blog at check out for your savings. Thanks for being a friend of Nielsens Gifts.  Love to you and your family, Andrea Nielsen

Invite Friends and ask..."What would Julia Do?"

I am having about 20 people for dinner tonight...I am asking "what would Julia do?"  Julia Knight, that is!  I think she would keep it simple.  She would start the party with wine from her new casually elegant Argento wine glasses and cheese and crackers and nuts.    I think I will put two or three cheeses on the large Julia Knight Octagonal Tray with some grapes and crackers on the tray.  I will use the new Classic Cheese Serving Set with the cheeses for easy cutting.  Shelled pistashcio nuts will be in the Julia Knight Pagoda Bowl. 

I think Julia Knight would then present the salmon that my husband will bar-b-que on my 25" JK mother of pearl handled tray ( my very favorite Julia Knight piece, by the way!).  The salad will look great in my Julia Knight 15" Peony Bowl.  It will be so easy- a pre washed bag salad with some cut up onions and mandarin oranges and toasted almonds. I have the matching servers-yeah! The chicken that my husband will bar-b-que will be great on the new oval platter. ...Easy so far!

I will steam the broccoli and serve it family style in the classic Julia Knight bowl.  I wish her new classic serving spoon and meat fork were here!  They will arrive at Nielsens later this week - can't wait!  Rolls will be served in my mother's bread tray (I think Julia would be okay with that sentimental item!)

For dessert I found some frozen fruit smoothies that all you do is add milk in blender and serve in an elegant glass- I plan to use my Waterford Lismore balloon wines for the smoothies.  If I had enough Julia Knight glasses, I think the smoothies would be great in those too!  I am adding to my collection of both Julia Knight Argento and Waterford glasses for every gift giving occasion!  I am giving two or four at a time to my husband until I have 18 or 20!  I learned that trick from my mother!

I will let you know how this "five minutes to fabulous" (Julia Knight's philosophy) party goes. Actually, you can find out by asking any Nielsens Gifts' employee.  They are the guests for the dinner!  I hope they have fun and I hope it is as easy as I think it will be!  It is so much fun using my Julia Knight Serveware. I just love to have people over so I can play with it!  And I hope everyone from Nielsens has fun!  I appreciate them all so much and I think each one of them is a wonderful person with many talents!  Don't you just love them? I do!  

 I appreciate you for reading and for continuing to enjoy giving gifts (even to yourself!) from Nielsens!  As my parents always said; "A gift from Nielsens is treasured always!"

With love, Andrea

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All Julia Knight products on our website - all brand new colors and pieces for Fall 2010

Celebrate the Ordinary! - Send Love, Receive FREE Gift!

Yes, we love to celebrate birthdays- If you are over 35, you probably enjoy other peoples' birthdays more than your own!  A Jay Strongwater pin is great gift for a girl friend- or a new flat wallet or a new Aster Julia Knight serving bowl!  For a male friend - Nielsens has a wonderful leather money clip with a real  buffalo nickel.  My husband loves the one I gave him!

Yes, we love to celebrate anniversaries.  If it is the 25th, Julia Knight's new platinum color is perfect - maybe on one of her wonderful trays or shell dish!  If it is the 50th - a Julia Knight new shell dish for nuts or candy in her rich toffee gold is perfect.  If it is the 40th, the Julia Knight red pomegranate wine cooler or new red champagne glasses will be great!  Any other anniversary ...any piece of Julia Knight or Waterford serving piece will be the right thing.

Yes, we love to celebrate weddings!  My mother, Dorothy Nielsen, suggested choosing your signature wedding gift - say a Waterford cake plate or Waterford candlesticks, and give to every bride!  What a time saver!  Nielsens will wrap and deliver or send for you!

Why wait to celebrate? As life goes on we start to realize...ordinary is good!  Let's send love for no reason at all- actually that is the best reason to send love and thoughtfulness...because we care!  Did you know that Nielsens has wonderful friend gifts starting at 3.98? .  Send your friend a lovely purse note pad...3.98, or a pretty flower made of china for 5. Or a larger flower for 39.95. Or send a fun tea towel with silly saying for 8.95 or a Julia Knight small lily bowl in a bright color , or small Julia shell or heart dish- your choice 27.95. or Send an Arthur Court Spoon rest 25. Or send a wonderful box of notes with reusable box for 18.95. Or a wonderful new Julia Knight picture frame with a picture of the two of you doing something fun...or empty with a note that you want to do something fun with them to take a picture to go in the frame! Whatever you choose,  be sure to have Nielsens enclose a card saying you wish your friend a happy day.  Or just say you are thinking of them!

Please come in to Nielsens at 81st and Lewis or www.NielsensGifts.com and select 8 or more gifts (at any price) at once to send thoughtfulness to your friends -just because you care. Then Nielsens will give you a gift of equal value to lowest cost of the 8!  FREE GIFT just for you-why?- because we care about you!  Just my little gift to you to celebrate the Ordinary!  I am going to make my list and try this out myself!  You need to mention this blog for the free offer! 

Thanks for reading and thank you for sharing love from Nielsens!  I appreciate you! Celebate today!

And please remember to pray for Doug's Dad and Doug and his brother, David.  Love, Andrea