Holiday Spotlight: Custom Embroidered Anything At Inspirations
Totes, hoodies, hats, t-shirts, towels – you have one made, or dozen, or more.
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Shhhh, please don't tell them, but I think I've found the gift for my son's many wonderful teachers this year: customized tote bags from Inspirations Embroidery on Main Street.
Lynn Murphy, owner of Inspirations, has a number of items on hand for you to pick from, but you can also bring items to her. If it's fabric, she can embroider it, which opens up a wealth of possibilities when it comes to holiday gifts.
The totes are the traditional rectangle shape (think L.L. Bean only softer and washable) or you could do the small duffle bags as totes. But then, what about your neices and nephews – personalized towels of course! Or hoodies with a favorite object (golf club, coffee cup, gardener's trowel, etc.) or name.
The possibilities are endless. Knit caps ... baseball caps ... t-shirts ... hot pads ... hand towels ... napkins ... aprons ...
The price for a personalized pullover hoodie runs about $28, for a tote about the same. T-shirts cost $15 to $20. And, said Murphy, there's same-day service.
Holiday Spotlight is running most days until Dec. 24. If you have something special on offer for the holidays, let me know. Send me a photo and a brief description: elizabeth.mcnamara@patch.com.
A concerned parent
7:12 am on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
After reading this post, I headed to Inspirations for teachers gifts, happy to support a local business. Unfortunately, my experience left a lot to be desired. After placing an order, I was told it would be ready on Tuesday and had to be picked up before they closed at 4 that day. I hurried over to pick my gifts up yesterday only to be told, along with another customer, that a "big" order had come in and ours weren't actually ready (obviously our "small" orders had been bumped) but that they would be ready later that day. I came back hours later to find my order done but not like I had asked because it wasn't possible (which I should have been told when I placed it).
The courtesy of a phone call about either of the issues with my order would have saved me two wasted trips and prevented me from having to scramble to now buy presents. I'm glad to see a local business so busy and getting "big" orders, but that's no excuse for bad customer service.