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Paul Cicchini Custom Clothier

We have made changes to enhance your experience with us.
• More ready made clothes
• Full line of shoes
• Casual clothing
• Expanded hours
• Double the space
• Next to our old location on
the Corner of Old Woodward
and Merrill St.

BY DEBBIE WALLIS LANDAU

veryone gets gift blindness" on occasion.
What do you buy for the in-laws who have
everything? Or a patient recovering from hip
„AL,„,„„41 replacement surgery? Does the quirky math teacher
who got your son to graduate even celebrate the holidays?
You select a gift basket. Chocolates have grown up and
acquired many monikers since the famous Hershey bar first
debuted. Snack foods have also come a long way since that
'Munch a bunch of Fritos" jingle helped moms and dads
pack brown bags in the 1950s and 1960s.
Basket treasures aren't limited to foodstuffs, either. There are
great gifts for the environmentally sensitive person or reward a
young reader with one of many wonderful boxed gift sets.
The following vendors and merchants
have just made life easier for you.
Left:
American Gourmet
Food, Glorious Food
in West Bloomfield
offers
holiday baskets
AMERICAN GOURMET, 6716 Orchard Lake
of
gourmet
goodies.
Road, West Bloomfield, (248) 851-4450.

One of the leading purveyors of Godiva's
chocolates offers tantalizing arrangements including can-
dies, cookies, fruits and coffees. Sugar free, kosher, fat free
and diabetic trays are available upon xequest.
Try a Godiva Biscuit Collection with hand-dipped
European-style biscuits in a filigree gift tin. Decadent truf-
fle assortments, a Cafe Godiva medley with beautiful gift
bags of flavored, imported coffees in such flavors as creme
brulee or raspberry truffle, or an arrangement of chocolate-
covered blueberries, peaches and dried cherries are other
mouthwatering treats.
Owner Sandy Benson will compose gift rounds, trays or
baskets of your choice of delicacies. "Eight Nights of Soul"
is a great Chanukah gift.

COOKIES BY DESIGN, 33250 W 14 Mile, West Bloomfield,
(248) 539-4029, and 29211 Southfield Road, Southfield
(248) 483-9502, both locations certified kosher. A
Rochester location, (248) 656-1442, is not kosher.
If you haven't seen Connie Carlson's enormous cookies
on a stick, you're in for a giggle. Flatter your favorite chiro-
practor, chef, accountant, soccer player or cheerleader with
a cookie fashioned in his or her image. The designs are lim-
ited only by your imagination.
The store sells colorful, decorated white- and brown-
sugar cookies in the following sizes and prices:
One giant cookie is $6.50. A three-cookie bouquet is
$22.50; four are S28, five are $34. Most customers pur-

Paul Cicchini for all
your holiday needs.
Same great Personalized
service, Same great
tailors, Same great
custom clothing.

Brand New
Showroom

Paul Cicchini Custom Clothier
Certificate
CLISTOor12 .M,ADE SHIRTS
OFF
$100

$100 OFF CUSTOM MADE SUITS
$200 OFF CUSTO M & E SUITS

Priced from $595 - $1095

Up

Valid only month of Dec. Bring Gift Certificate In When Purchasing
180 S. Old Woodward - Birmingham 24&646-0535

nukah, consider gifts of nature from

B ackyard Birds Nature & Garden Store

The largest selection of bird feeding and garden accessories in town.

36200 Woodward Ave.
i3loomfield Falls. MI
Not to Russel Hardware
(248) 723-5000

Nature & Garden Store

Kruciymikraatar, inc.

8101 Commerce Rd.
Commerce Twp., MI
5 Miles west of Orchard Lake Rd.
(248) 363-3890