Florist.com is an excellent site. We highly recommend visiting this site! They offer all kinds of wonderful gift ideas including flowers, balloons, silk flowers, plants, fruit baskets, gift baskets, gourmet baskets, Mary Engelbreit, Mrs. Beasley's Cookies, Shari's Berries, and Sports Baskets. They offer many products for international delivery too (very rare to find this). We love their Flowers for Dummies section that helps you find the right gift for the right occasion (it's very educational & humorous too). They are an actual brick-and-mortar florist, something rare for flower peddlers on the Internet--therefore, their Customer Service knows what they're talking about. This site is extremely comprehensive.

They even provide valuable information on topics like: Tips for Gift-Giving, The Meaning of Flowers, Sympathy Etiquette, matching Flowers and Personalities, and even State Flowers. Again, we were very impressed!

Unlike most retail floral companies that buy their flowers through wholesalers and distributors - making available flowers that are anywhere between five and 10 days old by the time they are sold to you - Proflowers.com only ships fresh flowers that come direct-from-the-grower, thus ensuring that the flowers you buy were cut only 24 - 48 hours before you receive them. And because their flowers never wait around in warehouses, trucks or retail florist's coolers, they're able to guarantee that their flowers will last at least seven days. After all, the fresher the flowers, the longer they'll last.

They offer a wide selection of high-quality, unique, freshly-cut flowers that are not easily found in local markets. Offerings include roses in fourteen different colors (including an assortment of bi-colored roses), tulips, irises, lilies, birds of paradise, potted plants, and a variety of mixed bouquets.

Hallmark offers a very nice Web site that rivals their bricks and mortar stores. Their site helps you keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues with easy-to-find, easy-to-send e-cards, flowers and gifts. As a member of Hallmark.com, you can use your online personal address book and calendar to set helpful Reminders that help you keep track of special occasions. And whether you want to chat about ornaments, trade tips about parties, build your business relationships or get ideas and information, you've come to the right place at Hallmark.com. The site provides you with flowers, paper cards (personal and business), e-cards, gift certificates and a large variety of gifts for almost any occasion. They offer an excellent 100% Guarantee for all purchases except Keepsake Ornaments.

GIFTS: Hallmark offers a gigantic selection of gifts for all occasions. Gift departments include: bath and pampering, books, sentiments, toys, collectibles, home, garden, jewelry, accessories, sports, games, office, travel, tools, gadgets, gourmet foods & baskets, romance, movies, music, and MORE! The Gift Assistant is excellent! When you just can't decide what to buy, they offer Gift Certificates so you can leave it up to the gift recipient!

FLOWERS: Their flower shop is very nice. We especially liked the Flower Assistant that lets you enter an occasion and a price range and then provides you with selections that meet those criteria. Their Flower Care page gives several excellent tips on preserving those flowers. They offer a simple flower Satisfaction Guarantee for free replacement or refund (your choice). Flowers are delivered via FedEx within 48 hours of order time but are not delivered on Sundays (and six holidays). Saturday deliveries are available where FedEx delivers except for California (because of inspection requirements). Deliveries are directly from their garden sources.

PAPER CARDS and E-CARDS: The gigantic variety of paper cards (both business and personal) allow you to enter your address, the recipient's address, a message and the date the card should be mailed. They handle the rest! They offer hundreds of e-cards, with sound, for free. This includes return notification so you know when the recipient opens it.

Product categories sold online in the Martha By Mail section include: Cooking & Baking (including food), Setting the Table, Bed & Bath, Decorating, Homekeeping, Crafts, Gardening (including plants that can be purchased and a nice encyclopedia of plants), Weddings, Holidays, Babies & Kids, Pets, Traveling, New Products, Best Sellers, and Tag Sale.

She also offers a really nice online florist, Martha's Flowers. Martha and her editors seek out the best, most beautiful varieties available anywhere. They offer their high-quality flowers in “grower’s bunches”—the way you would buy them at a wholesale market, perfect for an ample arrangement of a single variety or to mix with other flowers and colors. You can purchase By the Bunch, By the Month, Wreaths & Greenery, Tools & Essentials, and vases. They ship overnight with a cooling device so you receive them fresh the next day.

If you enjoy Martha Stewart, you'll LOVE this site...it's soooo Martha!

GiftCertificates.com is the largest online gift certificate store. They offer gift certificates for literally hundreds of leading stores. The categories of stores include Apparel, Beaut/Spa, Books, CDs, Videos, Children, Dining, Entertainment, Electronics, Food/Wine/Cigar, Gifts, Home, Hotels & Travel, Luxury, Specialty, Sports, and Teen.

When you can't decide what to buy, send them a gift certificate...and this is THE place to do it!