Award Ceremony Tips

If your house is anything like mine, the dirty dishes during COVID-19 quarantine are constant.

If your family is anything like mine, they create a ton of dirty dishes during this quarantine.  With kids attending virtual school from home, parents working from home, and no options of leaving the house for entertainment, work, or eating out, all meals are being cooked and eaten in the house.  And who bears the brunt of this situation??? THE KITCHEN.

No matter how much I keep the dishwasher running, my kitchen is always destroyed.   Here is what my disaster kitchen sink looks like a majority of the time, as I can't keep up with the dishes.

One solution: a reusable drink glass.  Thank you to my high school classmate Kelly who suggested this on Facebook.  Kelly assigns each person in the family a cup for their beverage of choice to cut down on the onslaught of dirty glassware.

The perfect cup for this purpose?  Our engraved tumblers!

Good for both hot and cold beverages, our tumblers come in a variety of sizes, including 30oz, 20oz, 10 oz, beer stein, stemless wine and coffee mug styles.  They can be personalized with each family member's name and favorite color.

One way to combat dishes: assign each person in the house with their own cup!

One way to combat dishes: assign each person in the house with their own cup!  Add a school or favorite team logo to make the tumbler even more special.  Everyone will know which cup is theirs and there's no excuses for extra glasses!   In the Anderson house, we own at least a dozen, and we each have one with our name on it.

Seriously my favorite product we offer at Trophies2Go and a great solution to the dilemma of dirty dishes.

Trophies2Go remains open online and can ship orders.  Please stay safe and healthy during quarantine.

Cheers!

Jessica

Our best-selling acrylic star awards are manufactured by Clear Image, our 2019 Vendor of the Year!

At Trophies2Go, most of our awards come as trophy parts that are sold by vendors across the US.  One of our acrylic award manufacturers is Clear Image Inc and they have been chosen as our 2019 Vendor the Year!

Based in Arizona, Clear Image has been creating lucite awards in-house for over the past 30 years.  A family owned business, they are one of our few suppliers who creates their products in the US, not oversees in Asia.

What my employees love about Clear Image is their ability to create custom acrylic awards for our customers.  The trophies we create for Pokemon are made at the Clear Image facility.

Nominated by our designer Lori, she says that Clear Image manufactures many of our acrylic awards, including all of our acrylic stars, our acrylic block awards, and all of our custom awards for Pokemon.  She also loves how it's easy to do custom award requests with them.  They offer fantastic quality and fast turn-around time.  They can even embed items in acrylic, which is a service our customers like.

Our Production Manager Tom added that they provide high quality products at competitive prices and excellent customer service to our team.

Thank you Greg and Gloria for the excellent acrylic awards and fantastic service you provide our company!

Cheers!

Jessica

Do you want to get your child's coach a special gift to recognize an outstanding season?  You decide on an engraved plaque or trophy.  You want to add a meaningful message, but what should you say?  Today's blog post gives some ideas of popular coach appreciation sayings to add onto a wall plaque or other coach trophy for an outstanding mentor.

Coach Appreciation Sayings

A special plaque for an awesome coach!

1. Start with "Thanks Coach (Name)" and be sure to spell the name correctly.

2. For the middle, keep it short with one to two sentences personally thanking the coach.

3.  Have the last line be your team name and year.

Example:

Coach Tom

Thanks for the great season!

2019 Huskies

Other ideas for the meaningful middle:

Thank you for believing in us!

We wouldn't be the team we are today without your hard work and dedication.

Thank you for the time you put into coaching us this year

Thank you for your patience and persistence and never giving up on us.

You have taught us sportsmanship, fair play, hard work and commitment.

It takes a big heart to shape little minds.

Thank you for using your free time to help our kids develop and grow.

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If you decide to create an award for your coach, make it meaningful!  For other coach recognition ideas, check out my past blog post "Top Gifts for Coaches". Have a great season!

Cheers!
Jessica

We sometimes get asked the question "What is the difference between a cup and a trophy?".  The short answer is a cup is a KIND of trophy, just like an apple is a kind of fruit, but read more to get the full scoop.

This traditional Loving Cup Trophy contains a figure top, the golden cup, and then a walnut base with a black brass engraved plate.

The definition of a trophy is: "A cup or other decorative object awarded as a prize for a victory or success".

Trophies are made of two pieces - a top (called a trophy "figure") and a bottom (called a "base").  All trophies have a figure top, which can be a variety of shapes, colors and styles including a cup, a star, a person (such as an Oscar trophy) a sports figure, etc.  To answer the question, a chalice cup can definitely be a figure top, but it doesn't have to be.

The base of the trophy contains the engraved text, including the name of the award, event name, winners name, for example.

There are many different types of trophies, the only limit is imagination!  But Cup Trophies are a classic style that never goes out of fashion and endures the test of time.  Discover our many trophies at our website, including Chalice Cup Trophies!

Cheers!

Jessica