The LAMOSE Journal

The CRA de minimis rule ($75 or 10% of the gift, whichever is less) should pick your donor gift. Why one engraved tumbler beats the tote, plaque and gift card.

Ribbons get drawered and towels get lost in the bag. A water bottle engraved with a swimmer's name survives the season — see LAMOSE's swim team pricing.

Candles burn out. Tote bags disappear. Here's the client gift spa and salon owners give that customers still use months later — see the tumbler option.

Most vet clinics hand out the same catalogue giveaway. An engraved tumbler with the clinic's name gets used for years instead of discarded in a week.

By Chen Deng · Founder, LAMOSE · Calgary, Alberta A practice manager orders 200 engraved tumblers for the patient list, feels good about it for a week, and never checks whether a federal statute just got triggered. Not because anyone...

By Chen Deng · Founder, LAMOSE · Calgary, Alberta Somebody on your team is about to order 40 branded stress balls because that's what fits the budget line without anyone having to check a rule. Nobody will remember getting one....

Participation medals get shelved and candy bags are gone by Monday. A water bottle laser-engraved with each player's name is the end-of-season soccer gift that actually gets used next season.

Corporate & Bulk · for curling clubs Engraved bonspiel prizes, one bottle or a full event. Get a quote → By Chen Deng · Founder, LAMOSE · Calgary, Alberta · Updated 2026 Every bonspiel ends the same way: someone hands...

Corporate & Bulk · for gyms & studios Engraved member bottles, from 25 pieces. Get a quote → By Chen Deng · Founder, LAMOSE · Calgary, Alberta · Updated 2026 You've seen the other kind of gym bottle. A logo...

The best remote-team swag kit is the smallest one. Skip the hoodie-notebook-stickers bundle for one engraved tumbler each person actually keeps.

Every volunteer appreciation event runs the same script: a sheet cake, a certificate with their name filled in by hand, and a tote bag with the organization's logo they'll never carry. The certificate goes in a drawer. The tote goes...

By Chen Deng, founder of LAMOSE, Calgary. We laser-engrave every piece in our own workshop. Search "custom water bottles Vancouver" and every result is a print broker: companies that decorate imported catalog blanks with your logo. None of them makes...