The LAMOSE Journal

Skip the basket. An engraved keepsake doesn't wilt, spoil, or ask anything of a grieving person — and it doesn't need to arrive before the funeral.

Ask Vancouver where to get something engraved and you get a strange answer: a Reddit thread, a Yelp list, and the website of a mall chain that closed every store it had. Things Engraved shut all 73 of its Canadian...

The mall counter that used to answer this question is gone. Things Engraved closed all 73 of its Canadian stores in January 2020, and six years later people are still typing "things engraved toronto" into Google and landing on a...

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...

Skip the registry crystal. The best engagement gift is something the couple uses the morning after, not china they unwrap at the wedding and store in a cabinet. A pair of everyday tumblers engraved with the proposal date gets used...

You need something for your boss — Boss's Day, a promotion, the end of a good year — and every gift guide hands you the same desk clutter: a Bluetooth speaker, a fancy cutting board, stainless bookends, a candle labeled...

Skip the basket and the card. One engraved bottle or tumbler, their name and start date cut into the steel, costs less than most gift baskets and outlasts the job itself.

Recognition platforms sell plaques and points catalogs. Here's the CRA long-service exemption most HR teams miss, and why an engraved bottle sized to the milestone beats both.

Skip the candle and the gift basket. Engrave the new address or move-in date onto something they'll actually use every day.

Your client just signed the last page. The keys are in their hand. Whatever you give them next is the last thing they remember about working with you. If it's a basket of crackers and a bottle of wine, they'll...

Search "custom drinkware no minimum order canada" and you'll land on a print-on-demand platform or a promotional distributor. Both will happily take an order of one. Neither one made the tumbler in your hand: they routed your order to a...

A vinyl decal looks identical to engraving for about three weeks. Then the edges lift in the dishwasher, a fingernail catches a corner, and the "custom" tumbler is just a plain one with a sticker peeling off it. That's the...