If you're in the position to send client gifts this year and still haven't started the process, you're probably aware that the 2009 holiday season is bearing down on you like a runaway rhino. Perhaps, like Scrooge, you can benefit by looking at holiday seasons past.

For the 2008 holiday season, Charse Jarvis' photography studio created a gift that was also a promotional piece for the studio: an elegantly simple package of drink coasters printed with silhouettes of the studio staff. It's a client gift that's useful enough it won't get thrown away; and unlike food, coasters are lasting enough that they'll stay in front of the recipients for a while.

Chase documents the process on his blog.