Design-your-own, mass customization, personalization - whatever you want to call it: It's the beautiful trend that lets you design your own customized chocolate bars here on this site, but also much more.

A few customizers (including us) have teamed up and bring you the coupon code...

ShopCustom

with which you can save 10% at participating companies. And of course we're one of them! Save 10% on your customized chocolate bars with ShopCustom

Here's where you can also apply the coupon code:

At Blank Label, you can design a custom men's dress shirt, and get 10% off with ShopCustom.

With Caseable, you can create your own personalized laptop sleeve for 10% less with ShopCustom.

Coco Myles lets you design your own dress, or bridesmaid dresses, at 10% off with ShopCustom.

A lot of discount is behind Create-A-Mattress, where you can save 10% off your custom mattress with ShopCustom.

Delicious ice cream can be customized with ECreamery, at 10% less with ShopCustom.

Create your own customized nutrition bars with Element Bars, and when you enter ShopCustom at checkout, they take 10% off.

Have a teen girl? She'll love to create her own teen fashion with Fashion Playtes, and you'll love 10% off with ShopCustom.

10% goes a long way when you're creating customized jewelery. Make yours with Gemvara, and save 10% with ShopCustom.

You'll be able to afford your custom fit jeans from indiDenim with the 10% off coupon code ShopCustom.

Make a custom photo bag with Snaptotes, and get it for 10% cheaper with ShopCustom.

With YouBar, you make your own custom protein and energy bars, and you will also be the one who saved 10% with ShopCustom

Which customizer would you like to see on this list?

Can you believe that Christmas is in less than two weeks? Luckily our Advent Calendar helps me keep track this year or I wouldn't even have started with holiday gifts yet! You might think that the CEO of chocri has a personalized chocolate bar for everyone on their list, but every chocolate bar I get for my list would mean a chocolate bar less for our customers during this busy time of the year, so no in a weird twist no one gets customized chocolate from me for Christmas!

Luckily there are a number of other cool mass customization companies that are the perfect choices for unique gifts for the holidays. One of my absolute favorites are the custom dress shirt makers at Blank-Label. Hence I made sure that our Advent Calendar includes this goody today:

A $45 Gift Certificate for your Custom Dress Shirt from Blank Label

Custom-tailored dress shirts for men have been around longer than mass produced dress shirts of course, but they are traditionally very expensive. It's not unusual to pay $200-400, have to go in to the tailor so he can measure you, and leave with a very nicely fitting custom dress shirt - that is nothing special.

Blank-Label really turns that around. Three things Blank-Label revolutionizes:

• You can have a custom fitted shirt, but without anyone measuring you but you yourself. Blank-Label has a smart way to ask you for the measurements that count, which you simply enter on your site
  

• Blank-Label really differentiates not with custom fit, but with custom design. On the website, you can design your own shirt by choosing your desired fabric type not only for the shirt in total, but also for sleeves and plackets, or the inside of the collar for example. And the list continues - you can customize your pockets, buttons, add a monogram... and you can really make the shirt your very own.
  

• Finally, custom dress shirts from Blank Label are much less expensive! It starts at $45, and then depends on the customization options you choose

And as you can see in the picture and in the fact that we're giving one away, they have gift certificates - so you can give your man the power to create his own style!

You want to try this out, or give a creative man in your life the chance to design his own dress shirt? Then order your customized chocolate bars today, and you might just get an email from me with your gift code tomorrow!

The holidays are approaching! Hanukkah is going to be here in a few days (need a last minute gift? Our gift cards are e-mailed instantly), and you should start ordering holiday gifts now to avoid a rush in December. Plus, personalized gifts are not only shipped to you, they are also made for you - so give them a bit more time!

Below are three ideas for personalized gifts that men will love:

Personalized Soda

Jones Soda Company is famous for exotic flavors like Bacon Soda, but what they do very well, too, is personalizing a soda bottle with image and text of your choice. So grab one of those manly flavors, and put a somewhat embarrassing picture of your buddy, boyfriend, husband or son on it, and enjoy the bursting of bubbles and laughter. You can get a six pack (hah!) for $16.99 plus shipping. Personalize a soda bottle.

Personalized Cufflinks

Ok, I admit, this is an old one, - but still a good one! If you're looking for a unique gift idea for a man that wears a lot of dress shirts, you can be sure that he'll wear personalized cufflinks from you proudly. There are a number of websites that offer them, with a large variety of prices. Try American Bridal for very reasonable prices but long delivery times, Target for a pricier version (around $50) but faster and free shipping, and Cufflinks for Him for higher quality cufflinks starting at around $100 per gift.

Customized Laptop Sleeves

This company actually only just launched their website to the general public a few days ago, so you can be sure to surprise your beau with this gift! With caseable, you can customize a laptop sleeve by uploading images and texts to a variety of soft cases, which are promptly made and sent to you. I was actually able to visit the production when they made the customized laptop sleeve I had ordered a few days before, and I was very impressed by the image quality on the neoprene material. Considering how much I depend on my laptop and how often I'll get to see the sleeve, a price tag of $70 doesn't seem terribly steep. They also have free shipping right now! Customize a laptop sleeve.

Oh, and by the way, the Cosmopolitan just wrote that our customized chocolate bars are a "gift that makes him love you more!" - hint, hint ;)

We've written about personalized gifts that make great stocking stuffers, have selected and looked closely at three personalized corporate gift ideas and blogged about customized gifts for Him, Her and Kids here. And as you know, we're all about gourmet food here at chocri (in our case: chocolate and everything that goes well on top of it), so today we're going to look at three personalized food gifts for the holidays!

Customized Ice Cream from eCreamery

I wish I could say I actually tasted this ice cream before, but what I can say: they sure look tasty! On the eCreamery website, you can customize ice cream, gelato or even sorbet by choosing from various flavors to mix and even more ingredients to add in to create your very own cold treat. For the holidays, they've got neat ice cream gift packs with flavors such as Egg Nog or White Chocolate Peppermint Bark. 4 pints can be had for $49.99. Of course you can personalize the packaging of your custom ice cream creation for a very tasty holiday gift. Or to label it "Finger's off, this is mine!" ;) Design your own ice cream.

Custom Candy from MyM&Ms

With My M&Ms, you can personalize milk chocolate M&Ms by adding an image or text, as well as choosing the (three) colors of the personalized M&Ms you like best. My M&Ms only recently updated their website, and it's much more user friendly now. Keep in mind that you can only add short messages (an M&M is small after all), but it's good for a cute surprise. A 7 ounce bag of personalized M&Ms typically costs $8.49 + shipping, but there's typically a number of coupon codes floating around to lower that price a bit. Personalized candy

Customized Pet Food from Red Moon Pet Food

Not only humans like customized food! With pets, the top reason to create your own pet food is of course nutrition - depending on the age, weight and of course type of dog or cat, there might be different nutrients you want your pet (or a friend's pet) to receive. Unfortunately Red Moon Pet Foods doesn't have gift certificates available, but if you're hoping to give your pet a healthy treat for the holidays, this might be a neat option for you. You can customize pet food for dogs and cats, with prices ranging between $2 and $3 per pound. I love this site because it shows the creativity in mass customization - so many products can be customized! Customized pet food.

Of course, you can always give a customized chocolate bar as well ;) We just launched the Festival of Lights Chocolate Bar which makes a great Hanukkah Gift, and you might have seen our Holiday Gift Box that holds two amazing customized chocolate bars and that is sold for only $14.95.