If you’re a florist & gift shop, you enjoy finding products that serve your floral designs as well as your customers. Instead of buying separate product line for yourself and your customers, it’s nice to find something that serves both. Something that will serve are baskets and containers. They make great additions for your floral supplies, as well as wonderful home decor for your customers. Skalny offers just that. You and your customers will truly be pleased with their wonderful product line.

Skalny is a line that caters to the refined markets of home decor, gift and food service. An elegant & clean line that features porcelain, wood, mother of pearl and stone that will finish off any collection with a touch of class. You’ll find their collection brings forth a mix of trendy and traditional, while always focusing on quality. The addition of this line to your store is an absolute must.

What’s something that your store always plans out in advance? The holidays! It’s great to plan ahead of time on what will be featured in your store. Well, Skalny provides wonderful holiday decor. A crackled glass vase, unique rattary vases or their shaped ceramic planters will be wonderful for great floral arrangements. Gorgeous flower arrangements need unique vases and planters. It ties everything together.

Along with beautiful accents to arrangements, you’ll also find wonderful home accents that are great during the holidays. Gorgeous silver glass ornaments, vintage glass trays, reindeer votive holders and Halloween tins. These are great accents for any home during the holidays. A gorgeous home for the holidays is a must. It gets everyone in the spirit, especially paired with beautiful fresh greenery, holiday tree and the smell of holiday scents in the air.

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The type of santa figurine that draws customers are those that are noticeably high quality, very detailed, beautiful, and blend the traditional idea of Saint Nick with the modern spin on Santa Claus. Pipka Santas excels in providing this kind of santa figurine.

You can’t stop looking at them! Wholesale santa figurines are very popular during the Christmas buying season because holiday shoppers crave these ornamental knicknacks. They want to fill their homes with the delightful smile of Santa Claus so they turn to you. Where do you turn?

Pipka Santas is your place to go because they not only provide beautiful Santa figurines but they also provide angel figurines, nativity sets, musical snow globes, Santa ornaments, angels and madonnas. That’s a lot of Christmas decorations and figurines in one place!

You’ll be glad that you shopped with Pipka Santas when you view their extensive line of Santa figurines. They have almost every style of Santa that you can imagine. Scottish and Irish Santa resides in the collection along with cruisy convertible Santa, traditional Saint Nick, modern Santa Claus, fishing Santa, and the “Santas of the World” figurines.

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Your customers may not have a line of musical snowglobes on their mantle but now they can have the next best thing! A Snowglobe Christmas brings to life some of the most beautiful, melodic musical snowglobes ever loved. Their clever DVD turns the television into a giant musical snowglobe! With nearly an hour of beautiful music and video images of active old world snowglobes, it’s the holiday decoration everyone will love!

If holiday entertaining requires clever Christmas decorations, A Snowglobe Christmas can’t be beat! Eggnog and funny sweaters are a Christmas party tradition. Now your customers can start their own tradition with wholesale snowglobe DVDs from A Snowglobe Christmas.

Hosts and hostesses can keep this DVD playing in the background for ambient party music. Guests who turn toward the TV will see the beautiful snowglobes while hearing traditional Christmas songs.

Musical snowglobes are always treasured Christmas decorations. Now, the best of the best are available for everyone and much easier to transport from place to place to share with friends! Instead of packing up a shelf full of snowglobes, pack up the A Snowglobe Christmas DVD. Having friends over to see your musical snowglobe collection can now include more than just standing around admiring the mantle. Now it’s a party thanks to A Snowglobe Christmas!

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Adding Old World Santas, Unique Christmas Ornaments and One of A Kind Christmas Collectibles to your Holiday Inventory.
It is never too early to think about what you will sell at Christmas. Collectibles are a huge aspect of holiday decorating. Many holiday traditions begin with deciding what to collect and how they will be displayed. Christmas collectibles are purchased to enhance an existing collection , as well as for gifts to begin new collections. Some of the most popular collectibles are Christmas ornaments, which are collected by every age and income level. FGmarket has a multitude of Christmas collectibles vendors carrying products from extraordinary Santas to unique Christmas ornaments. Take a few minutes and look over the wholesale Christmas vendors in this FGmarket newsletter, you may find some wonderful Christmas wholesalers that will help you ring in the sales this holiday season.

World Santas

The Santas made by Stone Soup Santas are absolutely adorable. Santa’s are made with sculpted polymer clay, painted and finished in fine vintage feel costumes. These collectible Santas also incorporate plush animals, wire-crafted sleighs and other great accessory creations to enhance Santa and spread the holiday spirit. Collectible Santas of all sizes, from the smidgen (16″) to the massively (45″-48″) tall Santa are available. The extra details in each Stone Soup Santas creations are remarkable. Fine attention to detail with additional design elements fashion together the fun and festive characteristics of each product. Customers won’t be able to resist the creative, festive and finely-crafted Santas from Stone Soup.

Unique Christmas Ornaments

New traditions come from hot new concepts. Mini cowbell Christmas ornaments called Mini Cowbell Giggle Lings, are noteworthy Christmas Collectibles from Belsnickle Enterprise Inc. These mini cowbell ornaments will be the talk of your shop. Fresh, trendy and charming; all necessary characteristics that keep customers yearning for collectibles year after year. Ranging from animals to sports and everything in-between; Belsnickle balances trendy with traditional. Moravian Advent and Christmas stars, sleigh bells on fine leather, along with many other Christmas collectibles are available. In fact, their fun, hand painted Christmas doorknob bells will have you ringing in sales.

One-of-a-Kind Collectibles

With an Troutman Originals creates life-like Santas with so much detail and exquisite craftsmanship, they will astound your customers. In fact, even those who do not decorate for Christmas will want one. Diane Troutman offers one-of-a-kind custom Santas, as well as hand-cast risen editions from her originals. You’ll never find these kinds of details in any mass-produced Santa. Each Santa is unique in character and theme; created as collective heirlooms to be proudly displayed and passed from generation to generation. Don’t miss the Christmas stocking Santa in the risen collection.

Collectible Santas

Prizm Incorporated offers many desirable Christmas collectible lines. Combining historical and cultural elements in each intricate design, these collectibles weave in all the worldly seasonal elements of Christmas. The Pipka Santa collection represents the richness of Christmas throughout the world making them desirable collectibles. Other Prizm collections, such as Artist Peggy Abrams’ Making Season Bright Santa figurines, bring merriment and light to the holiday season. Prizm is dedicated to producing and marketing gift products that are always creative and unique. Focusing on high quality and standards while providing a product in good value and excellent taste is the ultimate goal of Prizm. Build history with your customers with the Christmas collectibles from Prizm.

When choosing which special Christmas collectibles to carry, keep in mind why people choose to collect an item. Some collectors, look for traditional items that give them a feel for nostalgia. Others look for figurines that remind them of times with their family. Yet some collectors will choose unique Christmas ornaments based simply on how well they fit in with their other decor. Shopping the superb wholesale Christmas vendors listed on FGmarket will make it easy to fill your Christmas collectible lines with the styles and products that will have you ringing in the sales this Christmas.
To check out more great Christmas vendors select a product line:
Santas
Ornaments
Christmas Christmas Keepsakes

Contributor: Leigh Morrisett

Early Indications Point to Strong Gift Buying in 2006

After reading the previous newsletters about Packaging and Gift Wrap suppliers on FGMarket.com, it’s now time to see some great gift and decorating ideas from FGMarket’s Christmas Gift Vendors. These vendors bring decorating ease and elegance to this magical holiday season. You’ll find just what you need to prepare yourself for the predicted increase in this year’s holiday gift buying. YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS

Just look at the heirloom quality of the handmade Santa’s from Forever Christmas by Chelsea, Inc. Since childhood, Chelsea Fair has been in love with the magic of Christmas. She has recreated that same magical feeling for everyone with her Old World Santas. Chelsea is an internationally-known artisan who has designed and hand made her Santas for Neiman Marcus, Sak’s 5th Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, Horchow, and Fortmun & Mason of London. Chelsea’s Santa’s are the “Who’s Who” of high-end retail.

Visit the Gallery of Santa’s and choose from Chelsea’s different interpretations of St. Nicholas. From lush and opulent to the genial and affable, these Santa’s represent the timeless appeal of this Christmas legend. Chelsea’s handcrafted Santas reflect quality and elegance along with attention to detail. Now is the time to begin a tradition with holiday gifts and home decor that will be appreciated by generations to come.

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS

The goal of Bottomley Evergreens & Farms is to meet all of your Christmas greenery needs. What a wonderful way to say “Happy Holidays,” when using their beautiful GARLAND. Turn a porch, an entrance or a banister from simple to sensational. Use this fresh greenery outside or inside. The garland’s beautifully crafted and aromatic scent sets the scene and mood for the holidays. All of the garlands are machine tied to a strong non-visible nylon cord, which makes the garlands flexible and manageable.

Along with their garlands, you may want to try the rich and fragrant, handcrafted WREATHS made with heavy foliage and hand tied to a rigid double wire-painted frame. Also, the DECORATIVE ITEMS which include table top trees, deluxe mantle pieces, centerpieces and bouquets, make wonderful embellishments for the home and office, or they can be given as gifts. This family operated business takes pride in its work, and has become the largest manufacturer of fresh Christmas greenery in the eastern U.S. For a look at how their fresh greenery products are made, along with the different stages of development, take their interesting and informative virtual tour. You’ll be glad you did.

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

If you are looking for an array of stylish, unique and beautifully designed Christmas Cards then look no further than EMANI KEMET, INC. dba GALLERY 51.
Emani Kemet, Inc. is a greeting card and stationary manufacturer, and Gallery 51 is their boutique. The gallery is where much of the work of Emani Kemet is displayed, and also where the personal meetings for client consultations are conducted. Usher in the holidays with Holiday Greeting Cards, Business Holiday Cards, Holiday Cards for Friends and Family and Photo Greeting Cards.

When planning a yuletide gathering, extend holiday hospitality by sending Holiday Party Invitations. If you have difficulty finding just what you are looking for, then why not have Emani Kemet (Gallery 51) custom create something for you?

In addition, Gallery 51 has other gift items, including Artwork by Edreys, Jewelry, Home Decor, Shea Butter, Spa Products and Candles. A place to explore, Gallery 51 emphasizes beauty, meaning, love and balance in its store.

DECK THE HALLS
Decorative Traditions is a direct importer of Christmas Decorations, Artificial Flowers, Foliage and related items. Decorative Traditions sells to professional designers, wholesale, retail, craft, and display trades. Don’t hesitate to call the company for information on availability, or to request a catalog. In fact, a customized catalog based on the types of products you are interested in can be made for you.

Whether it’s small accents or bold arrangements, you’ll find plenty of holiday ideas. Choose from Christmas Trees, Garlands, Wreaths, Swags, Ornaments, Sprays, Floral Displays, Fruits, Berries, Candle Rings, and Plush Soft Sculpture Snowmen and Santas. Your rooms can reflect the natural holiday look of berries, apples, pinecones and garland. Or, you can choose to make a striking statement with the dramatic look of glittering beaded and frosted fruits, garlands, wreaths, and trees. Don’t delay. Many seasonal products are in stock now.
Since early indications point to strong gift buying in 2006, greet the holiday season by checking out these and other Holiday and Christmas Gift Vendors, as well as the variety of Packaging and Gift Wrap Vendors listed on FGMarket.com. You’ll find countless suppliers offering unique, Christmas giftware and seasonal items that can help ensure you have a prosperous holiday retail shopping season!

As promised, we offer WRAP IT UP! part 2 with even more great ideas and new gift packaging and gift wrapping products for the holidays from an additional group of high-quality and unique Packaging and Gift Wrap suppliers on FGMarket.com!

The mission of All Wrapped Up is to provide the most unique gift ideas to a market that appreciates style, quality, service and reasonable prices in a timely manner. The unique line of Novelty Gifts and Stacked Boxes are some of the prettiest gifts around. Designed to coordinate with the tower boxes, they offer a variety of looks and prices to complement a specific theme or holiday. Try the curly wire Silver Snowmen which, when emptied, serve as candle votives, and the glittering Crown Jewel Buckets, which make decorative planters or wine buckets. All Wrapped Up products are filled with delicious gourmet treats or you may choose to purchase empty boxes or containers without the gourmet treats, and fill them yourself.

Choose the Holiday & Christmas Dazzling Delights. This line of exciting gift boxes can be ordered empty or filled with the All Wrapped Up delectable treats. Pop Art Packages are two tier gifts washed with color. Light dances off the shimmering boxes and the glitter-lined silver dollars reflect an extraordinary palette of colors. Elegant Ornaments are unique and exquisitely shaped boxes that look like Christmas ornaments. There is also the Plenty of Presents design, which can be stacked up to five tiers and are beautiful red holiday packages with accompanying gold wire gift ornaments. All That Jazz is the name of our artistically detailed winter friend that accompanies the shimmering Jazz It Up tower box set.

The Happy Hanukkah collection displays the symbols of the season. These beautiful boxes are accompanied with the Star of David, Dreidels, and Menorahs. Kosher gourmet treats can be included. With All Wrapped Up – it’s up to you. If you feel like creating or packing your own special gift, you can purchase many of the unique items filled or empty. But chances are, after packing them yourself, you’ll let All Wrapped Up do the work for you. If there is something special that you’re looking for and you don’t see, just ask. The Corporate/Custom Programs may be able to find or create just what you need.

For a selection of Boxes, Wrapping Paper, Baskets and more, look to WrapSmart. Their huge inventory includes high quality gift bags, gift boxes, favor boxes, tissue, ribbons, wrapping paper, cellophane, baskets, filler shred and more for wholesale and retail buyers. The new expanded line offers Nested Gift Tower Boxes, Gift Trays, Gourmet Candy, New Imported Favor Boxes, Cartabianca Imported Bags and more!

The Holiday Selection of Bags, Boxes, and Gift Wraps makes it easy for you to find what you need. New this year are the beautiful metallic Silver Favor Boxes that come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Stylish Gift Box Trays, which are open gift boxes, come in solid colors of red, green, black, white or gold, along with Christmas and holiday scenes. With the related paper products, coordination is a snap. The assorted Holiday Gift Bags come in solid colors or a number of Christmas, holiday, and winter scenes. These bags are easy to carry with their sturdy nylon cord J handle.

The holiday greetings’ Jumbo High Density Bags are perfect for customers to carry all the packages bought from your store. Corrugated Presentation Packing Boxes come in colors such as elegant burnished gold or holiday themes. Why not send gifts in Holly Berry Frost, Arctic Frost, or First Snow Corrugated Packing Boxes? These Presentation Packaging Boxes are UPS-approved, ready to just label and ship. The beautiful packages carry your image, as well as your product to your customers. The gift wrap selection will “cover” almost any gift, and the equipment and supplies like gift wrap dispensers, ribbon dispensers, and deluxe paper cutters are available for your gift wrap needs.

The Packaging Source offers the latest and most successful trends for a unique and customized look. Their goal is to provide innovative products, with low minimums along with offering quality products at reasonable prices.

Browse through the full line of Holiday Packaging. The holiday gift wrap includes vibrant colors, contemporary prints, elegant designs, winter scenes, and Christmas favorites. These gift wraps come with corresponding curling ribbons and curling dispenser. Check out the large collection of holiday gift bags. Look into the elegant European Shopping Bags with matching rope handles and sturdy cardboard inserts which comes in a variety of colors. Simply add the holiday coordinating tissue and ribbon for a striking gift bag.

It’s not only smart, but easy to customize your shopping bag with Personalized Labels. Pressure sensitive labels are hot stamped with your store name and logo. The labels can be printed either vertically or horizontally. Pick your background colors, and hot stamp colors for your original label. Before your purchase is complete, a black and white proof will be submitted for your approval.
These and other fine wholesale and supply companies can be found in FGMarket’s Packaging and Gift Wrap vendors category.

There’s still time to shop from a great selection of 2006 Holiday gift bags, gift boxes, packing boxes, shopping bags, favor boxes, tissue, ribbons, wrapping paper, cellophane, baskets, filler shred and more for wholesale and retail buyers.

Early Indications Point to Strong Gift Buying in 2006
Wrap up your holiday gifts in style with a variety of wonderful products from the following FGMarket Packaging and Gift Wrapping vendors. You’ll easily find just what you need to prepare yourself for the predicted increase in this year’s holiday gift buying.
Gift Box Corporation of America has a simple philosophy:
A beautifully wrapped package generates new and repeat business for your store, adds value to the gift and enhances your store image. Gift Box offers a complete line of quality gift boxes, color coordinated shopping bags, wrapping paper, tissue paper, ribbons and bows. Leverage your brand and image by printing your logo on stock color gift boxes or shopping bags. Or create a signature look with your name and logo on a custom color gift box and matching shopping bag.
The holiday packaging line includes beautiful gift bags with holiday designs in 4 sizes. Add coordinating solid color tissue, raffia or sheer ribbon for the finishing touch. Stanford holiday gift wrap paper includes Santa, snowmen, winter scenes, trees, teddy bears, ornaments and Christmas designs. Accessorize these gift wraps with coordinating raffia, tulle and simple sheer ribbon for the perfect look. The raffia ribbons can be used alone, mixed with multiple colors or with other ties for an enhanced look. Curling ribbons add the finishing touch for any holiday basket, gift box or shopping bag. Solid and patterned tissues coordinate with holiday gift boxes and holiday bags and, beautiful holiday bows help make gift wrapping easy.

Triangle Industries, Inc. is your source for unique packaging concepts in gift bags. Triangle Industries, Inc. sells wholesale to appropriately licensed retailers and distributors. Their unique packaging concepts include One Step Boxes along with Gift Bags for all occasions.
Their 2006 Holiday Season Gift Bags and Boxes can be the perfect fit for your gift. Try their Push and Go 1-Piece Gift Box. This box opens and closes in one step and has the look of an expensive two piece set-up box. Holiday Boxes and Santa Boxes capture the season with color and style. What could be easier? Place the gift inside the box, close the lid, and tie the bow. The result is a beautifully wrapped package that will look great under the tree.

You’ll also find an interesting selection of holiday gift bags. Give a beautiful red poinsettia, the gift bag, that is. The Poinsettia Gift Bag is die cut with gift tag and is as pretty as the real flowering plant. Santa’s Hat Gift Bag, with its fluffy white handles and gift card, is easier to give than slipping down the chimney. The enchanting Gingerbread House Gift Bag is just right for a gift from the gourmet food section or you can even fill it with homemade cookies.

Your source for gift packaging products that are always new and exciting is Nashville Wraps. Nashville Wraps is a creative design and distribution company specializing in providing businesses with decorative gift and gourmet packaging products, as well as related retail packaging products for resale and store use. They offer a vast array of bags, bows, boxes, tissue, ribbons, cellophane, gift wrap and more for resale and store use. Whether you are looking for simple brown kraft paper bags or elegant gift shopping bags, you’ll find large selections that are available in bulk carton quality, small packs and assortments. Many products can be custom printed or designed for your application and image.

For the upcoming holiday season, select Nashville Wraps Christmas Gift Tote Bags. These bags offer a variety of traditional and contemporary designs for celebrating the holidays. Deluxe gift totes, designed for a resale and economical for in-store use, are available in several sizes. Frosted Plastic Gift Sacks, available in three sizes, are made with a side pleat and a flat bottom cardboard insert. These translucent bags make creative packaging for candies, party favors and pet treats. Buy in bulk cartons of 500 or in packs of 100.
Look at the Studio Collection Plastic Shopping Bags. These frosted matte plastic bags come in deep solid colors with soft loop handles and wide bottom expansions that help these bags to stand up on their own. These bags are perfect for florists, gift shops, spas, cosmetics, and bath & body products. Add an element of high-style, without high expense. And don’t forget to check the Gift Wrap Specials! Christmas and Holiday Gift Wrap Paper Counter Rolls can be found at half-off wholesale. Remember that qualities are limited and are sold on a first come, first serve basis.
Since early indications point to strong gift buying in 2006, be sure to browse FGMarket’s complete list of Holiday and Special Occasion vendors, in addition to the ones featured in this newsletter.
But Wait – - – There’s More!

Due to the excitement of the holidays, FGMarket will be highlighting even more Packaging and Gift Wrap suppliers. Don’t miss the next FGMarket newsletter to find out why everybody will soon be saying, “Wrap It Up!”

If your store isn’t decorated yet for the Christmas selling season, you’d better get busy! Even though some complain every year that Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier, most of your customers are ready to start planning their holiday purchases. For many, that means seeing what new delights can be added to their own Christmas ornament collections this year. And while high-style, color-coordinated, themed “designer” trees do look great in a retail showroom, most regular folks decorate their Christmas trees at home with a hodge-podge of ornaments and other decorations that have been amassed over the years. The result is a familiar and old-fashioned look that’s loaded with nostalgia.
With competition from ‘big box’ stores being what it is, it’s important for other retailers to find a variety of sources for ornaments that are out of the ordinary and grab your customers’ attention. Fortunately, FGmarket.com has identified several vendors that can help you establish your store as the destination for unique and original ornaments. Ne’Qwa Art for example, creates extraordinarily beautiful ornaments in the centuries-old tradition of painting inside the glass ornament, giving the designs a wonderful luminosity. Their artists produce an appealing and diverse array of subject matter, from the whimsical to the dramatic. They can even create custom designs according to your own specifications. These ornaments are unique works of art that will surely become cherished family treasures for their buyers.
Fine, hand-made porcelain is what gives the ornaments from Piazza Ltd. their exquisite, delicate appearance. Using a labor-intensive “slip trailing” technique, these award-winning ornaments have a dimensional surface that’s embellished with lots of detail. They are manufactured from high-quality kaolin clay, which makes them very lightweight, translucent, and soft to the touch. Other beautiful bisque porcelain ornaments are produced by The Rhyn-Rivet Collection, Inc. These ornaments are hand-decorated using China paints, dimensional glazes, inlaid metals, and a fine dusting of diamond glitter, giving them a subtle shimmer. The vibrant colors and distinctive shapes give each of their diverse ornament collections a unique character.

When decorating a Christmas tree, whether it’s for display or for home use, it’s important to remember the design principle of depth, which helps give your completed tree a more dimensional appearance. Enhance the overall depth by placing some of the ornaments deep within the boughs of the tree, drawing the viewer’s eye inward. This is a good place to put inexpensive, solid-color, shiny glass balls, creating a backdrop for the finer ornaments that are placed in front of them.
Doing this also gives the tree the appearance of looking fuller and having more volume, while allowing the nicer, more expensive ornaments to be seen to full advantage. For good balance, hang larger ornaments near the bottom of the tree, placing smaller, more delicate ones closer to the top. If you’re using bead garlands, place them on the tree before the ornaments, so you can more easily control the shape and size of the swags. With the garland in place, you’ll have clearly-defined spaces in which to hang the ornaments.
The Barnhart Gallery has an original line of ornaments called Ornaphints & Yulery, created from thinly-sliced segments of ancient volcanic agates fitted with jewelry findings. These naturally-colorful ornaments are lustrous light catchers, and their porous outer edges can act as diffusers for scented oils. In the smaller sizes they’re also great to use as package ties or to hang on the neck of a bottle of wine. You might consider pairing these natural jewels with some of the beautiful leaf-shaped ornaments from Crafta.com. Available in different shapes and colors, the artificial leaves are decorated with beads and glitter to dress them up for the holiday season. In addition to a wide range of more traditional kinds of ornaments, Crafta.com also carries a distinctive pine cone petal ball in two sizes that will coordinate perfectly with a naturalistic decorating theme.
Some of the realistic nesting cardinals offered by Floraltrims.com would also complete this setting nicely. Both the male version (Harrison) and the female (Holly) are nestled into frosted grass nests, and Holly even has a couple of eggs in her nest. (Never mind that cardinals don’t actually lay eggs in winter… all fantasies are permitted at Christmastime.) If you prefer cardinals without nests, Floraltrims.com offers those, as well as many other birds in every size, shape, and wing span.

For a Christmas tree with plenty of personality, start with some of the ornaments produced by Bottman Design. Artist Paris Bottman has created an adorable line of hand-painted, resin Animal Angels collection ornaments – winged dogs, cats, pigs, bears, etc. – that could be matched up with the whimsical Chubby Cherubs collection (the name says it all) or the Real People Holiday Ornaments collection (for example, ‘More Chocolate Please’ – a “plump” woman with a box of chocolates, passed out on Santa’s lap), both designed by the talented Erika Oller.
Combine these ornaments with some of the clever Clay Dough Ornaments from Decorative Traditions. Be sure to check out their hand-painted Classic Tin Ornaments as well, featuring such motifs as dancing Santas and smiling snowmen. Then, hang some of the charming, handmade Christmas stocking ornaments from Christmas Cove Designs, are made of 100% virgin wool and available in several sizes. Hang a few of their beautiful, full-size traditional stockings nearby to promote add-on sales (also, check out their clever stocking hangers). The Heirloom Tree Skirts also offered by Christmas Cove would make a nice addition to any traditional holiday decor that endures in families for generations.
AE Wholesale is an excellent source of inexpensive ornaments, made with a variety of materials and in several themes, including sets of twelve snowmen, Santas, or angels packaged together in attractive hexagonal boxes. Another supplier, Kel-Toy, Inc. also offers a large selection of Ornaments online at http://www.keltoy.com. There you’ll find lots of unique baubles, bangles and beads with faceted surfaces, adding a touch of sparkle and light to any decorating scheme. Think of these ornaments as Christmas tree jewelry! Hanging several of these reflective ornaments within the interior of the tree will help carry light into the center and make the decorated tree more dazzling.
It can sometimes be challenging to exhibit Christmas ornaments in an attractive way, that’s also accessible for customers to purchase. One handy idea for displaying non-fragile items is to wire different-sized baskets directly onto the boughs of the tree. These baskets can then be filled with ornaments for customers to select. (Hang a few ornaments in nearby branches, too.) Baskets like this could also hold seasonal plush toys in assorted sizes. Another idea is to use display trees without needles, such as the ones offered by Christina’s World. You’ll find trees in a variety of sizes, styles and finishes, from freestanding, 6-ft. tall “rhinestone” trees to 42-in. high countertop models finished in matte gold.

While at Christina’s website, indulge yourself by viewing her slideshow and touring her entire selection of exquisitely-detailed blown-glass ornaments, featuring both traditional and out-of-the-ordinary images. These are the kinds of heirloom ornaments that are passed down through families and cherished for generations – and, they are infinitely collectible! Produced in a myriad of styles and price points, Christina’s ornaments give you the means to compete with some of the more well-known, “designer label” lines that require a deeper commitment of inventory. One look at these ornaments and you’ll see how well they live up to their slogan, “Poetry in Glass.”
Christmas ornaments are such wonderful, versatile gifts that they practically sell themselves. They’re good impulse items and they make excellent stocking stuffers. Perfect as hostess gifts for holiday parties, they’re also great for those office grab bags or as tokens of appreciation for favorite teachers. However, most of your ornament sales will probably come from customers as gifts for themselves, usually giving in to the urge to add a few new “special finds” to their own ornament collections each year. With the Christmas shopping days countdown soon to begin, visit all of FGmarket’s Christmas ornament, holiday, and special occasion vendors to see what we have collected… just for you!