Christmas Garland Decorations

It’s never too late to start your holiday calendar and prepare yourself for the upcoming holidays. You’ll want to mark your July/August calendar with “Now is the time to buy for the winter holidays”.

Delightful Santa Figurines

Perhaps you sold out quickly on snow globes. If so, you’ll want to increase your snow globes offerings. Now is a good time to explore the snow globes that your holiday product vendors offer. Did customers asked for wreaths last year? Now is the time to search out wholesalers who have wreaths.

Do not neglect the other holidays.  Try to stay three to six month a head on your buying schedules. June/July should be the months you’re going over your winter holiday items, October/November for Valentines Day, and so forth for the other holidays.

How To Make Buying Holiday Products Easy

Just a few tips to help you breeze through holiday and Christmas retail buying in July:

• Set your dates for any open house or promotions you plan to host. Put these on your calendar and set your advertising dates.

Holiday Cookies From Custom Cookies
• If you plan any give-a-ways or special items, now is the time to get some supplier ideas. Some shops do a cookie and coffee promotion and use specialty cookie vendors. If you decide to do this, you’ll need to decide on your cookie vendor and order the quantities one month before your promotion.
• Look at buying trends from the past seasons and look at the new buying trends for this year. Do not be afraid to ask your suppliers and vendors to give you some tips on upcoming trends and any marketing ideas or displays they may be able to provide.
• Go over your stock levels and note the merchandise you already have on hand from past seasons and make notes. Have these handy as you look for new products to add to your tried and true product mix. When you add new items to your product mix, even if they are similar but from new vendors, you give your customers other options.
• Use FGmarket to it’s full advantage. Catch up on past newsletters or the FGmarket Buzz blog to read about trendy products and great vendors.

As always, FGmarket has the wholesale holiday product vendors that can supply you with the best products for each season. To jump start your holiday product search check out the FGmarket holiday vendors highlighted below.

Christmas Cookies from Custom Cookies

It’s this sensational holiday warmth that makes Christmas cookies from Custom Cookies so special. Each holiday cookie is wrapped in love, swaddled in deliciousness, clothed in frosting that will make your tongue do backflips of joy inside your mouth. There isn’t a bad Christmas cookie to be had from Custom Cookies.

Mmm yum. Snowmen cookies. Angel shaped cookies. Cookies in the shapes of Christmas wreaths, presents, stockings, ornaments and other holiday decorations. Every single Christmas cookie from Custom Cookies is a taste of the season that is irresistible. If your tooth is as sweet as your personality around the holidays, cookies from Custom Cookies are must-have delicassies.

What Christmas cookies are your customers favorites? If it’s a holiday cookie with a unique shape and design, Custom Cookies has it! Custom cookies are their specialty (obviously) but it’s their holiday and Christmas cookies that really make a mark! When we say “these Christmas cookies leave a mark”, we’re not kidding! You’ll see a smile pop up in the corner of a mouth that’s just enjoyed their first stocking cookie. Watch and you’ll find traces of joy and satisfaction on the faces of those who are enjoying a snowflake cookie or Christmas tree cookie.

The huge variety of designs keeps Custom Cookies at the top of the holiday cookies game. Enjoy a cookie in the shape of your favorite holiday decorations or Christmas symbols. Snowflakes, ornaments, stockings, Christmas trees–they all make the cut (literally). When thinking of unique ways to add holiday sales to your season, wrap your mind in dough. Whether green or sugary is on your thoughts, you’ll get both thanks to Christmas cookies from Custom Cookies.

Christmas Gift Wrap from Nashville Wraps

Gift bags decorated with winter Cardinals, evergreens (Christmas trees), snowmen, stockings and other Christmas themes are available from Nashville Wraps.

What sets Nashville Wraps’ Christmas gift wrap apart is the unique high quality that is evident in each set. Each set of gift wrap, cello (cellophane) bags and wrap, Christmas bows, baskets, boxes and more are beautifully designed to be both eco friendly and uncommonly appealing to the eye. This way, your customers will feel inclined to pick up a set but will have none of the guilt of wasted gift wrap later.

It’s impossible to say enough good things about Christmas gift wrap and packaging from Nashville Wraps. It’s beautiful. It’s high quality. It’s eco friendly. It’s abundant. It’s exactly what any gift giver wants, needs, and craves around the holidays. It’s the holiday gift wrap and gift packaging that no true gift giver can be without.

Are your customers into the eco friendly movement? Are they very particular about style and pattern? Do they put the style in stylish? Lucky for your store, Nashville Wraps satisfies each of these groups with their unique holiday gift wrap.

The Santa Gift Collection from Burton + Burton

Gift collections are also available. Holiday gifts as part of collections keep customers coming back one piece at a time. The unique holiday gift collections at Burton + Burton are so fun and mood-elevating that customers will want to buy the whole collection to display as long as possible!

Holiday balloons, plush animals, holiday gift collections, unique vases, seasonal ribbons, floral needs and other great supplies are available from Burton + Burton. Whether looking for the perfect gift or just something to wrap it in, turn to Burton + Burton for all of your holiday supply needs!

Sometimes it truly is the TOTAL gift experience that is the most overwhelming when visiting Burton + Burton. Their assortment of holiday gifts is incredible! Need a santa figurine? Think your customers will like “ho ho ho” wine glasses? How about unique holiday gift packaging? To list the rest of the selection of holiday gifts would be like writing a novella. Don’t just take my word for it. Head over to Burton + Burton and find all of the holiday gifts that your customers could want!

Collectible Santa from Stone Soup Santa

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.

Mini Cowbell Santa from Belsnickle Enterprise

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 Santa Troutman Originals

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.

Prizm's Making Season Bright The Gift Of Giving Santa

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

The Rhyn-Rivet Collection

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.

Ornaphints & Yulery Ornaments

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.

Hand-painted Animal Angels

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.

Sock Hooks Stocking Hangers

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!