Light Up Mom’s Life with Comfort and Style:
Unique Mothers Day Gifts of Lamps and Lighting.
Trends are indicating that lighting and lamps will be hot selling items in the upcoming year and adding lamps and lighting fixtures to your product mix will help give your customers another reason to shop with you. Fortunately, you have plenty of options when choosing gifts and home accent pieces to add to your product lines. With an array of styles, decorating and design themes, your customers will have no trouble finding the perfect gift to suit their mother’s individual tastes and perferences. In this FG Market newsletter, we will spotlight several lamp and lighting vendors with lots of bright ideas for unique Mothers Day gifts, as well as great gifts for any occasion.

The essence of a room is created through lighting. Tempo Lighting offers lighting and lamp accessories to suit any decor at value prices. Think of lighting as a reflection of a memory shared. What better way to remember a special time with your mother than with theme lamps. Beach memories can be relived with Tempo’s Conch Seashell lamp. With Tempo’s diverse product line you have the choice of many different styles and themes, making it easy to capitalize on your customer’s memories. Also, noteworthy is Tempo’s White Pleated Ceramic Lamps. These lamps make elegant art pieces, and with a matching group of vases, would please anyone shopping for a mom that’s fashionable, stylish and sophisticated.

Unique Lamps by KW Feather Chandelier

Growing up did you ever break one of mom’s favorite table lamps? Why did mom treasure that lamp so much? Sentiment, maybe the lamp was given as a gift from someone dear to her. Unique Lamps by KW has wonderful floor lamps, table lamps and chandeliers. Handcrafted work and intricate details show in the lamps they create. Your clientele will love the many hand applied finishes. From their incredible selection of chandeliers, Unique Lamps offers a simple, yet stylish 4-bulb feather patterned chandelier that anyone’s special mother would love. The chandelier has a look that would certainly appeal to a nature-lover who feels a quiet, spiritual and sentimental connection to the outdoors. While certainly unique and different, the lamps and lighting from this wholesaler maintain elegant style and subtlety that would accent a variety of home decor styles.

Charming rustic and exceptionally crafted lighting and accessories can be found at Quintana Roo Inc. Their handcrafted wrought iron and tin chandeliers along with extraordinary table lamps and shades will please the “home is everything” mother. Quintana offers tin switch plate covers in many quaint designs and other Americana lighting accent pieces providing the opportunity for Unique Mothers Day gifts. Their lamps convey a sense of tradition and warmth. If your mother is “the bright glowing star in your life” convey that message with a Quintana Star lamp. Your customers will not only enjoy seeing their mothers’ reaction to any of Quintana’s homey decorative gifts, but will also enjoy giving gifts that symbolize the warmth and coziness of any home.

Chandeliers With Light Charms From Magnificent Trimmings

Magnificent Trimmings Inc, provides exciting products that give instant change to lamps and chandeliers. Their trademark “Light Charms” are wonderful glass and crystal embellishments that attach via small magnets to lamps or chandeliers. Their custom made products will be a sentimental hit on Mothers Day.
Their Decoupage Line features items with patterns that will remind your mother of the upholstered furniture and family heirlooms she once admired as a child. For unique Mothers Day gifts, customers can add sentiment to mom’s chandelier with birthstone color embellishments representing each child. These charms work well on table lamps, light shades or chandeliers. Light Charms put the power of designing the look of a chandelier or lamp into the hands of the consumer. They provide another unique way for you to capitalize on home accents for Mothers Day, as well as year round.

Traditional Mothers day gifts include jewelry, candy and flowers. Give your customers a non-traditional option to unique Mothers Day gifts with lamps and lighting accessories. FG Market Lighting and Lamp Vendors offer a vast array of unique lighting options that will hold sentimental value for Mother and the gift giver. Give your customers a bright idea for Mothers day this year; add lamps and lighting to your store.

This newsletter is the third and final installment of our series featuring some of the wonderful Mother’s Day Holiday and Special Occasion gift vendors listed on FGMarket.com.

Decorative Ceramic Canap© Plate from Fitz and Floyd

For almost half a century, Fitz and Floyd has been recognized as the undisputed leader in the design and manufacture of hand-painted ceramic giftware and unique home decor collectibles. Their suggestions for Mother’s Day include the Flora & Fauna Collection, featuring a garden of bright flowers, white rabbits and tasty vegetables embellishing platters, pitchers, plates, a pair of salt and pepper shakers, and other tableware and figurines. The Garden Rhapsody series includes decorative pieces such as a pillar candle holder, a vase, a lidded box, and a small or large basket among other items, rendered in pastel-colored flowers, bunnies and ducklings.
Another collection, Old World Rabbits, includes a canape plate in the form of a flower-filled basket, a teapot shaped like an elegant lady hare dressed in Tyrolean attire, a similar lady rabbit posed as a candle stick, and a beautiful cookie jar, also shaped like a basket of flowers being visited by a delicate butterfly. Often quite elegant, sometimes whimsical, Fitz and Floyd is always a prized and treasured gift, destined to become a family heirloom.

Classic Cottage Charm's Hand-painted Wall Sign

You’ll find country cottage-inspired gifts at Classic Cottage Charm, where ’shabby-chic’ is the order of the day. Their decorative wall signs, hand-painted in a variety of colors and design motifs, feature warm sentiments like “Welcome”, “Home Sweet Home”, and “Practice Happiness”. The pink-striped “Queen Mom” sign might just be a hot seller for Mother’s Day!
Adorable Cottage Birdhouses are available in two sizes and an array of colors and can be used indoors or out. The darling six-inch Candle Sticks come in six different color and design patterns. Framed Cottage Prints are copies from the artists’ hand-painted original artwork, one of which bears a poem entitled Mother: “I’ve got a sweetheart, and I would have no other. She’s more than all the world to me, because her name is ‘Mother’”. Irresistible!

Georgetown Home & Garden's Stained Glass Garden Stakes

For more home, garden and patio gifts, take a look at the delightful merchandise offered by Georgetown Home and Garden. Their stained glass Sun Catches are lively and colorful, featuring design themes like frogs, fairies, mermaids, flamingoes, parrots and other characters. Frogs and fairies also form the basis of their line of copper and stained glass Garden Stakes. Whimsical metal sculpture planters are created in the shapes of dogs, cats, angels, old farm vehicles, even a four-piece train set, and are designed to hold standard-sized grower pots. The clever products created by the artisans at Georgetown have a sense of humor and heart, and they’re sure to appeal to moms everywhere.

Hearts & Lighthouse Mudpie Melters from Cranberry Barn

One could say that the items offered by Cranberry Barn are both home- and heart-warming. Moms will love their nostalgic collection of homey Jar Candles, in a variety of shapes and sizes. Poured in classic apothecary jars, rustic mason or jelly jars with wooden lids, or 1940-style glass “kitchen” boxes, these candles are loaded with personality. Choose from among dozens of enticing and original scents, like “Basil & Nectarine”, “Bayberry & Twigs”, “Granny’s Kitchen”, and “Canadian Wilderness”.
Their unique 25-watt electric warmers are made of perforated tin in several styles, evoking Americana-style craftsmanship and perfect for slowly melting the little one-ounce MudPies, which are designed to add fragrance to the home. Cranberry Barn also produces a line of fragranced rosehip potpourri with aromas like “Buttery Maple”, “Coffee Cake & Spice”, and “Cinnamon Medley”. These blends come packaged in a clear cello bag labeled with old brown paper bag stock and tied with a homespun rag.
As you can readily see, the vendors of FGMarket have a wonderful selection of Mother’s Day gift ideas. And we’ve barely scratched the surface. You’ll find even more great ideas and outstanding suppliers among the Mothers Day Holiday & Special Occasion suppliers listed on the FGMarket website. Each of them is eager to help you meet the needs of your Mother’s Day shoppers. It couldn’t be easier!
Every mom really is special, and every mother’s child wants to let that special woman know just how much she is truly loved with a distinctive and inspired Mother’s Day gift. Be the source of that gift this year. Do your shopping at FGMarket and make your mama proud!

Milestones keepsake gifts from Heaven & Earth Works

As promised, we offer more Mother’s Day gift ideas from the wholesale gift suppliers on FGMarket.com, including Heaven & Earth Works. The company’s “MILESTONES” line of greeting and note cards, framed/unframed poetry, handmade journals, commemorative books and keepsake boxes are beautiful. The collection offers beautiful, uniquely personal creations which strive to deepen the expression of common sentiments through poetry with heartfelt, intelligent messages and visually warm presentations.
The Milestones line attracts a diverse range of ages and interests, giving it a universal marketing appeal. All books are handmade with acid-free and tree-free papers, and they open flat for ease in writing and collecting. Covers are embellished with natural elements, such as feathers or stones. Heirloom flip-top boxes come with an original poem inside. Several poems, such as “Mother Love” and” The Art of Woman” are especially appropriate for Mother’s Day.

The Nittany Quill's Framed Inspirations calligraphy line

The Nittany Quill, by the Talus Corp. is a source for delightful gifts that celebrate life’s most treasured memories. Their line of meaningful and evocative quotes, rendered in graceful calligraphy and bordered in delicate floral motifs, is available as framed miniatures printed on key chains or bookmarks, or sprouting from the top of cleverly crafted wire flower sculptures which also serve as clips for photos, notes or business cards. Quite a few of the quotes under the ‘Family’ heading have to do with mothers and the special place they hold in the lives of their children.
The loveliest items from The Nittany Quill are found in their Framed Inspirations line of calligraphy art. Each quote is beautifully illustrated and illuminated with gold foil, and then set within a complementary mat of acid-free board. Every piece is meticulously assembled by hand in an antique gold finished frame and protected by glass. The 8×10 frames come with easel backs for display on any wall or tabletop. The larger 11×14 frames are also available with a cherry wood finish. Unframed versions are offered as well. Three of the tenderly written quotes in the Framed Inspirations line are specifically for mothers, and any of them would surely be welcomed as a unique and cherished gift.

Mothers poem by Laura Leiden Calligraphy

Laura Leiden Calligraphy is another source of fine calligraphic gifts, offering hundreds of original poems that are hand lettered in calligraphy, then printed and framed or made into greeting cards.
They specialize in heartwarming verses for specific family members, such as mothers. These messages have been known to strike such a powerful chord in the hearts of those who read them that some stores keep a box of tissues near their displays. They are that meaningful.

Collage Photo Frames from Lighthouse Christian Products

Inspirational gifts for moms can be found at Lighthouse Christian Products. The company has observed that renewed commitment to family and home, coupled with booming sales of digital cameras, have increased the sales of photo frames significantly.
Studies show that people buy and give gifts to build and enhance their emotional connection to the receiver. Lighthouse’s frames are designed to help bring out that emotional connection. Each product in their extensive line of single and multiple photo frames and hand-held albums is etched with an appropriate biblical quotation.

Finally, watch for the last part of FGMarket’s newsletter series featuring gift ideas for Mother’s Day.
These and other fine wholesalers and suppliers of Mother’s Day gift items can be found in our FGMarket Mothers Day Holiday and Special Occasion vendors’ category.

Nostalgic, artistic cards from Buffalo Gals, Inc.

Well, whose mom isn’t special? With Mother’s Day approaching soon - May 14th this year - your customers will be looking for unique cards and gifts for that special woman who means so much to them. It’s time to stock your store with the kinds of appealing merchandise that will allow them to find just the right thing, and FGMarket is ready to help you satisfy their needs. We’ve gathered together a sampling from our roster of exceptional vendors who can supply you with merchandise that will delight your customers and set you apart from the crowd. Special moms deserve special gifts, and you can find them right here.
A charming line of cards is available from Buffalo Gals, Inc. Their distinctive, beautiful cards feature Victorian, art deco, and art nouveau designs, literary quotations, and heartfelt greetings. Reviving the style of artwork that was found on postcards and in children’s books at the turn of the last century, the cards evoke a sweet sense of femininity and nostalgia. In addition to several Mother’s Day selections, the company also produces blank note cards that may be sold individually or in boxes of ten. You can feel good about your purchase from Buffalo Gals; ten percent of profits is donated to charities that support primary education, women’s health, and parenting skills.

Blue Turtle Studio Cards & counter spinner stand

Blue Turtle Studio is another company with a conscience, supporting animal welfare and environmental causes with a portion of their profits. Their handmade cards are truly beautiful! Designs are cut from the artist’s original or laser prints of her large abstract watercolor paintings. The images are then placed on handmade paper, many styles of which have a variety of flower and plant inclusions. No two are exactly alike. A range of acrylic display units, including counter top, wall mounted, and freestanding models, is available as well.
Blue Turtle Studio also produces an exquisite line of jewelry. Artist/owner Allison Thibos has designed most of the settings that bear her abstract watercolors, creating a new, unique line of “watercolor gems” set in sterling silver. When customers see this jewelry, they can’t believe that some of the stones are actually watercolors covered with a glass-like resin to preserve them, and to make them shine and shimmer like real stones. Select from pendants and necklaces, pins, earrings, bracelets and watches, or complete jewelry sets.

Chelsea Pewter pin

Angels are a common motif among the pewter pins, charms and other jewelry offered by Chelsea International. Angels are popular collectibles, too, and for Mother’s Day, Chelsea has designed a sweet little angel pin. She’s clutching a heart between her hands, and the word “MOM” is engraved across the bottom of her skirt. The pin is affixed to a pink-toned card that bears a lovely “thank you” verse addressed to “a special Mom”. Angels of all sorts dominate the line, but other pins and charms feature whimsical animals, flowers, sports themes, crosses and more.
It can often be difficult to find a gift for a fashion-conscious mom. Styles come and go so fast. But whatever her taste in clothing, the gorgeous, hand-dyed silk scarves created by K.A.T.’s Silks are sure to delight her. They really are exquisite! The beauty of silk is that it is warm when the weather is cool and cool when it is warm.

K.A.T's Silks hand-dyed scarves (Fireweed pattern)

All silk designs created by K.A.T.’s are treated to be washed and dried. No dry-cleaning required! K.A.T.’s silks are created in a mixed medium process, which combines batik, French painting, and marbling. Various floral or foliage motifs, among other patterns, are set against abstract backgrounds in a wide variety of colors or stripe combinations. All scarves will be packaged in plastic cylindrical tubes for shipment in a box. They are steamed and ready for display. No matter what type of store you have, these beautiful and versatile scarves are sure sellers.
For more information, watch for part 2 of FGMarket’s newsletter series featuring more great gift ideas for Mother’s Day.
Find these and other fine wholesalers and suppliers of Mother’s Day gift items in our FGMarket Mothers Day Holiday and Special Occasion vendors’ category.