Wholesale Christmas Items

Copper Pig celebrate five years in the community

The opening of The Copper Pig gift shop in June 2006 preceded Dunwoody’s cityhood by 18 months. But there couldn’t be a better example of the hometown atmosphere envisioned by those who worked so hard to create the new city.

The Copper Pig owner, Lisa Molen, has lived in Dunwoody for 30 years. For several years, she and a friend operated a seasonal gift shop out of her basement. Five years ago, she decided to broaden that concept.

“I wanted [a shop] to be a gathering place,” Molen said. “I have friends who are artists who wanted to sell [their wares] but didn’t have other outlets. I wanted a place where someone can get away [from the house] without going to the mall; [a place] for classes.” Molen staffed The Copper Pig, which celebrates its fifth anniversary on June 22, with longtime friends, who are her Dunwoody neighbors.

Molen learned about the gift business when she ran a Christmas “secret shopper” fundraiser at her children’s school, Holy Innocents Episcopal School, for several years. To find items suitable for students to purchase as holiday gifts for their families, she shopped at wholesale gift markets. When Molen and her friend started their home-based seasonal gift shows, she expanded her merchandise to include home accessories, hostess gifts, furniture and food items, among other offerings.

Molen’s home-based gift business ended when her 16-year-old son died 10 years ago. Revitalizing the business with a retail location was her way of moving forward.

“I did this (opening The Copper Pig) to get back with my life again,” Molen said.

Some 30 local artists sell such varied creations as soap, jewelry and artwork at The Copper Pig. Some of the merchandise is on consignment, but Molen also stocks items purchased at gift shows and items she’s accumulated on trips to Europe. She also sells homemade gourmet food products.

One any given day, classes are offered in bridge, needlepoint, mah jongg and sometimes cooking.

Dozie Bowen of Dunwoody has shopped at The Copper Pig since it opened.

“They have lovely things. They keep the merchandise fresh and you can always find something pretty,” Bowen said. “Sometimes I go in just to browse.”

It’s not just the merchandise that keeps drawing Bowen into the shop. “All the gals who work there are nice,” she said.

Dunwoody resident Lynn Self started working at The Copper Pig when Molen was getting the store ready to open. “I thought it would be fun. Lisa has great style and wonderful taste and I knew she would have quality things,” Self said.

Wholesale Christmas Decor Adds Festive Joy

Christmas is indeed a big festival around the world. A large number of people across the globe participate in this grand festival. The festival remains incomplete without colorful decorations. All the Christians around the globe irrespective of their social status wish to best decorate their homes with colorful Xmas decorations such as Christmas decor, balls, lights and trees. In fact decorations have become part and parcel of this festival. Decorative items in large numbers or wholesale decorative items are available in the market. The wholesale Christmas decor adds festive joy to this wonderful occasion.

Wholesale Christmas decor:

The idea of wholesale Christmas decoration has become very popular in recent times. This is widely used to adorn your home with Santa Claus, Christmas tree and some other items. Among the wholesale decorative items you can purchase small lights, bulbs, candles and many other things. These items are used to decorate the Christmas tree . All these items give a dazzling look to the Christmas tree .

If you require many trees to decorate on this occasion, you can purchase them on a wholesale basis. Wholesale buying is comparatively cheap. This saves money for you and you can use the saved money on some other items during this festive ceremony. These trees are available in different sizes and shapes. Depending upon your requirement and budget you can buy your trees.

For this festive decoration, caps, garlands, beads and ribbons are also used. All these are indeed helpful to make tour decoration distinctive and add some personal touches to it. Other stuffs such as holly leaves, angel replicas and small dolls can also be used for this purpose. Other creative wholesale decorative item may be red Christmas stockings . These stockings are used to add more color to the tree. In order to add more punch to it, you can add bells, canes and many other things to it.

The festive items such as showpieces, angels, bears and pets are very popular among the kids. All these items can give better look to the tree. If you can spend little more, you can think of comparatively more expensive items such as mistletoe, red amaryllis and Christmas cactus . Nativity scene of the Jesus Christ, jewelry and small gems can also be used for this purpose. One can also think of handmade as well as home made ornaments for this festive ceremony.

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