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We sell balloons, cards, handmade welsh soaps and other bits, chocolates, teddies, and some jewellery, also a wedding section with tiaras & jewellery, wedding favours, rose petals etc.
We don't sell an awful lot of any of these items to be honest, but the advantage is that they have a longer shelf-life to flowers, so fill the shop well, and also get people looking around. We only do balloons as gifts at the moment but are planning on doing a course to do balloon decorating for weddings as it's something we get asked about a lot.
We did buy in some general gifts for fathers day from our local balloon wholesaler - mugs, photoframes etc. and they have sold really well, but I think that's because they were being bought instead of flowers for fathers day, I don't think people would buy them from us for mothers day or other occasions, and I wouldn't want to offer them in case they took trade away from the flowers on the important occasions, but for fathers day, where being in a very traditional area means that no-one would buy flowers for their dad's, these gifts bought in a little extra cash.
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