David Condon Finds

Christmas Stickers for Card Making or Gift Wrapping Now you can spruce up your craft and gift wrapping projects with a festive touch—3D and 2D Christmas stickers! Get ready for the holiday season with a large collection of Christmas stickers now on sale online  in Ireland. Create beautiful decorations, personalized gifts, or unique cards to wish your loved ones a Happy Christmas. These also make ideal Stocking Fillers for Children. Christmas Stickers are a surprisingly good way of embellishing gifts, changing the look of a Handmade Card and even make great Stocking Filler Gifts for small children that don't cost too much at all.  Since bringing these into my website I have used them myself to bulk up gifts. Costing under €4 in most cases these are fantastic value.  Let me take you through a few of the various types. This post was originally posted on my Woodcraft on 20th Jan 2023. website and I moved it here so as not to dilute my woodturning content. Check out my related...

Craft Ribbon & Satin Bows in Ireland – Buy Online or In Person For anyone finding this blog post out of the blue while looking to buy Satin Ribbon Bows, it's not an accident, I do in fact have many varieties of Bows for sale. I sell the full range of Italian Options Satin Bows in 3cm and 5cm and I have access to their full catalogue if needs be. If you read on you might be interested in why it came to be and what I have to offer.  Insider Knowledge; I have owned and operated my own craft business for about 8 years at the time of writing. My business started with a definite model but has meandered and side-stepped and changed throughout all that time. Why? The market conditions have moved constantly and I have had to move with it or face closure. My original business model was supposed to be 20% Woodcraft and 80% online retail but I had such a good time learning the Woodcraft side of things that I almost gave up on the retail part. Woodcraft ended up near 90% of my business but ...

Buying Satin Ribbon in Ireland - A Buyers Guide I have been in business for nearly 8 years (at the time of writing) and one of the main problems I had when I started my craft business was the sourcing of high quality products that would enhance the finished pieces I was making.  Early on, I started making Hardwood Hanging Ornaments as Christmas Tree decorations and I discovered there was a lack of affordable, quality satin ribbon around Ireland.  At least it wasn't very apparent what Quality was and what Brand was leading the way. Many retailers were selling ribbon by the meter which is an expensive way of buying ribbon. I ended up buying some ribbon from the US which were only available in 10 foot lengths on cardboard reels and they were a bit expensive I have to say.   While on holiday in the US I managed to find the same brand reels and I bought a good few to keep me going.  The quality of these ribbons were good but not great and I kept a constant eye out fo...