September 2026
Your Shop. Your Month.
Your holiday orders are placed. What is still in front of you is the part that decides how the season actually goes: the reorder in November when one thing sells out, the fill-in that ships in a week, and how the shelf reads when the traffic shows up.
So this issue is built around the next eight weeks. Free samples you can put in a customer’s hands before you commit to an opening order, requests open through Friday. Three new lines just added to the network. Two vendors highlighting their holiday offerings, and a menu idea that turns one department manager into forty gifts. Plus two free nights in Dallas in January, if Winter Market is on your list.
Tell us what is selling in your shop. We read every reply.
Requests Are Open
Twenty-five brands have set aside free samples for shops that have never bought from them, so you can put the product in a customer’s hands before you commit to an opening order. Selection week runs September 14 to 18. One request per shop location, filled in the order requests arrive, while quantities last. Samples ship by October 13.
Every brand card shows how many samples that vendor set aside for this round, so check a few and get your request in early.
Rustic Marlin · Best Seller Bundle
Three New Lines This Month
Amy Catherine Designs is a joy-inspired brand created to spread kindness, connection, and joy through meaningful gifts and products. From apparel and accessories to thoughtful gifts and keepsakes, each product is designed to encourage a smile, brighten someone’s day, and share a little more joy with the world. Women-owned and made in the USA.
Purpose-built skincare and cosmetics for women navigating cancer. The line includes Awaken Day Cream, Restore Night Cream, and the Daily Ritual Set. Women-owned, family-owned, made in the USA, and vegan and cruelty-free.
At Rockflowerpaper, every pattern begins with purpose, crafted thoughtfully and sustainably. This season that runs from the Candy Bows Itsy Bitsy reusable cotton canvas gift bag to the Merry Dogs cotton night shirt and the Cardinal Birds blu reusable shopping bag. Eco-friendly, family-owned, and a social impact brand.
Two Free Nights at Winter Market
The Dallas Market Center is offering PPP members one room for two nights to attend the Winter Total Home & Gift Market, January 6 to 12. The offer is first come, first served, and the deadline is December 20, 2026.
Book your stay with two free nights
Read fully before booking
The Dallas Market Center is not financially responsible for rooms that are booked incorrectly.
You will be asked for payment information, and you will not be charged unless you book more nights than the Dallas Market Center is paying for. Your two free nights will reflect when you check out of the hotel.
If your confirmation email does not list the Hosted Buyer Policy in the Hotel Policies section, the two free nights have not been applied to your reservation.
For additional rooms at reduced rates, book a room at your own expense here.
To make changes or cancel, call Connections Housing at 214.744.7444, option 2. Review the cancellation policy for your hotel in your confirmation email to avoid a one night charge of room and tax to the card provided.
Incentive offers cannot be shared or combined. If shared, you forfeit your free nights. No show and early departure fees are not covered.
Buzz Worthy
Ruth + Bo
Two winners will each receive a Ruth + Bo Discovery Set, a beautifully packaged sample set of all six fragrances from the launch collection, plus one full size 100ml bottle in the scent of their choice and a $50 voucher toward a future order.
10% off · ruthandbo.com
Opening $150 · Reorder $100
Vendor Profile · Cott N Curls
Cotton canvas and genuine leather wristlets, wallets, crossbody bags, hats, and pillows, with playful printed designs carried across the whole line. Every piece is cut and stitched by hand, never mass produced.
10% off · Opening $250 · Reorder $250
Finishing Touches
A display rarely finishes itself. It is the last handful of pieces, the ornament by the register, the small gift tucked beside the big one, that pull a table together and give a browsing shopper one more reason to say yes. This month two vendors highlight their holiday offerings. Watch both, then look at your own counter for the piece that is still missing.
Jollity & Co / Daydream Society
10% off · shopjollity.co
info@jollity.co
Opening $150 · Reorder $150
Jollity & Co and Daydream Society sent their Holiday 2026 line for this one, and nearly every piece in it is a finishing touch. There is a Pink Santa Mirror sized for a stocking or an everyday bag, a beaded, rhinestone ornament collection they are calling Deck the Shelves, and an Ornament and Name Card Embossing Kit that turns gold foil sheets into ornaments and place cards right at the table. Around the register, a run of stocking sized gifts, yeti lip balm, a sock matching card game, a snack attack game, keeps the small stuff moving too.
How to style it
Put the mirror and the embossing kit on the same small tray near your register. One is a gift she did not know she needed, the other gives her something to do with her hands while she waits in line. Hang two or three of the beaded ornaments where she can see them from the tray, and the whole finishing touch table fits in about a foot of counter space.
burton + BURTON
10% off · burtonandburton.com
(800) 241-2094
Opening $250 · Reorder $100
burton + burton sent a straight walk through their holiday shelf this time, no script needed. A pair of cardinal figurines wearing holly collars, a trio of glittered mini trees in three sizes, a Santa clad dachshund holding an ornament in his mouth, and a Santa in his sleigh snow globe. Every piece is built to sit alone or in a small group, which is the whole idea behind a finishing touch.
How to style it
Group the three mini trees by height at one end of a table and let the cardinal pair anchor the other. That is a finished display in under a minute, and it leaves the dachshund and the snow globe free to move wherever your best sellers need a boost this week.
Here’s to a strong fall
Questions on anything in this issue, or a vendor you want introduced? Write to us. We read every one.
