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Silly Phillie® Baby Gifts Receive Brooklyn-Made Certification

I am delighted to announce that Silly Phillie® Baby Gifts received a prestigious Brooklyn-Made Certification. Managed by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn-Made is a certification program for locally-made goods. The certification is a market-driven, geographically-focused certification assessing and validating products manufactured in Brooklyn, NY.

Silly Phillie® was approved on August 26th along with a number of other fine Brooklyn based manufacturers. The announcement is posted on the homepage of the Brooklyn-Made website. This recognition reinforces our strategy of making better quality products in the USA. The fact that we’re able to do so in my home town is the icing on the cake for me personally.

Silly Phillie® Baby Gifts- a difference you can see.

Brooklyn-Made certification is important to Silly Phillie® for these reasons:

Brooklyn-Made is a source of pride to our staff, many of whom live and are raising families in Brooklyn.
It helps communicate our made-to-order domestic manufacturing approach. Most of our competitors, on the other hand, mass produce their baby gifts overseas.
Brooklyn-Made provides a rationale for why Silly Phillie® Baby Gifts look so much more impressive than most. It’s a difference you can see. Please visit www,sillyphillie.com to see for yourself.

That’s all the news I have to share with you at this time. With the Christmas Holiday’s right around the corner, please come back soon to explore our new collection of holiday inspired baby gifts. And if you don’t find exactly what you’re looking for, we can customize something to your liking. After all, our products are Brooklyn-Made!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Silly Phillie®

Ultimate Baby Gift-6 step guide from Silly Phillie

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I am often asked for an opinion on what makes an ultimate baby gift. I have designed many iconic baby gifts over the last 30 years as owner of Silly Phillie®. But I find it impossible to point to any one of those or any others as the “ultimate baby gift”. All baby gifts are special in one way or another. The more money spent on a gift the more impressive the gift becomes as a general rule. I recently created a customized baby gift for a customer who wanted to spend $300. That’s considerably more than the average baby gift. The result was a fabulous gift everyone loved. You can look at it here.

Ultimate Baby Gift-“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

Was that the ultimate baby gift? Maybe maybe not. It actually depends on the joint perspectives of the gift giver and the recipient. You know the idiom ” beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. It’s also important to note that money alone is not the deciding factor in giving the ultimate baby gift.

The Ultimate Baby Gift Guide

Ultimate Baby Gift-Caterpillar Welcome Wagon

Uncommon Caterpillar Welcome Wagon Baby Gift

It is safe to conclude that there is no one ultimate baby gift. I personally feel that an extraordinary baby gift must have all of the following things going for it to be considered truly special.

Uniqueness-Nothing impresses new parents more than a gift they haven’t seen before. Uncommon baby gifts always make a lasting impression.
Functional-Parents need lots of things for a new baby, especially if its a firstborn child. Make sure your gift is functional and fills a need.
Superior quality-A gift is only as good as the quality of the product or products inside. Nothing ruins the impression of a baby gift more than inferior product quality.
Relevant theme-Look for a gift with a theme that’s meaningful to the new parents. If they are sports fans for example, a sports themed baby gift will be a big hit!
Personalized for baby–New parents love personalized baby gifts. It’s the extra special touch that makes a baby gift memorable.
Outstanding presentation- First impressions count. Look for a gift that has that “oh wow” factor but not at the exclusion of all of the above.

In conclusion. an ultimate baby gift comes down to one you love giving, and one the new parents need and appreciate. Silly Phillie® specializes in creating made to order keepsake quality baby gifts. Please think of us whenever you need to give a so called “ultimate baby gift” or simply one that stands out form all the rest! Phyllis Gordon S’Dao Owner/Designer-Silly Phillie®

Impressive Baby Gift Introduced by Silly Phillie

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Silly Phillie® is known for making an impressive baby gift. Rocking Horse, Rocking Chair and Deluxe Welcome Wagon™ baby gift sets are several prime examples.

Any one of these outstanding baby gifts will wow the new parents. But there are certain times when a more impressive baby gift might be called for. Perhaps its a gift for an important client you need to impress, a boss, best friend or close relative. Whatever the reason, Silly Phillie® is uniquely capable of creating an impressive baby gift at just about any price point.

The reason? Silly Phillie® baby gifts are designed and made in Brooklyn, NY. This gives the company the ability to easily customize baby gifts. Few competitors have this capability and fewer still can match the level of creativeness found at Silly Phillie®.

The process usually starts with a customer choosing a main item and theme. More often than not that item is one of our large wood products such as a Rocking Chair. Next the customer gives us a budget. We have done customized gifts up to $500. But most fall within the $250-$350 range.

I personally design all customized gifts as if I were giving the gift myself. You can expect these gifts to include lots of fantastic boutique quality layette items for baby, numerous items personalized (parents love this!), and a sensational gift presentation that’s sure to impress.

The latest Impressive Baby Gift from Silly Phillie®

Super Deluxe Rocking Chair Personalized Baby Gift is a gift we did recently for a valued long time customer. The customer, a prestigious judge in Pennsylvania, wanted an upscale Rocking Chair baby gift for a colleague who had just given birth to a baby boy named Cole. We had a $300-$350 budget to work with, including shipping costs.

The result was an impressive baby gift that everyone just flipped over, including the new parents. The gift included our beautiful solid wood rocking chair personalized with Cole’s name, adorable animal character layette items, and a total of six items personalized in all.

Because we loved this gift so much I decided to make it a permanent addition in the Silly Phillie® line. Super Deluxe Rocking Chair Personalized Baby Gift can be ordered for a baby boy or girl. It is priced at $325 as shown, which includes the cost of FedEx Ground Shipping.

I hope you enjoyed reading about our latest impressive baby gift. It’s my pleasure to keep you updated on what’s going on in our company. As always, I’d love to hear back from you with your thoughts.

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Owner/Designer-Silly Phillie®

Baby Gifts made to order in Brooklyn

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Silly Phillie® is on a roll these days, in more ways than one.

For starters, the above photo shows yours truly sitting on rolls of fabric in Silly Phillie’s Brooklyn manufacturing facility. The photo was taken as part of an upcoming feature being done on my company by WE NYC.

WE NYC is a first-of-its-kind effort in a major American city to address the entrepreneurship gender gap and empower women business-owners to reach their full economic potential. I am honored to be part of this exciting initiative. I am also anxious to see the profile on Silly Phillie®.

In looking through the many photos taken by the talented photographer, Nancy Siesel, I particularly love this one of me sitting on rolls of fabric. In my opinion it best captures the essence of Silly Phillie’s “baby gifts made to order in Brooklyn” business model. Without fabric to cut, sew and embroider into quality layette items, we would not have the quality ingredients to make our many unique baby gifts.

“Baby Gifts Made to Order in Brooklyn” Keeping us on a Roll!

Many of our competitors have chosen to outsource manufacturing of baby gifts overseas. Silly Phillie® has taken a different approach. We make our baby gifts to order in Brooklyn, NY. There are many benefits in doing it this way. They are:

We’re able to offer a superior quality product
We can personalize and customize baby gifts
We’re better able and quicker to respond to special requests by customers
Making products in the USA adds to the economic well being of Americans

A made to order in Brooklyn business model may limit our company’s growth potential. Nevertheless, it has kept Silly Phillie® on a roll for more than 30 years.

I’ve always felt that bigger is not necessarily better. Better is better all the time.

If you enjoyed this article on “Baby Gifts Made to Order In Brooklyn” please share it on social media with #babygifts #SillyPhillie, #MadeInbrooklyn, #Brooklyn.

Thank you!

Phyllis (Silly Phillie®)

New Gender Reveal Layette Cake from Silly Phillie

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Many parents today are choosing to host a Gender Reveal Party to announce and in some cases discover the sex of their baby among family and friends.

There are lots of creative ideas on how to orchestrate a climactic end to a gender reveal party. That’s the moment of truth when baby’s sex is revealed and everyone gets a “sweet surprise”

The Internet is full of suggestions on how to reveal baby’s gender at a party. Some are simple others more elaborate. Doesn’t it amaze you how creative people get when it comes to a newborn baby?

Some of my favorite gender reveal ideas include: 1) a giant box filled with either pink or blue balloons-very dramatic; 2) a sealed envelope with the baby’s gender written on a card by the OB or Ultrasound Technician; and 3) colored cupcakes. This can be done by adding pink or blue food coloring to a white cake mix, then covering it with enough frosting so that no cake shows until biting into it. Yummy!

You can find a more cool gender reveal Ideas on Mom365.com

Gender Reveal Layette Cake from Silly Phillie®

There are many fun ways to reveal baby’s sex at a gender reveal party. But there’s only one that’s built around actual layette items for baby to use after birth. The product I refer to is Silly Phillie’s new & exciting Sweet Surprise Gender Reveal Cake™.

I invite you to view the following video to see how Silly Phillie’s Gender Reveal layette Cake can be used at a party.

Gender Reveal Layette Cake Demo Video

Here are some other things you should know about Silly Phillie’s Gender Reveal layette Cake:

Each one is lovingly made to order in the USA by Silly Phillie®;
The cake is made with a hooded baby towel embroidered with “Sweet Baby”, 4-washcloths (one embroidered with “Sweet Baby”), and either a blue or pink baby bib hidden inside embroidered with boy or girl; and
Gender Reveal Layette Cake can also be ordered as a conventional baby gift or baby shower gift.

I hope you like my new Sweet Surprise Gender Reveal Cake™. It is available now on www.sillyphillie.com.

Until next time,

Phyllis (Silly Phillie®)

Newborn baby: 50% Mommy, 50% Daddy,100% Perfect!

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Nothing is more perfect than a newborn baby.

I am reminded of this every day when I see our beautiful baby gifts being made and sent to new parents, each accompanied by the most heartfelt messages of congratulations from family and friends. It never ceases to amaze me how much joy a single newborn baby brings into the world.

Newborn Baby-The Ultimate Gift

None of this of course is possible without the contribution from a mommy and a daddy. Not to minimize less conventional avenues of conception i.e. donor sperm, this article is a shout out to all those new mommies and daddies in the world.

As a tribute to them and their newborn baby, Silly Phillie® is launching a new line of products with the design “50% Mommy, 50% Daddy, 100% Perfect”. I love it not just because it’s such a cute saying, and we all know how well cute sells when it comes to babies.

I love it because it expresses the sentiment of a shared responsibility between parents for the creation and most importantly the nurturing of their child. Nothing would please more than having this message resonate with all the new parents out there.

“50% Mommy, 50% Daddy, 100% Perfect”

Silly Phillie® baby blankets, onsies, sleep gowns, bibs, burp pads, and hooded towels will be available with this new design. All will be made in the USA from quality 100% cotton fabrics, both interlock and terry velour.

Layette items will be sold individually and as part of baby gift sets and baby gift baskets. “50% Mommy, 50% Daddy, 100% Perfect” will be offered in three different color schemes: one for a baby boy, one for a baby girl, and the third in a neutral palette to work as a baby shower gift.

The line will be launched initially on www.sillyphillie.com the first or second week in June. Afterwards expect to see the items sold in retail stores, hospital gift shops and on other e-commerce baby boutiques.

I hope you’re 100% in love with our new products! Lol.

best,

Phyllis (Silly Phillie®)

Kids Bathrobe fit for Prince George!

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Prince George of the British Royal Family was photographed recently wearing an adorable Kids Bathrobe while greeting President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on their visit to London. The photograph went viral and the press sized upon the event to write articles about the virtues of the bathrobe worn by Prince George. One of the articles written about Prince George’s bathrobe included a mention of Silly Phillie® kids bathrobes. The article with photos of both “royal” families can be read here.

Kids Bathrobe-A Classic Silly Phillie® Style

Personalized Kids Bathrobe from Silly Phillie

Silly Phillie has been making kids bathrobes for more than 30 years. The first product ever made by Silly Phillie® was in fact a kids bathrobe. The company continues to make beautiful bathrobes for kids in Brooklyn, NY. The one worn by Prince George is remarkably similar to the classic Silly Phillie® kids bathrobe. Both are made of white terry fabric. Each is trimmed with gingham check fabric and come with a hood and fabric belt. The Silly Phillie® bathrobe also includes Velcro on the two front panels to help keep the robe closed snuggly when worn.

Awesome Personalized Baby Gift or Kids Gift

The Silly Phillie® Kids Bathrobe can be personalized with a child’s name same as the one worn by Prince George. The name is embroidered on front using a complimentary blue thread. This Classic Kids Bathrobe can be ordered at www.sillyphillie.com Silly Phillie’s Classic Kids Bathrobe can be ordered for a little Princess too. Instead of blue gingham trim and blue lettering, the girls version comes trimmed with pink gingham and pink lettering. Either way, a kids bathrobe personalized makes a wonderful baby gift, first birthday gift, or something to give your own child just because he or she is your little Prince or Princess!

A “royal” thank you for reading and sharing this article!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao (Silly Phillie)

Unique Baby Gifts from Silly Phillie

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Silly Phillie® has earned a reputation for creating some of the most delightfully unique baby gifts. Baby Hoagie, Special Delivery Pizza, Nice Cream, & Natural Rocking Horse Baby Gifts are just a few examples of unique baby gifts introduced by Silly Phillie®. Octopus for boy & girl are two new additions to the company’s collection of unique baby gifts. In typical Silly Phillie® style, Octopus Baby Gifts are adorable, made to order in the USA with baby boutique quality layette, and impeccably presented to make a memorable impression.

Unique Baby Gifts-the driving force behind Silly Phillie®

Unique baby gifts is what has enabled Silly Phillie® to stay a step ahead of competition in a competitive category. Each of the company’s products is designed around the following simple but powerful core set of values:

Baby gifts should be exciting & unique. Having a newborn baby is one of the happiest moments in life. Friends & family inundate new parents with gifts to celebrate the occasion. For any one gift to stand out, that gift must be unique, adorable and memorable.

The stuff inside matters. Silly Phillie® baby gifts are made from baby boutique quality layette items. Nothing short of that is acceptable. People often are fooled by the ‘glitz” of a gift and don’t pay enough attention to the quality of the contents. Inferior contents will be remembered far longer than how good the gift may have looked.

First impression is critical. You only get one chance at a first impression. A gift must be impeccably presented with attention paid to the smallest details if you want to make a positive first impression. Silly Phillie® baby gifts are proudly made to order in Brooklyn, NY. This hands on control over the entire production process results in unique baby gifts that are beautiful in every way and superior to mass produced products.

I hope you like our new Octopus Baby Gifts and enjoyed hearing about how we go about making unique baby gifts at Silly Phillie®.

Until next time…

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Designer/Owner-Silly Phillie® Creations

Personalized Baby Gifts-Make it Special

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A newborn baby is one of the most exciting life changing experiences in life. Celebrating the occasion calls for a baby gift that’s every bit as unique and special as the new arrival. That’s why so many people turn to personalized baby gifts as their way to say welcome to the world.

So many Personalized Baby Gifts, so many Baby Names!

Silly Phillie® has sold over 150,000 personalized baby gifts over the past 20 years. While that fact is not surprising – Silly Phillie®, after all, is a leading baby gift company – what is surprising is how many distinct names we’ve personalized on our baby gifts.

We have a total of 7500 different baby names in our database so far. That’s an enormous amount of names when you stop to think about it. This is especially astonishing when you consider that not too long ago new parents were selecting names from a very short list of popular names.

Baby Names-Trendier the Better

Trends come and go when it comes to naming a baby. But one thing is paramount today. New parents want to give their baby a name that is different. Sometimes that means choosing a conventional name but spelling it differently. Two names with several spelling options are: Carlee, Carleigh, Carley, Carlie, Karlee, Karlie for girls; or Casen, Cason, Cayson, Kasen, Kayson for boys.

An even bigger trend is choosing unconventional names inspired by a host of different influences. Here is what we see trending now:

Nouns: Rainbow, Snow, Ocean, Pine, Love, etc

Celestial objects: Moon, Nova, Luna Jupiter, Skye, etc.

Colors: Indigo, Blues, Red, Violet, Amber, Jade, etc

Another trend fueled by social changes is the redefining of gendered names. Girls are being given names traditionally reserved for boys such as Max. And boys are being given names more closely identified with girls such as Indigo. This clearly reflects the shifting values in our society toward the definition of gender.

Silly Phillie® offers a full collection of beautiful personalized baby gifts at www.sillyphillie.com. Each one is made to order in Brooklyn, NY. and you can count it to be as special as the baby you are sending it to!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Owner & Designer

Triple Savings on Baby Gifts is here!

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And not just on any baby gifts, but on premium Silly Phillie® baby Gifts!

It’s a well known fact that Silly Phillie® baby gifts are among the very best you can find anywhere. No other company can match the creativeness, quality, and attention to detail that goes into each and every one of our made to order baby gift baskets and other unique baby gift creations.

With the introduction of our “Triple Savings Spectacular” promotion, Silly Phillie® baby gifts now offer the best overall value too.

Here’s how this exciting new program works:

1. Save 20% on any retail baby gift purchased on www.sillyphillie.com. Simply enter the promo code “New Baby” at checkout and a cool 20% will be deducted from your total;

plus….

2. Get a free layette item with any single purchase of $75 or more. The bonus layette item will have a minimum retail value of $20 and will be personally selected by me to compliment the primary gift;

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3. Enjoy Free FedEx Ground Shipping on orders of $150 or more shipping to one location.

I am thrilled to be able to offer our loyal customers these valuable incentives. When you combine 20% off, a free layette item, plus free shipping on larger orders, the overall savings is quite substantial. I honestly think you won’t find a better value proposition on premium quality baby gifts anywhere else.

Please visit www.sillyphillie.com/promotions for complete details on our Triple Savings Spectacular promotion. With these exciting incentives, why would anyone consider anything less than a beautifully made to order Silly Phillie® baby gift.

Happy New Year everyone!

Phyllis (Silly Phillie®)