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Silly Phillie Ready to Gallop Ahead Post COVID-19!

Post COVID-19 is finally beginning. Infections, hospitalizations and deaths are all trending down. Businesses are slowing opening again. People are also getting back to work. Importantly, we must all do this sensibly. This means wearing masks, continuing to practice social distancing. and staying home when not feeling well. The possibility of a second wave of this nasty COVID-19 virus occurring will be greatly reduced if we all follow these guidelines.

Silly Phillie & Post COVID-19

Monday June 8th is the first day back to work for Silly Phillie since Mid-March when NYC was shut down due to COVID-19. Needless to say, the impact has been devastating financially and personally for all involved. However, Sily Phillie is determined to return stronger than ever even if it takes awhile to recover fully.

For example, Silly Phillie is launching several new and exciting baby gifts to coincide with returning to business. In addition, the company has also created a new line of face masks for children 2-5 years of age. These masks are designed to be both protective, and stylish enough to encourage kids to wear them. More about Silly Phillie face masks will be covered in a separate post.

Introducing Pony Express Wagons and Lovable Lion Baby Gift Basket

New Silly Phillie Baby Gift Post COVID-19

Pony Express Wagon Baby Girl Gift

We’re delighted to be adding several new baby gifts to our collection. For starters, there are two Plush Pony Express Wagons, one each for boy and girl. Both come with a personalized bib, an incredibly soft and cuddly animal character baby blanket, plus other plush toys for baby. The wagon itself is made of wood, stylishly painted, and features the most adorable plush pony head on front and fabric tail on back.

The other new baby gift is our Lovable Lion Baby Gift Basket. This is not your ordinary gift basket by any means. It starts with a linen fabric basket that is decorated with the face and feet of a plush lion. In addition, this keepsake basket is filled with delightful layette items for the new baby. Gender neutral colors makes it a perfect baby shower gift.

Post COVID-19 Final Thoughts

First, we must all remember to approach the transition back to normalcy very cautiously. Second, we should not forget whats truly important in life: your health, family, and work, in that order. Lastly, we all should keep in mind that life is too short. Live everyday like it could be your last and don’t fret over unimportant trivial matters.

ABOUT SILLY PHILLIE®

Phyllis Gordon SDao-Owner/Designer

Silly Phillie® has been in business since 1985. We design & manufacture unique baby gifts, layette, and kid’s bathrobes. Our premium quality products are made with love in the USA. We personalize and customize “beautiful gifts for beautiful babies“. Please visit www.sillyphillie.com.

Silly Phillie® Creations, Inc. is a woman owned business. Call 855.885.3900 to inquire about our unique baby gift baskets and other sensational products. You can also email me directly: phyllis@sillyphillie.com.

I’d “love” to hear from you!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Thank Goodness for Baby Gift Baskets

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Baby Gift Baskets make choosing a newborn baby gift “easy as pie”. See it, like it, gift it. That’s all you really need to do, with the exception of paying for it of course. Everything else is taken care of, including the components, the presentation, and gift wrapping. Consequently, Baby Gift Baskets are perfect for those in need of a gift but don’t have the time or inclination to spend in the process.

That’s not to say that a baby gift basket is a thoughtless choice. In fact, some make exceptional gifts, especially if made by a talented professional. On the other hand, many Baby Gift Baskets may look fantastic, but they eventually miss the mark because they’re filled with inferior quality components. I call this the”wrapping paper” effect. Add enough gift wrapping and any gift can be made to look impressive and even beautiful.

NOT ALL BABY GIFT BASKETS ARE CREATED EQUAL

The trick to choosing a truly impressive baby gift basket is by paying attention to what’s inside. After all, new parents will evaluate the gifts they receive not by how they looked or by how many components were inside. At the end of the day, they will be most impressed by the quality of the items inside for their baby. The popular phrase ‘It’s What’s Inside that Counts”couldn’t be more appropriate.

Baby Gift Baskets-Thank Heaven for Little Girls

Silly Phillie® makes all of it’s Baby Gift Baskets, including those shown on this page, in the USA. We fill them with quality layette items made of 100% cotton materials. These are the same type of upscale items you’ll find in baby boutiques and better department stores. Our Baby Gift Baskets are available at www.sillyphillie.com. In addition, you can save 25% right now by using promo code 2020.

ABOUT SILLY PHILLIE®

Phyllis Gordon SDao-Owner/Designer

Silly Phillie® has been in business since 1985. We design & manufacture unique baby gifts, layette, and kid’s bathrobes. Our premium products are made with love in the USA. We personalize and customize “beautiful gifts for beautiful babies“. Please visit www.sillyphillie.com.

I’d “love” to hear from you!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Baby’s First Halloween Gift Ideas

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Baby’s First Halloween is a very special occassion. It’s a time for parents to dress up the kids in fun or scary costumes and go trick or treating in the neighborhood. As one of the most celebrated days of the year, Halloween is one of the most anticpated and particpated holidays for families.

Baby’s First Halloween Gift Ideas

Silly Phillie® offers two fantastic gift sets to celebrate Baby’s First Halloween. Both include an adorable 2-piece Halloween costume for baby. One is a fantastic Pumpkin outfit, the other a cute as can be Octopus. Morever, both sets come with a pumpkin treat bag to carry the treats in, pus a Halloween themed baby bib. To top it off, the outfit and treat bag will be personalized with baby’s name in both sets.

The costumes are available in one size- 6-12 months. This is a perfect size for a baby anywear from 3-12 months. Typical of all Silly Phillie gifts, each of these Baby’s Frist Halloween sets come beautifully assembled and wrapped to make an immediate impression.

Interesting Facts about Halloween

Halloween has it’s roots in the pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain. It was believed that the ghosts of the dead roamed the earth on Samhain, which occurred on October 31st.
Trick or treat came from the middle age practice of poor adults and children going around in costume begging for food on Samhain .
It was the turnip not the pumpkin that was the original jack-O’-lantern
Halloween is the third most celebrated party event of the year in America behind only New Year’s Eve and the Superbowl
It is believed that Halloween and the candy industry were the influening factors that led to Daylight savings time.

Please visit the History Channel for a more indepth history of Halloween.

About Silly Phillie®

Unique Baby Gift Baskets designed by Silly Phillie

Phyllis Gordon SDao-Owner/Designer

Silly Phillie® has been designing, manufacturing, and selling unique baby gifts, layette, and kids bathrobes since 1985. The company’s premium products are made with love in the USA. They can be purchased in select retail stores and online @ www.sillyphillie.com.

Silly Phillie® Creations, Inc. is a woman owned business. Please call 855.885.3900 to inquire about our unique baby gift baskets and other sensational gifts. Or send an email to: phyllis@sillyphillie.com.

I’d “love” to hear from you!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Welcome to the New Silly Phillie Baby Boutique

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I am delighted to introduce the new www.sillyphillie.com Baby Boutique. For the first time ever, all Silly Phillie® baby gifts, layette, and kids bathrobes are presented on one beautiful, state-of-the-art website.

Superior Baby Boutique Shopping Experience

Silly Phillie® baby boutique was designed with our customers in mind. The new website offers more of everything, including:

More customer friendly shopping experience. The new Silly Phillie website makes finding the perfect gift simplier than ever. For starters, large graphic links to the store’s most popular categories were added to the homepage. In addition, new & more powerful search tools have were added to each category page to make it easier to sort through the available products.
More Convenient checkout. Amazon Pay was added as an additional payment option. Along PayPal Pro, sillyphillie.com now offers shoppers two of the most secure payment options.
More secure HTTPS website. Our website uses the latest HTTPS technology to secure data transfers. HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Profile Secure) means that all data exchanged between a website’s servers and visitor is fully encrypted and secured. Websites built on HTTPS technology display a padlock icon in the browser address bar.
More beautiful products from Silly Phillie®. The new Silly Phillie website has many new and exciting products. One of them is our Magical Unicorn Baby Gifts

One Baby Boutique for all Silly Phillie Customers.

The new www.sillyphillie.com offers one stop shopping for all Silly Phillie® customers. In other words, retail, wholesale, and drop ship customers can shop on the same website. Each will have access to the latest products and enjoy the superior shopping experience offered by our new online baby boutique.

About Silly Phillie®

Phyllis Gordon SDao-Owner/Designer

Silly Phillie® has been designing and manufacturing unique baby gifts, layette and kids bathrobes since 1985. The company’s premium products are made with love in the USA. They can be purchased in select retail stores and online @ www.sillyphillie.com.

I’d love to hear from you!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Unique Personalized Baby Gifts Impress

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Unique personalized baby gifts make a memorable impression. After all, new parents love seeing their baby’s name or monogram on a gift, especially if it’s a gift of quality.

Moreover, unique personalized baby gifts create more than immediate excitement. Usually they become treasured keepsakes that parents hold onto long after their baby grows.

Consider Giving these Unique Personalized Baby Gifts

As expected, there’s no shortage of personalized baby gifts to choose from. The list ranges from simple items like a personalized onsie, to more elaborate gifts such as a personalized rocking horse gift set.

The following are some of my favorite unique personalized baby gifts:

Unique Personalized Baby Gifts-premium terry bathrobes & hooded towels

Ultimate Terry Personalized Bathrobes

Personalized Rocking Chair. Parents love receiving a rocking chair gift for their newborn. A rocking chair looks great in the nursery and baby will love it too once he or she is ready to sit in it.
Sterling Silver Engraved Gifts from Tiffany. Nothing impresses new parents more than a gift from the company with that iconic blue box. Tiffany has many unique personalized baby gifts to choose from. Sure they’re expensive. But that’s the price you pay for a keepsake quality baby gift.
7-Piece Personalized Layette. This is one of my favorite personalized baby gifts. It includes 7 premium quality layette items, all made in the USA by Silly Phillie®. Each comes tastefully embroidered with baby’s 3-letter monogram to create a unique personalized baby gift.
Personalized Wooden Name Puzzle. This gift new parents will treasure forever. I know because I still have the ones I received when my sons were born quite some time ago. I found a shop on Etsy that seems to be making beautiful ones today.
Personalized Bathrobes from Silly Phillie®. When in doubt, you never can go wrong gifting one of these beauties. For starters, they’re made from a luxurious ultimate terry velour fabric. In addition, they’re made in the USA by Silly Phillie® so you know the workmanship quality is superb. Finally, you can choose from a wide assortment of adorable designs.

One note of caution. Make sure you have the correct spelling of baby’s name before ordering a personalized gift. New parents today are coming up with uncommon ways of spelling names. Once a gift is personalized you own it!

About Silly Phillie®

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Since 1985 Silly Phillie® has been designing and manufacturing unique baby gifts, layette accessories and kids bathrobes. The company’s premium products are made with love in the USA. They can be purchased in select retail stores and from online gift boutiques, including www.sillyphillie.com.

Silly Phillie® Creations, Inc. is a woman owned family business. Please call 855.885.3900 to inquire about our unique baby gift baskets and other sensational gifts. Or send an email to: phyllis@sillyphillie.com.

I’d love to hear from you!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Owner/Designer

Unique Baby Gifts for Girl that Impress

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Unique baby gifts for girl surprisingly are not that easy to find. Not because there’s a lack of choices. Quite the contrary. The market is inundated with baby girl gifts making it difficult to sort through the clutter.

Another factor is that most baby gifts for girl look too much alike. Unfortunately, many product designers/manufacturers are content to offer “me to” products rather than coming up with original design ideas. This a pet peeve of mine as a designer, but that’s a subject for another day.

5 Unique Baby Gifts for Girl

Pretty in Pink Welcome Wagon

Pretty in Pink Deluxe Welcome Wagon. Every little girl should have her own special welcome wagon pull toy. This limited edition one from Silly Phillie® is pretty in pink, filled with gorgeous layette and can be personalized too!
Triple Layer Grand Baby Cake. Baby girl gifts don’t come tastier than this diaper cake from 1800flowers. Three layers tall and made with premium ingredients, this one will satisfy anyone’s craving for a unique baby girl gift.
Baby Girl Rocking Hose and Layette. A classic baby gift if there ever was one. However, you won’t find solid wood rocking horse gift sets everywhere these days. Check it out at storkbabygifts.com.
Owl Character Hooded Towel. There’s lots of hooded towels for baby girls but only one you’ll give a “hoot” about. Precious design and top quality too. Check it out at buybuybuy.com.

About Silly Phillie®

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

I’d love to hear from you!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Owner/Designer

The Original Baby Hoagie™ is a Cool Gift for Kids

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Silly Phillie’s Original Baby Hoagie™ made the list of Cool Gifts for Kids published by Real Simple Magazine. In fact, it is number twenty two out of seventy seven selected products. I am thrilled to have one of our most unique baby gifts recognized in such a way.

The origins of the Original Baby Hoagie™

The Original Baby Hoagie™ was conceived as a one time baby shower centerpiece for my niece Lainie Wilker’s baby shower. The shower was to be hosted by my sister Ricki Block at her home in San Diego, California. I naturally wanted to contribute something special to the occasion as Lainie’s aunt and professional baby gift designer. I also wanted it to have a definite East Coast flavor being that I am from New York.

My thought process led me to doing a spoof of a food related item. Specifically, I settled upon creating a Hoagie sandwich made exclusively from layette items for baby. My sister was a little apprehensive about the idea. She was concerned that a whimsical rendition of a Hoagie might not be “sophisticated” enough for her fashionable West Coast lady friends.

Reaction to the Original Baby Hoagie™

The Original Baby Hoagie™ was the hit of my nieces’s baby shower I am happy to report. Everyone absolutely loved it. In fact, I left the baby shower inundated with orders from my sister’s friends! Needless to say Ricki was very proud of her baby sister and I think more than a little bit relieved.

The Original Baby Hoagie™ went into production as soon as I returned to New York. Fortunately, It became an immediate hit everywhere it was sold. That was quite some time ago. Today, the Original Baby Hoagie™ remains one of Silly Phillie’s best selling gifts and most talked about products.

I’d like to give a special note of thanks to Victoria Sanchez-Lincoln, Fashion Director at Real Simple. She discovered the product at a public relations event earlier this year and was influential in getting it on the list of Cool Kids for Kids published by Real Simple.

Phyllis Gordon S’dao

Designer & Owner

Silly Phillie® Creations

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®

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®)

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®)