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Unique Personalized Baby Gifts Impress

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®

Unique Baby Gift Baskets designed by 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

Celebrity Baby Gift Made for Hoda Kotb

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It’s always a source of excitement whenever Silly Phillie® is asked to make a celebrity baby gift. Hoda Kotb is the latest celebrity to receive a Silly Phillie baby gift. As many of you know, Hoda Kotb is a noted newscaster and co-hosts NBC’S Today Show.

Ms. Kotb recently revealed that she adopted a baby girl and named her Haley Joy. It was an emotional event to say the least. Ms. Kotb battled cancer more than 10 years ago, leaving her unable to conceive a child. She is experiencing the joy of motherhood for the first time at the age of 52.

But there ‘s more good news for Hoda Kotb. Soon after adopting Haley Joy she announced plans to marry her boy friend, Joel Schiffman. Mr. Schiffman, 58 years of age, is Vice President & Director, Financial Institutions at Janus Capital Group. The two have been dating for 5 years and living together for over a year.

Celebrity Baby Gift – nothing new for Silly Phillie®

Personalized Rocking Horse for Haley Joy

Few manufacturers make more baby gifts for celebrities than Silly Phillie®. Sometimes orders are placed directly on www.sillyphillie.com and sometimes we receive a call from the gift giver. Hoda Kotb’s gift was actually sold by All About Gifts & Baskets, one of our valued re-sellers.

In either case, the gift is designed and made to order by Silly Phillie®. Our most popular celebrity baby gift is either a Personalized Rocking Horse-like the one we did for Haley Joy- or a Deluxe Welcome Wagon. Both are fabulous high quality gifts that will impress even a celebrity!

About Silly Phillie®

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Silly Phillie® has been designing and manufacturing unique baby gifts, layette accessories 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 from online gift boutiques, including www.sillyphillie.com.

I’d love to hear from you!

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Owner/Designer

Baby Gifts by Silly Phillie®… a Labor of Love

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Baby Gifts by Silly Phillie® are one of a kind. That’s because each one is made to order in Brooklyn, NY. Making baby gifts in the USA is a rarity. Most others are massed produced overseas. The difference is one you can see, one you’ll love, and one you’d be proud to give or receive.

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao is the person responsible for designing the entire collection of baby gifts by Silly Phillie®. Moreover, she has established a remarkable track record for creativity and product innovation. Some of her more iconic baby gifts include Welcome Wagon & Rocking Horse baby gift sets, as well the The Original Baby Hoagie and Special Delivery Pizza.

Furthermore, as company founder and majority owner of Silly Phillie® Creations, Phyllis works tirelessly designing exciting new products while actively overseeing production to make sure each gift looks absolutely fantastic. It’s a “labor of love” requiring both talent and perseverance.

Baby Gifts by Silly Phillie® is Serious Business

Brooklyn Progress is a bi-monthly publication of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. The November/December 2016 issue includes a full page profile titled “Silly Phillie® is Serious about Baby Gifts”. The article tracks the company’s growth from a start up in 1985, to becoming a major brand in the baby gift category today.

Additionally, the article talks about Phyllis’ commitment to manufacturing in Brooklyn, and her continued ability to introduce new and exciting gifts. You can read the complete story by clicking this link to view the publication, then navigate to page 4.

About Silly Phillie®

Silly Phillie designs and manufactures unique baby gifts, layette accessories and kids bathrobes. Company products are lovingly made to order in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Silly Phillie® products are sold wholesale to retail stores, drop shipped for online e-retailers, and sold directly to the public on sillyphillie.com. Finally, Silly Phillie® is a women owned, family business since 1985. To inquire about our products and services, please call 855.885.3900.

Richard S’Dao

Co-owner

Baby Gifts Drop Shipping Overview

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Baby Gifts Drop Shipping is a integral part of Silly Phillie’s business model. In fact, it’s not uncommon today for manufacturer’s of all kinds to “drop ship” their products to customers who purchase them from third party internet retailers.

This type of business arrangement makes sense for a number of reasons. First of all, manufacturers benefit from increased exposure of their products. Second, internet retailers reap the rewards of having more products to sell without the need to inventory or touch them in any way. Finally, it lowers distribution costs and speeds delivery of product to the customer or gift recipient in the case of a baby gift.

Baby Gifts Drop Shipping-A Special Delivery

There are four main parties* in a drop shipping baby gifts transaction: the manufacturer, the retailer, the customer, and the recipient. Here’s a closer look at each:

The Manufacturer. No drop ship transaction can be successful without the availability of quality products and timely delivery from a reliable manufacturer or distributor. It is especially important in a category such as baby gifts where quality and timeliness is critical.
The Retailer. Retailers must provide an exemplary buying experience and excellent customer service. This includes educating customers on the merits of a product without over stating its benefits. Nothing is worse than having disappointed customers.
The Customer. As the one making the purchase decision, customers must be nurtured, satisfied and pampered in order to ensure a successful transaction. Friendly service, special discounts and follow up calls are ways of keeping customers satisfied and coming back.
The Recipient. The final party in a baby gifts drop shipping transaction is the parents of a newborn, or in some cases expectant parents. It is these individuals who’ll ultimately decide whether the transaction was a success or not. The product will be judged on it’s presentation, quality and usefulness. Remember, the purchaser in many cases will rely on the input from the gift recipient to know whether they made a good choice.

* Not including the designated shipping carrier i.e. UPS, FedEx, USPS

Baby Gifts Drop Shipping- A Silly Phillie® Specialty

Silly Phillie® has been drop shipping unique baby gifts for more than fifteen years. In fact, it has successful long term drop ship relationships with internet retailers both large and small. The list includes 1800flowers.com, 1800baskets.com, buybuybaby,com, bedbathandbeyond.com, storkbabygfits.com, cornerstorkbabygifts.com, simplyuniquebabygifts.com, and doodlebuckets.com, among others.

Silly Phillie® built solid relationships with each of these fine retailers by a) having the most unique and highest quality products; b) manufacturing in the USA to ensure fast turnaround; and c) having the capability to personalized and customized baby gifts.

Please contact Iliana Vieira by email (iliana@sillyphillie.com) or phone (855.855.3900) if you would like to know more about our company’s baby gifts drop shipping program.

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Owner & Designer-Silly Phillie®

Ultimate Hooded Towels introduced by Silly Phillie

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Silly Phillie® is delighted to announce the arrival of Ultimate Hooded Towels made from super premium 100% cotton terry velour. For those not familiar with woven terry velour fabric, one side is sheared to produce a soft “velour” like finish. The other side is highly absorbent loop terry.

Silly Phillie® Ultimate Hooded Towels are made not from ordinary terry velour. In fact, luxury hotels use this very same premium fabric to make their expensive bathrobes. Silly Phillie® imports the fabric directly from a renowned fabric mill in Europe. The towels themselves are made to order by Silly Phillie® in the USA!

Ultimate Hooded Towels

Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear Ultimate Hooded Towels are the first in a soon to be available line of premium terry velour products. Additional hooded towels, kids bathrobes, bibs and burp pads are all in the works.

Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear Hooded Towels have a lot going for them. They’re positively adorable as anyone can see, over sized to fit babies and toddlers, and quality made in the USA. But the most important thing is how wonderful the towels feel. One touch is all that’s needed to realize these are not ordinary hooded towels.

If you’re contemplating giving a hooded towel as a gift, or buying one for your own child, choose one that feels as good as it looks! Also, Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear towels can be purchased personalized with a child’s name on www.sillyphillie.com.

Makeing Hooded Towels the “old fashioned” way

Silly Phillie® Creations was launched more than 30 years ago with two items: a hooded towel and a matching hooded back sack. Both were made in the USA from premium terry velour fabric. Rich terry velour fabric helped put Silly Phillie® on the map back then. With it’s return, the company is back to what make it great in the first place!

If you have any questions about this piece or would like additional information, please email me, Phyllis@sillyphillie.com , or leave a reply below. I’d love to hear from you.

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

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.

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Thank you!

Phyllis (Silly Phillie®)