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Baby Gifts Personalized by Silly Phillie®

Ultimate Hooded Towels introduced by Silly Phillie

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®

Silly Phillie® Baby Gifts Receive Brooklyn-Made Certification

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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®

Cool Baby Gifts that never go out of style!

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Everyone loves cool gifts, especially cool baby gifts!

In fact, retailers and manufacturers understand the importance of cool baby gifts and aggressively target that exact keyword in Google search to generate interest in their products and increase website traffic.

Cool Baby Gifts are hot for the following reasons:

The event. A new baby is one of the the most joyful experiences in life. Consequently, friends, family and even co-workers look to celebrate the occasion with gifts that match that level of excitement.
Product choices. Few categories have benefited as much from technological advances as baby products. Scores of new & “cool” products are introduced each year for babies.
Young demographics. The baby gift category is driven by people between the ages of 24-39. This youthful group is up to date with the latest product trends, especially those that are driven by technology.
Gift clutter. New parents are inundated with gifts. Therefore, for a gift to stand out it be must be unique and cool in some way. Nowhere is this need more important than at a baby shower where gifts are usually opened in front of everyone!

Top 5 cool baby gifts

A stroller system. Technology has impacted the stroller perhaps more than any other baby product. Strollers today are complete travel systems. Some include an easy snap and go car seat. One popular model is the Britax Travel System.
Formula Maker. Preparing formula bottles has never been easier. Modern formula machines mix, heat and dispense formula in seconds. Check out the Baby Brezza Formula Pro.
Rocking Horse Gift Set. Every baby needs a rocking horse to call their own. A rocking horse looks great in the nursery and will become a treasured keepsake toy as baby grows. Silly Phillie® offers a wide collection of beautiful Rocking Horse Gift Sets.
Baby Humidifier. A humidifier is an essential but often over looked piece of equipment in a baby’s nursery. Dry air, especially during winter time, can irritate baby’s skin and nasal passages. One of my personal favorites is the line of Crane Cool Mist Animal Humidifiers.
BabyBjorn. This timeless baby carrier is a favorite of new parents. It is ergonomically designed to fit baby perfectly, comfortable for parents to wear and comes in eight bright colors.

5 More Cool Baby Gifts

Cloth Diapers. More and more new parents today are turning to natural cloth diapers as a viable option to disposables. They are Eco-friendly and cheaper and more cost efficient than disposables. Read this excellent summary-Cloth Diapers 101– before deciding whether to make this your gift.
Diaper Cake. If cloth diapers is not your style, then consider a beautiful Diaper Cake baby gift. Diaper Cakes became all the rage after one was featured on the former hit show Sex in the City. Well made Diaper Cakes are made with disposal diapers and quality layette items. Check out this one sold on 1800flowers.com.
Personalized baby gifts. Any thing personalized with baby’s name goes over big with the new parents. Baby blankets & bath hooded towels are just two items that look great personalized.
Books. its never too early to start reading to a baby. In fact, reading to children from early infancy leads to increased neural activity according to a study from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Start baby’s library with books like Corduroy, the Very Hunger Caterpillar, and Is Your Mama a Llama.
Welcome Wagon. Last but not least is a Deluxe Welcome Wagon from Silly Phillie®. These beautiful baby gift sets come filled with an abundance of quality layette items and accessories for baby. It is a superior alternative to baby gift baskets because it includes a fabulous keepsake wood wagon pull-toy for baby.

In summary, there are many cool baby gifts to choose from. But the coolest ones in my opinion are those the new parents really, really wanted or didn’t know they needed. I hope you found this helpful in your search for cool baby gifts.

Until next time….

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®)

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

Personalized Baby Gifts & Buy Buy Baby

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Buy Buy Baby and Bed Bath & Beyond is in the process of launching a new program featuring Silly Phillie® baby gifts. It is the first time these two retailers will be selling Silly Phillie® baby gifts.

All of us at Silly Phillie® are thrilled with the opportunity to partner with these two fine retailers. Their large customer base should mean significant additional exposure and sales for our line of unique baby gifts.

But the thing we are most proud of is that Silly Phillie® is the brand they chose to offer personalized baby gifts for the first time. This is a significant step for these retailers and we are honored that they have placed their trust in our company for this new initiative.

personalized baby gifts selling at buy buy baby

Lion Hooded Towel Personalized

Unique Personalized Baby Gifts

Silly Phillie® has been selling unique personalized baby gifts for more than 20 years. It is one of our major points of difference versus other baby gift companies, along with our signature quality and unique designs.

For the triple B’s as we like to refer to them, we created some exciting new products we feel their customers will love. They in turn built a really cool, interactive personalization model for their website. Basically it shows the customer how the name to be personalized will look on the product before the purchase is made.

While not entirely new technology it is nevertheless quite impressive and helpful. Please click here to see how this process works.

What else is new at Silly Phillie? Well, we are a week or two away from launching a partnership with another well respected retailer. While it’s too early to name drop, we are excited about this new opportunity and we’ll announce it here just as soon as it happens.

I would to take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday. If you plan to travel as many people do for this holiday please be safe.

Phyllis (Silly Phillie)

Baby Gift Ideas-Why Rocking Horse Gift Sets Are So Appealing

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Discriminating shoppers make Silly Phillie® Rocking Horse Gift Sets their go to baby gift. For more than 20 years, corporate executives, doctors, lawyers, healthcare professionals and regular shoppers have been ordering these upscale gifts over and over. Many in fact have a standing order for one and only change the gift recipient details when it’s time to send another gift.

Rocking Horse Baby Boy Gift

Why A Rocking Horse gift set is among the best baby gift ideas

There are many reasons why Rocking Horse Baby Gifts by Silly Phillie® are so popular. The most important of those are:

The gift includes a quality made & tested safe wood rocking horse toy
Baby boutique quality layette items are also included
The look and presentation is absolutely fabulous
One can be order for a baby boy, girl, twins and as a baby shower gift
Option available to make it a personalized Baby Gift
Tulle gift wrapping is added as the final elegant touch
Made in the USA by Silly Phillie®

There are many excellent baby gift ideas to choose from for sure, including others mentioned in previous articles in this series. But for a guaranteed winner of a baby gift, especially if price point is not an issue, a Silly Phillie® Rocking Horse Baby Gift should be at the top of your list.

As of this writing, Silly Phillie® is the only company making Rocking Horse & Layette gift Sets. Others have tried in the past, but none have had the success we’ve had. I believe the reason for this is that Silly Phillie® is known for paying attention to details and taking the time to make the most awesome baby gifts.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this latest article in the series on baby gift ideas. I invite you to leave a comment, share it with others, and email me with any questions. Phyllis@sillyphillie.com.

Phyllis

Baby Gift Ideas-Silly Phillie Welcome Wagons

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Silly Phillie® Welcome Wagons™ have earned the status of a classic baby gift. And rightfully so. More than 75,000 Welcome Wagon™ pull-toy baby gift sets have been made & sold by Silly Phillie® over the last 20 years.

Deluxe Welcome Wagon Baby Boy Gift

Why are Welcome Wagons™ among Silly Phillie’s best selling baby gifts year in and year out? One reason is the name. With Welcome Wagon™ printed on both sides of the wagon, these gifts communicates the perfect sentiment to welcome a newborn baby.

But the popularity of Welcome Wagon™ baby gifts goes well beyond the name. Here are the top product based reasons why among baby gift ideas, a Welcome Wagon™ is such a smart choice.

A great keepsake toy. Beautifully made of wood & decorated with “Welcome Wagon” on both sides, baby will have a treasured wagon pull-toy to play with as he or she grows.
Quality layette items. Each Welcome Wagon baby gift comes filled with baby boutique quality layette items that are made in the USA by Silly Phillie®.
Something for everyone. There are Welcome Wagons™ for boys, girls, twins. triplets and in neutral to be given as a baby shower gift. There are also occupational themed Welcome Wagons for firefighters & police, and many can be purchased as a personalized baby gift.
Regular or Deluxe. Two different sized Welcome Wagons™ are available and each has a different price point for you to choose from.
Made to order looks. Each Welcome Wagon™ baby gift is made to order and gift wrapped by Silly Phillie® to make a fabulous presentation.

So the next time you’re searching for baby gift ideas, hop on the wagon and make a Silly Phillie® Welcome Wagon™ your next baby gift.

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this latest piece in the series on baby gift ideas. For more good ideas please visit https://www.sillyphillie.com/baby-gift-ideas. You can also send me an email with any questions. My email address is phyllis@sillyphillie.com.

Phyllis

New Caterpillar Wagon Baby Gifts

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Silly Phillie® has just added new gender specific looks to it’s Caterpillar Wagon line of baby gifts. Along with the previously introduced gender neutral version-a great choice for a baby shower gift- two girl themed Caterpillar Wagon baby gifts are now available. And within a matter of days, a baby boy themed Caterpillar Wagon gift set will be added to round out this unique collection. All versions offer personalization as an option for those looking for a personalized baby gift.