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Celebrity Sighting: Seraphina Affleck wears Silver... Today, on Labor Day we spotted this photo on the web of Seraphina Affleck wearing silver metallic shoes provided by Itzy Bitzy following the Baby Swags 2010 Mother's Day gifting.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt Throws Baby Shower... Jennifer Love Hewitt throws a baby shower for her brother and sister-in-law who are expecting their first child this fall as featured in OK Magazine. Baby Swags was called...

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Baby Swags Presents TheBump.com Giveaway! Baby Swags along with it's Mom Entrepreneur partners are offering one lucky member of thebump.com the ultimate giveaway prizes!  The gift basket has an approximate retail...

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A Message from Phyllis Pometta, Founder of Baby Swags ALL GOOD THINGS COME WITH TIME...and patience! I have been in this business going on 4 years. My actual anniversary for being in business is September 6, 2006. With each...

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Baby Swags sends The Guncles a special delivery of... Baby Swags sends "The Guncles" a special delivery of their own as the couple welcome their new baby girl, Simone into their family.  "The Guncles" are best know for their...

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Bows 2 Cute spotted on Vida McConaughey

Category : Client Spotlight, Matthew McConaughey, Our Press

Spotted while out with her mama in NY, baby Vida, looking cute as a button, is wearing a pink clippie that was part of a starter set that was gifted to parents, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves earlier this year.  The starter sets are perfect for that barely there hair for a gentle touch of an accessory to keep the ooh’s and aah’s coming! This set comes as shown with a possible size  and color variations Click HERE to view Bows 2 Cute and HERE to view our gifting to Vida (product is show lower left hand corner next to the monkey!)

Hot Tots: Honor Warren wears Creative Clips by Colleen

Category : Celebrity Toddler, Client Spotlight, Jessica Alba, Our Press

Spotted yet again, little trend setter, Honor Warren, daughter of Jessica Alba and Cash Warren was out and about as stylish as could be sporting two of our clients hair clips.  Check it out below, then visit Creative Clips by Colleen to pick up your own Green Pearl Medallion or Pink Medallion hair clips.  Check out our gifting to Jessica here from 2008, the proof is in the seeing, these clips stand up to the test of time!

You can see baby Honor wearing the same Green Medallion hair clip below

Love Bug Kids Spotted on Violet Affleck

Category : Celebrity Kids, Celebrity Parents, Client Spotlight, Featured, Our Press

While I was doing my celebrity sighting search last night I came across a photo that I had not seen before.  It was from the gifting that we did for Violet and Seraphina’s birthday in the beginning of the year.  I am not sure where or when this photo was taken but I found it and want to share it with you because our client Love Bug Kids sent in the pretty red flower hair clip that you see happy little Violet wearing while spending some fun time with her mom, Jennifer Garner.

You can get your Crystal Rose Clippie by visiting Love Bug Kids!  Thanks again Violet and Jennifer for supporting our hard working mom-entrepreneurs! :)

Celebrity Sighting Week for Sugar & Spice

Category : Celebrity Baby, Celebrity Kids, Celebrity Parents, Client Spotlight, Jennifer Garner, Our Press

When a client emails to let us know that a celebrity has been spotted wearing a product that we sent, of course we get just as excited as our client.  This sighting then means we have done our job.  We have helped to get a clients product into the hands of a celebrity mom.  Our client Sugar & Spice hit the jackpot last week when not one but three of their products turned up on the heads of celebrity kids, Violet and Seraphina Affleck.  We had previously sent mom, Jennifer Garner, a dual gift for both of her girls as they celebrated their 4th and 1st birthdays as seen here.  Almost 6 months later, the sightings are spotted!  Found on various websites these photos are found and Sugar & Spice hair accessories take center stage!  For more information, visit Sugar & Spice


Cupcake Clip by Sugar & Spice

Red & White Dot Ribbon with Pink Ribbon & Button Center by Sugar & Spice

Thank you Jennifer, Violet & Seraphina for supporting our hard working mompreneurs by sporting their handcrafted products!

Our Gift to Sandra Bullock & Baby Louis

Category : Celebrity Baby, Featured, New Celebrity Moms, Press Releases, Sandra Bullock

New Mom, Sandra Bullock is Sent a Gift Basket to Welcome her Newest Addition, Baby Louis

Baby Swags joins forces with it’s mompreneur clients to send a gift basket of handcrafted, mom-invented, and mom-inspired products to Sandra Bullock as a way to welcome her new baby into her life.

Baby Swags is so proud to have added Sandra Bullock to their celebrity gifting roster following the adoption of her son Louis.  Sandra was sent a beautiful gifting of products that every new and experienced mom would want for their child. From clothing to room decor, Louis has received a variety of fun and trendy new products just for him.

The Academy Award winning actress is best known for her role in the movie, The Blind Side and has been the leading woman in several hit romantic comedies, including The Proposal,  Miss Congeniality, Two Weeks Notice and Practical Magic. Sandra is also an entrepreneur which touches the hearts of Baby Swags clients.  She owns her own production company, Fortis Films and was an executive producer of The George Lopez Show.  She has her own restaurant and a bakery/floral shop located in Texas.

“For Sandra’s baby boy gift basket, we wanted to find products that portrayed fun and adventurous, while still serving a practical purpose.” Stated Pometta, Baby Swags founder.   Pometta continues, “All in all, the products that we sent to Sandra are great, practical products that any parent could use.”

Products Included:

Jubilee Keepsakes: Engraved Keepsake First Birthday Cake Knife to be used at each birthday and then on your wedding day.

Zielo: Provided Sandra and baby Louis with a 100% Pima cotton pajama and baby set that included a gown and blanket.  Zielo’s pajama and baby set will let you enjoy a magical bonding time together with your new one.

Koolabah: Dotted Bat Jacket made exclusively for Baby Louis.  The provided jacket is a unique design for a unique baby boy.

Toy Block Music: Limited Edition, numbered CD of modern reinterpretations of classic children’s songs.

Pink Koala Design: Unique shape, funky fabrics.  The Pink Koala “Dribble Bibblez” bandana bib is funky and functional, a stylish solution for dribbling or drooling toddlers and infants.

Angela R. Talley: Photo Gift Certificate and Free 16×20 Metallic Canvas.

Toffee Creations: Small size Raspberry Love Toffee.  “Our toffee is so good, we don’t have to mask it with chocolate!”

Susu And John: Beaufort Buttom Bucket(tm) Hat with matching monogrammed britches.  Practical, Heirloom quality made in the USA.

Bee Rescued: Provided Sandra with their most popular Bee Rescued Propolis Care products such as, toothpaste, lotion bar, eye cream, rescue balm,  and shave gel.

Sweet Baby Cakes n More: Plush elephant diaper bake made with brand name products for mom to use on her new precious baby.  Sweet Baby Cakes n More – creative gifts for the most precious creations.

Jet Set Babies: Provided baby Louis with their exclusive onesie and a $100 gift certificate to be used on JetSetBabies.com.  Make travel with baby easy by having Jet Set Babies ship ahead bulky baby supplies!

Cupcake Kids Artwear: Hand painted monogram union suit with matching hand painted monogram canvas shoes.  Also provided was a hand painted “Surfs Up” board shorts and cotton onesie.

Kozzy Bottoms LLC: Provided a gift certificate in addition to 2 covered wipe cases, two sets of four cloth wipes that are a great alternative to disposable wipes and can be washed with all your laundry.  Also provided to Sandra and Louis, a hand quilted blanket that easily fits into a diaper bag or purse, two handcrafted Paci-Clips, and a Natural, Lemon Citrus Deodorizing Powder.

Wild Natural Baby: Baby Ultimate Essentials Collection, Sulfate Free, Paraben Free, Phthalate Free!  The Baby Ultimate Essentials Collection is one each of their baby essentials.  This collection includes: Happy Baby Bar Soap, Splish-Splash Shower Gel, Pookie Baby Lotion, Bubbles Baby Shampoo, Cutie Patootie Diaper Ointment, and Fluffy Bear Powder.  Enjoy in the luscious feeling of these natural baby essentials made in the USA.

“Baby Swags along with it’s clients wish Sandra and her new baby a lifetime of happiness”, states Pometta.  “She is loved, respected and appreciated by so many of us mom-entrepreneurs that this gift to her is our way of saying thank you for all you do.”

About Baby Swags:
An entrepreneur at heart, Phyllis Pometta has always wanted to be a mom, raise her children and have her own business.  It wasn’t until she was pregnant with her third child that she decided to take a business idea to market.  She started out with a small product based business but realized she had more joy in marketing and promoting her product.  Falling back on her degree in Marketing and Retail, she was able to have her product featured in print and on a national television show.  After returning home from a trip to Los Angeles, her need to help other mom-entrepreneurs fell into place and Baby Swags was born.  Phyllis has created the Baby Swags network that has 380+ members, hosts an internet radio show, The Mommy Mentor on www.toginet.com which airs Tuesday, 10-11:00AM CST and will be launching her own digital magazine for tween girls in July, 2010.  She fully believes that knowledge is power and continues to inspire, motivate and empower women and girls of all ages and stages.

Baby Swags prides itself on providing celebrity outreach services to help gain recognition to fellow work at home moms and their products by providing celebrities with VIP gift bags, luxury gift lounges, celebrity birthday party attendee gift bags, assisting in selecting products for celebrity event gift bags and placing products into the hands of celebrities and influential people. You can find Baby Swags more information on Baby Swags by visiting www.babyswags.com

Kate Gosselin & Kids (But No Jon) Return to TV

Category : Celebrity Parents

Kate Gosselin and her 8 children will be back on TLC this Sunday, for two hours that mark the network’s victory over Jon in court and a programming block certain to draw the type of numbers that make the cable network’s execs smile.

Kate Plus 8 premieres at 9 pm and features Kate taking the kids to Orlando to celebrate the sextuplets 6th birthday. Watch the preview here on RadarOnline.com.

At one point in the clip, Kate and the kids encounter an alligator and the screaming begins.

Source: RadarOnline.com

Suri Cruise Plays With an iPad

Category : Celebrity Toddler

Along with having over 100 pairs of shoes and a wardrobe that would rival any A-lister, 4-year-old Suri proves once again she can keep up with adult trends—this time with her very own iPad!

An eyewitness tells Life & Style Suri played with her new iPad while at dinner at Il Cantinori in NYC on May 24 with parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Unlike most children’s toys which typically cost under $100, the iPad cost ranges from $499-$829 depending on the number of gigabytes.

The eyewitness tells Life & Style Suri put her stuffed animals aside to use a drawing program on the expensive piece of equipment while Tom and Katie carried on a conversation with dining partners. She played with the iPad for about 20 minutes before the family headed out of the restaurant just before midnight.

According to reports, iPads remain sold out in many locations and the wait list continues to grow. Suri is one of just 2 million iPad owners since the item launched on April 3.

Source: Life & Style Mag

Tiger Woods’ wife, Elin, going for full custody

Category : Celebrity Parents

The impending divorce between Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren is about to get a lot more contentious.

Elin has decided to go for full custody of their two children, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

While the beautiful blonde still wants Tiger to be a big part of their children’s lives, she had decided not to agree to joint custody.

It’s a significant behind-the-scenes development and one that could cause their quiet dissatisfaction with each other to turn into a loud public war.

“Elin isn’t saying that she’s moving to Sweden but she does want full custody now,” one source told us.

“Tiger is not going to give up those kids without a fight.”

Source: Radar Online

Alicia Keys is Pregnant & Engaged!

Category : Expecting Celebrities

BREAKING NEWS: REP CONFIRMS: ALICIA KEYS IS PREGNANT! AND ENGAGED!

Grammy winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys, 29, and longtime beau Swizz Beatz, 31, are expecting a baby and engaged to be married in a private ceremony later this year, a rep for the couple confirms to Life & Style!

A friend of the couple tells Life & Style the two are “very happy” and “excited” about the news.

That’s going to be one talented baby!!

Source: Life and Style Magazine

Education Crisis – You’re Voice Counts!

Category : From The Editor

As a mom of three school aged children, I am seeing first hand as to what our school systems are faced with and it scares me. Our own school district is 16 million dollars in debt. Why? During the building/housing boom, our town was growing with families and the schools were too small. They built and built and now with four high schools, and countless middle and elementary schools, you obviously need to hire people to help run those schools, teachers to teach our children, and people to clean the schools, and so on. They spent money on things that we didn’t need (and still don’t, like the recorded ‘informational’ phone call messages they leave for you during dinner) and they expected the tax base to go on indefinitely. Now they, or we, are faced with solving this deficit problem within the next three years to comply with the State of Illinois mandate. You can check these links out for some more background on our own school and education situation: ABC 7 Chicago, Chicago Breaking News, Progress Illinois and of course, our very own Plainfield, Illinois school district 202 website.

This may not seem like a big deal to some, but it should. The choices we make today effect the children of today and tomorrow. By cutting back teacher salaries, eliminating teachers from our schools, removing extracurricular activities such as art, music and gym programs, decreasing bus routes, cutting sports programs, and foreign programs, it only means we aren’t fighting hard enough to keep them in tact. Our class rooms are already over-populated with each one having approximately 30 students to one teacher, so if you think the quality of their education isn’t hurting now, wait until you see mixed aged classes, or rooms with 30-45 students to one teacher. Mixed-aged classes are what they are planning to do with a select number of students from the third and forth grade in my childrens school. They are going to mix them together for specific classes to help with the budget recovery process. As a parent, no, I am not happy about this type of learning. Students need individual attention, they need to be able to connect personally with their educators, they need to have gym class (especially with childhood obesity at its highest), they need to have their souls nurtured with creativity, art and music, and they need it all to succeed in the 21st century and to help keep America competitive.

Thank You for speaking up for us!

Thank you for speaking up on our behalf!

The good news is that an education amendment has been added to the pending jobs bill in Congress, which will help schools avoid such drastic cuts. I am asking that you help me get the word out. We need to be one voice telling Congress to pass the Education Jobs Fund. We must let our congressional representatives know how we feel about children’s education as well as support our teachers! Ask your community to take action now because next week maybe too late! Have them go to http://www.capwiz.com/nea/issues/alert/?alertid=15045411&type=co to forward a letter directly to their representative to have their voices heard. More information on this important legislation can be found at http://www.educationvotes.nea.org.

It’s time to fight for the educational experience that our children deserve!