Jennifer Love Hewitt Throws Baby Shower…

Aug 23, 2010 by BabySwags

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 into action by providing the parents-to-be with a custom gift basket just for them. Not knowing if the baby was a boy or girl, participating clients sent in gender neutral gifts, in addition to beautiful jewelry, soaps and lotions for mom, dad and baby, books, clothing and items every new mom should have in their nursery.

Below is a closer image of what Baby Swags and it’s mom-entrepreneur clients provided along with a detailed listing of what was included in her custom gift basket.   *You can click on image to enlarge*

Pink Koala Design: The Pink Koala Design Dribble Bibblez “LilBandito” bandana bib is a stylish and practical drool catcher.  For your little Linus, the Pink Koala Design Kowallabie security blanket is the perfect starter.  Comes with a stroller strap attachment in a natural cotton webbing that is also great for holding a pacifier.  All products are made from organic and natural supplies.

Coastal Cuties provided organic and natural baby products, infant and toddler, lavender and chamomile and orange creamsicle along side exclusive Coastal Cuties bib.

Little Ella Bug provided mom to be with a necklace with a bird stamped charm.  Modern Jewelry inspired by Nature.

LibraKnits specializes in creating unique and stylish baby accessories for the discerning gift-giver.  Their hand-made Re sa Caps are a cozy and snuggly gift that will last for years to come.  They us plush angora and lambswool blended yarn that makes them feel soft and comfy on your baby’s skin.  They’re the perfect mix of fashion and warmth while you’re out and about with baby.

Ashley Petite provided a stylish stroller blanket in a designer fabric.  Ashley Petite products are made for style and function.

Monkeys ‘N Munchkins:  This fine silver dog tag was handcreated from silver clay and stamped with the phrase, “Born Free”.  Lightly waxed dark brown cotton cord bracelet slides open and closed with the help of a tan leather adjustable knot, and accent wood beads give this adorable bracelet just a touch more of a rugged edge.

Glow Baby: Provided the Baby’s First Journal and Baby’s First Food’s Journal which is a perfect way to keep track of feedings, allergic reactions to new foods and more.

Apple Pie Accessories provided baby to be with hair clips, pacifier clips, and toddler belts for him or her.

Koolabah: Provided a kool set for a kool baby! (long sleeved shirt, pants and hat with ties)

Kozzy Bottoms: Kozzy Bottoms is a military family owner online boutique that carries everything you need for your little one.  Shopping at Kozzy Bottoms saves you money and time.  Providing hand-dyed onesie, natural laundry soap, customized wipe case and other you need to care for your little one.  As an authorized retailer of Knickernappies, one size cloth diaper with loopy-do liners were included.

Baby Goga, The Little Lasso:  The Little Lasso is a mom-designed, handmade, machine washable “leash” that prevents take-along items from being tossed, dropped, or lost (and subsequently filthy).  The Little Lasso secures items large or small, is length adjustable, and easily attaches to highchairs, shopping carts, strollers, car seats, etc.

Poppa And I provided parents-to-be, Todd and Michelle with baby and toddler t-shirts in 5 various designs and sizes.

Designs by Diana: Sterling silver, crystal birthstone and glass bead “mom” bracelet.  Custom and personalized jewelry for any occasion.

Susu & John: Solid white Beaufort Button Bucket ™ hat for boy or girl with unique buttons, all ’round feature with matching reversible diaper cover.  Made in USA.

Enfusia: Provided Todd and Michelle with Cocoon Organic Baby Bath Products.  Delicious scent and great for babies skin.  Enfusia Natural Hair & Body care for Men, lightly scented and skin rich ingredients.

Laurie Sarah Designs: This baby’s foot started as a hand-carved wax and then is cast in solid .925 Sterling Silver and has the birthstone of your choice hand set.  It even has the darling little wrinkles to look like real skin.

BabyKakesInk! provided baby -to- be with their newest layette collection.  Featuring their gender neutral – Peace, Love and Baby set.

Board Book Albums provided mom and dad with their sturdy, Baby’s First Photo album.  Take Your Pix ™ photo albums (patent pending) have sturdy pages, into which photos can be inserted from an opening in the top of the pages.

Pamper Mama provided beauty and skin care products designed for moms, by moms.  They have gifted their skin care products which help defy the signs of aging.  Their quick and simple skin routine is designs for the busy mom to have healthy skin and maintain that youthful glow.

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 at Tots To Teens Magazine .  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 more information on Baby Swags by visiting www.babyswags.com

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Introducing: “Baby’s First Food’s” Journal by Glow Baby

Mar 30, 2010 by BabySwags

Did you know that four out of every one hundred children suffer from a food allergy? Among these, 0-5 year olds have the highest food allergy rate, evenly dispersed between boys and girls.

Introducing new foods to your infant can be an exciting yet overwhelming event for new or experienced parents.  Glow Baby’s “Baby’s First Foods” journal is designed to help parents and caregivers introduce new foods in an organized manner that tracks the child’s reactions, allergens and food intolerances.  It also helps parents by keeping important information in one place so that it can easily be shared with caregivers and pediatricians.

Glow Baby’s, “Baby’s First Foods” journal…

• ·       Includes an allergy and food sensitivity page, which gives anyone caring for your child a quick snapshot of foods your child must not eat.  In the event your child consumes a food he shouldn’t, the caregiver will also know what to look for and how it should be treated.
• ·    Is divided into sections based on 6 food groupings.  Each section contains log pages that allow parents to track the first three tries of each new food.  They can document when the food was given, the amount of food that was consumed, the texture, temperature and most importantly, the child’s reaction (like, dislike or indifferent), and whether or not there was an allergic reaction.
• ·       Includes 12 weeks worth of menu planning pages.  Menu planning helps to promote variety in baby’s diet and ensure they are offered the appropriate amount of solid food as well as breast milk or formula.
• ·       Has a special recipe section for parents to jot down any favorite recipes their child might enjoy.
• ·       Includes an “Extra” section.  The Extra log pages can be useful if your child develops an allergy down the road and you need to figure out which food is the allergen.  This section also contains note and contact pages for important information.
• ·       Is printed on FSC mixed source paper with 50% post consumer product with a suggested retail price of $22.00 USD.

Founded in Toronto, Canada by Lindsay Harris, Glow Baby is dedicated to providing user-friendly scheduling tools for today’s busy parents at all stages of parenthood.  As a mother of two young daughters, Lindsay quickly came to appreciate the difficulties of juggling family needs. The first tool Lindsay developed was “Baby’s First Journal”, a tracking log for baby’s basic needs such as feeding, sleeping, diapering and bathing.  Glow Baby has also launched a Note Pad Series, which includes Babysitter Notes; a Medicine Pad for tracking family medication instruction and doses; a Shopping List and a To Do List.  For more information, please visit www.glowbaby.ca

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WAHM Spotlight – Glow Baby

Oct 21, 2009 by BabySwags

There are many untold stories of how businesses and products came to be. Each company has a unique and personal story behind it and we are lucky enough to get to the root of their existence. Baby Swags comes into contact with many mom-entrepreneurs and it is our pleasure to share their stories with you, with the hope that it inspires or ignites that entrepreneurial spark that is in many stay at home moms and reaches out to those who don’t think that they have what it takes to get it all done. We are here to tell you it is possible. If you have a dream, if you believe it, you can achieve it and yes, you can succeed!

Our first Mom-Entrepreneur is Lindsay. She is from Toronto, Canada and the mom of two beautiful daughters, ages 2.5 and 10 months. She had been a stay-at-home mom until she started her company, Glow Baby. Here is her own, personal story of how Glow Baby came to be and how she simply, gets it done.

BS: Hi Lindsay, please start by telling us a little bit about yourself.
LH: I had been a stay-at-home-mom up until recently when I started Glow Baby. Prior to having children I worked in Human Resources for a large Canadian Bank but once having my first daughter when it came time to go back to work I decided to stay at home for a few years. My life is very busy with raising my two girls and starting a company. For fun I love going on family outings. My girls are a wonder to me and I can’t get enough of them. For relaxation, I love to read and have a weakness for reality TV, Twitter and Facebook.

BS: What is the nature of your business?
LH: Glow Baby is dedicated to providing functional and sophisticated products for families. Our first product is “Baby’s First Journal” which is a baby care log book that is essential for parents of newborns.

BS: How did your business come to be?
LH: I decided to start Glow Baby after being frustrated by the lack of savvy organizational products for parents in today’s market. There are so many products out there for babies yet when I tried to find a functional baby care log book I was at a loss. The newborn stage is the most difficult for parents as they are trying to get to know their new baby at the same time sleep deprivation reduces your ability to remember the important details. I found tracking the feeding, sleeping and diapering of both my children to have been instrumental in easing my way into parenthood and feel very strongly that this product needs to be available to all parents.

BS: What are some of your successes? Toot your horn if you will!
LH: I am most proud of being able to get my company up and running while looking after my two daughters with minimal help. My biggest success to date it that “Baby’s First Journal” is now in 30 stores across North America and this has been accomplished in 3 short months. I am proud of myself that I have been able to take a concept and put it into a functional yet beautiful product that will be a wonderful keepsake of their child’s early months. I am also proud of the way this product has been embraced by other moms and the media. One of our stores featured “Baby’s First Journal” on their website and a mom commented that they had been hearing about the journal everywhere and that they thought it would be the “Baby Shower Gift of 2009/10″.

BS: How do you balance mom/work life? What is a typical day like?
LH: My typical day is non-stop start to finish. My first priority is my girls so business is done during nap times and after bed time. My typical day is get up, get the girls dressed after my husband feeds them breakfast (I have a wonderfully supportive husband who I could not do any of this without). Take Ainsley to nursery school then come home and put Juliet down for her nap. Work. Get Juliet up from her nap and give her a snack. I then play with Juliet until it is time to pick Ainsley up from school. Feed the girls lunch, play, put them down for their naps. Work until the girls get up from their nap. Then its snack time and play time until my husband gets home. Make dinner, have dinner, then my husband will play with the girls while I work for a bit. Then its bathtime and bedtime. Then I work again. I am the queen of multi-tasking. I use lists and spreadsheets to keep track of everything I am doing so I don’t forget anything. It also helps that I can type like a madwoman!

BS: How do you organize your time?
LH: I organize my time around what my girls need from me. I then prioritize based on urgency. Customers always come first and then everything else.

BS: What has been the one thing that you wish you could do differently with your business?
LH: I wish I had started my business sooner!!!

BS: What tips can you share with our readers about starting a business?
LH: The most important tip is to reach out to other mompreneurs and ask questions about anything you don’t know or can’t find information about. I have connected with a number of fabulous mompreneurs who have gone through what I am going through or are in the same boat as me and the knowledge sharing has been extremely helpful.

BS: If you have any employees or if you are considering hiring, how do you or how do you think you would handle delegating responsibilities?
LH: I wish I had it in the budget to hire help in things like accounting but right now I am a one woman show.

BS: What is in store for your business for 2010? Any new products launching, expos exhibiting at, etc…?
LH: In the next month I will be launching a medication pad for tracking medication and dosage information. This will allow parents (or anyone) to keep track of the medications they give their children and ensure that they are getting the appropriate amount of doses as prescribed and not miss any doses. I am also adding a shopping list to my line which will help parents plan their meals for the week and will be a great complement to “Baby’s First Foods”.

BS: Is there anything else you would like to share with our readers?
LH: I am planning on launching “Baby’s First Foods” in 2010 as well as doing a second print run of “Baby’s First Journal” on eco-friendly papers. “Baby’s First Foods” will allow parents to keep track of what foods they are introducing to their children and if they like the food and whether there is an allergic reaction. It will also include a menu planner and pages to jot down recipes. This book is necessary for making sure that caregivers and both parents are on the same page with regards to what their child can and cannot eat. I will also be focusing on spreading the word about my product and I hope to add additional sales representatives to cover all of North America.

Thank you Lindsay for your time and answering our questions.
If you would like more information on Glow Baby, visit www.glowbaby.ca

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