| Buying the perfect baby gift | | Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 11:11:14 AM by Rose Martins | When buying a baby gift, there is no shortage of choice. There are discount baby stores, medium range baby stores, expensive baby stores and designer baby boutiques, covering all sides of the price spectrum, from dirt cheap to ridiculously expensive.
 Baby boutiques offer baby shower lists whereby the parents-to-be can make a selection of things that they would like for their baby. Friends and family, who might be struggling with ideas of what gift to buy for the baby, can visit the store and select an item off the baby shower gift list.
Retail baby stores and online retail baby stores also offer baby gift baskets, a pre-packed selection of choice items for a specified price. Unique designer stores offer personalized baby gifts made to order. These personalized gifts often boast the baby's name and a design of your choice.
It's unusual to find two of a kind personalized items at a designer baby gift store. If it's not a first baby, christening and baptism baby gifts are sometimes luxury items. The baby already has what it needs, having had it passed down from older siblings, so people buy gifts that are less practical and more luxurious.
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| | | Anna Nicole On The Attack As Ex-Lover Sends Baby Gifts | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:46:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Anna Nicole Smith has slammed former lover Larry Birkhead for sending her a box of baby clothes - she found the unexpected gift "scary." Photographer Birkhead is fighting to prove he's the biological father of Smith's baby girl Dannielynn, but his public statements about his alleged romance and the ongoing war between the former friends has upset the actress/model - and she was perplexed when Birkhead recently sent her a box full of baby gifts. She says, "He has sent me a box of baby clothes. Inside was a book that said 'My Family,' and in the back of it, it had a picture of me and him... It's kinda scary in a way." In her latest TV attack on Birkhead, which aired on US news show Entertainment Tonight last night, Smith fired back at strong claims her ex made during a recent appearance on CNN show Larry King Live.... | |
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| | | Campbell's $1,000 baby gifts baffling | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:46:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | I can't think of a more curious recent policy idea than Gordon Campbell's plan to give every baby born after this year $1,000 toward post-secondary education. The government will hang on to the money, the premier told the enthusiastic Liberal party convention crowd in Penticton. When the babies make it out of diapers and through high school, they'll get the money with interest. Figure something like $2,000. The $41-million-a-year plan sounds great. Who doesn't like the idea of the government starting savings accounts for toddlers? But it's a very odd bit of public policy. Campbell has decided, inexplicably, that a tuition subsidy for students starting their post-secondary education in 2025 is a spending priority today. Not fixing more knees this year or homelessness or cutting taxes, but aid for individual students 18 years from now.... | |
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| | | Shower helps moms | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:47:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | Big bags full of gifts and free supplies were in the hands of more than 200 recipients at the March of Dimes Community Baby Shower on Wednesday. As advocates who work to give all babies a fighting chance against threats to their young lives, the Mississippi Chapter of March of Dimes leaders decided to pull their resources together to hold the unique event at the Orange Grove Community Center in Gulfport. A line of excited mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles and grandparents reached out the door and into the parking lot to bring home the free diapers, baby clothes, formula and other baby items. Residents from every county in South Mississippi attended the shower and others came from as far away as Hattiesburg. "If we have the grant money next year, we will do this again.... | |
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| | | The Elegant Child of Beverly Hills Announces its Official 2006 List of Top 10 Celebrity Baby Gifts | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 2:48:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2006 -- The Elegant Child of Beverly Hills has announced its Official 2006 List of Top 10 Celebrity Baby Gifts. Since 1989, The Elegant Child of Beverly Hills has catered to Hollywood agents who want to give the "perfect" baby gift to their movie star clients. From numerous gifts for Adam Sandler to other superstars, including Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Brooke Shields, Julia Roberts, Gweneth Paltrow, Denise Richards, Stella McCartney, Courteney Cox, Will Ferrell, Kate Hudson, and more, the Elegant Child (www.elegantchild.com) delivers gorgeous gifts to celebrities, corporate clients, friends and family. This year's list includes the following items: .... | |
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| | | Military Family Support Group to ship holiday gifts | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:47:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | RED BLUFF - The Military Family Support Group met Wednesday night at the Red Rock on Main Street to plan a large shipment of holiday gifts to soldiers overseas. The group has decided to meet Wednesday, Nov. 29, to wrap all the packages it plans to send in time for Christmas and start to organize other fundraising activities. Members put together a short list of things they want to send abroad. Toiletries and personal hygiene items such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, Chapstick and shampoo were some of the items mentioned, as well as bedding and pillows, long underwear, baby wipes, dried fruit bars and liquids to sweeten their water with, like Crystal Light. Before then, the group will hold fundraising event at Luigi's Pizza on Veterans Day, Saturday, Nov. 11.... | |
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| | | Big names at 'Spider-Man' baby shower | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:46:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson were among the galaxy of stars that turned out for the baby shower of Tobey Maguire's unborn child. The Spider-Man actor is expecting his first child with fiance Jennifer Mayer, who held the girls-only event in Malibu. One guest revealed: "It was a very mellow afternoon. It was a totally easy breezy shower. No shower games. No present opening. Just hanging out." As well as Jennifer and Kate other stars who turned up for the poolside party - which was held at the home of Jennifer Mayer's father, Universal Studios boss Ron Meyer - were Courteney Cox Arquette, Daredevil actress Jennifer Garner, Demi Moore and The Village actress Bryce Dallas Howard, who is also pregnant. .... | |
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| | | Law and Order | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 6:46:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Samuel Johnson of Painesville was convicted of felonious assault and aggravated burglary for stabbing his former girlfriend and burning her baby with boiling water during a fight last year. Johnson, 33, faces 10 years in prison after a jury convicted him following a four-day trial in Lake County Common Pleas Court. Assistant Prosecutor Mark Bartlotta said Johnson slashed his girlfriend, Lakesha Clark, on her arm and chest after breaking into her Painesville apartment on Christmas Eve. RICHFIELD Driver killed in crash Michael Miller of Cleveland died Thursday after his van hit a tree. Miller, 51, was driving south on Broadview Road around 5:50 p.m. when he went off the right side of the road for no apparent reason, the Summit County medical examiner's office reported.... | |
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| | | Use of puppets survives centuries | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:46:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Puppets existed in the 1300s, but the only record of them is from some illustrations and stories. By the 16th century, there were puppet shows similar to the later "Punch and Judy" shows. It was in the 18th century that puppets became well-known. Some were made as caricatures of famous people and performed in shows with political messages. Paper and cardboard were used to make the puppets. In the 19th century, puppet shows became very popular, especially the slapstick "Punch and Judy" shows. Glove puppets - simple gloves with heads - were sometimes used. By the 1900s, puppets were made that represented the characters from old stories like "Hansel and Gretel," as well as modern puppets made to look like the Three Stooges, the Howdy Doody gang or even presidents. One unusual pair of puppets were made to look like President John F.... | |
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| | | How Is A Child Prodigy Made? Valentine Cawley s Blog Reveals The Secrets of Baby Genius | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:46:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | Singapore (PRWEB) October 8, 2006 -- Valentine Cawley knows the secret of making a child prodigy: have a baby. Each of his three children by Syahidah Osman Cawley is extraordinary. The Cawleys, an Irish/Malay family, based in Singapore, are discovering that child prodigy need not arrive in the world alone and that a baby genius has brothers and sisters who may also be geniuses, themselves. What is the business of life and education of a scientific child prodigy like? Their new blog confides all about a family of many gifts. .... | |
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| | | Tough workout, soft gifts for young Iraqis | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:46:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Framingham nurse Meredith Wolff has been collecting Beanie Babies for a decade, and she's been meaning to get herself back into shape since giving birth to her son about three years ago. So personal trainer Matt Elder's idea for a Beanie Baby Boot Camp, which offered a 45-minute fitness class for the price of a couple of Beanie Babies that would be going into the hands of children in Iraq, sounded like just the ticket. Elder recruited Wolff and about a dozen other people to participate in his inaugural workout, and he collected hundreds of Beanie Babies to ship to American soldiers serving in Iraq to hand out to local children as a good-will gesture. While the 23-year-old is still looking for the money to send the first 360 stuffed animals to Iraq, he is making plans to turn the boot camp into a monthly event.... | |
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