The arrival of littles ones bring with them lots and lots of generous people showering them with baby gifts. Everything from things you can’t live without to frivolous outfits that are just too darn cute to pass up.
Be sure to sent a special thank you to your friends and family with this FREE Thank You card from Petite Lemon. Download the link below and print these postcard-style cards. They are available in a blue and pink version. These elephant Thank You cards coordinate with the Elefun Baby Shower Invitation found on Shutterfly.
Click HERE to download the boy Thank You card.
Click HERE to download the girl Thank You card.
Giving Gifts They'll Love
A personalized gift is much more than just a simple gift; it becomes a treasure they’ll keep forever. Petite Lemon has you covered with personalized gifts for every occasion from first birthdays, to back to school, and everything in-between.
This handsome little guy is sporting the Joyful Elephant onesie. This charming design can be personalized with your child’s name and birth date and is available in three cheerful colors.
Personalized Baby Gifts to Show Mom the Love
It’s probably no big surprise that Mother’s Day is coming up quickly – May 10th in case you don’t already have it circled in red on your calendar – and you probably have a list of gifts you’d love to receive (hint hint, bling bling). As moms ourselves, we personally love gifts that allow us a bit of time to relax and indulge, but as designers of personalized baby gifts, we also think it’s super cute to have the little ones dressed up on Mother’s Day in personalized onesies and tees that show us mamas the love.
(Shown: I LOVE Mom, Heart 2 Heart Mom, Best Mom Ever, I HEART You Pick personalized onesies and tees)
A yummy brunch at a restaurant or a family photo session on the beach or at a park with the kiddos in their mom-themed personalized onesies and tees would be a really sweet way to spend the day. Follow that with a massage or mani/pedi while they nap would be especially ideal!
Links We Love
Between gearing up for Easter and keeping the kids occupied during Spring Break, not to mention designing personalized baby gifts for a living, we’ve spent more time online looking up fun ideas, as well as parenting resources, than we care to admit. So you don’t have to spend hours roaming the interwebs, we’ve got some great links here to check out.
PopSugar – 11 Kid-Friendly Jelly Bean Recipes for Easter
The Daily Meal – 3 Cool Carrot Centerpieces for Easter
Huffington Post – Two Words For The Mom Who Sent Her Kid To School With No Socks Today
Well Rounded NY – Pregnancy Vitals: Belly Buttons
Links We Love
Between inspiration for designing our line of personalized baby gifts and looking for helpful ideas and resources for our blog posts, we spend a lot of time scouring the web. Here are some of the links that gave us great ideas, a laugh, and even made us tear up a little last week.
Babble – 9 Horrifying Photos of Stuff My Kids Destroyed
PopSugar Moms – 9 Stylish Ways to Reuse Your Crib
CNN – Chris Evans, Chris Pratt Meet “True Superheroes” in Hospital Visit
PopSugar – 10 Nursery Decorating Ideas You Can Afford
Style Me Pretty – Baby Shower Ideas
Links We Love
While we’re designing personalized baby gifts, we’re always on the hunt for inspiration and we get a lot of it while browsing online. We like to share what moves us as parents and professionals through our blog, as well as social media, but if you’ve missed anything, check out these Links We Love.
Babble – What Parents Could Buy with $150,000 Oscars Swag Bag
Parents Magazine – 17 Habits of Very Happy Moms
New York Magazine – Dolce & Gabbana Celebrate Moms on the Runway
Parents Magazine – 5 Ways to Prep for Daylight Savings Time
ModernMom – Non-Alcoholic St. Patrick’s Day Drinks
Links We Love
As both parents and designers of personalized baby gifts, we’re always looking for new ideas, resources, inspirations, etc. to make us better at what we do personally and professionally. The internet gives us a lot of opportunity to grow and learn, and get a much needed laugh at times too.
Sometimes we find stories that we incorporate into our blogs or share links to them on our Facebook page, but we know how busy life can be, so we thought we’d take a page from some of our favorite resources like PopSugar and Lonny and put together all of the links to stories we loved in the last week in one place. Peruse at your leisure, or more than likely, squeeze in a few during naptime!
SheKnows.com – 9 Baby Trends for 2015
PopSugar Moms – Why You’re a Dang Good Mother
PopSugar Home – 2015 Nursery Décor Trends
Personalized Baby Gifts: DIY + Gift Sets
Giving personalized baby gifts is a really thoughtful gesture and if you’re crafty, making something is also special, so why not combine the two to create a custom gift set? We have some DIY projects on our FUN page perfect for combining with personalized onesies, big sister shirts, big brother shirts, or 1st birthday shirts.
In terms of cuteness and function, when it comes to newborn gifts not much goes better together than personalized onesies and burp cloths! DIY burp cloth instructions here. (Shown:Happy Hearts and Modern Monogram personalized onesies)
For little artists, pair the Crayon Bag (tutorial here) and drawing themed personalized baby gifts, big brother or big sister shirts, 1st birthday shirts, etc. (Shown: Love to Sketch Big Brother T shirt, Playful Doodles Big Sister Tshirt, Color Me personalized growth chart)
Other DIYs and personalized baby gifts that work well together? The Chevron Nursery Wall Art DIY and Chic Chevron birthday tee or a growth chart and month to month onesie DIY to record baby’s growth practically from day one.
We hope these personalized baby gifts and DIYs inspired you to create some super sweet custom sets for upcoming baby showers or birthdays.
Yellow Baby Shower Themes & Personalized Baby Gifts
When you don’t find out your baby’s gender ahead of time, people often assume you’ll go with yellow and can grumble about the “generic” hue. But boy (or girl), do we disagree! There are so many gorgeous shades of yellow, from soft and buttery to bright and cheery. And while yellow can easily stand alone, it also pairs well with a whole array of pretty colors or basic neutrals. So to get you inspired to create a gorgeous yellow baby shower, here are ideas for décor, favors, desserts, and personalized baby gifts.
We “heart” this yellow, gray, and white shower with a birdy & heart theme. The Heart 2 Heart Dad and Heart 2 Heart Mom personalized onesies would be ideal gifts! (Hostess with the Mostess)
Oh baby this shower’s neon yellow with cool green accents is adorable! We’d definitely give the Happy Hearts and Modern Monogram personalized onesies at a baby shower with this color scheme. (Project Nursery)
This black & white shower with yellow highlights feels so fresh and pretty, we want to head out to the garden right now! Perfect personalized baby gifts for this soiree? We’d say the equally color contrasting Playful Hello and Classic Monogram personalized onesies. (Style Milk)
Is a yellow baby shower theme on your horizon?
Safari Themed Personalized Baby Gifts
On the hunt for personalized baby gifts for upcoming baby showers, sip n’ sees, or even 1st birthdays? Think safari! Mamas and daddies will go wild for personalized baby giftsthat feature a range of adorable jungle animals.
If there’s one thing new parents can’t get enough of (besides diapers of course!) are soft cotton onesies. Giving safari themed personalized onesies makes them fun and functional. (Shown: Joyful Elephant, Gentle Giraffe, and Animal Pile personalized onesies)
And if a new sibling has arrived, creating a combo gift with the animal themed Merry Menagerie Little Brother or Little Sister personalized onesies with a coordinating Big Sister Tshirt or Big Brother T shirt would be super sweet.
And if you loved these safari themed personalized baby gifts, check back next week for some safari nursery décor inspiration.
Whether you focus on one animal or a whole jungle full, safari animals make great themes for birthdays and can easily be incorporated into invitations, cake designs, decorations, and 1birthday shirts. (Shown: Growing Gator and Jungle Giraffes 1st)
And if in addition to personalized baby gifts you’re also looking for some ways to decorate in style, be sure to enter our giveaway with The Banner Shoppe before May 23. Go to our Instagram account at @petite_lemon for a chance to win a $25 gift card for The Banner Shoppe and a $50 Petite Lemon gift card good for personalized growth charts, big brother shirts, big sister shirts, 1birthday shirts, etc.