In addition to designing personalized baby gifts, we also have fun creating freebies for mamas, daddies, and wee ones to enjoy. We get a lot of joy ourselves when our customers send us photos of their little ones in our big brother shirts, big sister shirts, 1st birthday shirts, etc., but we weren’t prepared for the amazing response we received from the birthday infographic freebie we made (click here to download). We have received so many photos of children (even an adult or two to be honest) posing with their completed infographics and we just had to share!
Look at these photos that have us smiling from ear to ear!
We love that parents got creative with it as well, coloring it all in or framing it so they can write on it with a dry erase marker and reuse it. Some parents have even Photoshopped the information on AFTER taking the photo in order to save it. This makes our hearts sing! The whole reason we design personalized growth charts, big sister shirts, big brother shirts, and 1st birthday shirts (and freebies!) is to create keepsakes so parents can have a tangible piece of those precious childhood memories.
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?
Petite Lemon in Real Life with William
Last week we highlighted twin boys wearing their 1st birthday shirts (see their cuteness here), and today we have another birthday boy in our In Real Life feature. We feel like it’s our birthday every time we hear from our customers how our personalized baby gifts make their kiddo’s big day even more special!
William’s mama Jenna, fills us in here:
How old is William?
William is 3 years old.
What brought you to Petite Lemon to purchase William’s birthday tee?
Petite Lemon has a wonderful product. I gravitate towards color and the colors PL uses are so vibrant. Plus there are so many designs to choose from, you are able to get just what you are looking for (and often it’s hard to decide, they are all so cute 🙂 The shirts are super soft and last, you can’t go wrong with great quality.
What are your fav Petite Lemon products and why?
The personalized shirts. I love a shirt that can enhance a celebration, whether it’s a birthday or a new addition to a family. It makes kiddos feel special to be acknowledged and celebrated!
What are you enjoying most about this age (the preschool stage)?
The personality that is developing. William has a great sense of humor and makes me laugh all day long!
What is your favorite thing about having a boy?
The constant exploring and discovering. They look at the world with open eyes and take everything in around them.
What is your fav blog right now?
Thrifty Littles. Such fun products and great deals. It’s so great! Plus how cute is that little girl? Adorable!
Fav IG to follow?
NatGeo. Not your typical answer, I know. But there is something about having an incredible picture show up in your feed to make your day a little bit brighter.
Define motherhood in one word?
Exhausting (said with a smile of course)
Thanks Jenna, we never get tired of hearing real insights from mamas and daddies! You and your little ones truly are our inspirations!
Have a story to share about your wee one’s personalized growth chart, big sister tshirt or big brother t shirt or any of our other personalized baby gifts? We’d love to hear it and see pictures, as well as share it with our readers. Please contact us at buzz @ petitelemon (dot) com.
Kids Décor Trend: Chalkboard Walls
Customized décor is something we particularly love (hey, we don’t design personalized growth charts, alphabet posters and photo posters for no reason!), so the chalkboard wall trend we’re seeing in nurseries is right up our alley. We’re crazy about all of the opportunities for personalization it provides – parents can write sweet notes or favorite quotes every day if they want and eventually the little ones will grow up and get to play along.
Here are a few of our favorite nurseries with chalkboard walls and the personalized growth charts we’d love to see accenting those rooms.
Frames and animals and juicy hues give this nursery with chalkboard wall lots of impact and the similarly designed Animal Crackers personalized growth chart would fit right in. (HGTV.com)
We don’t think this woodland themed nursery with sweet chalkboard message could get any cuter – unless of course the Woodland Fun personalized growth chart was in it. (BearFoxChalk)
The welcoming chalkboard sign, aqua dresser, and world map give this nursery a happy, uplifting feel, so the Up Up Away personalized growth chart couldn’t be any more perfect for it. (Love Like Johnny + June)
The Design for Minikind personalized growth chart practically looks like it was made for this stylish nursery with a graphically influenced chalkboard wall. (Moms Best Network)
Did you incorporate a chalkboard into your nursery? Which of our personalized growth charts would go with it?
In the News: Like a Girl
Because we design personalized baby gifts, we like to keep things light and focus on fun freebies, décor, and fashion, but as parents we know there are weightier things in the world we need to talk to our children about. Like their self-confidence and self-worth.
The new #LikeaGirl commercial has brought attention to that subject. Have you seen it? We have and as mothers of little girls – and boys – we really love it! As strong, independent, working moms, we know that doing something “like a girl” is a very good thing, so we appreciate having this topic in the news as it gives us – and other moms and dads – the opportunity to discuss it with our kids.
If you haven’t seen the #LikeaGirl commercial, check it out here.
We know some girls prefer dolls while some boys prefer trucks, but often kids just like what they like! That’s why the designs of our personalized growth charts come in colors suited for both boys and girls, no matter what the theme is, and why our big sister shirts and big brother shirts share a lot of the same designs. We also customize our line of personalized baby gifts as requested because it’s all about what makes kids truly happy.
That’s why we do what we do.
Why Have Kids Close in Age (or Not)
We recently read 7 Reasons Siblings Love Being Close in Age on PopSugar Moms and as designers of big brother shirts and big sister shirts and parents to kids pretty close in age, it really made us smile. While we know there’s no right or wrong amount of time in between kids – it’s all about what’s right for each family – and not all sibling relationships are determined solely on age, we hope all 7 of these reasons are true for our kiddos and yours!
The article says having kids close in age can help get sibling rivalry out of the way early. We agree and also think having them wear a big sister tshirt or big brother t shirt can help build a strong bond with their new little sib and establish a sense of pride and connection.
Read the other six reasons here.
(Shown: Color It Up Big Sister Tshirt and Stamped Style Big Brother T shirt — these styles also have matching personalized onesies!)
Freebie: Summer Fun Sibling Interview
Summer vacation is in full swing, are the kiddos getting bored yet? For your sake, we hope not! But if you are looking for some fun activity, our fab designers took a short break from designing personalized baby gifts, big sister shirts, and big brother shirts to create another freebie for you.
Here’s a summer fun sibling interview that brothers and sisters can fill out and get them thinking (and giggling too!). Hopefully it will also allow them to learn a little more about each other because there’s really nothing like building a strong sibling bond, right? And how cute would it be if the kids were wearing a big brother t shirt or big sister tshirtwith coordinating little sibling personalized onesies or tees while completing the interview sheet?!
(download our sibling interview here)
(Here are some of our favorites: Stamped Style Big Sister Tshirtand Big Brother T shirt; Playful Doodles Big Sister Tshirt and Big Brother T shirt)
Décor: 1 Personalized Growth Chart, 3 Different Rooms
Usually we find nurseries that we like in a certain theme or color scheme and pair them with our personalized growth charts. This week we’re doing the opposite and taking one personalized growth chart and showing how well one design can work with a range of nursery designs.
Of course the solid colored pennant-style personalized growth charts easily accent any color coordinated room, but we wanted to choose a patterned chart to show their versatility as well.
We chose the bright hues and uplifting feel of the Colorful Words personalized growth chart and these three completely different nursery designs.
The Colorful Words personalized growth chart perfectly accents the aquas and yellows in this modern woodsy nursery. (Creative Every Day)
This nursery is super eclectic and fun, the Colorful Words personalized growth chart perfectly pulls together all the various hues in the room. (image via Pinterest)
The blues and greens of the Colorful Words personalized growth chart add an ocean of cool to this warm nursery with a Mediterranean feel. (Project Nursery)
Would you choose the Colorful Words with these rooms?
Petitle Lemon In Real Life – Twins Turn One!
Recording childhood milestones and memories is one of the main reasons we design personalized baby gifts. We love helping parents keep a tangible memento of those special times with personalized onesies, big sister shirts, big brother shirts, or 1st birthday shirts and we’re beyond thrilled when our customers let us in on those moments too. Read on for some insight into, Andria the mama of our darling twin’s In Real Life story:
What are your boys’ names & how old are they:
Graham Loren and Eric Jeffrey, age 1 year
What do you love about having twins?!
I love that they have each other. Watching them interact is awesome. They look at one another and just giggle.
What has been the most challenging?
Juggling two kids who are in the exact same stage. I don’t get to just sit and snuggle with one because then I am leaving the other one out. I try to be as fair as possible with my time and attention for each of them.
Most surprising?
Seeing their little personalities develop. I could tell they were different while they were in my belly, but it is fun to see they have maintained those same characteristics now. One is more mellow, while the other is more high strung.
What are your fav Petite Lemon products and why?
We loved the birthday shirts for their first birthday. We also used the free birthday printouts from your blog (click here) and people at the party loved those. The other item we love are the personalized growth charts. We bought each of the boys the Navy pennant chart for their room.
What is your favorite blog right now?
http://karenrussell.typepad.com/
Karen is amazing and real. And she teaches amazing photography classes. I just finished taking her class for the second time.
Your fav Instagram?
@sisterhoodofsecrets
Define motherhood in one word?
Enlightening.
Wonderful, Andria! Thanks for letting us be a part of your boys’ special day and for letting us share it with our readers!
If you own any of our personalized baby gifts, big brother shirtsor big sister shirts, please let us know, we’d love to share your kiddo’s story and photo. Contact us at buzz @ petitelemon (dot) com.
What We Love Now: Fun Birthday Girl Party Themes
Last week we shared three fun birthday party ideas for boys from PopSugar Moms that we paired with the perfect 1st birthday shirts, so this week we’re highlighting three fab parties ideal for girls. And one of our favorite things about these parties?They don’t only rely on the color pink to be ultra-feminine and pretty.
The aqua blue Chic Chevron 1st birthday onesie is an idyllic outfit to wear to this Dreamy Under the Sea 1st birthday party. (Details here)
She’ll definitely be the star at a Breakfast at Tiffany’s-inspired party and a quick change into the Playful Party Hat birthday tee for the cake smash would be a smart wardrobe choice. (Details here)
As if we didn’t think the Four Legged Friendly party theme was sweet enough, our line of personalized baby gifts made an appearance in the goody bags! The Colorful Number 1st birthday onesie would have had tails wagging too. (Details here)
We can’t decide which of these 1st birthday shirts and party themes are our favorite, but we think each would be even more fun with some colorful personalized baby gifts. And of course, big thanks to PopSugar Mom for being such a fantastic source of ideas for us mamas and daddies!
