With an extensive celebrity following (Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Jessica Alba, Jon Stewart and many more have the company’s designs), Uncommonly Cute creates clever, of-the-moment onesies and t-s for fashionable kids. Favorites like “Pre School Musical” and “Famous on Facebook” can be seen on trendy tots nationwide. The company has recently introduced the “build a bootie” concept, where you can add a child’s name to a soft leather shoe—the perfect gift!

Uncommonly Cute also donates a portion of sales to charities year round! I’d like to thank Robin from RG-PR for arranging for me to get an adorable long sleeve pink t-shirt for Kaitlyn with this on it:

I ordered it in a size 4 Toddler from the Infant Girls section of the site and it’s a great fit. You’re sure to find the perfect shirt for your own trendy tot or for a gift on Uncommonly Cute!

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Any of my readers who have seen photos of my daughter Kaitlyn know that she is not a “bigger” baby. She’s barely 30 pounds at three years old, but she has a long torso. I buy her 4T tops and roll up the sleeves so they are long enough to reach her waist. I got to chatting on Twitter with Pamela from Happy Panda about her baby boutique that carries clothes sized for bigger babies, and she asked me if I wanted to review a t-shirt. She assured me that the one I picked would fit Kaitlyn, in a size 2T. I was skeptical, but look:

My son Ryan was definitely a “happy panda” baby. Whatever age he was, he was always double that in size. It was hard to tell people what size clothes to buy him for gifts because it depended on the brand and what type of clothing it was! Pamela Kramer had a similar problem that led to her creating this unique brand of clothing:

Her first baby boy grew so quickly that he was wearing a size 2T before his first birthday. His growth rate made it difficult for friends and family to shop for him by age. The standard size charts did not apply. She became frustrated trying to find clothes that fit while offering the ability to get through those quick diaper changes without completely undressing her baby…The Happy Panda brand exists to help dress bigger babies. Our design system will help customers find a better fit when shopping by age. Happy Panda produces high quality babywear, designed and made in the USA, using environmentally safe fabrics and inks for the safest, most comfortable fit for the happy panda in your life. Our customers will enjoy knowing that the baby they buy for will be comfortable with our tagless products.

If you are looking for a baby gift for someone who is having a hard time finding well-fitting clothes for their bigger baby, check out  Happy Panda Boutique for adorable onesies, t-shirts, pants, gift sets, and more!

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This popular and one-of-a-kind sign notifies children, their friends, and their entire neighborhood that Santa has designated their home as an official landing site for his sleigh on Christmas Eve.  With fewer homes with chimneys, Santa has been having a really hard time figuring out where to land.  Santa now has to do what airports do - designate a landing zone for the sleigh and more easily manage his Christmas Eve drop-offs.  After all, how would Santa land at a house if it doesn’t have an “OFFICIAL SANTA LANDING ZONE” sign in the yard?”  The 4-color plastic sign is 24″ wide X 18″ high and comes with an easy to use Step Stake.  It is 100% “Made In The USA”.

This year the “Official Santa Landing Zone Yard Sign” is the basis of a unique fundraiser, “OPERATION SANTA SIGN,” in which $2.00 from the sale of each sign made between October 1 and December 31, 2008 will be donated to the Fisher House Foundation, Inc. (www.FisherHouse.org) and their 40 military family support locations on 18 military bases and at 11 VA medical centers throughout the United States and overseas in Germany.

After you order your Official Santa Landing Zone Yard Sign, browse the rest of the Your Name Universitysite to see all the great apparel and accessories they sell personalized with YOUR last name. You must order by DECEMBER 2ND or DECEMBER 9TH (depending on where you live) to have items delivered by December 22nd, so please check the web site for more details.  Hurry and place your order today!

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The Refresh’n Dryer Towel is a brilliant new product that you wet with tap water and toss in the dryer. That’s it! But it has so many possibilities, you wonder why you didn’t think of it!

• Getting your dry clean only wool sweaters out for the winter and they are a little musty? Throw them in the dryer with a damp Refresh’n Dryer Towel and run it on low for a few minutes to refresh the sweater and bring it back to life!
• Do you have stretchy jeans that you have to wash even when they aren’t dirty because they get baggy and out of shape? Toss them in the dryer with a damp Refresh’n Dryer Towel and they will come out ready to wear and fresh!
• Have a delicate blouse or sweater that is hard to hand wash and too expensive to dry clean? Refresh’n Dryer Towel to the rescue!
• Ever put a load of laundry in the dryer and then, um, forget it’s there for a few days? (raises hand guiltily) Toss in a damp Refresh’n Dryer Towel instead of rewashing the whole load!
• Want a chemical free alternative to dry cleaning? One Refresh’n Dryer Towel lasts for approximately 25 uses and takes just 10 minutes to work!

Besides all of those amazing uses, the Refresh’n Dryer Towel has environmental benefits as well. An average load of laundry uses 40 to 50 gallons, and I know that I often wash things that really aren’t “dirty”, they just need to be freshened up.

I really appreciated Family Review Network sending me a Refresh’n Dryer Towel to try on our family’s laundry. It was perfect for my husband’s wool sweaters that I just brought up from the basement for him to start wearing. They weren’t dirty but they had that sort of musty smell that clothes get after storage. In the past I would have soaked them in a tub full of cool water and Woolite, then rinsed and rinsed and rinsed, then wrung out the water and attempted to get the sweaters dry. It’s a pain. Ten minutes with the Dryer Towel and the sweaters were fresh and ready for him to wear with no stretching or shrinking! Awesome.

Click the Order link on the Refresh’n Dryer Towel site to buy one towel for $9.95 or two for $17.95. There’s also an email address and a mailing address for questions and returns. This is a great product that really works based on my review that I am confident in recommending to my readers!

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If someone on your gift list this year is a runner, walker, cross-trainer, hangs out at the gym, or needs well-fitting and highly supportive athletic shoes, I have just the brand for you to check out. Aetrex Worldwide has been caring about the health of people’s feet for three generations! Based in New Jersey, the Schwartz family has been responsible for unrivaled innovations in pain-relieving footwear and foot care products.

Aetrex knows running after those little ones is no easy task, so they offer customized comfort through iStep, a digital foot analysis device (found in independent retailers across the country where Aetrex is sold), which measure everything from shoe size to arch type and pressure points, free of charge. After stepping on the iStep for 30 seconds, customers receive a “blueprint” of their feet, and recommendations for customized insoles. So when combined with an Aetrex shoe, they are getting footwear that is comfortable and customized for their footcare needs.

I received a pair of Aetrex Women’s High Performance Runners to try for myself, and let me tell you what- these shoes make me feel like I could FLY. See, these shoes not only have regular cushioning, but they also have two removable insole layers. Every time I take a step, it’s like I’m not even feeling the impact of the ground. I feel like I could walk forever in these shoes! And yes, they are running shoes, but let’s not push it, people Check out how cool these look:

In addition to the cushioning in the shoe AND the two removable insole layers that let you customize the fit, Aetrex shoes also come with another insole called a Mosaic. It looks like a regular insole except it’s made up of tiny squares. After the wearer has the iStep evaluation that reveals the pressure points on their feet, it tells them exactly which of the little squares to remove, to allow for maximum support and cushioning. These shoes are like magic, I’m telling you. Here’s another cool photo:

Don’t let the price tag scare you (approximately $120), if someone you know wants to be more active but pain in their feet is preventing it, these shoes could really make a difference. Giving someone the gift of being able to move comfortably, now that would be a special gift!

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