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Our funny baby clothes business has become a local industry leader overnight. For some reason we looked up the Wikipedia entry for our hometown in North Carolina and found that we’re listed in the summation as a local industry powerhouse. Mooresville is home to Lowes Home Improvment Warehouse headquarters, a smattering of famous NASCAR race teams and…wrybaby.com headquarters. I didn’t realize we were that important!

Well! Now that we know where we stand here, you can bet we’ll start smoking imported cigars and meddling in local politics. I’m surprised the town elders haven’t come by to kiss our rings. I’ll have to put a call in about that. Also, we’ll have to start making stuff that produces huge amounts of toxic waste so we can dump it in Lake Norman and laugh about it over giant steaks with the Mayor.

We’re madly preparing our cool baby clothes biz for the upcoming New York International Gift Show next week and we’re super excited as we’re launching a bunch of new, funny baby clothes and unique baby shower gifts (when are we not?). But I thought it might be interesting for folks to get a peek at what’s involved in getting cool baby clothes to market. I shared a while back how we design our big booth o’ fun by building a scale model, but I recently found some cell phone snaps of how it turned out. It was really close to the model! Only bigger. Of course. We were launching our fun baby political tees and funny political onesies, so we were all about the ol’ red white and blue.

Welcome to Wry Baby! Kelly and Michael worked the booth dressed as pollsters of yore. We try to theme our booth every show to fit what we’re launching at the time. It’s expensive, a lot of work, and we’re stupid. But if you’re laying out the major dough to fly here and go shopping, who wants to see the same old thing every year?! Besides, once we’re done outfitting the booth, it’s totally fun.

Kelly and Michael go over the newness. See our Fun Book there in the front bottom right corner? It’s a mock-up! With not even the real cover. It wasn’t scheduled to hit these shores until June, so we had to do with dummies. Good thing the insides were so great! The New Parents’ Fun Book was a big hit before it was even in book form!

Our Pillowcases for New Parents, the Drooly Bib and our fun stacking blocks, Attack of the 50ft. Baby were all on display. Each fun baby gift gets it’s own little fun section because each fun baby shower gift by Wry Baby deserves it. If you happen to be a store (not literally, but you know what I mean), stop by the Wry Baby booth (#1740-1742 in Just Kids Stuff) and see what’s new. I’ll post more of our prep work for this upcoming show soon!

Practice makes perfect and style is forever! Here are more favorites from Wry Baby’s portable salon, the Wry Baby Hairdo Maker. Jjust $11.99 and available only through this link

The ADMIRAL MUTTON - Your little lamb chop will look smashing in these stylish mutton chops!

The MINI-MOOCHER - Mama’s saliva (and lots of it!) is the secret to this jazzy little number!

Style your own! Just $11.99 here at wrybaby.com!

	Mysterio Predicts the Week of August 4, 2008 On Wednesday, August 6th, at exactly 3:43pm, if you were to firmly, but not forcefully, press your ear to your baby’s left ear, you will be astonished to hear sounds of ocean waves lapping the shore. It will last for several minutes.

Mysterio Predicts is a special guest and co-contributer to Raising Funny People – The Wry Baby Blog. Wry Baby, makers of funny baby clothes, unique baby shower gifts and fun gifts for new parents bring you Mysterio Predicts every Monday here at wrybaby.com/blog.

To learn more about Mysterio, or purchase Mysterio’s popular baby tee shirts featuring Mysterio’s predictions of your baby’s amazing future, visit Mysterio’s corner of Wry Baby at www.wrybaby.com/mysterio-predicts.aspx. You can write to Mysterio at mysterio@wrybaby.com but be aware that not only is he very busy with his predictions and may not reply right away, he is also kind of a jerk. All the great ones are.

You can dress your baby in all the cool baby clothes you want, but to have the kind of baby that people talk about (in a good way), you’ll need to plan your infant’s follicle future today! That’s why we offer the Wry Baby Hairdo Maker (on sale right now only through this blog link for just $11.99). A pad of 35 blank baby-heads is your canvas for creating wild and wonderful hair styles for your future fashion plate.

We have one up in the office and everyone who visits likes to design their own creations. It’s so fun (and there are so many!) that I’ll post the best from time to time. Pick up a Hairdo Maker and “Doodle YOUR Baby Beautiful!”

The Wry Baby Hairdo Maker - $11.99 exclusively at wrybaby.com