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Wry Baby’s First-Ever Super Funtastic Baby Clothes Sample Sale has come and gone, and what a bunch of fun it was! All weekend we got to meet fellow Mooresvillians, show them who those weirdos are working in the towns historic Telephone Exchange building and share our fun brand of baby clothes and shower gifts.

We were even lucky enough to have the Charlotte Observer’s Style Editor, Rachel Sutherland, stop by to check our fun baby clothes and accessories. Thanks for coming, Rachel! You can read her review of our fun baby sale on her blog here: http://obsshoefits.blogspot.com/2008/12/wry-baby-sample-sale.html

When the dust settled (really, when we finally ran out of wine) we saw the big local favorite was our Attack of the 50ft. Baby Stacking Blocks with our waterproof Drooly Bibs placing a close second. I suppose having a steady stream of little testers doing live demos (and by that I mean “demolitions”) didn’t hurt! Here’s a few snaps of the fun.

The gates to baby shower gift fun-times! Wry Baby Central!

Wry Baby Kelly entertains! Later she juggled some pins on a uni-cycle for tips.

Kelly looks on while our harshest critics review our best-selling baby books, Safe Baby Handling Tips and Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips.

My first attempt to depict the Somali pirate captain who attempted to murder myself and make off with my amazing, yet adorable baby t-shirts. My hand still shakes when recalling the terror I faced so bravely! I hope that my drawings will soon improve so that you will feel you were there with me, stripped almost completely nude, fighting for your life on the high-seas!

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.

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oof! We totally had to move the entire Wry Baby office around to get all set up for our Super Funtastic Sample Sale. Kelly and Terri have been staging all our funny baby clothes, production samples of fun baby outfits, all the close-out Wry Baby toddler tees from a long time ago and it’s almost done! Seriously, if you’re around our little neck of the Triad, stop by!

Awww. Kelly so seepy from setting up! You wake her, you take her!

Ooh, this is going to be fun! When we’re making funny baby clothes and fun baby shower gifts in San Francisco, local designers would have annual Sample Sales all the time. It was always so fun to go and meet the folks in charge of making stuffs you loves. So, for the first time in our 8 years in the biz, we’re throwing our First-Ever Super Funtastic Wry Baby Sample Sale!

Wednesday’s copy of the local Mooresville Tribune contains our First-Ever Ad for our First-Ever Super Funtastic Sample Sale!

See? Right here on Page 3 of the front section, even!

After so long making funny baby clothes, accessories, games for new parents, books for baby showers and all sorts of baby shower gifts, you tend to get a lot of production stuff piling up. Factory samples, ideas that were put on back burners never to return to the front burners again, sizing samples, printing samples, close-out stuff we’re too lazy or too sentimental to actually fully close-out and all kinds of funny shower gift knick-knacks. All those fun baby gifts will be out on the tables at Wry Baby’s Mooresville, NC design headquarters this weekend along with a smattering of popular favorites that we threw in the mix for fun.

Kelly and I will be on hand during the sale to spread cheer and sign copies of our best-selling baby books, Safe Baby Handling TIps, Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips and the New New Parents’ Fun Book. If you’re in Mooresville, North Carolina this weekend, stop by and say “Hi!” and pick up some fun for the holidays!

Our fun flier and, below, our fun design HQ in Mooresville, NC.

More fun baby shower book press! This time it’s the good folks at babyzone.com reviewing our newest of best-selling baby shower gift books, The New Parents’ Fun Book! From babyzone.com:

SWEET NEW-MOM GIFTS (Under $40!) – by Lexi Walters – Part baby journal, part activity pack, The New Parents’ Fun Book is a wicked funny gift for the friend you considered Least Likely to Conceive, or just the one most in need of a serious laugh.

Find the best-selling baby journal, The New Parents’ Fun Book at wrybaby.com for about $12.

What’s so funny? Grab yourself a sneak peek of our New Parents’ Fun Book here.

Wry Baby’s best-selling baby book, Safe Baby Handling Tips, got a little digital ink from urbanbaby.com last week and what’s better, we were paired with the Dad’s Survival Kit from our friends at Diaper Dude! Safe Baby Handling Tips is no stranger to fun Rookie-Dad gift ideas, but this is a really good baby shower gift idea! From urbanbaby.com:

GIFTS: For Dad – by Joyce Slaton - …Another thing you should put in the survival kit: Wry Baby’s Safe Baby Handling Tips. As much as you’d like your baby-daddy to be reading Dr. Sears or Elizabeth Pantley, it’s not likely. This satiric, graphics-based guide to keeping baby alive will at least amuse Daddy as he learns that peekaboo is a better game for infants than chess, and testing bottles is better done by shaking a drop of milk on the inner wrist rather than taking a swig.

Diaper Dude’s Dad Survival Kit, $110 at diaperdude.com; Safe Baby Handling Tips, $10 at wrybaby.com

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.

I understand getting caught up in the Christmas spirit and wanting to spread the joy, but some businesses are better off just donating to a charity or something. Spotted on the way to our son’s elementary school, no less. Happy Holidays, Mortals! Enjoy it while you can!

We’ve reached another milestone on our fun Wry Baby blog! Here’s a recap of our favorite 10 posts from the last 100 posts (in no apparent order):

1. Funny Baby Clothes Business Becomes Industry Giant Overnight.

2. Why Wry Baby’s New Organic Line are Top of the Line.

3. Wry Baby Towels & Washcloths For Cost Plus World Market!

4. The World’s Hairiest Baby!

5. Wry Baby at the NYIGF – Building the (real) Wry Baby Boot

6. Wry Baby Presents…Mysterio Monday! for August 18, 2008

7. Fun Parenting Thing – Funny, Fake Magazine Covers

8. Wry Baby Bib Spotted On Good Morning America!

9. Wry Baby Goes All Hippy For Barneys NY.

10. Proof That Wry Baby is for “Anyone”, “Funny”.

Get a load of the best of the first 100 posts here.

See the next 100 posts here.