5 Minutes for Mom.com is throwing another “Ultimate Blog Party” and Happy Panda is hosting the prize page! Please click here for entry details. Prizes will be listed on both sites until all sponsors have been entered.

Happy Panda products are included in the holiday gift baskets presented by Baby Swags to select celebrity families in time for the Holiday Season.

Select Celebrity families receive an exclusive Holiday Gift Bag for the 2007 Holiday Season and Baby Swags also gives away two bags to contest winners.

“I love all of the products that have been included in these holiday gift bags”, says Pometta. “As an Entrepreneurial woman myself, I understand the amount of time, energy and passion that has been put into each product.” Pometta continues to add, “These products are some of the newest, hottest, entrepreneurial products out there and it gives me great joy have them included, and more importantly, for them to be a part of our Baby Swags family.”

Thank you Phyllis Pometta for doing such a great job! Happy Panda thanks you for all the work that you do and we hope that the celebrity families chosen enjoy their baskets.

SPECIAL HOLIDAY LUNCHEONS (for babies 0 - 12 months)

When:    Tuesday, December 18th, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Where:   San Luigi, corner of 75th and Amsterdam
Cost:      $35
RSVP:     laura@babybitesnyc.com

When:    Thursday, December 20th, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Where:   East Side Location to be Posted Shortly
Cost:      $35
RSVP:     laura@babybitesnyc.com

Pamela Kramer owner of Happy Panda is today’s featured interview at WAHM Central on BlogMammas.com. The questions asked are by Becky aka Blog Mom. We hope you will enjoy reading about the tips, ideas, and motivation that has made Pamela’s work at home dream come true.

Happy Panda is joining in the fun carnival of giveaways hosted by Rocks in My Dryer! We love a good contest so let’s begin. The prize is a $75.00 gift code to spend in our online boutique. All you have to do is visit our shop and then come back here and leave a comment telling us what you would spend your $75.00 on! It’s that simple. We will randomly select our lucky winner on November 4th. Good Luck and Happy Shopping!

Contest is now closed and the lucky winner is

Mandi - onecrazymom4littlemonkeys@yahoo.com

PRESS RELEASE –

Deer Park, Texas (October 30, 2007)…Happy Panda, an online clothing boutique for the bigger baby plus size community, is pleased to announce their second Cyber Baby Shower to be held November 9th on ClassyMommy.com. Colleen Padilla is the mother-to-be and the owner of the ClassyMommy.com online review site. Her charity of choice Project Peanut Butter will also benefit from the shower as sponsors are making donations to reach her $1000.00 goal.

Pamela Kramer, founder and owner of Happy Panda stated, “Cyber Baby Shower is an event that allows the online community of work at home moms and stay at home moms the opportunity to come together and support each other. Businesses are able to promote their products while offering prizes to the baby shower contestants.”

October 1st was the first Cyber Baby Shower hosted by Happy Panda. The moms-to-be were twin sisters Janice and Susan, owners of the online site 5MinutesforMom.com. Both sisters were pregnant and due at the same time with girls. The Cyber Baby Shower was a great success with over forty sponsors donating shower gifts for the moms and prizes for readers. On the day of the shower the twins posted photos and descriptions of the items received along with shower games to be played by their readers. To see a current listing of sponsors, prizes and charity donations please visit – www.happypandababy.com/blog/cyber-baby-shower/

Baby Bites is holding their 2nd annual Halloween Party on Wednesday, October 31st at Tavern on the Green and Happy Panda was invited to sponsor a deluxe gift basket for this fabulous event. The party will include a costume contest for the babies and professional photographer Jennifer Lee will be there to catch all the excitement. Baby Bites is a New York based organization founded by Laura Deutsch that holds luncheons and other events to allow stay-at-home moms the opportunity to get together to discuss issues they all share, listen to expert speakers, enter raffles for wonderful prizes and enjoy great food in a child friendly environment. For more information on this and other Baby Bites events visit their website at www.babybitesnyc.com.

Game #1 - Quickest Delivery is awarded to BWOZ - 1 hr 10minutes

Game #2 - Best Baby Bump is awarded to AMY

Game #3 - Best Nursery Photo is awarded to SARAH Pitter Patter

Game #4 - Biggest Baby is awarded to SARAH - 11lbs. 8oz.

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The Happy Panda staff is all a buzz. We are reading story after story and viewing photo after photo. What a great turn out this has been. One more day to enter to win at 5 Minutes for Mom. If you would like to see who is in the running we are blogging about it here at www.pmku.net.

The cyber baby shower for 5 Minutes for Mom is finally here. Olivia has already arrived and there are lots of pictures posted of her. The post is up and running for everyone to see the gifts that were received. There are photos and reviews of the products. Thank you to all the sponsors for all of the wonderful donations. Thank you to all the visitors and readers for joining in on the fun. Also a special thank you to all the bloggers out there who helped spread the word. Stop on by!

If you would like to see who is in the running for the top choice prizes click HERE.