NEW FROM SPATZ · VERY IMPORTANT LITTLE PEOPLE

Your baby has arrived. They have no qualifications, no work experience and an availability schedule that includes 2.17 am but somehow excludes the exact time you booked their newborn photos.

Naturally, they’re getting a Personalised Ceramic Baby Birth Plate.

The rest of us generally have to retire from something to receive this level of recognition. This person has been here eight days and is still conducting a lengthy investigation into their own left hand.

And yet, here we are. Ceramic tribute. Proud relatives. The possibility of a dedicated wall display.

Honestly? Fair enough. They are very cute.

A very small person with excellent references

If a newborn had a résumé, it would be a remarkable document.

They haven’t worked out what their feet are for, but they already have commemorative ceramics. Some people are simply born with an excellent publicity team.

Which brings us to our new Personalised Ceramic Baby Birth Plates: 26 cm ceramic keepsakes, personalised with baby’s name, birth details and your chosen SPATZ artwork. We personalise and print them in our Gold Coast studio.

There. A perfectly sensible product introduction. We can behave when required.

Have a little look inside

Press play for a SPATZ plate unboxing. Nana may wish to watch it twice.

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The name alone deserves some recognition

Let’s acknowledge the work that may have gone into that name.

The lists. The vetoes. The name you loved until you said it out loud with the surname. The relative who reacted to a perfectly lovely suggestion as though you’d announced you were calling the baby Bench.

Then there’s the middle name. Then the initials. Then someone points out a potential nickname and the entire committee has to reconvene.

Putting it on something beautiful feels entirely reasonable.

And alongside it are those birth details: the little pieces of information that suddenly became the most interesting numbers anyone had ever heard.

You can announce a baby’s arrival time down to the minute and an entire family will read it with enormous interest. Try doing that with the time you unloaded the dishwasher. Nobody sends a heart.

Eleven thousand photos. One very good foot.

There are many excellent ways to record a baby’s arrival.

You might have a carefully filled-in baby book. You might have a beautiful keepsake box. You might have a phone containing eleven thousand photos, including forty-seven of the same tiny foot because, at the time, every single one appeared to offer something the others did not.

This is understandable. It was an exceptionally good foot.

The problem is that your phone also contains a screenshot of a tap you considered buying, a parking sign and a photo you took of the oven controls because somebody needed to explain what the symbols meant.

Somewhere in there are the details of one of the biggest days of your life.

It’s lovely to give them a spot of their own.

A shelf you pass every day. A little corner of the nursery. Somewhere you can see their name and remember that first version of them, before they developed strong opinions about the way a sandwich had been cut.

A gift with the presentation already sorted

Each comes in a gift box, with a stand for shelf display and an attached hook for hanging on the wall.

The gift box also means nobody has to discover how difficult it is to wrap a circle with fourteen centimetres of paper and the last sticky bit on the tape roll.

We feel this is a useful contribution to society.

If you’re buying for new parents, it gives you something personal to hand over at a time when “What do you need?” can be quite a large question.

If you’re buying for grandparents, allow a little extra time for the unwrapping. There may be a pause. There may be a damp eye. There may be an immediate search for a spot visible to everyone who enters the house.

The baby’s publicity department does not take days off.

And if you’re ordering one for your own little person, that makes perfect sense too. You don’t have to wait for someone else to guess which design you’ve already looked at six times.

The bit underneath all the jokes

Their name, their birthday, those little details from the day they arrived: they’re the beginning of a story you’ll keep telling as they grow.

There’s no need to remember every minute perfectly. Some of those minutes were a blur even while you were having them.

It’s simply lovely to have something that holds a few of the details for you.

Choose the artwork you love, add their details and give the spelling one careful check. We’ll take it from there.

They can write their own résumé later.

For now, Nana has already given them the job.

Choose their personalised ceramic birth plate →