Our 2016 Halloween Swirly Collection

 We are happy to introduce you to our New 2016 Swirly Halloween Design Collection.

You can view the collection here if you dare!

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process shot that we share on our Instagram account.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

A Nightime Lantern Parade

 

Last weekend we attended a fun and quite unique event with the kids we would love to share with you. We visited Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston, for their 32nd Annual Jamaica Pond Lantern Parade. 

You create a lantern and at sunset walk around the pond.... better yet this is what the description on the website says:  

The ritual of the Jamaica Pond Lantern Parade began in 1984 when people gathered to make a journey with their candle-lit lanterns around Jamaica Pond. Each year approximately 4,000 people arrive at Jamaica Pond on each of two evenings at sunset with their lanterns; many children arriving in full Halloween costume as well. The parade proceeds around the pond, bringing a trail of bouncing lights into the darkness that can be seen from all directions. This beautiful autumn evening ceremony has become an annual tradition in our community. The Lantern Parade has its cultural roots in Dutch tradition. It reflects our dedication to building community by exploring old and creating new cultural traditions.

 

Here are the lanterns we created with the kids for the event. Making these were so fun and easy. I love that it is a creative project to do with the kids but I can also decorate my house with them.

You'll need a plastic 2 liter bottle, cut the top off and glue color tissue paper around the outside. We used Mod Podge to glue down the tissue. Punch two holes, attach a string and insert a few battery operated tea light candle inside and that's it. Let your creativity run wild when it comes to using the tissue paper. We had loads of fun cutting and gluing!

 

 

They look so magical at night.

 

This was another design we did last minute. The picture is showing the front and back of the lantern.

It was a fun time and we can see ourselves making more lanterns for other occasions to hang in the studio windows.  Hope you all have a Glowing Autumn Season!

xo Lianne & Paul 

(and our little photo bomber son Gryffin)

Holiday How-to Halloween: Happy Haunting Door Wreath

This project is for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

We are EEKcited to share with you our new ghoulish Halloween how-to project we created for Sculpey. You can find the project here and we will share more images in our next post.

Swirly SALE!

Autumn is here and which means Halloween is just around the corner. To celebrate the fall season we created these limited Swirly Designs Halloween & Autumn ornament gift sets for you.

If you see something(s) you love,  Be the first person to email us your choice(s) (Halloween or Autumn) along with your *Paypal email and zip code at sales@swirlydesigns.com  and we'll let you know if they're still available. First come first served!
(*If you don't have Paypal let us know and we can work out another payment option) 

Swirly Scarecrow

AUTUMN Gift Set includes FIVE ornaments:

• Swirly Scarecrow, a mini Owl, Pumpkin, Corn husk and Acorn.

$36 (plus S&H)

ONLY ONE SET LEFT!

 

Swirly Ghoulish Witch

HALLOWEEN Gift Set includes FOUR ornaments:

• Swirly Witch, Moon, Bat and Ghost 

$38 (plus S&H)

SOLD OUT!!

 GHOUL LUCK!

 If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@swirlydesigns.cominfo@swirlydesigns.com

Our First Reading Fall Street Faire

Hello Friends! Swirly participated in our first Fall Street Faire in our hometown a few weeks ago.

We visit the event every year with the kids and always left saying "Gee, next year we should get a booth and give it a try". Well, things happen and we always seem forget to register. :-(

This year, however, we remembered! And we're glad we did. The weather was sunny and pleasant, which brought in the crowds. The event organizer estimated approx 10,000 people visited this one day event, choc full of local businesses. Having two kids in the school system here, we were visited by many of our school friends, parents, teachers and neighbors. It was funny that they were all kind of surprised and a little puzzled to actually see what we make and do for a living. I guess we aren't the heaviest self promoters of what we do when socializing with our community.

Crowds of people roam the streets visiting and supporting the community.

Our booth is all set up and ready. (It was quite windy that day, so our table cloths were blowing)

Our two Swirly Helpers manning the booth.

A framed process helps explain what polymer clay is and how we make our Swirlies.

All and all it was a fun day. Having our kids join us for a large part of the day helping pass out business cards was great. And when the event was over and the car was packed up it was especially nice to know we were only a 5 minute car ride home!

Remember to Shop Local and Buy Handmade!

Where is our Halloween update?

Next week is the start of Autumn. The kids have returned to school, the days are getting cooler and we are busy gearing up for the upcoming Holiday season.

However, we are usually gearing up and preparing for our BIG Swirly Halloween launch right about now...BUT after much debate (well, as much as two people can have:) we decided we weren't going to do a large Halloween/Autumn collection launch this year. Boo!Hiss! I know! Instead we are focusing more on our very popular Christmas collection.

We didn't want to totally pass by one of our favorite Holiday seasons without some acknowledgment, so to celebrate, we have updated our Autumn & Halloween ornament section in our shop with some of our favorite Swirly Designs. And if you are on our mailing list you will have an opportunity to order a special Halloween and/or Autumn Swirly ornament set coming shortly. So be on the look out for that.

Hope you are enjoying the season! Happy Autumn!

Are you on Instagram? We would love for you to follow us. We post almost daily on what we are up to in the studio, interesting craft finds and sometimes a glimpse into our family life.

Black Raven Cage Ornament

Autumn Greetings

 Red Hot Devil

Swirly Designs Haunted House Ornament

Somerset Holiday & Celebrations 2013

Even thou this magazine was released back in early September, it's one you can refer back to all year long, since it has how-to projects for many holidays and celebrations through out the year.
We are especially overjoyed to have had contributed two holiday themed projects: a Halloween project and a Valentine's one for the 2013 issue of Somerset Holidays & Celebrations.
If you were busy running around for the holidays like a lot of us and missed this issue on newsstands, you can pick up a copy online here.

Scupley & Swirly Holiday How-to Series

We are very happy to announce that Sculpey and Swirly will be collaborating on 5 more Holiday How-to projects for 2014!

We really hope you enjoy these creative and fun Holiday themed how-to projects as much as we do  creating them.  To be notified when the projects are online make sure you like Swirly Designs and Sculpey facebook pages.

Below are the projects we created in 2013 

scroll down to see the links for the step by step how-to projects

All projects are for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

 

The Bunny Egg Treat Box we created for Easter 

 

 We created two Halloween how-to's

Premo! Miniature Vampire Halloween Cup 

and

Halloween Place Card Holder Trio

 Autumn Fox Figurine

Christmas Saint Nick Sculpture