Celebrating Chloe's 1st Year

Our little girl turned one today. What a fun filled year watching her grow and we are all looking forward to many more years of her bringing us joy!

Happy Birthday Chloe!

Love
Mommy & Daddy and big brother Gryffin

Some Easter treats

Wishing you all a Happy Easter!
Here are a few treats we picked up this season to add to our ever growing collection.


This cute little egg tree we found at Homegoods. We couldn't resit picking one up. Lately, we have been searching for more smaller trees to display our new mini swirly designs. This tree is displaying our mini carrots and our mini bunny from last year.


This chick peeking out from his egg was in our 2008 Easter swirly collection.

Here is another little tree we picked up online from the BethanyLowe collection. She always has fun and different trees for every holiday season.

Here are a few places we found online that carry Bethany Lowe trees plus many more holiday decor: Traditions year round and the other Bayberry Cove.


Chirp! Chirp!




We liked this fun little Bunny snow globe by artist Jim Shore even though his style seems to be everywhere lately.


This is not a Jim Shore piece but it looks like they were trying to be. What do you think?





The egg print and the chocolate bunny print were pieces the we made with Moonrock paper company that were sold in TJX stores last year. We made boxes and easter bags in some nice Easter colors.


And what's Easter with out all the magazines celebrating the joy and fun of Easter, right?
Well unfortunately we only found one magazine worth picking up. It's one that always delivers when it comes to celebrating Easter season..... and that of course is Martha Stewart Living. Always filled with fun and inspiring projects. Martha even has her website full of ideas and projects for the big day. Check out Easter photo gallery.
Happy Easter Everybody!
~Lianne & Paul

Easter Egg painting with the kids

What's Easter without decorating eggs! Easter falls so early this year and with all the craziness around the studio lately, we wanted to make sure we set aside some time to decorate eggs with the kids. Our four year old really enjoys and our almost one-year old just enjoys watching.

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This picture came out so cool with the steam from the boiling water


We prepared 4 dozen eggs. Half of them we blew out and the other half we boiled.


experimenting with a wax crayon on an egg.





These eggs came out so cool! We have learned to let the little one take the lead and just let him have fun instead of trying to art direct him. I guess that's what you get when you have two artists for parents.





Hope your Easter is an Eggcellent one!

- Lianne & Paul

Packing up the Goodies

Last week we finally wrapped up a pretty large project. We blogged about it a few weeks back, regarding Mary Engelbreit workshop and how we offered to contribute to the goodie bag. We thought we would share some pictures of us packing up the 200+ ornaments.

We really wanted to included a nice mix of all our holiday collections.


Once the ornaments were finished (varnishes, ribbon, tagged etc) we placed each ornament in a glassine envelope to protect them.


We really wanted to include some sort of brochure in each box to help explain who we are and what we do. Lianne, the pro designer, whipped up this little beauty in an evening. She was able to get 4 up on an 11 x 17 page and print them out. It's a really inexpensive way to have something without spending a fortune.



taaa..da!
They are all finished, bubble wrapped, boxed with a color vellum wrap and sealed with a sticker. The color color wraps are color coded for the holidays.
























They are shipped and hopefully will be enjoyed by the many attendees at the workshop.

There might be still some spaces left, so check out theMEHC workshop website.

Since we are talking Mary Engelbreit have you seen her blog ? She also just did a wonderful interview (which I believe you can still download for FREE) with a very talented and interesting licensing artist named Tara Reed of www.artlicensinginfo.com.
Two fun things worth checking out:)

Update Matthew Mead Holiday magazine

We mention a few weeks ago that Matthew Mead will be coming out with a new Holiday magazine in 2010.
Well, we have an update and a link to the new website and how you can have an opportunity to be mention in the magazine:
Head over to Holiday with Matthew Mead to find out how you can win the opportunity to have your blog or online shop mentioned in the magazine. Holiday with Matthew Mead is a "book-azine" celebrating and offering inspiration for the Christmas holiday season. To be released in October 2010, Holiday is offered via online orders only - in limited quantities - and will not be sold on newsstands. But, by simply following the BUY HOLIDAY MAGAZINE link below their banner, you can reserve your own copy of this beautiful magazine, with guaranteed delivery of the magazine straight to your mailbox! Holiday with Matthew Mead is 144 pages of holiday inspiration with well-known and admired designers, bloggers and top-notch features, printed on beautiful paper and not drowning in ads!
Now, head on over for your chance to win!
~ Tell Matthew Swirly Designs sent you.

And the winner is...

Congratulations to... Artfulife
You are the winner of our darling Swirly sunny bunny ornament!
Contact us with your mailing information so we can have this shipped to you asap.

Thanks to everyone who entered our last minute Easter giveaway!
Have a Hoppy Day



*The winner was chosen via random.org number generator.*

A Swirly Easter Giveaway

Spring is here!...well actually we had snow here today in Boston.. but that's another post. Snow or not, Easter is right around the corner (April 4th) and because we are still feeling bad that we weren't able to create a new Easter collection this season (we will have a spring collection coming out in May though) we thought we'd do a Giveaway instead. YAY!


We will pick ONE winner to receive our very popular Swirly White Bunny holding a flower sitting atop a field of yellow, finished with a touch of glitter.
Just in time to celebrate Easter or to welcome Spring. Perfect to tie to someone's Easter basket or give as a nice hostess gift for the holiday.



Here is how you can enter to win this Swirly Bunny ornament:
Just leave a comment on this post and/or follow our blog(via Google friend). If you do both you will have an extra entry for the giveaway.

A winner will be chosen using Random.org on Sunday, March 28, 2010 and will be notified by email. The winner will have 24 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen.

Don't let this little cutie hop away! Enter today!