Our Valentine Collection is online today!

Good Morning! We are happy to say that our 2013 Handmade Valentine's Day Collection is online today, Hooray! We love designing for Valentine's day, painting the ornaments in tones of reds and pinks and adding fun embellishments to each piece like text, glitter and felt.  It makes us so happy!

The collection is very limited so we hope everyone gets a chance to check out some of our sweet new designs. 
Have a lovely day!
xo
Lianne & Paul

What we are working on today......

 

We are hard at work today in the studio perfecting our new wire birdcages for our Sweet Tweet Heart ornament. Inspired by our Halloween caged crow ornament we thought a Valentine version would be  perfect for this years ornament collection.

We started by sculpting two little birdies sitting on top of a clay glittered heart.  Aren't they sweet?

And then molded the cage out of pink wire to affix to the clay base.

We are tickled pink with how these love birds turned out... we only wish we created more :-( 

Be sure to check back on Monday Jan 28th to see this design plus a bunch of other sweet surprises. 

~xo

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Valentine's Collection Update!

Happy Tuesday everyone! It's been a busy few weeks here at the studio as we work on our new  Winter Mini Love Collection which we hope to have ready and online this Monday Jan 28th (crossing our fingers!). We'll share more as the week goes on, but for now here is a little peek at what we are working on today.

Crafts n' Things Magazine

 Here is a fun holiday how-to project we created for the December 2012 issue of Crafts n' things magazine. We supplied them the step-by-step text and the finished snowmen magnet pieces so the magazine could photograph them.  Here is how the how-to looked in the issue.

These pictures below are shots that we took ourselves to submit the how-to project for consideration in the holiday issue.  The idea behind this project came to us when our son would keep ripping out pictures and writing down all the new toys he wanted for Christmas and sticking them all over the house. With these wish list magnets it could help us organize all his requests in one spot. 

Happy Holidays!

Stitch Craft CREATE magazine feature...

WOW! This year sure did fly by quickly. We never had a chance to tell you about our Creative Business profile we did for this wonderful inspirational magazine; stitch | craft | create; that was on newsstands this Christmas. I believe you can still order a back issue online here.

Working with Shannon the editor and Jennifer who interview us for the story couldn't have been an easier process. We were able to supply all our own photos and we think the piece came out very nice. 

Shannon told us she was thrilled to profile polymer clay artist since they haven't had clay artist in the magazine before. 

Here is a our two two page spread profile:

 

How cute is the fun graphic of our name for the headline of the story.

If you haven't seen this magazine before, be sure to check out an issue next time you are at a book store.  This seasonal magazine is a fun, whimsical, beautifully designed inspirational read.

Holiday How-to Christmas: Penguin Snow Day

Now that the Christmas season is over, we can't think of a better project to do on the cold and snowy days that are ahead. Our new 2012 winter  how-to project is online at Polyform. You can follow these easy steps to create your own winter wonderland with this penguin trio snow day sculpture.

and once you figure out the basic steps you can let your creativity go wild. You can even add little hearts to your penguins and change out the snow sign for your special Valentine.

 

Be sure to like Swirly on Facebook and if you really enjoy this project and would like us to keep creating more it would be so nice if you could "like" the project on Polyform Product fb page and comment telling them. ~ Lianne & Paul

 This project is for personal, non-commercial use.

SoWa Holiday Market 2012

 

The holidays have come and gone :(  But now that we have a little free time we can catch you up and share some of the fun things that happened this month. First one is the SoWa Holiday Market that was in early December. We have been doing this Holiday Market for many, many years and it has always been a home run for us.  The promoter does a wonderful job getting PR for this show and he always brings in the crowds.

The event was held in a new location this year–Benjamin Franklin Institute. This is always a little stressful not knowing if the new location is going to bring in the shoppers. We also had a smaller booth space which required us to rethink our booth layout.

We worked setting up  right up to the last minute when the doors opened early Saturday morning.

Excited so show off our new frosted tree display with our new collection of snowball snowman and Santa ornaments.

The response was very positive to our new designs and many of them found new homes this holiday.

We wished we had more time to take more pictures but we were pretty swamped from start to close both days.

Thanks to everyone who came to see us and all the wonderful artisains at this show and it's new location.