Happy 4th of July!

 Wishing everyone a Swirly Star Spangled Fourth of July!!

 With all this crazy weather here on the East coast. 

We don't know if we will see fireworks this year, so instead we decided to create our own.

God Bless America!

Happy Fourth of July!

Wishing everyone a spectacular Fourth of July celebration!

What a stressful collection!

What a week we had here at the studio!
We spend weeks preparing and getting ready to launch a new collection online and you can never be to sure what challenges will lie ahead. Like forgetting to add our website link to our Patriotic email that was sent out to everyone on launch day. A little stressful, but we were able to remedy that pretty quickly by resending out another email with the link. OK!
THEN around lunch time we were tweaking the website links and we accidentally deleted something on the website server. OMG!! We totally messed things up BIG TIME! Everything with this collection was missing and lost and the web designer who worked on the site was MIA. That section of the website was down for over 10 + plus hours and wasn't fully working until a few days later. We never felt so helpless and disappointed.

But on the bright side you guys are awesome and always order our Swirly ornaments as soon as they are online (5 of the 12 designs were sold out) so lots of you were able to get your orders early enough before the site crashed and our stress level rose.

We are happy to say we are finally back on track and we promise we will never delete anything again...especially in the middle of a launch.

We had so much fun creating and design this Patriotic collection we just wanted to make sure everyone was able to enjoy these designs. Here are some extra pictures of this collection.





















Happy Fourth Everyone!
~ Lianne & Paul

Our Patriotic Collection is Here!

We are happy to say our very first Patriotic collection is here! It's been such a whirl wind of a weekend but so worth it. We are going to regroup so enjoy our new collection and later today we will post some more beauty shots of the designs.
~Lianne & Paul

Patriotic collection Update!

Hello all~
Summer days are quickly approaching and we are very excited that our very first Patriotic ornament collection is in the final stages and will finally be online this Monday June 20th for all to see. Everything was going smoothly schedule wise, and we had everything planned to have this collection ready sooner... but of course life added a few speed bumps along the way like... family colds, our little guy finishing up kindergarten, planning his 6th birthday party PLUS we had a BIG holiday project come in the studio that required all our attention for over a whole week (more on that later).

We are finally back on track and wanted to share with everyone a few quick snap shots of what you can look forward to coming this Monday.

Hope to see you there!

*Reminder: have you joined our mailing list? You can be one of the first to be informed when this (and future ones) new collection is online.

Happy 4th of JULY..... 2011?

Happy 4th of JULY ! We thought we would share with you some of our new 4th of July designs that will be available for..... next 4th of July. We promise!

Since we missed this years deadline, all designs are on hold till next summer. But then we received this great looking 24" red goose feather tree in the mail last week we just had to jump into overdrive and finish these little guys before the fourth.

What do you think? How cool are these little patriotic guys?














Chloe approved! Happy 4th, enjoy the a weekend!
~Lianne & Paul

Happy Fourth of July

We would like to take this time to wish everyone a wonderful and safe Independence Day...
hopefully the weather will cooperate with everyone's fireworks and BBQs.
God Bless America!
~Lianne & Paul

Happy 4th of JULY!!!

We want to wish you all a happy and safe 4th of July.

There's nothing better then a good BBQ and nice weather for a 4th celebration with family and friends. This year we are hoping to have our 3 year old experience fireworks for the first time. If anything, he will enjoy the staying up late part for sure.

























Here is our Patriotic Topiary ornament we created back in 2003. It was a very popular design for us and we still get requests for a Patriotic line. These ornaments look wonderful on a front door surround by a beautiful 4th of july wreath or hang them on a decorative knob on a cabinet.



























This is one of our favorite ways to display our little pieces of art. A shadow box display. This frame is wide enough to stand on its on so you don't even need to hang it on the wall. You can just stand it on a book case or mantle. See our baby ornament shadow box idea here.

Even if you can't paint, this whole frame was easily created with tissue paper and glue, using a technique called decoupage. Which is really just gluing paper to a surface by layering and then top coating it with varnish or lacquer. If you've never tried decoupage, we recommend trying it, you'll love the results.