Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a handmade heart to decorate your home. The folks at Swirly Designs are sad about the recent loss of magazines like Home Companion and Domino. They are wondering where you will go for gift ideas and design inspiration.
From Swirly Designs:
Do you love celebrating the holidays?
Here at Swirly Designs we loooove the holidays. We create handmade polymer clay ornaments. You can learn more about our process here. We’ve been creating ornaments since 2000, starting with just Christmas designs but since have expanded to all the holidays including Valentine’s Day! Each ornament is handmade and no two are exactly alike. They’re great for gifts, for your holiday tree, to dress up a package or just to hang on your wall!
These days we have been wondering where people go for their holiday inspiration? Where do you go to buy handmade gifts? And now, with the ending of such great publications like Country Home and Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion, we would really love to know which magazines you will turn to now, to get your holiday fix.
For a chance to win one of our ornaments please leave us a comment by Monday midnight EST, Feb 9, telling us which magazines you read to get ideas for your holiday gifts and design inspiration from, and we will randomly choose one winner and send them one of our handmade limited edition Valentine Cupid ornament from our new 2009 collection (see first photo).
From Cindy:
There was an overwhelming response to having weekly “guest” giveaways. Over 95 percent of you said that it would be something you would enjoy. If you have a business you would like to promote or something you make and would like to host a give away please send me an email (again if you already did) and I will send you more information. Thanks!
I love Family Circle, Family Fun and All You magazines for creative ideas. I also go to Creating Keepsakes online. I use the internet a lot to get new ideas.
Oh I will miss ME. I will be getting most of my ideas from Martha and Papercrafts.
Thanks
debbie
I rely on Family Fun, Parenting, and Wonder Time for my ideas.
I’m a fan of martha!
I love Country Woman’s Christmas issue & I love any of the Stmpington & co mags.Also any of the paper craft ones are great too.
I love family fun magazine
I love magazines like Womans Day, Family Circle and Family Fun and I get alot of inspiration from online resources and blogs.
I usually get my ideas from the Internet now, but I like Family Fun.
Martha Stewart, kids mags (Parents, Wondertime, Family Fun)…but mostly the internet. All you creative folks are so inspiring!
I love the look at the Family Fun Magasine. I have a little girl in kindergarten and I am the room mother. I also look at Marthat Stewart Living. for ideas. I love your webdite. I added to my blog list because of all of your great ideas. I was reciently chosen parent of the year at my daughters school and I have to give some credit to you. Thanks
We receive Family Fun every month and my 6 year old son likes that he can do most of the crafts without much grown up help. I love Living Crafts and always find several things I want to make.
Having small kids, I always turn to Family Fun and Parents magazines! I’m becoming a big fan of also Google through the internet. Love the ornaments!
Martha is the go-to place for me! I also look on the internet A LOT! Thanks for the contest! Great ornaments…it would look great hanging in the middle of the Valentine wreath I made!
Home Companion was my FAVORITE. It was not only a inspiration for me, but also, a quiet getaway. With 4 kids, I don’t get many of those but Home Companion always took me there.
I love paper crafting and use Paper Crafts, Card Crafting, and many Internet sites such as Cannon, Skip to my Lou, Fred She Said, Activity Village and many more.
Because I do a lot of crafting for kids for Children’s Church, I also use Danielle’s Place, DLTK, Kaboose, About, Suite101, Craft Ideas and visit many blogs. Ivisit Grandma George, Delightful Doodles, D.A.I.S.I.E.S., etc for ideas too.
Love your site. Thanks for sharing.