THE CRYSTAL LODGE BLOG

Hard to believe, the crystal figurines we know and love started production back in 1976! For those of you, who don’t know the story, here is an abridged version: By 1976 Swarovski’s business expanded from that of a cutting, manufacturing, and jewellery production facility to a business committed to silver crystal as an end product…

Belle Mo was the first medium sized Mo to join the herd. She was introduced in 2010 but retired in 2011, so she wasn’t available for long. This is the original Swarovski description for her: “Let’s go girls! Belle Mo joins her sisters, bringing her abundance of motivation and energy to Lovlots City. She is…

The set of 3 mini chickens, baby chickens and mini penguins contain 3 individually designed animals, while the set of 3 field mice are identical.

As well as being the sole designer for the Mother and Child trilogy, Michael Stamey was also the designer who was responsible for all 4 of the “Up in the Trees” series birds: Kingfisher, Owl, Parrot and Toucan.

Did you know that the original set of 12 (small clear crystal) zodiac animals were all designed by Anton Hirzinger? They were released in batches of 3 per year starting in 2001 with the Goat, Ox and Rat (plus the display stand). In 2002 the horse, monkey and pig followed, with 2003 seeing the introduction…

Here in the UK, we have our indigenous red squirrel with its long fluffy red ears, but we have all heard the tales of how the “introduced” grey squirrel (native to USA) has taken over most of their habitat. Perhaps because of global variations in “real” squirrels, when Swarovski introduced their mini squirrel in 1985,…