Shop news | New: #Hashtag circle pendants and custom bottle-opener pendants

Posted by Vivian & Eric on January 18th, 2012 | No Comments »

If you’re a fan of Blend Creations on Facebook, you’ll recognize our new hashtag circle pendants. They’re part of our geek chic line and celebrate social media trends offline, in-person (or around your neck!). If you’re not sure what a #hashtag is, you can read all about them on Twitter’s page, “What are Hashtags?“.

 

Also new in the store is our Custom map disc bottle-opener pendants. We started with our Worldly series (featuring maps to the birthplaces of international brews), and then added our American and Canadian brew series.

The problem was, there are just too many great craft and micro- brews out there to add them all, not to mention all of the fine home-brews that exist. So now, you can get a custom bottle-opener pendant featuring whatever location you’d like, and we’ll make a pendant with that specific map.

The back of the pendants are even personalized — so you can commemorate any place (not just breweries) that has significant meaning for you (like where you met your spouse, where your child was born or where you first made that great IPA, etc.).

 

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Shop news | New Fusion necklaces in store

Posted by Vivian & Eric on January 11th, 2012 | No Comments »

We’ve just added our newest design to the store – our Fusion necklaces! There are three styles: the assymetric fusion, the petite fusion and the long fusion.

They’re so-named because each necklace has two pieces of stainless steel: one with a brushed finish and one with a polished finish, that have been fused together. They’re modern and simple-looking, but can be quite symbolic of a union. Each necklace is personalized with a visual accent: either a Swarovski crystal in birthstone colors, or a faux-pearl. You can further personalize it with the engraving of initials, a date or a special word.

Want to stay updated of our new product designs and get a special promo code? You can join our e-mail newsletter, or go to our Facebook page.

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Inspiration | “Goldfish Salvation” by Riusuke Fakhori

Posted by Vivian & Eric on January 9th, 2012 | No Comments »

Riusuke Fukahori is an amazing artist who pours resin and painstakingly paints layer on layer until the goldfish are formed in three dimensions.

Goldfish are a very lucky symbol in Asian culture as they represent wealth (an abundance of gold) and harmony. (One of most popular washi necklace pendant patterns over the years has been our goldfish pendants!)

video via The Awesomer

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Jewelry Giveaway | For January: Win a bottle opener necklace pendant

Posted by Vivian & Eric on January 2nd, 2012 | No Comments »

Happy New Year! Hope you’ve had a restful holiday and you’re raring to go for 2012.

For January 2012, we’re giving away the Disc Bottle-Opener Necklace pendant of your choice. You can choose one of our more ornate floral patterned bottle-opener pendants, or you can pick one that has a map to the birthplace of one of your favorite beers. :)

To enter our first jewelry giveaway for the new year, we’ll be trying something new — we’re conducting our giveaway through the Blend Creations Facebook page (comments on the blog won’t be counted this time):

1) Like Blend Creations on Facebook if you don’t already

2) Go to the “Jewelry Giveaway!” link on the left side of the Blend Creations Facebook page

3) Fill in all the fields

4) Get a bonus entry if you already subscribe to our newsletter, or choose to opt-in to our newsletter.

We will draw randomly from all the entries received by Tuesday January 31 at noon EST, and announce a winner the following day, On Wednesday February 1st.

Easy peasy! Good luck!

 

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Inspirations | Ornaments by the Jr. VP & Happy Holidays!

Posted by Vivian & Eric on December 20th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We’re winding down here at Blend Creations since the last day for holiday orders was yesterday. Any orders between December 20th – 26th will start shipping on Tuesday December 27th. If you’re wanting to give a Blend Creations jewelry gift though, you can always give an email gift certificate (no shipping and no expiry!) — for now, you’ll even get $5 off $100 gift certificates.

In the meantime, we’re preparing for our own celebrations and our Jr. VP has certainly helped out by designing some ornaments:

Santa and his elves? Nope. The Jr. VP did a self-portrait and drew his best bear friends, which we turned into ornaments.

We hope you and yours have a wonderful and restful holiday season :)

 

 

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Giveaway | Winner of our year end giveaway!

Posted by Vivian & Eric on December 16th, 2011 | No Comments »

We’re wrapping things up from our year-end giveaway for a jewelry for you and a friend! We randomly drew a number between 1 and 117 and got number 59, which corresponded to this comment:

 

We’ll be gifting Brian with our Honeycomb hex wrench pendant:

and his lovely wife will get one of our QR code pendants:

Congrats Brian! We hope you and your wife enjoy your Blend Creations :)

If you didn’t win this time, not to worry, you’ll get another chance when we announce our next giveaway early in 2012!

 

 

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Gift ideas | December 10th only: Get our @ symbol Twitter necklace for $39

Posted by Vivian & Eric on December 10th, 2011 | No Comments »

We’re featuring 12 days of giving! Each day we’ll be featuring one of our most popular jewelry items, each at a special price for 24 hours only!

Today’s deal:

Get $10 off our @ symbol Twitter necklace:


This machined high-polished stainless steel ‘at symbol’ Twitter necklace has a little bit of sparkle with a Swarovski crystal accent in birthstone colors.

It’s the perfect thing if you’re going to a tweetup and want something personal and more subtle than a “Hello My Name Is” sticker, since you can have your Twitter necklace engraved with your handle. :) Of course, it’s also the perfect gift for the Twitter addict that you know!

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Gift ideas | Save 25% on all Torus necklaces December 9th only!

Posted by Vivian & Eric on December 9th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We’re featuring 12 days of giving! Each day we’ll be featuring one of our most popular jewelry items, each at a special price for 24 hours only!

Today’s deal:

Get 25% off any of our Torus necklaces:


Our Torus modern necklace features stainless steel encircling and complementing a wide-variety of accents — from the cool whiteness of freshwater pearl to the colorful vibrancy of sea fossils.

Make it a very personal gift by engraving the torus ring with a name, a favorite quote or other words of wisdom:

 

 

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Gift ideas | December 8th only: get our Heart charmer necklace for $39

Posted by Vivian & Eric on December 8th, 2011 | No Comments »

We’re featuring 12 days of giving! Each day we’ll be featuring one of our most popular jewelry items, each at a special price for 24 hours only!

Today’s deal:

Save $10 today on our Heart charmer necklace – it’s just $39 until midnight (EST).


This machined high-polished stainless steel heart necklace has a little bit of sparkle with a Swarovski crystal accent in birthstone colors.

A great gift idea for someone who might need a little love. You can have your initials and the name of the person who has your heart engraved on this necklace.

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Gift ideas | Save $10 on our Labyrinth maze pendant December 7th only!

Posted by Vivian & Eric on December 7th, 2011 | No Comments »

We’re featuring 12 days of giving! Each day we’ll be featuring one of our most popular jewelry items, each at a special price for 24 hours only!

Today’s deal:

Save $10 on our Labyritnh Maze pendant!


If you know someone who likes to fidget or perhaps just likes a little fun with their jewelry then this high-polished solid stainless steel pendant will certainly amuse — it’s complete with a black ion-polished maze marker to take through the pathways. (If they get caught playing with it during a meeting, don’t blame us!)

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