Archive for May, 2006
Contest: Win $100 in Blend Creations goods
As I had posted earlier, we’ll be having a contest for the month of June. This contest is heavily blog-centric since hey, now we have a blog and we figure a lot of you do too.
Here are the details:
Prize:Up to $100 in Blend Creations merchandise, which we will ship at our cost to the winner [...]
Designer stools: dream vs. reality
We have an area in our new kitchen that is crying out for stools. But, we don’t want just any stools. Both Eric and I love clean-lined, modern looking furniture. And if we had our way, we would be getting a couple of these stools from Design Within Reach (DWR):
That’s the LEM Piston Stool with [...]
Science geek chic
What seems like another lifetime ago, I used to be a biochemist. Yes, the kind that ran around in a lab coat mixed flasks full of enzymes and other stuff and tracked reactions and did a lot of spreadsheets to crunch data. Sounds like fun doesn’t it?
I decided to leave that career and the accompanying [...]
Psst.. the next newsletter is coming
Our next newsletter should be arriving in our subscribers’ inboxes on Thursday June 1st. In this next newsletter, we’ll have a coupon code for a 15% discount off all of our mother of pearl and shell pendants. That’s any of the pendants on this page. If you’ve been eyeing one of those pendants, then [...]
Art and Eats
One of my favourite restaurants in Ottawa is Oz Kafé (361 Elgin St.). It’s a tucked away place that’s sandwiched between two busy drinking spots - a pub and a Mexican restaurant. We’ve been going to Oz as regulars for the past year or so because the food is that good. Seriously. If you’re in [...]
Fellow indie designer: ZN Creative Arts
Yesterday I became the proud owner of this ring from ZN Creative Arts. The creative mind behind it is fellow indie business owner and industrial designer Grace Wang-Bishop.
Her jewelry is predominantly enamel work, and beautiful work at that. Now, I’m not normally a big ‘ring person’ or even a ‘big ring’ person, since at just [...]
Wear your love of TV
The Mule Design Feed Store has a number of clever t-shirts and the Lost junkie in me loves this one. They’ve also got a Hanso Foundation t-shirt, which I think is much more subtle in its Lostness.
And while we’re on the subject of TV obsessions — for Eric’s birthday recently I had to get him [...]
What will you find today?
Blend Creations recently joined up with Indie Finds! What’s Indie Finds you say?
“Indie Finds is an innovative co-operative comprised of 90+ talented independent designers. Formed in response to big-box retailers, the members have teamed up to increase awareness of indie shops and to challenge the notion that quality is synonymous with size. Together, the group [...]
"As seen on"… a bunch of links
In the past few months, we’ve been featured on quite a few websites and blogs that were nice enough to feature our products and/or say some kind words about them.
These sites have included:Design Spotter - A great source for up and coming young product designers.Cool Mom Picks - These women have a way with words, [...]
Fellow indie designer: Izik Levy
One of the perks to being an independent designer is that you get to meet other indie-types who make some pretty cool stuff. It’s even better when these people also happen to like the stuff that you make because then well, sometimes you get a great barter going on.
We’ve bartered with a few other indie-types [...]
