Archive for December, 2007
Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, Festivus, or what-have-you :)
Saw this via our friend Julia, (Hi Hula!), It’s the a capella group “Straight No Chaser” of Indiana University. (I have a weakness for humourous, a capella music).
Anyhow, we’ll be on holidays until January 1st, which means any orders that come in at that time won’t begin shipping out until January 2nd.
Hope you [...]
Plushie! for the pattern impaired
Saw this via BoingBoing:
It’s “Plushie: an interactive design system for plush toys“. It’s a little interactive program that allows someone who couldn’t draw a pattern to save their life (me! me!) to create patterns for 3D plush toys. They’ve got a link for the demo program (see under ‘Demonstrations’), but it’s for Windows [...]
Easy tree-topper
We have an artificial Christmas tree. I’ve never actually had a real Christmas tree, but that’s probably a good thing, since it turns out I’m allergic to most tree and tree-related products. :/
As artificial trees go, ours is pretty run-of-the-mill and flimsy. So much so that when I picked up a star for [...]
A nice surprise
We got a nice little surprise yesterday. It turns out Blend Creations was featured in the yesterday’s Ottawa Citizen. We were mentioned in “The Ottawa 100-mile gift guide“, under the heading “For the glitterati“.
Basically, the gift guide promotes the idea of “local shopping for global change” — shopping locally as a small way [...]
The last of the November giveaway winners
Congratulations to Megan Reigner of Azusa, CA.
She’s the last of our mi-SPA/Blend Creations mi-COLLAB contest winners, and she’s won a four o’ clock foliage necklace.
Thanks to everyone who entered!
