Archive for February, 2011

Make it yourself | Free printable: Robot Valentines

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Because we’re both designers, and our son is the product of two designers, it seemed fitting that we design the Valentines he’ll be passing out at school, instead of say, buying heavily-commercialized ones from the local big box store.

Recently, we’ve really been tapping into our geeky tendencies (as evidenced by our latest Geek Chic contemporary jewelry offerings), so it was hard to sway too far from those tendencies when it comes to Valentine’s Day. But really, even non-geeks can appreciate Robots!

Since we’ve got a laser-cutter at our disposal, we decided to make some laser-cut Robot Valentines out of red card stock. The bonus is that they’re perfect for holding a little sweet treat as well!

We’re aware that most people don’t happen to have a laser-cutter on hand, so we made a more printer-friendly version of these Robot Valentines which you can download for free!  We recommend printing on cardstock or heavier paper if possible. You’ll just need some scissors and a hole-punch.  They’re perfect for classroom Valentines, so there’s 4 Robots per letter-sized sheet.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

(Psst — there’s still time to do some Valentine’s Day gift shopping if you upgrade your shipping).

Giveaway | February giveaway: Daisy chain

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Before we talk about this month’s giveaway, we’re happy to announce the winner of the January jewelry giveaway for one of our Charmer necklaces. In total, we had 250 (!) entries to this giveaway (152 blog comments, 73 Facebook comments and 25 Tweets), so we randomly chose a number between 1-250 and got:

which corresponded to blog comment #125 from Cat Tremblay — congratulations Cat! Cat has won one of our Cat charmers — which seems like the perfect choice!

Now onto February’s giveaway! We recently added Daisy Chain necklaces to our product line. They’re like a flowery twist to our Connection necklaces. Both types of necklaces can be a pretty way of representing your family members or other loved ones.

To enter this giveaway, comment on this blog post with your name and tell us:

1) Who would be the recipient for this modern necklace? (It can be yourself!)
2) How many daisies would the necklace have and what months would you want represented?

(We’ll be showing a gallery of daisy chain previews on our Facebook page).

Please, only one comment/entry per person. We’ll randomly draw the winner on February 28th at noon (EST), but if the comment doesn’t have all the above answered, we will re-draw.  The winner will be announced on March 1st. Good luck!