Archive for January, 2012

Giveaway| January’s winner for a bottle-opener pendant

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

We had an amazing 450 entries for our bottle-opener pendant. From all of these, we randomly selected number 97 which corresponded to Denise H.’s entry!

Denise has won a Black stainless steel bottle opener pendant with the Damask2 pattern. She said she would use the pendant to open a Heineken. Congrats Denise! Enjoy your beer :)

For all of you who didn’t win, you can use the promo code “DIDNTWIN” to get 15% off any of our bottle-opener pendants (excluding our custom map pendant) until February 14th!

These bottle-opener pendants are a great gift idea for craft beer aficionados for Valentine’s Day perhaps? *hinthint*

Tomorrow, we’ll be announcing what our giveaway jewelry item for February will be, so you can either come back to the blog then, or sign up for our newsletter to get an email notification :)

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

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

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.).

 

Shop news | New Fusion necklaces in store

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

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.

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Inspiration | “Goldfish Salvation” by Riusuke Fakhori

Monday, January 9th, 2012

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

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

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

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!