Blend Creations news

Virtual window shopping

I would have said Windows® shopping, but our PC has decided not to connect to the internet so we’re almost exclusively Mac-surfing now.
I’ve been wanting to do a little shopping, but it seems whenever we have the free time to go shopping, it’s usually past closing time at the mall.  Instead, it’s virtual shopping for [...]


Bridesmaid jewelry

Oh my — looks like we were doing pretty well with the blog-posting and missed a day.
We’ve been busy with making up a set of bridesmaid jewelry for five members of a bridal party and got side-tracked from the side-diversion of the blog. Oops.
If you’re curious, we were told that the bridal party would [...]


Be a fan of Blend Creations on Facebook

We’ve recently created a Facebook page and we’re looking for fans! (If you don’t have a Facebook account, it’s really easy to get one here.) We’d like to get as many fans as possible so we’re having a little contest:

“One fan = One dollar in merchandise” giveaway
We’re going to give away up to $1500 in [...]


New look, new blog address

A little housekeeping has/will be going on at Blend Creations — we’ve changed webhosts and hopefully that will mean that the site will be resolving faster and will not experience the same outages that we were experiencing with our old host, who we were not happy with at all. (Don’t use Hostway if you’re [...]


Summer sale

We’re having a summer sale on our paper-inlay necklaces and pendants, and this includes the Brazilian marbled paper and Nepalese paper pendants that were just added to the store:

If you’ve subscribed to our newsletter, then this is old news — newsletter subscribers are always the first ones to find out about our sales. We [...]


New paper inlays

New: Brazilian hand-marbled paper inlay necklacesThe Brazilian paper is marbled by hand-mixing and manipulating inks to produce swirling and streaked patterns in rich palettes of colours. The patterns may be similar but are not exactly alike and thus produces a unique and stunning accessory.
Also new: Nepalese paper inlay necklacesThese paper inlays are made by Fair [...]


1% for the Planet

Blend Creations is now a member of 1% for the Planet. This means that 1% of all of our sales from 2008 and onwards will be donated to an environmentally-conscious charity. In other words, for every $100 dollars spent at Blend Creations, $1 will go towards charity. This may not seem like much, but [...]


We’re giving away a pair of earrings

Check out Rare Bird Finds today and follow the instructions to enter a contest.
The prize? A pair of earrings of your choice from us. :)

The winner will be drawn on May 11 by Rare Bird Finds. Good luck!


Want $5 to spend at Blend Creations?

Right now, we’re asking people to fill out our survey so that we can hopefully learn what it is we’re doing right, what it is we’re doing wrong, and what we should be doing.
If you’d like to take a few minutes to fill out our survey, we’ll send you a $5 Blend Creations gift certificate [...]


Experiencing technical difficulties :/

Things have gone rather pear-shaped with our web host.For a while, the site was completely down, and now there seem to be a few glitches appearing. We’re in the process of upgrading servers.
Please bear with us!