The entire staff of Blend Creations was featured in a 100 Strangers photo project on a blog called Le Mien (roughly translated means ‘here’s mine’). Le Mien is the work of Kym S. who really, truly does some beautiful portraits.
I feel much more stylish than I really am, just by being part of this project. Check us out:
If you’re in Ottawa and you see Kym and her camera, you might just be chic this week ;)
Make sure to check out Kym’s other blog, Relishing.ca.
One of our modern family necklaces — a Connection necklace, was featured in the most recent issue of Ottawa at Home magazine as part of a “Home Grown” spread, with other products that are all created here in our hometown of Ottawa, ON.
If you get today’s Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa at Home magazine is included as a special insert, or you can take a peek at the feature here:
Our Connection necklaces have been featured as a Lou Lou Deal in the May issue of Lou Lou magazine.
They’re a perfect gift for anyone, but especially at this time of year, since it’s just in time for Mother’s Day. To get 25% off your Connection Necklace, you’ll have to read this month’s issue of Lou Lou.
Update: Due to the popularity of this item, especially just after all the Mother’s Day gift-giving, we are currently out of stock of all Connection necklaces. Click here to join our Connection Necklace re-stocking newsletter.
Amy of Purple Pink and Orange was kind enough to include our Red-Brown Bamboo Ring in our Six Quick Picks: Lovely Rings feature today!
It’s Vivian’s first appearance on TV! She talks about Blend Creations, designing modern jewelry and our Valentine’s Day collection.
Naomi Dunford of Itty Biz posted her annual Gift Guide and kindly mentioned Blend Creations‘ Metal for Monsters line. Thanks Naomi!
Ottawa blogger, writer/photographer (triple threat anyone?), Andrea Tomkins writes the blog A peek inside the fishbowl, about her life here in our fabulous hometown of Ottawa, ON. I was introduced to her by way of a mutual friend, and when I read her bio, I realized she was one of the contributors to our local ‘eating bible’, Cheap Eats Ottawa.
In any case, we’ve agreed to do a $100 gift certificate giveaway through her blog, so go enter — it’s open until Thursday December 10th.
If you’ve ever wanted to know just a little more about us, Jen Wallace over at IndieFixx interviewed us yesterday and we’re honoured to be part of her Wednesday Indie Artist Fixx feature. The interview has a never-before-seen photo of our CNC router in action, cutting a piece of mother of pearl inlay for one of our rings. I’m sure that’s enough to drive you to go read the interview, right?
At Blend Creations, we always appreciate getting recognized as “indie designers”. If you’re wondering what exactly it means to be an “indie designer”, Tara Gentile of ScoutieGirl has one of the most accurate definitions we’ve seen so far:
These are people who take great care & often make equally great sacrifices to be original and genuine in their work, while taking on the learning curve of MGMT 101 and MKTG 101. Not to mention, they’re learning code languages and graphic design out the wazoo to keep costs down on web management, PR and collateral materials. A lot of hats to wear, and my hat goes off to all of them for learning to juggle!
Luckily for us, we’re designers by training (V is an industrial designer and E a graphic designer) so we’ve at least come to the “indie designer” label with some prior experience. Even if we become a recognized brand world-wide (we can dream!), being “indie” will still be a label that we’ll be proud to bear.
That’s part of the reason that it’s nice to be recognized in our home country by IndieNorth – a Canadian Indie Business Collective as “Contemporary Beauty“:
Beth of IndieNorth featured four of our contemporary jewelry designs:
· White cloisonné torus stainless steel necklace (available in 16″ – 20″ lengths). Our cloisonné necklaces are available in five other colours as well.
· “Red tulips” washi pendant. We’ve also got a wide-range of other washi patterns available, and you can get round washi necklaces as well as long and small square pendants.
· “Flower lace” wood and stainless steel earrings. Our most popular earrings! And they were recently featured on Purple Pink and Orange (another indie design-centric blog).
· White mother of pearl stainless steel necklace (available in 16″ – 20″ lengths). We call this particular necklace our “modern classic” because it goes so well with everything from a t-shirt and jeans, to a night-on-the-town dress.
Purple Pink and Orange, a great blog that supports indie designers like Blend Creations, did this little feature of a few of our modern jewelry pieces today:
If you’re looking for some great modern jewelry gift ideas, shown are our:
· Solid stainless steel Metal for Monsters pendant featuring the artwork, “Bunny Skull” by Brian Taylor ($16 from the purchase of any of our Metal for Monsters pendants goes to support the international children’s charity, UNICEF). Makes an excellent gift for guys who love graphic illustration.
· Round “red streak” marbled paper stainless steel necklace available in 16″-20″ lengths – a good gift idea for your best friend.
· “Flower lace” earrings in orange-red wood; these earrings match our “flower lace” necklace. Together, the set makes a lovely gift for the woman in your life who appreciates contemporary and simple looking jewelry that goes with everything!
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