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Shop news | 20% off until Friday June 22nd!

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Sometimes, life hands you lemons so you make lemonade, so the saying goes. When you’re a small business, sometimes things happen, so you have a sale ;) This week, use the promo code “ithappens” and you’ll get 20% off your next purchase!

(The obligatory small print details: The code can’t be applied to previous orders, Metal for Monsters, Sweet Surprises or Gift Certificates. It expires on Friday June 22nd at 11:59:59pm EDT).

Happy Shopping! :)

In other news, it’s summer and we’re getting inspired by the great outdoors. Currently working on birth month flower sketches for a new line of pendants:

 

Sneak peek | Custom circle tab pendants

Friday, June 8th, 2012

We had a request recently to make some custom pendants as teacher gifts for some well-loved educators:

The artwork is from a fantastic-yet-undiscovered-artist :)

We’ll be adding a custom art option to our circle tab pendants soon! (They’ll be retailing for $74 with custom art on the front. Or if you’d like to add an inscription on the back, it’s an extra $10. Chains and cords are not included.)

If you’re interested in making your own custom circle tab pendant before they’re available in store, make sure your artwork is black-only (no shades of grey), and drop us a line letting us know you’d like us to make one and we’ll take care of you :)

Shop news | New circle tab pendants

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

One sunny day last week, we decided to work outside. Such is the joy of having wifi and a garden that needs tending.

While out there, a bit of sketching was done:

which have now become these, our Nature series circle tab pendants:

Enjoy!

 

Sneak peek | Bubble bubble

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

For all of you who love texting and/or whales, here’s a peek to a new design we’re working on.
(It’s just a prototype, so it’ll be a little while yet before we’ll have them available, but you’ll be able to personalize them with the text of your choice, including “·_______·” if you want :)

Sneak peek | Wallet prototype; update: now available!

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

As evidenced by the recent Sneak Peek posts, it wouldn’t take a detective to figure out that we’ve been busy behind the scenes trying out new things with our laser-cutter that don’t involve jewelry.

Like many guys, Eric doesn’t actually wear jewelry all that often (even though he is half the driving force behind Blend Creations). With necessity being the mother of invention (yes, that link goes to one of Eric’s old “wallets” that he made out of paper. George Costanza is his hero), we’ve recently prototyped this lovely wallet, complete with a bit of bling:

As evidenced by the photos, Eric carries a lot of cra.. er.. stuff in his wallet: 15 cards, some big bills and various other slips of paper. This wallet carries it all with room to grow, especially since leather will stretch with use.

It’s a hand saddle-stitched leather wallet, using waxed cotton thread. The leather is of 4 oz. weight (about 1/16″ thick) and comes from cattle that has lived a full life. (The full hide has evidence of a brand, scars, bug bites and other interesting marks). We’re still playing around with various options, but we expect to be able to offer these soon at a price tag of around $100.

Let us know what you think!

Update: The wallets are now available in our store!

Sneak peek | One more time with feeling… er felt

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

We’ve been playing around with wool felt and our laser cutter. It seems only natural that we put it to some good use, so we made this pretty coaster with our Flower Lace pattern.

What do you think?

Sneak peek | Fun with felt: Custom ornament prototype

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Around the holidays, we made some special Christmas gifts — they were ornaments based on our child’s drawings (our 5 year old Jr. VP!).

We had a few requests to have custom ornaments available in the future and while it’s no longer the season, these things take time and we’ve put our thinking caps on! Behold, a first prototype in 100% wool felt, in a beautifully vibrant shade of red:

As fun as they were in acrylic, the ornaments are spindly which could lead to the little limbs snapping off, and frankly, it smells horrible to laser cut plastic. (Not to worry, our laser has a carbon filter, but it certainly does not smell like roses or anything good for you).

Wool felt on the other hand is quite pliable and doesn’t smell any worse than a hair dryer. We’ve washed the final product and there’s actually no residual odor.

So we’ve got our thinking caps on and will be experimenting with designs for some trivets and other household goods aside from the ornaments. What do you think?

 

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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Shop news | New products! American & Canadian brews & #hashtag pendant

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

We’ve just added a couple of new products to the store! Ever since we released the Worldly bottle-opener pendants, we’ve had requests to do both an American series and a Canadian series. Here’s the American series featuring the maps to the birthplaces of ten different microbrews:

Here’s the Canadian series with maps to the birthplaces of seven different brewery birthplaces:

We’ve also added a #hashtag tab pendant (in the same style as our ‘at’ symbol twitter pendant):

It’s one of many products in our ‘geek chic’ collection of products and great for someone you know who’s a Twitter fanatic :)