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.).

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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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 :)

In case you’re wondering what a hashtag is, (it took many moons of being on Twitter before I realized what one was), the Twitter Fan Wiki says:

“Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.”

In any case, we sketched out some ideas, and weren’t really happy with any of them until we made this plastic prototype:

We’ve received enough feedback via Twitter that we’ll add it to our line-up within the next few months!

Well, here’s an update in photo (and stainless steel) form:

The pendant is mirror-polished stainless steel, while the little maze marker is black ion-plated stainless steel.

We plan on offering this and another pendant design as pre-orders soon — we’ll update as soon as we have an idea of when you can order, when we expect them to be ready and of course, how much.

Update: The labyrinth pendant and the disc bottle openers are now available for pre-order!

We’re currently working on a Labyrinth pendant which would include a little maze marker that you can actually move. (Of course, the final product would be made of stainless steel and not plastic),

While the prototype isn’t nearly as robust as the final product would be, it’s already a lot of fun to play with!

Here’s the first tiny personalized ring:

Our connection necklaces are already a great way of keeping your family close to your heart, and inscribing their names just makes it that much sweeter.

Update: The option is now available in the store:

Both new pendants are stellar (yes, pun intended!) as they are zodiac pendants – one for traditional astrology, and the other one based on the Chinese Zodiac.

Social media geeks: rejoice! We’ve added another addition to our Twitter handle jewelry, a pendant that is graphical and simple in design and of course, personalized with your Twitter handle. :)

Perfect for the guy or girl you know who loves’em some Twitter!

Our QR code pendant is available with pre-set QR codes (“I love you”, “I <3 geeks” and “Barcodes FTW”), or you can choose a custom QR code, where you just give us the message, and we’ll generate a QR code for you. They’re great for secret messages, or allowing someone to quickly link to your website with a scan of your pendant using a code-reading phone app.

Both are perfect gifts for that high-tech loving geek in your life!

We’re giving away a QR code pendant this month!

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

What message or URL would you encode if you won the QR code pendant?

Please, only one comment/entry per person. We’ll randomly draw the winner on Monday, May 2nd at noon (EDT), but if the comment doesn’t have the above question answered, we will re-draw. Good luck!

Two months, we introduced the QR code cufflinks and we had always hinted that a QR pendant would be coming too! Expect them to be available for purchase by next week!