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Shop news | Updated: Canada Post strike & how it *won’t* affect your order

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Updated June 15: Please see this blog post.

Canada Post is experiencing a series of rotating strikes by the Canadian Union of Post Workers.

During this time, we will:

Deliver locally — If you order within the Ottawa, ON-area (Ottawa, Orleans, Barrhaven and Kanata), orders will be delivered twice weekly, which should not affect the time it would normally take to receive your order.

Continue to ship within Canada and to the US with Expedited Parcel — If your order is shipping within Canada or to the US using our $7 Flat-Rate method, we will still use this method, but there may be some delay depending on which Canadian city is affected by the strike.

“Xpresspost” (normally $15 in Canada and $20 to the US and 2-3 business days of ship time), will be shipped by FedEx Ground and may take up to 6 business days to arrive depending on your location.

“Courier shipments” ($35 to Canada/US with 1-2 business days of ship time) are unaffected by the strike.

For international orders — Your order will still ship by Canada Post Air Mail Small Packet, and may experience some delay depending on which Canadian city is affected by the rotating strike.

Got questions? You can contact us for specific information about shipping to your location.

Sneak peek | Connections get personalized

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Mother’s Day is fast approaching — and we’re working on adding the option of further personalizing our modern family necklaces by having the option of engraving names on each Connection necklace ring (on both sides).

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:

Shop news | Written in the stars: new zodiac pendants

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

We’ve just added a couple of new high-polished stainless steel tab pendants — they join our QR barcode pendant and our Twitter handle pendant.

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.

Shop news & giveaway | New: QR code and Twitter handle pendants

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

We’ve just added two new high-polished stainless steel tab pendants to our collection: a new Twitter handle pendant and a QR code pendant.

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!

Sneak peek | New geek chic: QR code pendant & Twitter pendant

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Here’s a quick sneak peek to two upcoming additions to our modern necklace pendant line. We wanted to do a Twitter-inspired jewelry piece that was a little more guy-friendly, since there are plenty of women out there now how are sporting their own Twitter charmer necklaces.

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!

Mention | Twitter necklace on /A\ Morning Ottawa

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Blend Creations got a little surprise mention on Ottawa TV station, /A\ Channel this morning!

/A\ Channel dedicated today’s show to social media including twitter, online safety and more. They had Andrea Tomkins from the blog A Peek Inside the Fishbowl (@missfish on Twitter) on to talk about blogging. Check out her clip:

(Thanks for wearing our @ twitter necklace on air, Andrea! It’s a nice surprise to see a shout-out on TV :)

Shop news | New products: QR code geekery and daisies

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

In the past few weeks, we’ve added a number of new products to the shop! In addition to our latest Charmer necklaces, we’ve also added some geek chic QR code cufflinks:

We’ve already got a new pendant design underway for new QR code pendants, and they’ll be available in a couple of months. However, in the meantime, we did make some custom QR code pendants with our existing large solid stainless steel pendants:

(If you scan the above image with a barcode scanner, you’ll see that the pendants link to the customer’s website! :)

We’ve also just added a new line of family necklaces that are much like our Connection necklaces, but with a flowery twist:

They’re available with one to nine flowers, so that you can have each daisy represent a family member. Or you can get a necklace to play ”He loves me/He loves me not” — but make sure you get an odd number of flowers ;)

Event | Winter Sale! Get 25% off!

Monday, December 27th, 2010

We hope that those of you celebrating Christmas had a merry one, and that everyone has enjoyed a safe and happy holiday season so far. We’re ending the new year with a winter sale!!!

Get 25% off until December 31, 2010 with the promo code Bye2010.*

*Only one promo code may be used at a time, they can’t be combined with other offers, nor can they be used on our Metal for Monsters and Sweet Surprises.

And don’t forget to enter our December giveaway for a Metal for Monster pendant!

Shop news | 24h only: $50 of Blend Creations for $25 or less!

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Jasmere is featuring Blend Creations on Thursday, November 18th at 12pm EST until Friday, November 19th at 11:59am EST. (Jasmere has been featured by magazines like Real Simple, Redbook and many others, and every day they feature an unbelievable deal with a specialty online vendor).

Today’s deal:

You can get a $50 voucher for Blend Creations for $25 or less*. You can even ‘stack’ up to 3 vouchers for a value of $150, but pay no more than $75.

If you love Blend Creations, it’s a great time to get yourself a little something, buy some vouchers for friends and family, and help us spread the word about our offer and our little company :)  It’s a fantastic deal — the best we’ve ever had in fact, but only available for 24 hours!

*The little details:
The final sale price of the voucher is determined by the number of people who buy: the more people who buy, the lower the price. The voucher must be purchased through Jasmere, and will be issued through Jasmere as a Blend Creations promotional code and can’t be applied to taxes or shipping, but our flat-rate shipping is only $5 to anywhere in the world. The voucher also won’t be valid with any other offer, nor is it valid on Metal for Monsters orSweet Surprises. But other than that, it’s all good!

… and a giveaway

As a welcome to everyone who’s discovering Blend Creations through Jasmere, we’ll be giving away a Torus necklace to one lucky Facebook fan!

Event | On the runway with Katharine Demarchelier swimwear, VFW2010

Friday, November 12th, 2010

We were fortunate enough to have accessorized the models who showed Katharine Demarchelier‘s beautiful 2011 swimwear line at last week’s Vancouver Fashion Week. So exciting!

Here are just a few of the photos taken by Tony Mah.  You can see more on our Facebook page. (In these ones, the models are wearing Torus necklaces). Make sure you check out the rest of Katharine Demarchelier’s swimwear online!