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 :)
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 ;)
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.
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!
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!
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!
Blend Creations is Sweetspot.ca’s Daily Dealight today! Starting today, until Wednesday October 27th, get 15% off any Charmer necklace (or the set of 3 Charmer necklaces) with the promo code DAILYD15.
Vivian had to good fortune to talk to Kelly Alexander about Blend Creations’ Metal for Monsters project. With each Metal for Monsters pendant sold, we donate $16 to international children’s charity, UNICEF.
The idea to start Metal for Monsters came one Saturday morning, while reading the paper. We were moved by a story about children in other parts of the world who, for whatever reason, lack basic needs such as food, shelter, water and an education.
While we realize how lucky we are, as relatively new parents, we couldn’t imagine having a child facing such harsh realities. We thought about what we could do to give back to the other little monsters of the world, and Metal for Monsters was born. We’re hoping to raise at least $10,000 for UNICEF as a way of giving back and hopefully give more kids a chance to be the best little monsters they can be.
Listen to The Kelly Alexander Show Interview with Blend Creations (opens in a new window).
This is a little sneak peek of the Select Blend contemporary jewelry piece for October 2010. The first image shows some of the really quick sketches — and we do mean quick! — along with the first engraved wood prototype. The second image shows the final design, which is the same illustration, but done in the negative so that the whole elephant appears raised.
We’ve always wanted to do something with an elephant, because they’re a symbol of good luck — and I heard they were even more lucky if the trunk was pointed up.
The engraved wood elephant necklace will be available from October 1 to 31st, 2010. Once the month is done, it won’t be available again!
P.S. If you’re interested in seeing other new product sneak peeks, check out our Facebook page. We usually post photos there first ;)
The folks over at YYZ live were kind enough to share their photos of the Wear !t Loud 2010 event that took place on August 20th to raise money for Plan Canada‘s Because I Am A Girl campaign. Some of the Blend Creations modern jewelry pieces (specifically, the Connection necklaces) were showcased on the runway models wearing fasions from David Dixon‘s Barbie Collection.
(All photos courtesy of YYZ Live.)
Blend Creations is our first-born, our pet project, our livelihood and a manifestation of our creativity — and it’s turning 5 this month!
We thought it would be fun to show a few of the ways we’ve changed in the last 5 years.
Then: 2 employees — a Jack- and Jill- of all trades, but designers by training. We’d been married for almost 4 months when BlendCreations.com was officially launched.
Now: 2.5 employees — We’ve been joined by our pre-schooler junior VP. (Thanks to Kym Shumsky for the great photo).
Then: A 6′ x 4′ storage closet that held a scroll saw and a grinding wheel to hand-cut inlays. (The space was so small, that it wasn’t possible to get a photo of the entire area).
Now: A 12′ x 25′ dedicated studio space with fancy toys like a CNC-controlled router (shown, cutting some mother of pearl inlay) and a laser-engraver (shown with a brand-new laser-engraved custom Metal for Monsters pendant).
Then: A hand-coded HTML website with PayPal buttons. We originally launched the site with about 30 products and had dozens of sales by the time 2005 was over.
Now: Well, if you’re reading this blog post on the website, then you see where we’re at now — a real shopping cart system that not only accepts PayPal, but Visa & Mastercard in both USD and CAD, thanks to the fine team of web developers at Aeolidia. We now have over 200 products (not including all the color options available for each product). Since 2005, we’ve had thousands of sales, thanks to our many awesome and loyal customers.
Then: Our very first logo was created more for use in print advertising than on the website. When we first started, we weren’t able to brand our products or our packaging economically.
Now: Our logo today is much more simplified and we now have the capability (thanks to a laser engraver) of branding most of our contemporary jewelry products as well as our packaging.
It’s been an amazing journey thus far, and we can only imagine what the next five years will bring. We’ve been fortunate enough to have people who like our stuff (in a Facebook sense and in a ‘what cool products you have’ sense) that the job of running this company is more than a job; it’s a pleasure.
As thanks to all of our customers, we’ll be offering up some special birthday promotions. Make sure you’re subscribed to our newsletter as they’ll be announced soon!
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