For this month, we’ve had a hard time deciding what to give away — so , to enter this month’s giveaway, let us know:

Which ONE Blend Creations piece would you like to win and why? 

One entry per person please, and we’ll randomly draw one name out of the total number of comments that we have on April 1, 2010 at noon EST.  Winner will be announced later that day. Good luck!

We’re pleased to announce that after all the sneak peeks on our Facebook page, our Connection necklaces are now available in the store. The Connection necklaces are our modern interpretation of a ‘family’ necklace — a ring for each family member with a colored Swarovski crystal accent to represent their birth month. (The quartet necklace on the above represents the months of May, June, September and October).

Or… you can customize a necklace based on your fashion sensibilities and the colors you love!  Just check out some examples below:

Our single solo necklace also makes a sweet birthday gift — just choose the Swarovski crystal accent for the corresponding birth month and you’re done! :)

Now that you’re acquainted with our Connection necklaces, hopefully you’ll be glad to hear that we’re giving one away as this month’s Facebook/blog giveaway!

Enter to win by telling us:  
Who would you give a connection necklace to, or would it be for yourself?  What would your connection necklace be (i.e. how many rings and what color accents) and what/who would it represent?

One entry per person, and we’ll be drawing for the winner at noon EST on March 1st.  Good luck!

Congrats to Martha S., blog commenter-extraordinaire who won last month’s giveaway of a round washi necklace. Martha chose this lovely modern jewelry piece.

This month, we’re giving away something of your favourite colour!

To enter, comment below with your answer to:

· What is your favourite colour and why?  and

· Get a bonus entry if you show us the outfit that you’d like to wear your with your new jewelry piece if you win. (You can do this by linking to your Flickr account or other photo hosting site, your blog, a photo in your Facebook photo album, or you can even create an outfit with Polyvore and link to it).

· One entry per person — if you are linking to an outfit photo, please include the link in your comment. 

We’ll randomly choose from all the entries, and pick one winner on Monday, February 1st at noon (EST).  The winner will pick one jewelry piece from a selection of three jewelry pieces of our choosing.  (The three jewelry pieces will be in the winner’s favourite colour and/or complement their outfit).

For today only, 10% of our gross sales for today will go to Hope4Anissa a fund set-up to help with the Mayhew family’s medical bills. 

Even if you don’t shop with us today, check out the 70 online shops that are also participating with Shop for Anissa Day to raise money for the Hope for Anissa fund.

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.

The story is both heart-breaking and compelling since Anissa started blogging as an outlet during the ordeal of dealing with her youngest daughter’s leukemia, and now she’s facing her own medical battle. 

We’re participating on “Shop for Anissa” day on December 10th where a portion of our gross sales for that day will go towards the Hope for Anissa fund that will help with the Mayhew family’s medical bills.

So when you’re doing your online holiday shopping, consider checking out all the participating stores for the Shop for Anissa event — all store involved with be donating a portion of their sales for that day to the Hope for Anissa fund.

We’ve just added a “Secret Santa Surprise” to our store — what’s inside the pretty box? Well, no one will know until they unwrap it!

But here’s a hint: it’s a small stainless steel pendant featuring one of our paper inlays. It could be what’s shown on the right or another washi, Nepalese, or Brazilian paper inlay that’s not even available for sale in store!

You can pick the color you’d like, or be completely surprised! This little gift is only $49 (a value of $88) and comes gift-wrapped and ready to give to a special someone (or keep for yourself!)

In order to comply with these rules, we’ve decided to announce the giveaways on our Facebook page, and just have you comment on our Giveaway blog post (which is this!)

So, to be eligible to win this month’s prize of the round washi necklace of your choice, just let us know by commenting on this post with a descriptive phrase that you think describes our jewelry.  (For example, one we use sometimes is ’simple, yet modern’).

You can comment as many times as you’d like until December 31st at noon EST. Each comment counts as one entry, providing that your comments have a different descriptive phrase each time.

Good luck!  We’ll make the draw on New Year’s Eve, December 31st. :)