For February 2012, we’re giving away one of our newest, geekiest jewelry pieces: a #hashtag circle pendant. It joins our roster of other Twitter-related jewelry (like our very popular “@” symbol Twitter necklace). It’s a great way to express your geeky side with a #tagyoulove :)

To enter our giveaway, we’re trying something new — we’re using the widget below to collect entries in this month’s giveaway. You’ll get an entry for commenting on the blog, but you’ll also be able to get bonus entries by Tweeting about the giveaway, Liking us on Facebook, and subscribing to our newsletter (no worries if you’re already a subscriber, you’ll still get a bonus entry if you leave us your subscribing email address).

We will draw randomly from all the entries received by Thursday March 1st at 12:01am, and announce a winner later that day. The winner will have 48 hours to claim the prize otherwise, we will draw again.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

We had an amazing 450 entries for our bottle-opener pendant. From all of these, we randomly selected number 97 which corresponded to Denise H.’s entry!

Denise has won a Black stainless steel bottle opener pendant with the Damask2 pattern. She said she would use the pendant to open a Heineken. Congrats Denise! Enjoy your beer :)

For all of you who didn’t win, you can use the promo code “DIDNTWIN” to get 15% off any of our bottle-opener pendants (excluding our custom map pendant) until February 14th!

These bottle-opener pendants are a great gift idea for craft beer aficionados for Valentine’s Day perhaps? *hinthint*

Tomorrow, we’ll be announcing what our giveaway jewelry item for February will be, so you can either come back to the blog then, or sign up for our newsletter to get an email notification :)

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.

Want to stay updated of our new product designs and get a special promo code? You can join our e-mail newsletter, or go to our Facebook page.

Goldfish are a very lucky symbol in Asian culture as they represent wealth (an abundance of gold) and harmony. (One of most popular washi necklace pendant patterns over the years has been our goldfish pendants!)

video via The Awesomer

Happy New Year! Hope you’ve had a restful holiday and you’re raring to go for 2012.

For January 2012, we’re giving away the Disc Bottle-Opener Necklace pendant of your choice. You can choose one of our more ornate floral patterned bottle-opener pendants, or you can pick one that has a map to the birthplace of one of your favorite beers. :)

To enter our first jewelry giveaway for the new year, we’ll be trying something new — we’re conducting our giveaway through the Blend Creations Facebook page (comments on the blog won’t be counted this time):

1) Like Blend Creations on Facebook if you don’t already

2) Go to the “Jewelry Giveaway!” link on the left side of the Blend Creations Facebook page

3) Fill in all the fields

4) Get a bonus entry if you already subscribe to our newsletter, or choose to opt-in to our newsletter.

We will draw randomly from all the entries received by Tuesday January 31 at noon EST, and announce a winner the following day, On Wednesday February 1st.

Easy peasy! Good luck!

In the meantime, we’re preparing for our own celebrations and our Jr. VP has certainly helped out by designing some ornaments:

Santa and his elves? Nope. The Jr. VP did a self-portrait and drew his best bear friends, which we turned into ornaments.

We hope you and yours have a wonderful and restful holiday season :)

We’re wrapping things up from our year-end giveaway for a jewelry for you and a friend! We randomly drew a number between 1 and 117 and got number 59, which corresponded to this comment:

We’ll be gifting Brian with our Honeycomb hex wrench pendant:

and his lovely wife will get one of our QR code pendants:

Congrats Brian! We hope you and your wife enjoy your Blend Creations :)

If you didn’t win this time, not to worry, you’ll get another chance when we announce our next giveaway early in 2012!

We’re featuring 12 days of giving! Each day we’ll be featuring one of our most popular jewelry items, each at a special price for 24 hours only!

Today’s deal:

Get $10 off our @ symbol Twitter necklace:

This machined high-polished stainless steel ‘at symbol’ Twitter necklace has a little bit of sparkle with a Swarovski crystal accent in birthstone colors.

It’s the perfect thing if you’re going to a tweetup and want something personal and more subtle than a “Hello My Name Is” sticker, since you can have your Twitter necklace engraved with your handle. :) Of course, it’s also the perfect gift for the Twitter addict that you know!

We’re featuring 12 days of giving! Each day we’ll be featuring one of our most popular jewelry items, each at a special price for 24 hours only!

Today’s deal:

Get 25% off any of our Torus necklaces:

Our Torus modern necklace features stainless steel encircling and complementing a wide-variety of accents — from the cool whiteness of freshwater pearl to the colorful vibrancy of sea fossils.

Make it a very personal gift by engraving the torus ring with a name, a favorite quote or other words of wisdom: