Check your mailbox! Our Fall 2008 supplement is out!

October 14, 2008

Every autumn, the leaves fly and the Great Pumpkin hits the ground. (Or is it vice versa?) It’s time to connect you with great seasonal components and other cool new beads and findings!

That’s what you’ll find in our Fall 2008 catalog supplement, which we mailed out the other day. Have you gotten yours yet? Here’s what to look for:

The front cover of the Fall 2008 catalog supplement from Rings & Things

I’m not about to spoil the fun of discovering what’s in the Fall supplement, but here’s my “top 5” list of favorite new items:

When you receive your copy of the Fall supplement, let us know what your new favorites are!

Trendspotting: Keychain charms

October 10, 2008

We were looking through keywords that people google us with, and noticed a lot of folks are looking for keychain charms. Have you noticed these?

Rings & Things has some fun keychain charm ideas in our Design Gallery! The latest addition is our Niagara Attachable Charm design, in the popular glue-on glass style:

Niagara attachable charm, a free design project from Rings & Things

Then there’s the seasonal (can I say ‘Halloweeny’?) / Goth / rocker Skeletor Zipper Pull:

Skeletor Zipper Pull design (image by Rings & Things)

There are more great jewelry projects in our Design Gallery, so go in and browse the ID Badges, Clips & Keyrings section! It’s all 100% free, and many of the designs are handily linked to detailed Designer Tip Sheets that list the components and how to put them together.

Warm chocolate (pearls) & more for the Fall

October 3, 2008

With Autumn coming on, it’s getting to be the time of year to bundle up and indulge in a treat or two. We have a couple of suggestions on the menu for you…

First, nurture your taste for mouth-watering, warm chocolate pearls, including lacy “pearl ball” clusters. These rich-toned freshwater and Swarovski pearls will bring a mellow, deep brown tone to your creations this season.

Speaking of rich, we’ve also stocked up on coin pearls in an array of colors. How about some champagne and chocolate pearls? (We also have natural pink, gray blue, and other pretty colors.)

Autumn adventures with Rings & Things

Second, make exciting seasonal designs with our fall components: color mixes, leaves, Halloween, more! Autumn adventures await you, whether you’re embellishing trick-or-treat bags, thinking ahead to Thanksgiving, or just celebrating harvest time.

Welcome to our Rings & Things blog!

October 1, 2008

Hi!

Welcome to our Rings & Things blog. This is a place where we’re going to tell you, a couple times a week, about great new items, trends, sales, and fun stuff.

I’m going to kick this off with a funny but true story that recently happened to us:

As soon as they’d packed up after one show, our crew left town early to avoid rush-hour traffic next day in another city. But busy small-town streets ate up their head start… Then, at our hotel, no one could find any boxes of stock that we’d had shipped to us. We spent 1½ hours tracking the shipment, watching video surveillance tapes and finally, finding them in the restaurant storage. One box (of 16 boxes) was marked ”
Plated Chain” so the hotel had put everything with Plates and China in the kitchen!! Our general manager Kim was disappointed when lunch wasn’t served on “plated chain…”

(Read more entertaining stuff at our “Stories from the Road” page!)

That’s an example of what I like about blogs. They can make it fun to keep in touch…we can throw in graphics to tell you about us:

Rings & Things logo

…and our products, like stylish new focals:

Stylish new focals from Rings & Things

…and even about our Halloween “Frankenstone” game:

We’ll also use this blog to tell you about new free design ideas, listen to your ideas, and generally help you get to know us even better.

So welcome to the official blog of Rings & Things!

–Dave
at Rings & Things