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Mix it up with… new assortments from R&T!

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Some bead companies have “assortability”.  Rings & Things saves you a step: introducing “assorted”.  :)

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A whole bunch of pre-made assortments from Rings & Things let you explore variations on a favorite finding.  Need I mention, you’ll save a bunch of money this way too, because you won’t have to buy “one pack” of this and “one pack” of that.

Complimenting a long tradition of offering assorted beads, drawstring bags, and more…we’ve created assortments of the items pictured above:

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Plus we’ve introduced assortments of our big-selling cable chokers:

lariat_assortmentAnd there’s this great new assortment of cell-phone lariat attachments!

So mix it up in your designs, with Rings & Things’ hot new economical assortments!  More are on the way, so check our online store often.

Wishing for other assortments?  Drop a comment right here & I’ll pass it on to our ace purchasing team!

March news: New monthly lottery, right here on the Rings & Things blog.  Here’s how it works:
* You enter by leaving comments. Comment on any March post(s).
* At the end of March, I’ll randomly draw 2 winners of surprise goodie packs! …So read the blog regularly to see if you won!


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Our Design Gallery expands

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

You’ve received our new 2009-2010 catalog, haven’t you?  We’re very happy with it.  One reason is all the fun jewelry designs it features.  Now…

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Rings & Things has uploaded dozens and dozens of these new entries to our Design Gallery!  (Finally done.  I see the light at the end of the carpal tunnel.) ☻☺ At last count we had something like 668 designs up. We group this free inspirational material into some useful categories:

Every design is illustrated by a great big beautiful picture of the finished piece.  The Design Contest Winners come with the artist’s statement.  All the others are accompanied by a parts list, complete with links to our online store if you’re going to buy the components.

You’ll also find links to free downloadable PDFs with full instructions for making each design.  The PDFs come in two flavors, faster-loading or higher-resolution.  Hard to choose, right?

Subscribe to our Design Gallery RSS / Google Desktop / My Yahoo feed to keep updated!  Whenever we upload a new design, we’ll send a blip right to your desktop or browser window, whichever you choose.

Have a favorite Design Gallery item?  Ever been inspired by one of our designs?  Saw your contest entry on our site?  Leave a comment to talk about it!!

March news: New monthly lottery, right here on the Rings & Things blog.  Here’s how it works:
* You enter by leaving comments. Comment on any March post(s).
* At the end of March, I’ll randomly draw 2 winners of surprise goodie packs! …So read the blog regularly to see if you won!

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We have 2 winners: our first monthly blog drawing

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

We have a winner!  Actually we have two winners.  Rings & Things’ blog introduced a monthly drawing in February.  Everyone who comments at our blog is entered into the prize drawing for the month.

Our two drawing winners for February are:

  • Swati
  • FezelryJewelry

Congratulations!  I have goodie bags of Rings & Things products ready to mail to you.  Please contact me, drobertson (at) rings (dash) things (dot) com, with your postal addresses.

Everyone, thanks for your blog comments last month.  Keep commenting through March and every month, for your chance at our upcoming drawing prizes!  (I’ll put a reminder at the bottom of every post, like the one you see below.)

March news: New monthly drawing, right here on the Rings & Things blog.  Here’s how it works:
* You enter by leaving comments. Comment on any March post(s).
* At the end of March, I’ll randomly draw 2 winners of surprise goodie packs! …So read the blog regularly to see if you won!

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Brand your jewelry: custom metal tags

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Rena Klingenberg mentioned a great idea in her “Jewelry Business Blog” (which is always recommended reading).  Here’s a pretty artistic way to grow your business:

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There's more than one way to use metal stamping!

Brand your jewelry!  Now, Rings & Things is in the western USA.  But I’m no iron-brandishing cowboy.  I’m talking about a kinder, gentler way of making a lasting impression on your customers.

Mark your jewelry with small custom metal tags.  They’re durable, they show that you care about the quality of the items you make, and they can coordinate with your designs.

  • There are companies who will sell you pre-made tags in the shape you like: hearts, ovals, diamonds and more.
    By shopping around, you can find these in sterling, gold fill, copper or other metals.
  • Just add your business name or logo to the tag — you can also get a metal stamp (die) custom-made with your design.
  • You can personalize the tags even more.  How about enameling the stamped design?  Or a quick bit of antiquing solution?

If you get tags in some quantity, you should be able to do all this for several cents to a dollar per tag.  But there’s a way to lower the cost even more!  Consider using metal-stamping tools, for a very quick and simple “logo”.  Why not overlap stamped letters on each other for a monogram (or cattle-brand) look?  And most metal stamp sets include one more more dies for symbols like &, @, or ♥…  With a bit of your creativity, you’ll have a memorable logo in no time at all.  (Just think how recognizable the Calvin Klein “cK” logo is.)

Attach your snazzy metal tag to each jewelry item with a matching jump ring.  You’ll be amazed how sharp and professional the results can look!

A side benefit: metal stamping jewelry keeps growing in popularity.  You can use the same tools to create focal pendants and more…

Have you discovered other useful ways to “brand” your line of jewelry?  Share them in a comment!

March news: New monthly drawing, right here on the Rings & Things blog.  Here’s how it works:
* You enter by leaving comments. Comment on any March post(s).
* At the end of March, I’ll randomly draw 2 winners of surprise goodie packs!

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