- How excruciating for readers…suddenly every tweet of mine is a post on our blog…don’t worry, I’ll fix this! -☺Dave
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- How excruciating for readers…
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009April giveaway: “DIY Display Ideas”:
The “Spreader of Love” award
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Over at The Purple Flower blog, Swati bestowed a “Spreader of Love” award on the Rings & Things blog and me. Thank you! A condition of the award is that you go on to recognize 5 more people, who brighten your own blog.
So today, let me write about “who we love.” Here are the new recipients of the Spreader of Love award: ☺
I thought I'd use the "Sweet Penmanship" project from our Design Gallery, since I'm writing about who Rings & Things loves...
- Dawno always has something constructive to bring to any conversation.
- RockCreekCreations is a thoughtful soul.
- tamdoll is full of truly good ideas.
- fireseed has generously shared what she’s learned from experience.
- dani29 constantly encourages us.
I’ve linked to a Twitter page for each of them. That’s because I feel that Twitter is just as great a place as blogs to connect with people. And these five award-winners do good things on Twitter, just as they’ve done by joining our blog club. Go check these folks out!
It was easy to find, but hard to pick, five recipients. Thanks to every one of you who have visited and commented at Rings & Things’ blog. Let us reward you for being here! Read on…
Exciting news: every month, we’re going to hold a lottery right here on the Rings & Things blog. Here’s how it will work:
*At the beginning of each month, I’ll announce a new lottery.
*You enter by leaving Replies, also known as blog comments. Comment on any post(s) this month.
*At the end of the month, I’ll randomly draw 2 names to receive surprise goodie packs!
Contest: Rings & Things goodie-pack lottery
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Here’s another great idea that came from talking with one of our readers. (In this case, thanks go to @Rockcreekcreate on Twitter!)
Exciting news: every month, we’re going to hold a lottery right here on the Rings & Things blog. Here’s how it will work:
- At the beginning of each month, I’ll announce a new lottery. (That’s what I’m doing right now, hint hint.)
- You enter by leaving Replies, also known as blog comments. Comment on any post(s) this month.
- At the end of the month, I’ll randomly draw 2 names to receive surprise goodie packs!
These packs will include a themed selection of Rings & Things stock. Of course I can’t tell you now what they’ll contain, but an example might be a bunch of items for making bracelets, or maybe a variety of beads in ocean colors. You never know. 
Leave your replies here to be entered in our Feb. 28 drawing!
Our first blog contest! “My favorite crafting space”
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Show. Tell. Vote. Win Rings & Things stuff.
It’s our very first blog contest! And entering is this easy:
- Leave a comment to this post.
In it, link to a photo of your crafting space. Entertain us with a verbal description of it.
(No photo? Just tell us about “your space”.) - (In a blog post of Thursday Jan. 29th) view other commenters’ entries and VOTE for your favorite.
There will be two winners: The top vote-getter and a randomly-picked entrant will both receive Rings & Things crafts organizer products!
Now let’s see where you work!
*PS: Can’t get enough crafting-space ideas? Cloth Paper Scissors magazine sometimes puts out special issues titled Studios, full of great photos and ideas!
Welcome to our Rings & Things blog!
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Hi!
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:
…and our products, like stylish new focals:
…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
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