Another thing I love about working at Rings & Things:
The honesty! 🙂
'What’s the prettiest color (and shape/size) of crystals?'
December 10, 2010‘What’s the prettiest color (and shape/size) of crystals?’
That’s the great question I was asked the other day.
I say 14mm crystal/volcano Cosmic Square rings…
…I know you’ll have an opinion. What’s your favorite crystal?
Comment below!
"For a holiday gift, I hope for __________ from Rings & Things."
November 18, 2010How do you finish this sentence?
“For a holiday gift, I hope for __________ from Rings & Things.” <|:-)
Leave a COMMENT below, for a chance to WIN a bag of HOLIDAY BEADS! And for extra brownie points, tell a friend to stop by & do the same.
Here’s what some Facebook friends said…
Product Testing: Radishes Required
November 12, 2010
Yesterday was an eventful day for product testing! We sent the obligatory email telling people not to worry about “the strange plastic smell’ that arose from testing some non-toxic faux enamels.
We decided to add a great new riveting tool ~ watch for it in December.
We also tested the usability and effectiveness of various patinas and metal treatments. It started out simply enough, test a metal treatment from a new vendor. No problem, we’ve done this quite a few times and know the drill, or so we thought!
We definitely noticed that the basic instructions were written in calligraphy. And, we did wonder about the need for a solid copper pot. We questioned whether rainwater was really needed. But, we didn’t pull the plug on the test until we read the instruction to mix-in freshly grated daikon radish.
The radish requirement inspired fits of giggles. Fortunately, we have several other non-radish based metal treatments that are great to work with!
♥ Sondra
In the workshop…with some rivets
November 11, 2010A peek at one in the series of free workshops we often hold in the Rings & Things showroom:
A riveting workshop, with Polly.
Riveted, mixed-metal jewelry, hot off the anvil!
Riveting jewelry is fun–with parental supervision.
Call it a notebook charm, call it a hinge…
…it’s handmade, unique and beautiful!
When bead shows are…different
November 6, 2010Sometimes, bead shows can surprise you. Sometimes, they even surprise us…
After one long day of driving, running a bead-show, and more driving, our crew decided to just have dinner at the hotel. But when they went to the restaurant, they weren’t able to have dinner there — Because the tables had been taken down to set up for our show! Yep… our setup was in the usual bar / restaurant of the hotel. The checkout stations were set up around the bar, 2 per side, with cabinets of liquor behind them and coolers full of beer between them. Unfortunately(?), the cabinets and coolers were all locked. Hard to say how much some customers would spend otherwise…
This one was the first bead show we’d ever seen with bench seating:
One hotel in California where we did a show charged a small fee for parking. Some customers commented on that…but most of them were used to paying for parking. According to at least one customer, “The only place you can park for free in LA is the freeway!”
Thanks to everyone for the bead-show memories! We’ll be back “on the road” starting in early spring!
Who do you vote for? Rings & Things' Halloween costume contest
October 29, 2010Rings & Things’ employees are having a costume contest today. Who would you vote as “best in show”?
↑ Cindy – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Melissa – Candy Corn ↓
↑ Lindsey – Bat Girl (on left) + “Eddie Munster” (on right)
Nate – Sven the Tennis Pro ↓
↑ Chris – Dr. Steve Brule
Polly – Dragon Sorceress ↓
↑ Kayla – Mob Wife
Laurel – Steam Punk Princess Peach ↓
↑ Claudia – Major Flirt
Dao – Spartan Chilean Miner ↓
↑ Amanda – Tavern Wench
“Vote” in a comment below 🙂
PS: In-house voting made Chris the winner, with Melissa & “Eddie Munster” co-second place!
Bead? What bead?
October 25, 2010Can you spot the bead?
Here’s a Rings & Things logo painted by Noryan on one of our loading dock doors:
Bead? What bead?
Leave a comment if you know what I’m asking about! 🙂
47.654415,-117.40637
October 13, 2010Just for fun…
What’s “47.654415,-117.40637” ?
Here’s a clue…you can see it from space 🙂
Leave a comment if you figured out what’s so interesting about this!
If you can read this…
September 12, 2010…you’re too close to a computer! 🙂
Rings & Things loves your heartfelt feedback, whatever the format. (Nice to see someone still has a typewriter that they haven’t cannibalized for steampunk jewelry components!!)
–Dave at Rings & Things