Vote for this month’s “Featured Product” contest winner!

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CAST YOUR VOTE NOW!

Submissions for December’s Featured Product of the Month Contest are closed and the B3 team has done the difficult job of narrowing down the submissions to our group of finalists which means it’s time for YOU to cast your vote to determine the winner. This month, we challenged you to make unique pieces using ONLY bright aluminum jump rings.  As expected, you guys proved that sometimes, simpler is better.

To share the survey, we recommend you copy the link to this blog post and use that in any emails, blog posts, or social media posts you’d like to make about it (we’ve noticed some weirdness in the past with sharing the link directly – it sometimes like to bump people out of voting that haven’t already.)

Get a sneak peak at the all of our finalists below:


               

"Ryu, the chainmaille dragon" by Lisa L.

 

This month, we also have an honorable mention.  Because this piece uses anodized aluminum scales in addition to the aluminum jump rings, we felt it wouldn’t really be fair to keep it in the mix with the other pieces that followed the “aluminum jump rings only” guideline more closely.  That said, it was just too cute/cool not to share.  If we do another scale maille month, we hope to see this guy again!

 

 

Our contest is changing for 2013!

FEATURED WEAVE FOR JANUARY – Byzantine


For 2013, we’re changing our “Featured Product” contest into a “Featured WEAVE” contest.  That means, starting in January, you can use any and all B3 products to create your entry, but it must showcase the month’s “Featured Weave” in some way.

January’s weave (as highly requested by our fans on Facebook) will be byzantine.  We totally understand why our community clamored for this weave as it has tons of potential for variation and is also a great beginning-level weave.  To get some inspiration, as well as ring sizes and counts for byzantine, visit the “Weave Ideas” section of our blog or check out the stats & uses pages for base metal and silver rings.


 

 

“Maillers’ Choice” kits – available today only!

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This month’s “Maillers’ Choice” kits are now available on our sale page. Scoop up your fan-customized “Double Spiral” kit today only from noon to midnight CT.  Kit comes with enough supplies to create one necklace or two bracelets.

Love “Maillers’ Choice”? Join the Club!

Add a “Maillers’ Choice” Club subscription to your order and receive all kits in 2013 to your mail box automatically each month.  Please note that subscriptions purchased today will begin in January, so if you would like the December kit, you must add that to your order as well.

Vote to customize January’s “Maillers’ Choice” kit!

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B3’s “Maillers’ Choice” kit continues to be a hit! So much so that, in order to make sure our inventory can keep up with the popularity of these kits, we have bumped up voting by a month. Below you can vote for the kit we will release in January.


For January, we’re inviting you to customize a kit for a fun variation of one of our favorites – Celtic Visions bracelet! This variation uses glass rings through the center and larger T16 and H16 rings to make a thicker, more substantial bracelet.  We are also including H18 anodized aluminum as for optional mobiused edging (shown in purple on this sample.)

 

Blue Buddha Boutique New Studio Update!

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We’re less than one month away from moving into our new studio and we seriously cannot wait!


It seems like every day we trip over each other a few extra times, blow the fuse in our kitchen trying to make lunch or experience any number of other small (and big!) pains that come along with having outgrown our current home.  Long story short, the move is being eagerly anticipated by our entire team (as evidenced by the countdown in our kitchen – shown right.)

In our new space, lots has been done to make our building safer, more modern and ready for the next chapter of our business to happen there.  Most of the work (and money) has gone towards things that will never be seen but are totally crucial like electrical work and plumbing.  The rest of what we’ve invested so far has helped to frame out the space and give our new home some good bones.

 

The graphic below shows roughly what portion of funds have gone towards everything we just described.  On the right part of the graphic, we’ve added a little overlay to the same chart to show you just how much your Jumpstart Campaign contributions have covered – pretty impressive, right?!

 

Within the next couple of weeks, the new walls will be finished and we’ll get to paint them and create our new work spaces.  As a highly visual group of people, we’re really looking forward to this stage since it will finally make the space begin to look like a new home!  We’ve narrowed down the many paint samples we gathered on a recent hardware store trip (we seriously just grabbed every blue they had!) and now we’re putting it in your hands to make the final decision on which colors we should use.  Take our paint colors survey to tell us which colors are your favorites!

It’s important to us to keep you all involved with this process because really, we’re creating this space for you as much as we are for us.  You can expect some more surveys like this one over the next few months as we ask for your opinions on furnishings for our classrooms and other spaces that customers will enjoy.  Stay tuned!

Congratulations to November’s “Featured Product” contest winner!

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Voting for November’s Featured Product of the Month contest is officially closed and the winner as chosen by you is……

 

Cynthia T. with her piece “Times Square”


Congratulations, Cynthia! Your creativity has earned you a B3 gift certificate for $25! To claim your prize, please send an email to [email protected].

 

 

FEATURED PRODUCT FOR DECEMBER – Bright Aluminum Jump Rings


For December, we’re keeping it simple and looking for pieces created entirely from aluminum rings. No color. No mixed metals. No extra bling. Just this simple and affordable material. We know how versatile it can be and we can’t wait to see what you come up with to showcase how less can really be more sometimes.

December’s contest winner will also be the final one for the year to go on to the “Mailler of the Year 2012” contest! In January, all 2012 winning pieces will go head to head to determine who will be crowned our new “Mailler of the Year”, winning a $100 B3 Gift Certificate and, of course, bragging rights for the year *wink*!