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A new way to say to Thank you.

I thought we might try something new here at Hi Octane Jewelry. We are trying a digital Thank you card for our customers that purchased jewelry on our web site and have subscribed to our email list.  I thought I would try Paperless post for this new “thank you” method. Paperless Post is a newer discovery to me, they provide digital products including digital invitations, digital birthday cards, digital flyers and digital thank yous. Recently, I tried out their digital invitations with a Bunko get together I was having. I was able to pick a nicely designed invitation and customize it then send it out to my friends via email and they were able to respond and interact with the invitation. I thought it worked well.  I am seeing most recently that people seem to like to be contacted via text.  Are you seeing this too? It seems like when you are planning a get-together people to seem to interact and be using texts to coordinate the get together etc. This isn’t my personal go-to method.  I prefer emails.  But I am noticing those around me don’t check their email much.  Feel free to comment below with your input.

So for this Thank you I am sending out, my daughter put together these to layouts using the paperless post web site. She added the hot rod artwork, which can be done pretty simply by uploading a jpg.

The cool thing about Paperless post is the email has the look of “old school” real mail with the use of an envelope that opens and the card comes out of the envelope. If you haven’t joined our subscription list and want to you can subscribe below:

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Hot Rod Magazine Features Hi Octane Jewelry Car Rings

I was delighted to hear from one of our customers that the new Hot Rod Magazine is out and our jewelry is featured in it. Hot Rod magazine has done a great job putting together some Gearhead Accessories gift ideas together for the 2012 Holiday Season.

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Our jewelry is featured amongst the likes of Mickey Thompson Tire Tread I-phone Cases and Flatheads Forever belt buckles. Big Thank you going out to Hot Rod Magazine for featuring our car rings jewelry.  One of the rings featured is a sneak peek at one of our new designs which is a Wrench V8 Ring.  Which feature two wrenches crossed creating a V with a number 8 on top.  All of which is set into a signet ring.

Elle Fashion Trend – Car Show put the pedal to the metal auto-inspired accessories

Hi Octane Jewelry Featured in Elle Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today has been a wonderful day.  We are having a wonderful snow day in the Pacific Northwest.  I popped over to Target this evening and was delighted to see the that our line of Hi Octane Jewelry is featured in Elle Magazine’s February 2012 issue.  Elle is featuring our 57 Chevy look car ring. And doesn’t Reese Witherspoon look fabulous too.

 

 

New Indian Chief with Flowers ring

Loving this new ring design of a Native American Chief with Flowers..
Putting it up on the site for sale shortly.

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Revamped our web site for Hot Rod Jewelry for Gearheads….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on over and check out our newly designed and organized web site. We have moved our blog over here to just click the link for the blog.

 

 

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These are something new, and my new favorite thing.
Bracelets… I have an old indian bracelet that i bought at an antique store back in High school in Reno, that was the inspiration for these pieces. I love the simplicity of them. I love how they fit when I wear them. And how fun they are to make. I have them up on the Etsy store for now.
Watch for more like these. I may even try some recycled bicycle emblems made into bracelets like these.

>Hot Rod Jewelry | For Hot Rodder’s

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So far the reviews have been great on our car grille rings and our motor rings. Both men and women are buying them and wearing them. We have had a few couples buy them as engagement rings. These are true car lovers for sure. The biggest thing we want to do for next round of new rings is to create larger sizes. Brad, here at Hi Octane Jewelry has what most people including myself, would call very large hands. He wears from a 12 to a 14 depending on the finger. His hand looks like baseball mits next to most people.
And as we have been doing booths at various shows around the west coast, we have a quite a few men walk up and want rings and they say I am 14, I am 16. So this round we are doing Big Ass Rings or Big Daddy Rings Sizes 10 -16 only.
Here are the styles that will be coming out this fall.
And they are going to BIG.
Everything on these rings is bigger. They are thicker and wider and most importantly we will have a 16 when you ask for it.

>The Sun Post Covered Hi Octane Jewelry

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To read the original post click here

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Jewelry for automobile lovers
Business Spotlight
For Sun Post News

By Debbie L. Sklar

Interviewed: Owners and husband and wife, Alicia Hanson & Brad Johnson, jewelry designers.

What’s your business?

Designer and manufacturer of handmade sterling silver jewelry and recycled car parts.

Describe your business?

We are lovers of the Hot Rod culture who have chosen to create jewelry that caters to those who love the design of the automobile. For example, sterling silver rings with vintage automobile grilles, custom bracelets with car front-ends and creates jewelry from reconstructed car parts.

Your newest line is from recycled items?

We go to swap meets, car shows, junkyards and estate sales and find old car emblems, then clean the emblems up and reconstruct the pieces into jewelry pendants by drilling holes in the emblems. We also make earrings created from flattened bottle caps.

Do you have special training in this business?

Silversmithing and casting courses.

What’s the hardest part of this business? The best?

The hardest part of the business is finding cost-effective ways to drive people to the Web site. The best part is going to swap meets and junkyards and finding cool treasure to reconstruct into something new. I love carving something in wax making it come to life in metal.

Who are your clients?

Car lovers, mostly Hot Rod enthusiasts, Hot Rod builders, gearheads, Rockabilly moms and Southern California culture lovers.

Describe your personal role?

Alicia: I wear a lot of jewelry and a lot of hats. I am a jewelry designer, graphic designer, junk collector, maker of most things, solderer, marketer, photographer, shipper, car lover, melter of metal, mom. Brad is wax carver extraordinaire, silver casting partner, bottle cap flattener and cohort in all things.

Why would someone want to wear your jewelry?

Many people admire the design and beauty that goes into automobile design and our creations embody that same enhancing quality from the classic automobile and translates it to people with a revved up piece of jewelry … Each piece is a small piece of American car nostalgia that has so many meanings to each person.

Price Range of items?

Recycled necklaces $45 – $155, Bottle cap earrings $15.

Future goals?

Getting one of our car grille rings on Jay Leno and getting our jewelry into more boutiques across the country.

By Debbie L. Sklar

For Sun Post News