Giveaway fun!

Sentimental Silver is excited to take part in the Bloggy Giveaway at Rocks In My Dryer.

We are giving away a custom made personalized Tiny Tag necklace. The neckalce will include one of our sweet little Tiny Tags, personalized to say whatever you like (well, whatever you like that will fit that is!). Also included is an optional Swarovski crystal birthstone dangle. Each necklace is made by hand using pure (.999) silver.



If you would like to win, all you have to do is visit http://www.sentimentalsilver.com/ and pick out your favorite item. Then, leave a comment on this post letting me know which item you like the best.

Easy enough! Make sure to leave your email address or a way for me to get a hold of you to let you know if you are the lucky winner. There just might be some special coupons going out to those who enter as well! Contest ends February 3rd. Good luck and make sure to check out Bloggy Giveaways for MANY more great items you can win!

Also, don't miss our 20% off sale at Sentimental Silver! All of our personalized goodies are on sale with the coupon code 20OFF at checkout! Thanks for stopping by!

Sale time!

20% off everything with the discount code 20OFF at checkout! Happy shopping! :)

Pictures

I am often asked if I have examples of necklaces with different configurations of personalized pendants. While I'm always trying to get our orders out to the customers as quickly as possible, I'm going to *try* to start taking quick photos of more pieces before they get tucked into our little brown boxes. I think it's fun to see the different necklaces that customers order, and hopefully will help shoppers come up with some ideas for their own unique creations!

Sentimental Silver Round Personalized Pendants - four together make a great gift for a proud mom or grandma.

Sentimental Silver Custom Made Personalized Sparkle Pendant (with birthstones) and Tiny Tag.

I will try and add a few new photos every week. :)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone! We had a nice dinner out with family followed by a quiet evening at home. Truth be told I was asleep long before the clock struck midnight, trying to win my fight with a stubborn holiday head cold. Today will be my annual "get organized" day, though the head cold is probably going to reduce just how organized I get!

It was really fun making so many necklaces to be given as Christmas gifts this year. I had many husbands buy necklaces for their wives (props to those husbands, they planned ahead for a special gift, gotta love that). While Sentimental Silver makes a great gift for mothers and grandmothers, it's certainly not limited to just those groups. They are great for anyone and can be customized to say almost anything.

Here is my brother's girlfriend in her new Tiny Tag Necklace. The tags have her name, my brother's name and "26.2" on them. Both my brother and his girlfriend run marathons (go Team in Training!!!) so I thought "26.2" would be something fun and special to put on her necklace.

It's great to also see Sentimental Silver on younger women. A customer sent over a few pictures of her daughters wearing the Sentimental Silver necklaces they received for Christmas. The necklaces were personalized with the girl's nicknames.

First you see our Hip To Be Square Necklace. It's one of our most popular shapes, and my personal favorite. Next, you see our New Sentimental Star Necklace.

I will be getting the Sentimental Star necklace up on the site soon (and is currently available by custom order). My daughter kept requesting that I make her a star, and I think she was on to something - it turned out really cute. I think it'll be a sweet addition to the Sentimental Silver line up. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is the song I've always sung to my daughter, first when she was a baby (probably because I didn't know what else to sing at 3am!) and now she always wants me to sing it to her when she's hurt or sick. So not only is it a cute shape, but it has a special meaning for me as well.

Happy Holidays!

Thank you for an outstanding holiday season. All orders placed at this time will be shipped out after January 1st, allowing us time to complete our remaining holiday orders and to enjoy the rest of the holiday season with our family.

We wish everyone the very best this holiday season as well as a healthy and happy New Year.

Warmly, Christi Farr Johnstone

How It's Made

My daughter and husband love watching the show “How It’s Made”, so I thought I’d share a bit about how our personalized pendants are made. All of the personalized pendants are made using a really cool product called precious metal clay. It is pure silver with an organic binder, that is baked in a kiln, and the result are the pendants you see. We do not use precut shapes to make our pendants, each one is made completely by hand. Here’s a photo of some pendants just prior to going into the kiln (to bake at toasty 1650 degrees). This is what they look like after they have been shaped, personalized, dried, and sanded, sanded and sanded some more. They have a putty type color at this stage…

After spending some quality time in the kiln, the pieces come out a white chalky color and cool off for a while. Then the next process begins and each piece gets a good brushing with a brass brush to bring up the silver. That is followed with lots of sanding, darkening of the letters, some steel wool and then a tumble in the polisher. They have quite a lot to do before they are sent out to the customers! Here is a peek at our pendants after being fired in the kiln…

What To Say

I am often asked what the most popular sayings and phrases are for Sentimental Silver, so I thought I would share some of them.

1. Names - the most popular choice for our customers is having names that are special to them put on their necklace. We do many with children’s names, but also a good number with couple’s names as well - in fact they are a very popular engagement gift. Some people put multiple names on one pendant, while others select a different pendant for each name. It’s all a mater of personal style and taste. If you have a family that is still growing, getting names on seperate pendants will allow you to add to your necklace as you add to your family. A sweet option that we see often is getting the couple’s name on one pendant and their children’s names on another or on our Tiny Tags.

2. “I AM BLESSED”. This is an extremely popular choice at Sentimental Silver. We get a lot of orders for pieces with names on one side, and I AM BLESSED on the other. We also get a lot of orders for pendants that say I AM BLESSED, with our Tiny Tags added with the names of those special blessings.

3. Happy Mommy. Happy Grandma. Lucky Mommy. Lucky Aunt. Lucky Girl. You get the idea! Here’s a custom made Happy Mummy for a customer in the UK…

4. Pet Names. Pet lovers get their pet’s names on necklaces to wear themselves, as well as their pet’s names and contact number on a tag for their furry friend to wear.

5. A Message For Dad. While most of our creations find their way to women, we’ve made many special gifts for men as well.

6. A little girl’s name on a sweet little daisy. Our Dainty Daisy is perfect for little girls.

Customers Show Off Their Sentimental Silver Jewelry

We love to hear from our customers how happy they are with their Sentimental Silver purchases, but we are even more excited when they share photos with us of them wearing their custom made pieces! Here are a few we’ve recently received:

How stinking cute is she???? This is Chloe in her Dainty Daisy Necklace. We thought she looked so cute, we even added her to our Dainty Daisy product page!

Lisa shows off her round Personalized Pendant and a furry friend.

Marnie shows off her round Personalized Pendant as well. If you have a photo of yourself or someone special wearing a piece of Sentimental Silver Jewelry, please send it to us, we’d love to see it (and we’ll send you a special discount coupon for your next purchase!).