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Vintage Fashion for Today’s Style: Gail’s Custom Hats

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on August 23, 2012

CustomMade artisan Gail Bartlett can make you the bee’s knees with vintage-style custom hats that are simply the cat’s pajamas.  (That’s OOAK, millennials).  Gail’s Custom Hats specializes in making connections between the fashions of the past and today.  Gail’s custom hat styles range from the Victorian and Edwardian eras to the Roaring Twenties to World [...]

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Symbols and Silk: Jewelry by Charmed Design

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on July 3, 2012

Wrap yourself in silk jewelry with personal meaning by CustomMade artisan Lori Cohn of Charmed Design.  Her silk wrapped bracelets are custom designed to reflect each customer’s unique story and beliefs.

What do you want to express? Watch this video featuring Lori’s silk jewelry creations and get inspired.

Silk wrapped bracelets offer a unique [...]

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The Briolette Cut for Your Custom Made Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on June 6, 2012

With a teardrop shape and triangular facets all the way down and around the surfaces, briolette-cut gemstones are an excellent choice as centerpieces or accents for your custom necklaces, pendants, and earrings.  The entire briolette-cut stone can be displayed in the round in these types of jewelry, and the natural motion your body gives to [...]

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Save Energy and Money (and Look Good) with Custom Window Treatments

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on February 24, 2012

Going custom not only can make your home look fabulous, it can save money.  High quality custom pieces built to last are a wonderful long-term investment, and custom window treatments can also help lower your energy costs year round.  In the press release, “Custom Curtains Save Energy, Cut Heating Costs–and Transform a Room,” Jan Jessup of [...]

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Hand Painted Scarves and More by Nectar Silks

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on February 2, 2012

Looking for a unique Valentine’s gift for a special lady?  Here’s a great piece of advice from Rebecca Snure of Nectar Silks: “All women love having silk scarves to accessorize the various pieces in their wardrobe.”  And who wouldn’t want a one-of-kind, custom to wear piece?  Rebecca can hand paint unique designs on these versatile, [...]

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Sunstones for Your Custom Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on December 3, 2011

Don’t look at the title of this post.  It’s jewelry trivia time.  Name that stone.

Formed in ancient lava flows, this gemstone is usually orange, red, or yellow in color and sparkles in the light because it contains millions of microscopic copper platelets.  Found in Norway and India, but only stones from one other location [...]

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From yarn to loom to handwoven rug: CustomMade.com gets a custom office rug

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight, The People Behind CustomMade on June 9, 2011

Introducing Will Hargrove: one of CustomMade’s newest Makers, Will founded Ramri Rugs a decade ago to create unique and inspiring handmade rugs which he calls “art under foot”. The company is based in Bend, Oregon and the team of hand weavers are based in Katmandu Valley, Nepal.

Customers select the pattern, size, and colors (even [...]

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