{"id":41094,"date":"2018-09-26T23:44:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41094"},"modified":"2018-09-26T23:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:44:23","slug":"wednesdays-video-hashtag-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/wednesdays-video-hashtag-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday’s Video: Hashtag Your Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s one last set of swear rings still available in gold-plated sterling silver<\/a>! Email me at info at wendybrandes dot com to get it.<\/p>\n

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Gold-plated swear rings on beautiful customer Julia.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

After that, there won’t be any full swear ring sets<\/em> because I literally have no “F’s” to give or sell … but I will still have a few hashtag, “at sign,” and exclamation point rings in sterling silver to sell as singles. I had reordered those because they were so popular on their own, which is how I ended up running out of F’s before the rest. You can holla at me at the same email address to request one or more of those. <\/p>\n

Out of the three punctuation rings, I am most amused by the hashtag ring, which became a little famous back in 2011 when Elle.com wrote about it<\/a>. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as appreciative of the press as I might have been if the the writer or editor hadn’t put skeptical quotes around the word “designed” in the write-up.<\/p>\n

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Click for original.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Did you catch how a spelling error in a name was also pointed out? That’s really nice (#sarcasm). My PR company at the time made the mistake when sending out emails about the ring to various publications. It wasn’t a proper press release, more of a “Hey, check this out” email to established contacts so they didn’t run the text by me by me. I guess I should belatedly thank Elle.com for letting me know that I needed to vet emails too. <\/p>\n

Two years after the Elle.com item, WWD was gushing over social-media-inspired jewelry,<\/a> without any skeptical quotes … and without any mention of me. I was ahead of my time, bitches! #AlwaysFirst<\/p>\n

Anyway, I got some good stories out of the hashtag ring. If you get a hashtag ring of your own, you can create some stories too by hashtagging your life IRL like my designing friend Stacy Lomman did recently. <\/p>\n