Over the past few months, some of you have undoubtedly noticed that Blue Buddha’s stock of anodized aluminum jump rings hasn’t been as plentiful as it used to be. Just like we updated you on our enameled copper jump ring situation a month ago, we’d like to keep you in the loop with our Anodized… Read more »
Author: Rebeca
Closed July 24 for Employee Appreciation Day
Blue Buddha will be closed on Tuesday, July 24 for our first ever Employee Appreciation Day! One of my philosophies as a business owner is that is is important to not only take care of customers, but also employees— actually, especially employees! When I backpacked and hitchhiked around western Europe a dozen years ago, I… Read more »
A Decade of Chainmaille
Ten years ago, on this day, I made my first piece of chainmaille. *squee!* At that time, I didn’t realize that my life would never be the same. I certainly didn’t imagine I would be where I am today. It’s been an amazing journey, and I’ve learned so much from my students, customers, co-workers and… Read more »
Victory over the copyright issue!
UPDATE – All of the images in question have been removed! Yay! It took about 24 hours for that to happen, and I know that in this time, we collectively left hundreds of comments on her page (which were quickly deleted). We did it! Late last night, I wrote of the businesswoman who was in copyright… Read more »
When Crafters Do Bad Things: Using Images From Other Artists To Sell Your Work Not Only Misleads Your Customers, It’s Just Plain Rude. And Illegal.
Chainmaille Artisan “Capturing Essence” Is Passing Off Stolen Images As Her Own Work. Help Us Stop Her. Please read the update on this situation! A post on Maillers Worldwide alerted me to the fact that a business on Facebook might be stealing one or more of Blue Buddha’s images. No big deal, I thought. We… Read more »