For those of you like us without an iPad, here are a few "screen shots" (thanks to Chelsea's Mom) of the Fast Company US Design Pop-Up Shop featuring our Electric Love bangles. Fast Company paired with our friends at Fab.com so you can purchase all the products featured and get a free Fast Company subscription while your at it! 
On our recent trip to London, we checked out the Supermarket Sarah installation at Selfridges and found our Chi-Chi necklaces and Electric Love rings happily on display. 
We're loving the new photos of Poketo's spring collection of artist tees and dresses paired with our jewelry which you can also find in their online shop. 
We just wanted to give a quick thanks to N.E.E.T. Magazine for featuring Electric Love, Sololá and Bound in their March issue. N.E.E.T. is an "eco-friendly, grassroots style bible for the digital age" founded in 2005 in the UK and we're thrilled to be included throughout the issue. Thanks again Stephanie!
Thanks to Australian indie arts and crafts magazine, Toffee, for featuring Electric Love in their first issue!
Check out the November issue of Seattle Magazine to find our Electric Love ring featured on page 36! You can enter to win the pictured ring through their website or get one from our online shop right now for $19.00. Thanks Kate!
Electric Love has been getting some great press over the past few days. Thanks Sunset, Design For Mankind, Mother Nature Network, Design Milk, Ethical Style and Color By Numbers for helping to spread the word!
Find some wire in a color you like. The best wire for this project will have a solid core (it holds its shape better than braided wire) and a
thin plastic coating.
If it comes wound with other wires (as shown), carefully split out the color you’re after. You’ll need about 19 inches (50 cm) for the ring.
Start your ring by twisting a tight hook on the very end of the wire. Make it as small as you can, then clench it flat with the pliers.
If you left a long tail, snip it down close to the bend with the wire cutters. This step shall henceforth be known as the “hook” and will prevent
the finished ring from coming undone.
Locate your ring mandrel (or other sizing device mentioned above). Hold the hook down against the mandrel with your thumb and begin to wrap the wire around the mandrel. This step will determine the final size of your ring, so wrap it tight.
Three full wraps around the mandrel should do it. On your last time around, go past the hook a touch, then bend the remaining wire up at 90 degrees (shown).
Slide the ring off the mandrel and begin the top wrap by bringing the free wire over the top and through the ring. Pull.
Be sure to place the first loop before the hook to keep the ring secure, and make it tight so the hook won’t come out. Then, make a few more loops sending the wire over the hook and through the ring in the same manner.
Keep wrapping tightly until you’ve covered the hook, then do two or three more wraps beyond the hook but keep the loop diameter the same (shown). This will allow some space underneath the loops to tie off the end of the wire.
Bring the wire around and poke it back through the loops from step 7.
Pull it tight so it feels secure under the loops. Snip of the excess wire as short as you can manage.
The loops probably separated a bit during this process so tuck in the loose end and mash everything back into shape. Voilà!
The finished ring, which can also be purchased from Grain’s online store, ready-made, for $19.
The ring in action.
We have been getting some fun blog coverage of Electric Love lately...
We're super excited to have new Electric Love ring colors available in our shop. It has been raining for a month here in Seattle (no joke) so it feels good to be working with some bright new colors. 
Our Electric Love rings now arrive in these custom recycled content chipboard matchbooks. Chi-Chi and Sololá have new hang tags too! 
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