TeNo - discover your desire

One thing we all do (more or less) is eating. Another thing that is very important in todays world is knowing what day it is, so you won’t miss any important appointements or dates. ;-) Finally, something that becomes more and more a concerne is our environment.

So how could you combine all these three things together? You create a napkin set for exactly 1 year (365 napkins), write on every napkin the date as in a calander. The napkin helps you clean your fingers after a meal, the written dates tell you what day it is (..guess what..) and since there are only as many napkins as there are days in a year, well hopefully that’ll encourage you to only use one at a day.

I think that’s a really neat idea. :-) And maybe TeNo could use these at the next jeweler meeting. :-)

Photo credits: Mike, pixelio.de

Four men disguised as women robbed the high-end jeweler’s shop Harry Winston in Paris. The employes were threatened with guns by the robbers, who captured in less than 30 minutes all the exhibited jewelry.
Just last year the same store got robbed, however “only” losing € 10 million. You can visit the Harry Winston website to get an understanding how you can rob such an enormous amount of money in this short of time.

Some days ago Florian blogged about nature jewels. Now I found another posting with amazing pictures of the jeweler called nature. It’s not only this one I choosed to illustrate my posting. There are much more. It’s really worth to click.

Foto credits: fanlandsnapper

From the 26. – 27. of september we had a visit form the Netherlands from our representative Yvette bringing along several Dutch jewelry costumers (total count of 18). It was a great event, which we are finally writing a blog entry about. Sometimes there are more things going on than there is time to blog…

After a short get-together in the hotel, we joined in a traditianl ambiance for a good meal on sunday evening. The restaurant Pyramide, a family-owned business, is a culinary tip in Pforzheim where one of the best cooks is at work. However the best thing besides the meal was the togetherness.

On these pictures we see how the gifts were handed out, each one of them created individually for every costumer. Since the products will be published 2009, we won’t tell you at this point what they are ;-). What we can give away however is that everyone was realy happy with their gifts which leeds us conclude that we are on the way of success with our new collection.

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During my blog tour I found a blog with shopping tips for people with a peanut allergy. You can actually buy a silicone bracelet to wear yourself but usually they are bought for children to stop them being given any nuts to eat that could endanger them. I think this is a great idea and it makes a lot of sense. It even started me thinking that maybe we don’t mention as often as we should that our jewelry is perfectly suited to people with a nickel allergy. TeNo only uses two recognised non-allergenic stainless steel alloys for its jewelry pieces and we have only heard of three allergy cases since 1999, and each of these was “just” a skin reaction.

Surgical stainless steel (316L) is used for screws to fix bones in place, body-piercings, bone plaques, joint pins, wires, mandibular wire mesh prostheses, stitches, staples and even electrodes for heart pacemakers and many other things, too. Stainless steel 316L doesn’t release any nickel onto the wearer’s body and doesn’t trigger any nickel-induced skin rashes.
Results from independent laboratories show that the nickel release from 316L is less than 0.01 ug/cm2/week. – The stainless steel alloy 4305 contains an even lower amount of nickel. These two stainless steel alloys are used by TeNo and fully comply with the strict European Directive on nickel in jewelry.

So there’s no reason why those who suffer from allergies can’t try wearing our jewelry. Also our new steel bracelets from our YuKoN charms collection. If, despite this, you have an allergic reaction within two months of purchase, then please tell your TeNo jeweler and ask him/her to contact us.