I see a lot of refs to something called \'blend for visual studio\' which I understand a W8 version of blend. I have VS2012 Ultimate installed on W8 and I don\'t see any ble
Blend is installed as a seperate application in the VS folder.
If it's installed (see Stank's answer for details on how to do that) then double click the Blend icon in the Visual Studio install folder or in the Start menu.