How2: Enter the Handmade Olymipics!

(sew) FASTER.

(paint) HIGHER.

(metalsmith) STRONGER!

ladies + gentlemen!

welcome to the 3rd annual 2012 handmade olympics: where the handmade world comes together to celebrate making things!

think downhill sewing.

100-metre silk screening.

pairs cooking on ice!

and all of the other amazing things folks in the handmade world do + make + create every day!

oh what a wonderful handmade world we live in!

now's your chance to show the world your own creative creations, AND send some handmaking love out to other nicies who inspire you in the handmaking + handpicked world!

please see the MAIN handmade olympics post for all of the fun-filled details & rules on the events!

now.. welcome to event 3: please leave comments here nominating:

your favourite handmade eco-friendly item!

one you love by another maker & one you've made yourself!

for this event  think beautifully recycled, repurposed, sustainably-minded creations.

think organic or eco-forward.

think of an eco-friendly handmade item that you just love!

you can nominate yourself + another in EACH event! PLUS get bonus ballots for twittering, blogging, facebooking & more about the #handmadeolympics! yay!

the amazing PRIZES

the handmade olympics prize packs are just gosh-darn fantastical!

this EVENT will award the following prizes!

including $150 worth of handmade goodness:

a $50 gift certificate to jake + cleo

a $50 gift certificate to remaker

a $50 gift certificate to rikrak

+ an *i WON GOLD* handmade olympics badge to use on your site/blog/shop

+ an artist/crafter feature on the rikrak studio blog

with $60 worth of handmade goodness:

2 months of advertising {may & june} on the rikrak studio blog : value $60

+ an *i WON SILVER* handmade olympics badge to use on your site/blog/shop

+ one FREE month of may 2012 advertising on the rikrak studio blog! yay!

+ an *i WON bronze* handmade olympics badge to use on your site/blog/shop

PLUS, there will be ONE overall random nomination selected from all handmade olympics entries ( & extra ballots!) to WIN the FAN PRIZE PACK (a $50.00 shopping spree in the rikrak shop!)

now check out the other events + nominate more fun folks!

( event 1 ) :: our favourite handmade goodie with an innovative design

( event 2 ) :: our favourite handmade goodie for kids

( event 3 ) :: our favourite handmade eco friendly goodie

( event 4 ) :: our favourite handmade item that inspires loveliness + wellness

( event 5 ) :: our favourite handmade personality/group forwarding kindness thru handmaking

( event 6 ) :: our favourite FUN-FILLED handmade OR vintage goodie

( event 7 ) :: our favourite handmaking-focus blog

Images & Text © 2012

All Rights Reserved By Individual Artists

Scavenger Hunt with Twitch and Whiskers

Ring in the New Year by winning a $25 gift certificate

from one of our fabulous Trashion Team members...

Twitch and Whiskers!

You don't have to be a genius to win.

Here is how you can enter to win the gift certificate:

1) There are 12 questions (for 2012...get it?). They can be found on the Scavenger Hunt Form. Comb through the Twitch and Whiskers Blog to find the answer to all 12 questions. Hint: use the labels on the side of the page to guide you.

2) Want to be entered twice? Share this contest on Facebook or Twitter. Indicate that you have shared it on the Scavenger Hunt Form.

3) Make sure you submit your name and email address on the form. Twitch and Whiskers will not place you on a mailing list or share your address with any one. This information will just be used to contact the winner.

The last day to enter this contest is January 8th at midnight. The winner will be randomly chosen from all entries using randomizer.org on January 9th.

Twitch and Whiskers will contact the winner via email on the same day. You can use the gift certificate towards any item in their Etsy Shop, for a customized piece, or in person at an upcoming show!

You can DIY (or get help from a friend).

Find the questions in this Scavenger Hunt Form
Find the answers on the Twitch and Whiskers Blog
Good luck and thanks for playing!

Images and text © Twitch and Whiskers

Trash Talk Thursday: Cast Your Vote!

Lego Belt Buckles

The nice folks over at Fine Tuxedos and Formal Wear Accessories 
are sponsoring a little contest, and our very own
Miss Courageous is lucky enough to be part of it!

So, please head on over to their blog and vote for her
Lego Belt Buckles, product lucky number 7!

Good luck Miss Courageous!

Images © Miss Courageous

the 2010 handmade olympics!

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(sew) FASTER.

(paint) HIGHER.

(metalsmith) STRONGER!

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.ladies + gentlemen!

welcome to the 2010 handmade olympics: where the handmade

world comes together to celebrate making things!

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think alpine sewing.

downhill woodworking.

pairs cooking on ice!

and all of the other amazing things folks in the handmade world

do + make + create every day!

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oh what a wonderful handmade world we live in!

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now's your chance to show the world your own creative creations, or send some handmaking love out to other nicies who inspire you in the handmaking + handpicked world!

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by entering the various events, it's a wonderful way to show the

world your beautiful creations, have some amazing judges

check out your great shops,

AND, if that's not enough fun, there are over

$2000.00 USD worth of AMAZING handmade + vintage prizes!

woowee!

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visit rikrak for more details!

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woohoo, nicies!

let's the GAMES begin!

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Trash-Deactivation Contest

This contest info was sent to the Etsy Trashion Team on Etsy.
It was posted on our forum, but I thought I'd post it here, too,
for anyone else to enter if they'd like!



The Contest, "Trash-Deactivation” is directed to all people, who are actively interested in trashion and can do magic from redundant things and items. Show us what you can do, surprise us with your resourcefulness and share your ideas for clothes or accessories for clothes manufactured from ... well, let's not be afraid to say it out loud, trash!

Participants in this Contest can include bloggers, fashion designers, and professionals - everyone who likes, enjoys and practices trashion.

All the projects, which will be accepted to the semi-finals, will find a way to post-contest online publication entitled "Trashbook", which will comprise not only documentation of the whole trash related event, but also a source for inspiration relative to fashion, style, and trashion style gadgets. "Trashbook" is the first publication of this type, which was created thinking about all the people, who are interested in creative recycling. Make sure that you do not miss your chance to be there!

All the best projects will receive recycling-ecological prizes, which will enrich your wardrobe.

Start Date: December 11, 2009
End Date: February 1, 2010

The first stage:
Preparation and submission of ideas: 11 December 2009 -1 February 2010

Create a new cloth, accessory or jewellery, which can be manufactured from items, things, materials which are not needed any more, redundant or broken and should be thrown away as thrash. Please, try not to buy new things - try to use only what you have available at hand. Strive to maintain simplicity in your project, but do not forget about the resourcefulness, comfort and materials which are available for your use.

Take sharp photographs of products, elements which you will use to manufacture of the given thing; the photograph also individual stages of manufacturing of your project and the final project product. The photo of the final project product can show you and the project or only the project itself - it is up to you.

Fill in the Contest submission form, in which, among the others, you will have to provide detailed information about the materials used, which are necessary to manufacture the project product, and describe the way it was manufactured.

Photographs and a filled in submission form can be sent and the Organizer via e-mail to redakcja(at)ecotopia.pl with the following text in the title "Trash-Deactivation" ( please make sure that the e-mail size does not exceed 6 MB) or via regular a regular postal service.

You are allowed to submit any number of projects. please, remember in such a case to submit separate submission forms for each other submitted projects.

The Rules: http://ecotopia.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=15
The Submission Form: http://ecotopia.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21&Itemid=21

More info at: www.ecotopia.pl

logo contest prize announced!

its a scoodie! designed by haptotrope for the first prize winner of the logo contest.5 other prizes will be doled out at random for anyone who participates.
now get designing!
Word.
Trashy Hapto.

trashion logo contest!

we have a contest type thing now up and running

etsytrashion needs a logo!

you can post the logo images here:
http://flickr.com/groups/443411@N20

so far we have one entrant in the first hours!
it's from http://tiltcraft.etsy.com/

fame and glory to the winner!