Toronto Craft Alert

Attention readers:  this is a great opportunity to a) get your work some more exposure & b) to big-up your crafty neighbours by nominating some Toronto-area/Canadian talent for a Poppy in one of the categories below.  Read on for a some highlights from Poppytalk*& visit the post (link below) for the whole deal.

Today we are most excited as we launch a really fun (and what we hope will become a “yearly event”) called “The Poppies“. We thought it would be fun to run a virtual awards ceremony of sorts celebrating the Handmade Community!

We don’t wish this to be a competition, however more an appreciation and acknowledgement of the handmade community; a light and fun process to celebrate the Handmade!

The awards are going to be set up in two sections so that our readers can firstly nominate their “favourite handmade or vintage designer and/or shop under specific categories and then secondly the most nominated five finalists from each category will be chosen for a final selection through a reader vote. In addition, we will be inviting a select jury from the blogging community to choose one overall winner .

CATEGORIES:

Individual Categories (As nominated and voted by Poppytalk readers):

1. Favourite Handmade Accessories
2. Favourite Handmade Affordable Art
3. Favourite Handmade Ceramics
4. Favourite Handmade Crafter (eg. Embroidery/Crochet/Knitting/Quilting)
5. Favourite Handmade Eco
6. Favourite Handmade Housewares
7. Favourite Handmade Jewelry
8. Favourite Handmade Paper goods
9. Favourite Photographer
10. Favourite Handmade Textiles
11. Favourite Vintage Shop
12. Favourite Handmade Artist Blog

and

1. Favourite Overall Artist/Designer/Shop (as chosen by a select jury)

PRIZES:

For each winner of each category (chosen by our readers)

1. A one month’s free participation at Poppytalk Handmade
2. A “I won a Poppy” banner/button for your site or blog!
3. A one year’s text link from the Poppytalk blog’s main page under “The Poppies” category
4. Traffic to you from Poppytalk

Final overall winner (chosen by a jury of select bloggers)

1. A three month participation at Poppytalk Handmade
2. A “I won a Poppy” banner/button for your site or blog!
3. A one year’s text link from the Poppytalk blog’s main page under “The Poppies” category
4. Traffic to you from Poppytalk

We look forward to this event, and your nominations and votes!

Visit the post for Rules & links to categories for voting.

*Poppytalk is a popular, internationally read Vancouver-based design blog.