Posts tagged “charity”
Folksy Friday :: Community Spirit!
Today’s Folksy Friday is a little different as recently we spotted a story unfolding on the forums that really put a smile on our faces, we were brimming with pride at the great community that has formed here at Folksy and wanted to share it as an extra special Folksy Friday. We asked Michelle from [...]
Indie Smiles – Charity Birthday Bash and Contest
Guest Post from Susan Rosen of Indie Smiles Hello Folksy shop members from Indiesmiles! We at Indiesmiles.com wanted to stop by and let you know that our website has so much to offer Folksy members. Even though you may be located across the ocean from the home base of Indiesmiles, it doesn’t really matter, handmade [...]
Upcycle Christmas #Winners
Hello, The judges all came back today with their choices in the four categories (Update: see also the peoples’ choice winner). So, without further ado the winners of the four categories are: Best Use of Materials: Charity Shop Orphans by Fuzzywork Loved the idea of just painting over somebody else’s work and making it your [...]
Upcycle Christmas #Update
We’ve had 132 146 entries to the Upcycle competition and we’ve been overwhelmed by the effort and the thought that has gone into so many of the pieces. Thank you so much all of you who took part. You can see them all here. This is one of our favourites in the office: The judges [...]
Featured items: Seeing red
Folksy is seeing red this week. We’ve got lots of poppies for November, plus some Christmas robins and lots more in between. Visit our red selection. Some of our sellers are donating money to charity from their poppy sales so check out: Emme Lou’s Poppy Fluff Puffs – 50% of profits go to the Poppy [...]
Upcycle Christmas Competition
Hello. Christmas is so predictable isn’t it? It’s the same day every year, relatives you haven’t seen for 12 mths appear and we shop in that time-honoured mad panic where good intentions give way to indifference as to whether Uncle Alan will really appreciate that travel coffee mug when he never ventures beyond the local [...]
Crafteroo! Comic Giving
Hello. Pennydog from the Crafteroo! forum shared the ‘results’ of the shop with us yesterday so I thought I’d pass this on as we’re *so* pleased with it. From 7th February to 14th March, we had 97 sales amounting to
Charideee
Pennydog and Crafteroo (the fabulous craft forum) have created a shop in support of Comic Relief. The items have all been created by people on the Crafteroo forum. Hello, if you haven’t been here before, I hope you like it :) We’re obviously not charging for listings so all the money from the items goes [...]
‘tache
The folks at dopplr, a place to record and share your trips, are growing a ‘tache (a moustache) for charity (testicular cancer). We saw Matt’s ‘tache was looking a bit patchy and so we thought Lupin’s awesome felt ‘tache would be the perfect facial ‘foil’ for his public speaking events. Here it is gracing their [...]
t’posh frocks on
We’re in Islington again tomorrow at the New Designers gig, chatting to graduates and talking about Folksy and of course wrapping truants on the knuckles with The Rulers. Posh frocks all round as it’s the opening day of the second week. If you’re there and you want to say ‘Hi’ then twitter us. It’s interesting [...]