Posts tagged “competition”
Calling all Folksy Fashion designers!
Fashion designers of Folksy have been invited to enter a rather swanky competition this week. In a new television series for Sky Living, pop superstar Rihanna will be searching the UK for the next generation of raw, undiscovered designer talent and has picked Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts to head up the challenge for her. [...]
Maker Faire Competition Winners
We’re only a week away from the Maker Faire and here in the Folksy office we’re getting pretty excited. Running along side the sponsorship of the Maker Faire has been an exciting competition to win the chance to be featured on the Folksy homepage. Our closing date was yesterday and it was a difficult choice [...]
Maker Faire Competition
Folksy is very pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring our first event on 3rd September – the Mini Maker Faire in Brighton. As this is a special occasion (and because it’s been far too long since our last one) we’ve decided to hold a competition to celebrate. We want to show the public [...]
The Fabulous Folksy Blog Badge competition
Now that the Folksy logo is no longer obscured by the word ‘beta’ we’d like to celebrate with some new blog badges. What’s a blog badge? It’s a little picture that Folksy fans can add to their blog or website to show that they sell, shop or generally support Folksy. We’ve had some for a [...]
Folksy Easter Treasure Hunt – we have some winners!
Well, Easter is over and the eggs have been demolished. This also means that the Folksy Easter Treasure Hunt has come to an egg-citing conclusion. Without further ado, the winners are: Sharon Burn (who is Daisies Are Our Silver on Folksy) Julia Haigh Nicola Munro Congratulations to the winners who all receive a cracking bag [...]
Get set for the Folksy Easter Treasure Hunt
It’s that time of year again – time to get cracking with an Easter Treasure Hunt. Folksy seller Niche has organised a fantastic competition where there are great prizes to be won. Simply look through Folksy to find the shops where the Easter treasure is hidden. To take part, look out for special Easter eggs [...]
Only one more day to enter the A4 draw!
The A4 Draw is a fantastic competition being run by South Essex College. A £4 ticket buys the chance to win an original A4 piece of artwork by established artists and graphic design students from the college. There are entries from Rob Ryan, Gemma Correll, Folksy sellers Amy Blackwell and Lucy Player and many many [...]
Upcycle Christmas – The People’s Choice
There’s now just under two days left in the Upcycle Christmas eBay auction. It’s all in aid of Sue Ryder Care, so get bidding! The voting also closed last night on the People’s Choice category of the competition. And so, as at 10pm yesterday, the item with the most ‘favourites’ was… Ingrid, from Rose Lullaby [...]
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 [...]