T.E.S.T. 3rd Annual "Spring" Handmade Market CONTEST

The Toronto Etsy Street Team is partnering with covet garden, a lovely on-line magazine and hosting a contest for the vendors at the 3rd Annual "Spring" Handmade Market. So, follow this link, check out all the great vendors, but be sure to vote for minouette! ;)

Handmade Olympics

The lovely rikrak (blogger and crafter extraordinaire) is once again hosting 'The Handmade Olympics'. This year, things from secret minouette places is sponsoring 'The Handmade Olympics'. This is a fun event for handmakers to show their stuff, with amazing prize packs for fans of handmade goodies. You can nominate yourself (if you're a maker) and another person in each of 7 categories - and both you and your nominee stand to win some amazing prizes! Check out this post for information on the events and enter each category at:


( 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 (in our homes, for ourselves, etc.)
( 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

I hope you'll consider nominating minouette items, or blogs (for that matter). I can't, of course, win the event 5 - since I'm the sponsor - but if you like something and think it just the thing for a given event, by making a nomination you'll be getting a chance to win great fan prizes yourself. This is also a fun chance to see some of the amazing handmade goods which are out there, and find some new favorites. Do check out the fun and follow along!

Feed My Paper Habit

So, one of my favorite haunts, The Paper Place is having the 2nd annual chiyogami giveaway.. You know that I need 700 sheets of 8.5 x 11 chiyogami, but if you would like to enter too, just check out their blog for more details.

Dear Paper Place,

If you give me the loot, I promise to make lovely things like these:


Maybe I can convince someone to help me make a video for 50 extra entries, because I think I probably do qualify as chiyogami super-fan. You might notice that this blog even has both a chiyogami and a washi tag.

Most Sincerely,

Easter bunny on the Trans-Canada

Spring has Sprung and the Easter Bunny hopped over to the TransCanada Etsy Team and left some eggs behind!
So we decided to host the first ever TransCanada Etsy Team Easter Egg Hunt. 29 shops are hiding 20 eggs and one person will win a $15.00 coupon to redeem at any of the participating Etsy shops!!!
Join the fun, check out all the details at our team shop! TransCanadaTeam.etsy.com


So, go poke around some shops of talented Canadians on etsy, find some eggs, win a prize!