Home Sweet Home Market - Submission Deadline

Take Me Homeware

The submission deadline for the "Home Sweet Home" market (running Jul 20 - Aug 14/09) is coming up this tuesday, the 30th of June. If you're interested in joining our online market and have some awesome houseware items you'd like to showcase, please email us by this tuesday! If you aren't familiar with our market you can read more about us here and visit our current market here. Submit by emailing us at poppytalkblog[at]yahoo[dot]ca with "Home Sweet Home" in the subject line.

Poppytalk Handmade Maintenance

Our online marketplace, Poppytalk Handmade is currently down for maintenance. Due to the popularity of the market, clearly we are out growing our current server and need to move over to a more stable and robust system. We have given ourselves a couple days window to make the move, and thank you for your patience while we do this. In the meantime, please check our blog, Poppytalk where we will be doing special features on our "Here Comes the Sun" participants. We will be adding an extra week onto the Here Comes the Sun market taking us through to July 17th! This will subsequently change our following markets back by a week. Please check our Market Schedule for the updated events coming up! Stay tuned!

Upcoming Market Schedule

The following is our list of upcoming markets at Poppytalk Handmade. The themes are in line with certain holidays or events throughout the year. We look at the submissions based on these themes, but are not entirely subject to the theme, so please feel free to submit even if you your item is not entirely fitting. We base our decision on quality, originality, and themes combined.


Apr 13 - May 8/09 - A Mother's Day and Kids Market - From mother's day gifts and cards to kid's toys, accessories, fun! Submission Deadline Mar. 25/09.

May 11 - Jun 12/09 - Paper Pops! A Papergoods and Affordable Art Market! This popular market (from the response last year) is lined up at the same time as the National Stationery Show in New York, showcases the latest in independent papergoods designers as well as artists. Submission Deadline: Apr 25/09.

Jun15 Jun 22 - Jul 17/09 - Here Comes the Sun! A Summer-themed market from all categories. Submission Deadline: May 27/09.

Jul 20 - Aug 14/09 - Home Sweet Home! A housewares-themed market. Submission Deadline: June 30/09.

Aug 17 - Sep 18/09 - School Days! A Back to school-themed market. Submission Deadline: Jul 25/09.

Sep 21 - Oct 16/09 - Mixed Tape! (Submission Deadline - Aug 28/09) A compilation of all our favorite things. From papergoods, affordable art, ceramics, softees, housewares, gifts, jewelry, the whole shabam!

Oct 19 - Nov 20/09 - Indie Love! A Pre-Holiday market! (Submission Deadline - Sep 28/09). In appreciation for the handmade, we present this independent pre-holiday market, for handmade goods ONLY!

Nov 23 - Dec 18/09 - A Holiday & Gift-themed Market - all things gift related, and holiday themed. (Submission Deadline - Oct 28/09) From papergoods, softees and toys, gifts, affordable art, jewelry, decorations, tinsel and hot chocolate! All things festive!

Dec 21, 2009 - Jan 08, 2010 - Holiday Madness & Boxing Week Sale Market - Last minute holiday & gift shopping and Boxing Week Sale Market. (Submission Deadline - Nov 28/09)


Recent Previous Markets:

Jan 12 - Feb 13, 2009 - Love Transforms - Valentine's & Wedding Market - everything love! Submissions Deadline, Dec. 27/08

Feb 16 - Mar 13, 2009 - The Affordable Art Show - Affordable art from emerging artists around the world. Submissions Deadline: Jan 26/09

Mar 16 - Apr 10, 2009 - Green Pop! An eco-spring based market! Everything related to eco, spring, easter and green! Submissions Deadline: Feb 27/09.

Here Comes the Sun Market launches today!

Poppytalk presents Here Comes the Sun our newest monthly-themed online market which just launched today! Featuring summery items from pretty bags to collect seashells with to beautiful trinkets made from things found by the sea. This new market is running through to July 10th, with new items being listed often! I loved this market last year as it's so varied from jewelry to art. Click here to visit.

Call For Submissions Deadline - This Week!

Cathy Nichols

This week marks the deadline for the next market, "Here Comes the Sun" - (Jun15 - Jul 10/09) at Poppytalk Handmade, a market all about summer, from sunny prints to beachy things, so if you are interested in joining us, just give us a shout before Wednesday, May 27th at the latest so we can gather it all together in a timely fashion. Email us at poppytalkblog[at]yahoo[dot]ca with the words "Here Comes the Sun" in the subject line.

Call for Submissions: Paper Pops Market!

Mother's Day card from La Familia Green

We just took a look and found the deadline for the Poppytalk Handmade "Paper Pops" Market - a papergoods and affordable art themed market is this Saturday, April 25th! This market is lined up at the same time as the National Stationery Show in New York. We are looking for mainly papergoods (from file folders to journals) and affordable art (work under $100).

If you are planning on participating at the NSS - we encourage you to read It's Showtime - a post by Susy Jack on the steps to preparing for the show. She also mentioned Poppytalk Handmade in this post and it's benefits to participating in it at the same time as the show.

Please submit your submissions to poppytalkblog[at]yahoo[dot]ca with the words "PAPER POPS" in the subject line.

Mother's Day & Kids Market Now Live!

We are now live with our latest market (well have been for several hours), however I never got a chance to post pictures till now. Just in time for Mother's Day - this market is full of beautiful handmade gifts for Mom (and people who are like a mom) along with sweet and adorable items for babies & kids! The market will be happening from now through to May 8th - with many new things uploading daily. Click here to visit!

New Market Launches Today!

Our new market launches later on today (we're doing some scheduled maintenance on the site this evening so it'll be launching a bit later this morning). The theme this go is a Mother's Day and Kids Market which we're really excited about! We will post more about it once it goes live, so be sure to check back!

Last day of "Green Pop" our Eco, spring & Easter Market

This past market just whizzed by for us. It seems we just set it up and already today is the last day! We'll have the market up until 9pm this evening to get that last minute shopping in (if you're just swinging by now). Lots of springtime treats to be had! Click here to visit. And we'll see you back here Monday with a brand new themed market, our Mother's Day and Kids Market! Happy Easter and Passover Weekend everyone!

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Call for Submissions: Mother's Day + Kids-themed Market!

We are having a call for submissions for our next market - Apr 13 - May 8/09 - A Mother's Day and Kids Market - From mother's day gifts and cards to kid's toys, clothing, accessories, fun! Submission Deadline Mar. 27/09. Please email us at poppytalkblog[at]yahoo[dot]ca with the words, "Mothers Day Market Submission" in the subject line.

How It Works!

Before submitting or emailing us, please read. Most questions are answered here. Thank you.

Poppytalk Handmade is a curated online marketplace to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world. Our market provides emerging designers and artists an opportunity to connect with consumers, retail buyers, stylists, personal shoppers and the press. It was launched after we noticed how difficult it was to find good designed work within the sea of online shops. We are a design-oriented team dedicated to showcasing and promoting emerging design talent. Our blog, Poppytalk is our voice. Click here to read more about us.

We are proud to be "the original curated marketplace" (having come up with the concept first) and are proud to be number one (email us for details) for bringing the best results to it's participants! Now in our second year, we are dedicated to supporting emerging artists by giving them a "fair" and best option to have their work seen online.

HOW THE MARKET WORKS

We rent out "virtual tables" (much like an art/craft market) to artists/designers for a one month period (or more) where all items on these "virtual tables" are linked to each artists online shop (e.g. etsy, dawanda, big cartel, etc.). Each artist then sells directly to the buyers our site sends to their virtual table at our market and subsequently their own online site.

One can think of our marketplace like a launching pad to brand new products or a new shop. Perhaps you are a new designer/artist/shop and you wish to introduce your new product/company/shop to our audience. Or maybe you are an established artist and you wish to introduce a new series of your work through us.

All participants work appears on the frontpage of the Poppytalk Handmade homepage, and all images rotate randomly approximately every 15 minutes, so that each participants work gets a fair online showcase.

We curate the markets based on the quality (foremost) of the products, and how they work into the theme and the Poppytalk style.

OUR STATS

We believe self reporting numbers to one's own site is much too unreliable and open to self-interpretation. We like to qualify our stats by a third party such as Technorati and Alexa. We want to be as accurate as we can be; it's only fair to our users and the entire handmade community. We know what it takes to build a real readership and have worked hard (since 2005) to build our readership up to where it is today. We recommend you ask for third party stats when shopping for a curated market such as ours, numbers you can view live online.

The traffic brought to Poppytalk Handmade is driven from our design blog, Poppytalk.

Technorati

Poppytalk is currently ranked 1,422 (the lower the number the better) with Technorati which means we are in the Top 2K! Click here to follow us.

Alexa

We are currently listed No. 28 on Alexa's Top 90 Design Blogs.

Please email us at poppytalkblog@yahoo.ca for our current visitors per month.

ABOUT OUR READERSHIP

The majority of our blog readers are female, age 30 - 40, followed by the 25 - 30 age group. Besides buyers, many of our readers are magazine editors, tv producers and writers. Some of our participants have been contacted by major newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times and Martha Stewart. Read survey results: here.

PRESS:

Please read our press on Poppytalk Handmade here.

TESTIMONIALS:

Testimonials from participants can be read here.

PRICING:

QUOTED IN CANADIAN DOLLARS

We have worked it out so you're spending no more than $2 CANADIAN per day (at the full price). If you choose the $45/month - 3 month deal it's .66 cents per day. We offer discounted rates as follows:

A) $40/month for six months
B) $45/month for 3 months
C) $60/month for the first month and then $50 if you wish to continue/return, but not commit to more than one month at a time.

We have taken careful consideration into how we would price Poppytalk Handmade, like advertising on a blog, we considered the amount of visitors we receive as well as what a real marketplace/craft fair would charge for a table.

Poppytalk is $60 for the first month (unless you opt for more than one month) - divided by 30 days = $2 per day

Most weekend craft fairs charge between $100 - $300 for one weekend.

Many blog ad rates run from $70 - $600 and up (depending on their stats).

ADVERTISING:

Poppytalk Handmade advertises on several blogs per month to help bring in traffic along with the Poppytalk blog which posts several times during the market about particular product or special features. We also advertise on the Poppytalk blog itself on the left hand side sidebar (the best space available).

We also encourage each participant to advertise their table on their blogs/sites to also help bring in traffic.

Poppytalk also writes freelance for various magazines, sites and blogs from time to time.

UPCOMING MARKET SCHEDULE:

Click here to see the upcoming market schedule.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

Send a link of your online shop to poppytalkblog[at]yahoo.ca and specifiy "Poppytalk Handmade Market Submission" in the subject line specifiying which market(s) you are applying for.

If you don't yet have an online shop but are interested in participating you can send images to us and then you will need to set up an online shop after that in order to participate with us. An easy way to set up an online shop is through sites such as Etsy, Dawanda, Big Cartel, etc.

We are committed to the blog community and to the support of handmade goods.

Spring has sprung!

Spring is finally here! Yay and hooray! It's nice to see all the new and spring things popping up, and this is what we've just noticed over at The Handmade Artist. From top left clockwise: Michele Maule has some new prints (and another giveaway), click here for details, Susannah Conway has some Cupcakes of Happiness to offer in her shop; Spring has sprung at Green Island studios and Pixel Impress is having a one year anniversary sale!

Green Pop - Our 2nd Annual Eco, spring and Easter Market

Today we launch Green Pop, our 2nd Annual Eco, Spring and Easter-themed market! It's such a cute one too, filled with innovative recycled things like recycled glassware, eco-minded laundry soap, housewares and accessories made from organic fibres, seasonal ceramics and holiday items, organic clothing, jewelry, things for kids, papergoods, photography, softees & toys and finally some good old vintage! Click here to visit the main page. The market will run from today through to April 10th/09. Come by often, as new/different products will be uploaded often throughout the month.

Paris flowers, giveaways and sales!

The community artists of Poppytalk Handmade are really hitting it out of the ballpark these days with posts at The Handmade Artist, (our PHM community blog). The talented Michele Maule is having a giveaway at her blog (for the entire month it looks like)! Click here for more info! Kari from Kari Herer Photography just got back from a trip to Paris and shot some beautiful photos of the flower stands there. Heather Smith Jones and Alicia Alferman are inviting you to notice with them at the Noticing Project, Jo Bradford is offering a spring discount. And Lisa from Kiki and Polly just added some new affordable new prints (image below) to her shop. Click here to visit the main blog.

Call for Submissions: Green Pop!

The deadline for our Poppytalk Handmade "Green Pop" Market - An Eco-based and Spring/Easter themed market is this Friday, February 27th! We are looking for recycled, upcycled, eco-based items (things that are awesome and good to the earth) as well as "spring" (yay spring!) and Easter (bunnies, eggs, and things that hop)! Please submit your submissions to poppytalkblog[at]yahoo[dot]ca with the words "GREEN POP" in the subject line.

This month we bring you affordable art @ Poppytalk Handmade!

33 stewart avenue, cinder block studio, roadside photographs, andrea shear, cynthia callan, vivienne strauss, irena sophia, matte stephens, kiki and polly, lewas designs, pink bathtub, dolan geiman

With the economy as it is, and because we have a huge love for placing "real art" on our walls, we bring you our very first "Affordable Art Show and Marketplace at Poppytalk Handmade! The artists included this month come from various parts of the world, and we hope you'll visit often as they refresh their tables throughout the month. The market runs from February 16th through to the 13th of March/09. Click here to go directly to the market, or click the links coinciding with each image.



jo bradford, heather smith jones, lindsay brackeen, octavine illustration, pretty little thieves, vol25, michele maule, inklore, the charm school dropout, kari herer photography, modernpop, michelle brusegaard




stephanie levy, la familia green, kristiana pärn, bellamuse, aprile elcich, samantha hahn, kirsten mccrea, something else perhaps, marzipan, karim rizk, ladies and gentlement, cake +milk paperie



night owl paper goods, sooooound, signs by diane, yee-haw industries, rbkh potter, yellena, bueller, clever violet, eggman studios, michele bosak, isette, allymoon



katie runnels, sharon montrose, labokoff, isphotography, a beautiful party, laurie coyle designs, shira sela, sofia masri, trampoline, clementine press, resurrection fern, in-vita paper studio



roll and tumble press, green chair press, karen kang, art esprit, blue tricycle, tugboat print shop, catia chien, michelle caplan, goshdarnknit, walking to jericho, melissa moss, little black rabbit, bacon square farm, the cellophanes, sarah ahearn, the mincing mockingbird

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Last day of "Love Transforms" Valentines & Wedding Market

Today's the last day for our Valentine's and Wedding Market over at Poppytalk Handmade, "Love Transforms". The market will be open until 9pm (Pacific) if you wish to get in your last purchases from this amazing group of artists/designers that participated this month. It truly was a beautiful market and a big thank you to all who visited us and our vendors. We are honoured to bring the artist and buyer together.

For those of you who are new to visiting here, and to give you a short background. We started the market back in 2007 due to the hours spent sifting through the sea of online shops looking for good, quality handmade items to post about here and be inspired by. Back in 2005 when we started this blog, it was clear these artists needed a voice to be seen and heard and we were madly hunting them down. Thanks to our Etsy Pick of the Day posts we started back then, the whole market idea evolved into what it is today. We noticed many of the picks we were picking were being "sold out" that very day and we then knew we were on to something.

We curate the best of the best of emerging design talent and are proud to bring them here. Each month we host a different themed market to coincide with the different holidays or times of year. With that said we're really looking forward to our next month's market (starting Monday), which is an Affordable Art Market. We hope you'll join us Feburary 16th for the launch! In the meantime, you can visit our new community blog, The Handmade Artist where participants are posting their news, events and musings. Have a fantastic weekend and Valentine's Day!

Call for Submissions: Affordable Art Market

The submission deadline for our Affordable Art Market at Poppytalk Handmade is coming up this Monday, January 26th. The market will run Feb 16 - Mar 13, 2009. Please email us at poppytalkblog[at]yahoo[dot]ca and include a link to your online shop along with pics if you like (but not required) as we can look at them online. We are really excited about this one!

Above image from Leah Giberson, Left/Right - limited edition giclee.

Love Transforms - A Valentine's & Wedding Market Launches Today!

A new Poppytalk Handmade Market Launches today - "Love Transforms", a Valentine's and Wedding-themed online market, featuring new works from Lisa Congdon and many more emerging and talented artist/designers and shopkeepers! We really love the feel of this one and how it all came together, somehow magically the collection this month really is inspiring. See awesome works from both returning and new artists to the market! Click here to see more!

Submission Deadline Today!

Today's the last day to get your submission in for the "Love Transforms" market. Running January 12th through February 13th! Click here for more details.

Call for submissions

Our Love Transforms market at Poppytalk Handmade is coming this January 12th through to February 13th! It is a Valentine's & Wedding Market - everything love! This was one of the most visited markets last year!

We are looking for beautiful valentines-themed papergoods, especially letterpressed and gocco printed, gifts with love in them, we are also looking for wedding items, gifts ideas, wedding accessories, favors, invitations, vintage, cake toppers, hearts, chocolates...love love love!

Submissions Deadline is Dec 27/08. Please email us with "Love Transforms" in the subject line at poppytalkblog@yahoo.ca and include a link to your online shop.

Our virtual table fee is $45/month for three months, $95 for two (if you wish to pre-commit) or $60 for one month, and $50 for returnees who wish to use the month to month plan.

We strive to be your best option for "curated" marketplaces online. You can check our technorati here (we are rated in the top 2K!). We are also listed #27 in the Top 90 Designer Blogs on Alexa. Click here to view. Visit our press page here and testimonials here. We look forward to hearing from you!