For an entire week, from 12 to 18 of December you will find us at the Christmas bazaar at Parapera! 

We'll be taking over the first floor and filling it with our creations and lots of energy. In spite of these difficult times we are taking a stand creating and fighting back fear, disappointment and lack of vision. We are not giving up and we are sharing with you our love for handmade creations, traditional and modern as well.

In the bazaar you can find Christmas gifts, jewelry, accessories, knits, weaving, paper creations and recycled creations! There will also be workshops on the weekend and gift surpises!

See you there!

Christmas bazaar

 

Creation is our hope and the power in our hands!

Crafters from Etsy Greek Street Team are ready to fill Christmas with colors, shapes, textures, forms, crazy ideas, talent and lots of positive energy!

Despite the dificulties of our days, we insist on expressing ourselves and resist on fear, disappointment, the lack of vision and resignation.

We want to share our love for handmade, while supporting tradition, recycling and expression!
 So we created two christmas craft parties – bazaars, full of goodies from our hands, that can’t wait to become yours! We are inviting you to visit so as to meet , exchange ideas, learn new techniques and create together in our workshops!

In our exhibitions you can find:

Christmas gifts – jewelry – accessories – clothing - utilitarian and decorative items – toys and dolls– knits and felts – weaving – paper crafts - recycling
   

…and lots of surprises and gifts!!!!

 
  Friday: 18:00 – 23:00
Saturday-Sunday: 12:00 – 22:00

Pure Bliss
Romvis 24Α
Free entrance


Excibitors:

· Angela's Creations
· Anta
· Antigonicreations
· Arju
· BlackRedDots
· Creations by Eve
· CyKLu
· Eried
· Evrydiki & Psarokokalo in La.Trap.
· Nafsika
· One perfect day
· Ouph
· Pergamondo
· Piece of ART
· Sewhappiness
· Shorty
· Vladi Lena
· Wanja Franja & Far Star creations
· Zdrop


Εtsy Greek Street Team

December 2-3-4 at Pure Bliss - Alternative Multispace

Summer Craft Show at Poros island

Etsy Greek Street Team travels to Poros island for a colourful,cheerful,summer Craft Show at 22,23 and 24 of July!!!

Friday 22/7 18.00 - 24.00
Saturday 23/7 10.00-14.00 & 18.00-24.00
Sunday 24/7 10.00-14.00 & 18.00-24.00

Promoting "handmade", invites you to come around and see a variety of handmade jewellery, accessories, clothes, weaving, toys, shoes, art, photography, soaps etc and participate/watch the workshops that are going to take place on Saturday and Sunday.

workshop program :
Saturday 23/7 after 19.30
-Basket weaving
-Millefiori from polymer clay
-Create flowers from organza
Sunday 24/7 after 19.30
-Eco-weaving
-Create flowers from polymer clay
-Ways to transform an old t-shirt

Participants:
-katerinaki
-antigoni's creations
-pergamondo
-zdrop
-eried
-anta
-la cravatte du chien
-sivylla - daily reflections
-one perfect day
-creations by eve
-angela's creations
-jazz illusions
-fishes make wishes
-saponopoiisis
-ergani weaving
-eyerin creations
-spykou
-elena paint
-theophano jewel
-calidoscopio
-natural-design-crafts
-black red dots

"Geia sta heria mas ΙΙ" - summer bazaar

It has been already a week from the bazaar and I did not write anything yet! The fatigue was big with the preparations before and during and I'm still trying to recover!
But it was a perfect bazaar, we had fun, laughter and great joy and the comments of the public were very positive about the organization and  the beautiful and quality creations!
I'm always happy to have the the chance to meet the team again and have fun on such occassions!
The bazaar was in "Stavlos", a beautiful multi-space at Thissio! We had three rooms where we exhibiedt our products and the attendance was well over the weekend!
And because the bazaar coincided with our annual Craft Party of Etsy, to celebrate the creative expression, throughout the bazaar, we had craft-workshops demonstrating to visitors and passers various techniques and crafts! People enjoyed it and participated very enthusiastically!
A big thank you to the girls who took over the organization, Pergamonto and  InQueue and the people who came and honoured us and I hope to have  again such a successful bazaar soon! 

"Geia sta heria mas ΙΙ" - summer bazaar

After the successful Christmas bazaar, "Geia sta heria mas" is coming back to welcome the summer with a new bazaar together with artists, artisans, diyers, crafters, designers and creative people in general.

For three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we are organizing the most colorful, vivid and playful bazaar with free access for all!

We invite you to come, look at the new ideas that our "children" will show and, why not buy gifts for you and your loved ones. 

Duration of the bazaar: 3 – 4 - 5 June 2011

Visiting hours: 

Friday: 18:00 – 24:00
Saturday: 11:00 – 24:00
Sunday: 11:00 – 22:00

free entrance

The show is hosted by STAVLOS, Herakleidon 10 , Theisio, Athens

Participants:

pART
anta
Λίλα Διαμαντοπούλου
La boom
ERGANI weaving
Creationsbyeve
Ouph
PanicaLab
MariaStudio
Aντιγόνη
BlackRedDots
Nafsika
Zdrop
InQueue
Fishes Make Wishes
eried
sidirom
pergamondo
Karmologyclinic
piece of ART
VanaHandies
Polina-Sophie
Olympias-Foxinthebox
ericosmicgirl
anmarkdesign
oneperfectday
SeaWhispers
asmina
articles uniques
Evdoxiasart
Le Petit Boudoir
BONHEUR
maroulina
aegean dreams
μελιμηλον
Under Construction
La Cravatte Du Chien
Angela's creations
kokkos

Caps for good!The meeting!

Yesterday we met at Kangaroo craft store and made caps for the «Caps for Good» charity campaign. We had a wonderful time! Drinking coffee and chatting, we made cute little caps for the newborn babies of the third world. Sofie from Kangaroo was a fantastic hostess! She offered us coffee, tea, cookies, donated the yarns for knitting... and gave us everything we needed... needles, tools, scisors... Thank you so much Sofie!You rock!

Needles in action!

The respond to the invitation of our team was awesome! We gathered about 20 persons, but many ladies who couldn't come to the meeting brought the caps that they made at home... At the end of the meeting I counted about 57 caps!!
But I'm still expecting more, from the ladies who will make some at home and also the caps that our team members made at Thessaloniki, when they met at Matas place and knit together:

 

and the caps that were made from students and mothers, at the meeting Eleni organized at Poros :

A big thank you first of all to Sofie who gave us the space and organized everything, all the ladies who participated, spending their Sunday afternoon with us and to my good friend Vangelis, who lasted a whole afternoon with 20 chatty ladies and took such marvelous pictures of the event!!  
And to Mata and Eleni who organized events too and made caps for our lovely cause!!

Also no to forget to mention, that our charity event is still running till the 15th of February and many shops of the EGST team are donating  a percentage of their sales to «Caps for Good»! If you want to participate and donate to this lovely cause too, but can't knit or crochet, you can, by purchasing something of these lovely shops! You can see here the shops that are participating to the campaign!

Thank you girlz :) and boy ;)

Let's knit some baby caps!!

The (EGST) members are grabbing their needles and hooks on Sunday 30th January and are inviting other knitters at Kangaroo craft store to make caps for the "Caps for Good” campaign!

Additionally the team is having a fund-raising for the Children's Newborn and Child Survival Programs of "Save the Children" organization: from the 15th January to the 15th February, team members are donating money, or percentage of the sales from their shops!

Go browse the team's shops and contribute to this lovely cause!

Please visit these lovely shops which are donating a percentage of the sales:
Psyboom, Antigoni, Creationsbyeve,ERGANIweaving, Stephmel, FishesmakeWishes,Blueroompottery, Blueroombijoux, Feelwhatifelt, Nafsika, Awitch, LepetitFoyer, Giftforever, Sivylla,
and have donated money: WeirdTales, AtelierTAMI, Pergamondo,
to this noble cause!

"Caps for Good” is a grassroots initiative of the global humanitarian organization Save the Children and the "Warm Up America Foundation". The project seeks to engage knitters and crocheters to take action for the 4 million babies who die each year within the first month of life in poor countries.

Research shows that 50 percent of the 4 million newborn deaths that occur each year could be prevented if mothers and children in poor countries had access to a simple package of health measures। This package includes antibiotics to fight infections, immunizations, training for skilled birth attendants, education on breastfeeding and hygiene, and basic care such as keeping a baby warm by covering the head and carrying the baby skin-to-skin. America’s leaders could save millions of newborns by increasing international assistance for programs that offer these inexpensive life-saving tools.

These are the first three caps I finished: 

EGST christmas bazaar at Booze!

Οne week has passed since our bazaar at Booze and I haven't posted about it yet!The tiredness was big - before the bazaar with all the preparations and during the bazaar, and right after it I got sick!!!!

The bazaar was awesome and I want to show you some picks ans write a few words about it!

The bazaar took place at Booze Cooperativa, a fantastic place in the center of Athens!!! We had three different spaces to exhibit our creations and visitors coming in constantly!!!

A big thank you to the girls who organized it, Anta, BlackRedDots and Zdrop and to all the visitors who honored us and I hope we will have such a successful bazaar very soon!!

Egst bazaar

Etsy Greek Street Team

Ι'm very happy to announce that we have our own group now in Etsy! The Etsy Greek Street Team, a team of Greek artists/crafters! We are still getting organized, but you can already find us in flickr and our blog!