Latest Competiton-Kiddies art gallery

On Sunday 15th May Halo Crafts will launch it's newest Facebook based competiton.....an art contest featuring work by fans children....

The competition will be open to children under the age of 10 and the prize for the winner will be an 8x8 sized hand painted canvas with a character of the childs choice (this will depend on whether the character is paintable or not and will be discussed with the winners parent when the competition is complete)

How it will work, entrants will have up to a week to draw/paint/create a picture of their favourite TV/Book/Film character...the photo's can be emailed to halocrafts@yahoo.co.uk and will then be moved into a special photo album (entrants parents are free to tag themselves in the photo's when the album is open) after a week on dispaly 5 entrants will be chosen by overall popularity (based on their "likes") the top 5 will then be shown to our special and highly qualified judge.....my 7 year old son Christopher, who will choose his favourite picture as the winning piece.

Because of Facebook rules not allowing us to contact winners through their site the top 5 entrants (well their parents/guardian) will be asked to provide email addresses so we can let them know if they've been chosen as the lucky winner!






T&C's-
The competition is open to children under 10 years old...the parents/guardian must upload their entry.

Open to all fans however only UK enrants will qualify for free postage and packing of their prize....so any international entrants will need to contact us about postage costs before taking part.

This competition is in no way assosciated with Facebook and is solely ran by Halo Crafts, parents/entrants asknowledge this fact when taking part.....as well as agreeing that their childs art work and name be shown in the competitions photo album.

Entrants will have from May 15th to May 22nd to enter their pieces, the following week will be used to decide the top 5 with the winner being chosen on June 2nd.

The top 5 entrants will be the 5 most popular pieces as shown by "like" numbers which we see on our page, sometimes individual pages show different like numbers/comments etc.....however it will be the numbers seen on the Halo Crafts page that will decide. We are not specifically asking members to like photo's however the top 5 will be those who have proven most popular.

Cristophers decision will be final, he will not see the entrants until the top 5 are chosen and he is deciding which is the winner. He will not know the names of the entrants etc...and will choose purely on which he likes the best. He's a talented little artist himself and will be far more impartial, and more likely to choose which he "likes best" then an adult who may be swayed by artistic ability/techincal skills etc.....

The top 5 entrants parents/guardian will need to provide an email address in the event that their child wins so that we can contact them to let them know, discuss the prize and postal details etc...by entering your childs work you agree to being contacted by myself to discuss the competition/prize......you will not recieve any spam/unwanted mail not associated with the contest

The prize is an 8x8 canvas painting of the childs choice, character depending on whether or not I am able to paint it well (I wont agree to a character if I don't feel I can do it well as I don't want to send out a bad prize) The prize includes free postage to a UK address....however international entrants will need to contact us regarding shipping before entering the competition. The prize is non-transferable, we will not offer an alternative or cash value.

Facebook Raffle- Update

We've decided to increase everyones chance of winning by doubling the number of "tickets" you recieve, so instead of just one entry into the draw for your 50p you will receieve 2, this will also apply to anyone who has already paid for "tickets". The draw will still take place on May 15th and the winner will still get to choose any prize from the ready to go Halo Crafts items.....currently there has not been enough interest (despite this being the celebration method that was most populat in the poll we ran) to draw more then one prize however if interest increases this may change.x

1000 Likers Facebook Raffle

As part of our 1000 liker celebrations we posted a poll asking what members would prefer to see and the winner was a 50p per ticket raffle with the prize being an item of the winners choice......other popular choices were a competition with a prize chosen by me and also a certain % off of orders so you may see these feature in the next few months.

Each ticket (number) will cost 50p or you can purchase 5 numbers for £2..... with numbers being allocated in numerical order starting at 1 for the first ticket sold, 2 for the 2nd ticket sold and so on... bank .transfers can be accepted as long as the have cleared before May 13th and postal orders can also be used as long as they are recieved by May 12th and must be posted recorded delivery.

The raffle will be drawn on May 15th, during the evening, the winner will be chosen at random with the help of random number generator random.org and will be posted on Facebook and asked to choose their prize which will then be posted (free of charge) the next available posting day.


A minimum of 8 tickets will need to be sold in order to do the draw (to cover the costs of posting the item) if this amount fails to sell the raffle will be cancelled and all payments refunded.

Good Luck!

Heavenly guests on Halo Crafts

As part of our 1000 likers celebration we're going to open a "heavenly guests" photo album and invite fellow FB pages to send a photo (just 1!) of a heavenly/angelic themed item...we are HALO crafts afterall.....and details of it, it's price and their page name. Halo Crafts likers will then be able to view the items and link through to the original sellers pages if they like what they see.

The album will be up for a month and will be purely to showcase the items, we will not profit from the items at all and any buying/seller will be conducted on the creators page.

Anyone wanting to take part can email their photo and details to- halocrafts@yahoo.co.uk

1000! What a number!

So we finally did it, reached the big 1000! Wow, 1000 people, people who took the time to visit the page and click "like" who have given me shout outs, commented on my statuses, bought my items......1000 thank you's to all of them and more! To say i'm pleased is an understatement.... I was so excited when I hit 999 the evening before lovely liker 1000 joined that I stayed up late in the hopes it would tick over!

So now the question is how to celebrate reaching such a big milestone, especially in what is only a short amount of time, Halo Crafts is still very much a baby at less then 6 months old after all! Seeing as it's the fans who got me to 1000 I thought i'd leave it up to them and have posted a question on there....."How shall we celebrate reaching 1000 likers?" there are 5 different options including a 50p a ticket raffle with a prize of your choice, a certain percentage off purchases or free p&p on all purchases....so we'll see what the fans decide!

And now onwards! 1500 anyone ;p

And the winners are..................

After much arguing with my phone to stand upright so I could photograph the screen complete with random.org and the time of the draw we finally have our 2 winners. I left time in between the 2 draws so you can distinguish the difference between who was drawn first and who was drawn 2nd anyway................................

......drumroll please..................................................................................................................

In 1st place is
Milly Burt

and in 2nd place is
Louise Banna


Congratulations girls....your emails have been sent!

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to participate!




Answers-
1-an aeroplane....Fun Foam Door Plaques
2-a silver snake.... Family Gifts (and also "Beads/Charms not for sale" which I didn't spot originally)
3-bubbles....Canvasses (and also within the display prop in the family gifts folder)
4-a blue hand.....Jewellery
5-a parrot....Bag Charms (and also Beads/charms not for sale)
6-a baby bib.....Pregnancy & Birth (and also Collage Canvasses-dribble bib on baby Jack in the blue canvas)
7- a christmas tree......Sale (and also on the ribbons in the sleigh bells folder)
8-peter rabbit.....Collage Canvasses
9-fairy dust.....Childrens
10-A dalmation puppy- Customer orders

Scavenger hunt- Entrants with 10 correct answers

Well I have to say I'm very pleased with how it went, and with how creative some of you were in finding the items in folders i'd not originally seen them in...they'll all count though...if they're in an album they're in an album, whether I hadn't seen them there in the beginning or not.

So the entrants with 10 correct album names are-

1-Victoria Corcoran
2-Candise Howe
3-Fiona Callan
4-Aimee Spence
5-Miranda (milly) Burt
6- Louise Banna
7- Colette Davidson
8- Jennifer Willoughby
9- Charlotte Wickett
10- Donna Ward

The draw will take place shortly and the results posted in a seperate blog.x