ITAD 2010 Celebration Competition

Our 2010 ITAD celebration competition has now closed. Thanks to everyone that enetered by sharing your love of our craft and celebrating International Temari Appreciation Day. I am pleased to announce the winners of our two prizes.

The first winner was the Gifted Hands Group of Cary, NC, USA. They set up a wonderful library display and had some temari demonstrations too. Your prize is the one featured on the competition post.

The second winner was Rosa from Bundaberg, Qld, Australia. Rosa shared a wonderful story too. Your prize has been kindly donated by Barbara  Suess from Kiku Designs.

I will contact you both privately so you can recieve your prizes in the mail.

I hope you both enjoy your prizes.

ITAD 2010 Round Up

Many people from around the world enjoyed ITAD this year. More than 630 unique visitors to this blog since July. You can see from the list below it was very international.


Place                            Visits            Percentage

Unknown Locations       842                58.31%
United States                 255                17.66%
Netherlands                   102                  7.06%
Australia                          56                  3.88%
Canada                           36                   2.49%
United Kingdom              23                   1.59%
Hong Kong                     21                   1.45%
Austria                            16                   1.11%
Japan                              15                   1.04%
Russian Federation          12                   0.83%
European Union                8                   0.55%
Spain                                7                   0.49%
Italy                                  6                   0.42%
Sweden                            6                   0.42%
Ukraine                            6                   0.42%
Germany                          5                    0.35%
Romania                           4                   0.28%
India                                 3                   0.21%
Chile                                 2                   0.14%
France                              2                   0.14%
Indonesia                          2                   0.14%
Malaysia                           2                   0.14%
Slovakia slovak Republic   2                   0.14%
Belarus                              1                   0.07%
Cyprus                              1                   0.07%
Czech Republic                 1                   0.07%
Hungary                            1                   0.07%
Korea                               1                    0.07%
Mauritius                           1                   0.07%
Morocco                           1                   0.07%
Portugal                             1                   0.07%
South Africa                      1                   0.07%
Switzerland                       1                    0.07%
Taiwan                              1                    0.07%

Thank you to everyone that visited to look and participate in celebrating the fun of temari making. I hope you enjoyed this appreciation day as much as I did.

Wishing you happiness in your stitching until next time,
Rebecca