The past few months have been spent improving the trading capabilities and increasing the social interactive functionality on CovertCandy!

All CovertCandy lovers can now enjoy:

1. Full scale trading!

The community will be open for you guys to trade anything you like! The new categories will be:-

Clothes & Accessories
Books
Sports & Outdoors
Movies, Music & Games
Toys, Kids & Baby
Electronics
Health & Beauty
Home & Garden

2. A Great new Look!

We have a cool new re-design and logo to compliment the new easier navigation.

3. More Social Interaction:

You can now chat and shared with fellow traders and friends with complete ease.

Fancy earning some extra credits!?

Silly question really, but it is really quick and easy. If you would like to earn yourself some bonus CovertCandy credits issued straight into your personal CovertCandy Bank, then simply tell your friends. For every successful referral you make this week, we will give you and your friends 3 credits!

Refer your friends here

As we are feeling rather excited this week, for every item you upload during the launch week, you will receive 1 credit straight into your CovertCandy Bank!

Finally, if you would like to be an honorary CovertCandy team member as an official Guest Blogger, please get in touch with us!

Sky’s the limit at CovertCandy. We have so much more to come over the next 2 months, so keep your eyes and ears open. We aim do everything we can to make your experience the best we possibly can. In saying this, we welcome any feedback you may have about the new site and are always open to hearing what you guys want, so drop us an email: admin@covertcandy.co.uk

Have a great day…Happy Trading!

The CovertCandy Team

Here is some behind the scenes footage of the latest CovertCandy shoot:

CovertCandy Shoot from CovertCandy on Vimeo.

Please bare with us whilst we pimp out the site. Its business as usual in the CovertCandy community but it will take 1 or 2 days until the vintage  shop is fully operational again.

Please help us out if you find any problems with the site and we’ll be sure to fix things up pronto.

These pics are taken from there most recent style report. Hmm what do you reckon?

Eco-fashionistas unite! Don’t throw your unwanted clothes to landfill – be a eco-fashion swapper at our Sunday Swap Shop – Sunday 16th August 09 from 3pm at Walrus Bar in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.

Bring your own clothes, and leave with a glamorous new wardrobe……..FOR FREE!!

Don’t worry if you have already cleared out your wardrobe – there are many exciting things happening throughout the day:

    * Vintage sale by CovertCandy

    * Julia Roy Williams of the Manchester Craft and Design Centre selling contemporary handmade jewelery

    * Renegade Marmalade exclusive discounted sale for Swap Shop go-ers

    * Competition with 3 fabulous prizes for the best outfits!

    * Cupcakes and Glass of wine £4

    * Mini Manicures by Inner Sanctuary

    * Beauty demonstrations and styling tips by Phoebe Does Makeup

    * Eve promotion

    * Live Acoustic bands

Get down to Walrus from 3pm on Sunday 16th August and you can feel and look fabulous whilst doing your bit for the environment.

We are pleased to be supporting Manchester based charity Action For Sustainable Living with this event.

Just to let everyone know that all news about the site will be run through here from now on. Sorry for the slight re-shuffle in the site recently, been busy launching the blog and making a few changes. So whats new, well our designer Jack Featherstone has recently picked up a D&AD joint first award for illustration. check out his work here.

CovertCandy has also had a little award itself being awarded the 7th best credit crunch fashion site by the Independant. Bearing in mind Ebay got 6th we’re pretty chuffed about this. Heres the link.

Expect to see a lot more clothes going up on the CovertCandy shop soon as well.

Always great to hear your thoughts and feedback about CovertCandy so please get in touch with all your crazy ideas.