Enter Here - Coster's Tig! Costerlympics 2012

We're attempting an Unofficial World Record for the Biggest Game of Multi-Player Online tig! EVER.  Why not?!

Fun, Medals, Prizes and Free Memberships to be had!

Spread the word, watch out for your 'tig!' and when 'YOU'RE IT' get tigging! others by passing the tig! onto them.  We hope you're sufficiently limbered up and ready to make your entries below.  The more tigging that goes on, the more chance you have of winning! 




Enter by




1) Once you've been tigged! log in and follow the steps in the box below


2) You can then tig as many people as you want, entering up to 3 tigs! per day here


3) Complete the other entries as you wish - including for free Brassique.com membership!

4) The more entries you make, the more entries you earn towards being our Gold, Silver or Bronze Medalist! 

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What's in it for Players

1) The fun of the game!

2) Your own Costerlympic Medals & Badges! 

3) You can claim 1 years Membership as a Coster of Brassique.com + get £5 worth of Barter Tokens to spend!

The Rules & How To's

1) Remember a tig! is a nice thing and a bit of fun!

2) You may only tig! others once you've been tigged!

3) You can tig! as many people as you like - but only those you think will play! 

4) If you can share a tig! with someone via twitter, facebook, text, email etc you can tig! them

5) You can tig! people in their photos if you wish.  See our example below.  It's a bit cheeky and all in the name of fun - but don't be getting in trouble, arrested or blaming us (We would like to see the photographic evidence if this happens though ; D)  We can provide the "TIG! YOU'RE IT!" image to use as well if you like - just send us an email asking for it.

6) Let your imagination run free and tig! away - get as many people as you can, gather as much evidence as you can and tell us what you're getting up to

7) Send any screenshots, photos or interesting tigs! (given or received) to us or post via twitter to @brassique or on facebook.com/brassique - we'll be sharing the best ones so make sure we can credit you for your genius / good looks / creative mischief.

8) Register your tig/tigs by completing any of the simple 'tasks' shown on tig! Blog Post e.g leave a comment, click to say you've been tigged / or tigged someone, share on twitter, click to claim Free Membership etc

Here's our first Photo tig!  Bless you Ma'am! As you can see she was thrilled...we imagine she's chasing people round the Palace as we type!  So there you go...have a bit of fun with it and show us your sport side ; D

Costerlympics 2012

Ears Up!


This may come as a surprise (it did to us) but we've discovered there's a naturally athletic side to Team Brassique.


We decided that rather than just watching the 'you know whats' on the telly, we'd don our sweatbands and have a go at something ourselves.  Something we could get ourselves limbered up for, make some new muckers and have a laugh...whilst being very sporting and seriously of course....


Thus the Costerlympics 2012 was formed.


There was to be only one Game.  And it had to be a good one.  Something to create an even playing field.


And then we realised...


A massive game of online tig!


It'll be started by us Costers and be for everyone to play.  We can all have a piece of the Costerlympics!


Our Costers can register their interest here, or by any means they wish, to tell us they want to be an 'It!' to start off the tigging!  These nimble Costers will be primed with their tig! material on the 27th July - Game starts on the 28th!

What's in it for Players

1) The fun of the game!

2) Your own Costerlympic Medals & Badges! 

3) You can claim 1 years Membership as a Coster of Brassique.com + get £5 worth of Barter Tokens to spend!

The Rules

1) Remember a tig! is a nice thing and a bit of fun!


2) You may only tig! others once you've been tigged!

3) You can tig! as many people as you like - but only those you think will play! 

4) If you can share a tig! with someone via twitter, facebook, text, email etc you can tig! them

5) You can tig! people in their photos if you wish.  We'll show you an example when we catch our first tiggee!  It's a bit cheeky and all in the name of fun - but don't be getting in trouble, arrested or blaming us (We would like to see the photographic evidence if this happens though ; D)


6) Let your imagination run free and tig! away - get as many people as you can, gather as much evidence as you can and tell us what you're getting up to

Once you're tigged!

1) Register your tig/tigs by completing any of the simple 'tasks' shown on tig! Blog Post e.g leave a comment, click to say you've been tigged / or tigged someone, share on twitter, click to claim Free Membership etc

2) Send any screenshots, photos or interesting tigs! (given or received) to us or post via twitter to @brassique or on facebook.com/brassique - we'll be sharing the best ones so make sure we can credit you for your genius / good looks / creative mischief.

Lets attempt an Unofficial World Record for the Biggest Game of Multi-Player Online tig! EVER.   


Spread the word, watch out for your 'tig!' and when 'YOU'RE IT' get tigging! others.  Start doing your stretches...it's going to be a big one!

Brassic-Lints -- The Virtual Barter Token Currency

Well hello there Bartering Beauties, Coster Guys, Gals and Supporters of the Brassique Cause!

Here's some more information on our delicious Barter-Token Currency 'BRASSIC-LINTS'.

Here we go...

These little dazzlers are perfect for Costers who need something to Barter with, meaning they can buy the Offereds they have their hearts set on if they have no worldly goods or skills to Barter.  Payment is processed by PayPal and the Brassic-Lints are bought via...you guessed it, the Brassic-Lint Exchange!

Brassic-Lints are a virtual token currency that allows you to buy real world things, top-up your Barter trade values and indulge in acquiring the things you love.  There's a bit of fun involved in buying them which will be revealed as you read on, oh yes.

Now then, you'll never be worse off for your real world money as £1 gets you 1BL.  1BL is worth £1.  Always.  Full stop.  We're British so we use the £ to set the value, but whatever currency you're buying in, the same principle applies anyway.  The worst you can end up with is the same as what you have - not bad really eh?!

All items are listed on Brassique showing their BL value / asking price which is equivalent to their good old GBP£ value.  So, if you see something listed for 10BL, you can buy 10BL's through the Exchange as shown below (although you get 10BL free when you sign anyway ; D).

Here comes the clever Costery bit...though each Brassic-Lint has a Fixed Value of £1 when used to Barter in Brassique, we can offer them at preferential Exchange Rates to our Costers.  How's about that then?!

Plus it's all top-secret Costery stuff...kind of like tapping the side of your nose a few times and giving a knowing wink...you don't know how much the others paid for the Brassic-Lints in their virtual pockets, but you know their worth - that's the important bit!


It could well be that you are better off for your Moolah! This is the fun bit; kind of like a game, keep your eyes peeled for better rates and pounce when you want.  It's all safe though as you'll never lose out anyway!

Examples to Cast your Peepers over...

In this example we have the Exchange Rate set at 0.75.  This means if you were to buy your 10BL at this time, you would get them for £7.50 instead of £10, saving you £2.50 - Kerching!  The Seller still receives 10BL which are worth £10.  Happy Buyer - Happy Seller!

Here's another example, and the cheekiest one we have.  Today the Rate is set at 0.50.  So guess what?!  You spy that thing for 10BL and buy your ten Tokens for the bargainacious price of £5.00.  That's doubling your money, or saving you 50% depending how you want to look at it...but either way, it's a winner!

And here's an example of Brassic-Lints in action with our lurvely Costers Claire and Dawn - it's quite a girly example we admit...sorry boys!

So, so, so, there you go.  We love our Brassic-Lints.  They're a spiffing little Barter option for our Costers and help keep the Brassique Economy ticking over.  Our Costers can then go on wheeling and dealing, Bartering them between each other and circulating them in our own Special Community.  Simples pimples.

We've more Brassic-Lint treats in store to be revealed in the future...naturally, our Costers will be the first to know!


Spot any mistakes or wonder what we were on when we wrote this? Please let us know and give us a shout - as nicely as possible of course - we're only human after all ; )

Pressie Giveaways - Winners Piccies!

Here's our Pressie Giveaway Winners so far... 


It just so happens that they're all Gorgeous Girlies and now Coster Gals too!


First up we have the Lovely @Samantha_2k of Samantha Robinson's Handmade Originals.  Here she is looking all fetching with her Handmade Diamond Jubilee Purse, made by fellowess Coster, and Talented Crafty Creator, Molly Coddles Kitchen.

The next lovely to send in her photo was this Foxy Coster Gal Kathryn aka @Kathroooon - Lover of Baby Owls and Blogger Extraordinairre.  She was the first winner of Brassique Inspired 'Miss Brassique' Necklace Made by the Delightful Jacqui Fisher (also a Coster Lovely and her jewellery is available here!)

*Disclaimer: We'd like to point out that though this star joined our Coster Collective shortly after receiving her Pressie, we didn't bribe her in any way, or put any magical potions in with her Necklace...honest!

Our next Necklace Giveaway was a special random draw for Costers, to show our appreciation for their support in helping us get to 500 Followers on Twitter.  Spookily, this went to the Delightful Artist @Idreamof___ aka Anya Keeley...we say spookily as she'd only just spoken about her desire to win.

She has great intution this one, and we're not entirely sure she didn't cast a Costery Spell on us!  We love her though and she was a very well deserved winner indeed!

Here we have our Beautiful Coster Louisa aka @elemdi on twitter.  This lovely has been a wonderous support to Brassique and our Miss Brassique from the start.  We're sure Coster Karma played a role in the Pressie Winners so far and this cutesy head only goes to prove it!  Not that we can see her head here...but we can see her very pretty nails...Oh la la ; D

Our other deserved winner of a Jubilee Purse was Vintage Vixen & Fashionable Foxy Lady, Angela from The Lady Bug Chronicles.  We were delighted (and slightly jealous) to receive this special photo of her and her lovely purse in New York City

The second exciting installment of TheLadybugC and her Purse's adventure was this beautiful image and accompanying message:

"Uncle Sam secretly asked me where I got my

 @molly_coddles Jubilee purse from.Now he wants to enter @Brassique giveaways"

That is everyone so far; we'll keep adding photos as we receive them : D  Thank everyone for taking part! It's lovely to see you all with your Pressies and show off the work of the Talented Lovelies who've made them!

We love Pressies us!  Still plenty more up for grabs.  Please see the Blog Post for further details and more links to the people who've made the gorgeous stuff we give away!

'Buying' and 'Selling' Barterplace Stylee

'Buying' & 'Selling' within Brassique's Virtual Walls 


If you have no possessions or skills to Barter with, need to top-up your Swap Offerings worth or 'pay' for a loaned item, that's no problem!  Here's where our Barter Tokens work their magic.


We're keeping it really simple here...we'll be explaining more of the fancy stuff in another post dedicated solely to the Brassic-Lint Barter Token.

Our Miss Brassique's got her Pennies at the ready and's all set for Barter Indulgence! That's all she talks about nowadays...a true Swagaholic that one!




Costers Cwtches x

Offereds and Desireds - Listing on Brassique

We're all about Coveted Things

Brassique is the place to Barter Coveted Things.  This is quite a broad brush of a category, different strokes for different folks and all that, but it means we're not about tat.  

We term Coveted Things as Delectables – generally gorgeous, desirable and / or useful items such as clothing, jewellery, accessories, furniture and technological gadgetry; Collectables – including antiques, vintage and retro pieces; Handmades – this one’s kind of obvious we think....handmade items, and last but not least, Skills – particular talents and skills people can use to barter with.

Listing your Wares and Seeking Treasures

Costers have two ways to Barter items in Brassique, as ‘Offereds’ or as ‘Desireds’.  All items are listed and displayed with their Barter-Token Value which is a ‘£1 GBP = 1 Barter-Token’ equivalent. For example, an item deemed to be worth £35 in ‘the real-world’ is listed for 35 Barter-Tokens in Brassique’s World. 

Your Offereds List will contain the things you are offering for Barter.  They can be listed as For Sale (for your chosen Barter-Token amount), Available for Swap, Hire or Open to Offers.  Multiple options can be selected.

Your Desireds List contains the things you’re searching for and how you wish to acquire them, Buy, Swap, Loan or Open to Offers.  Once again, any combination of these options can be used.  This allows Bartering Costers to achieve the finest deal, by trading in the way that suits them both best.

Hey-ho and away we go...that should've covered the Coveted Things Brassique is designed for Bartering and how our Costers will go about their business for now...Next Post will be "'Buying' and 'Selling' the Barterplace Way".


Pip, Pip, Cheerio! 

The Workings of Brassique's Economy

Here is how the Barterplace Economy Works - Explained to you via the medium of Modern Dance...

No not really! Some Visual Imagery and a few words too ; D 

The Barterplace Way is one of Bartering Coveted Things: 

* Buying and Selling for Barter Tokens *

* Swapping for Things You Want *

* Sharing Things You Have *

* Promoting the Things You Love *


Brassique's economy is one of trading possessions and skills, alongside Brassique’s very own Barter Tokens, instead of using money.  Members use their Talents and Possessions as a form of Currency. 


By trading the things they no longer need, Savvy Barterers get the things they want, or reap rewards from the clever and wonderful stuff they can do.  We use the terms 'Buying' and 'Selling' to replicate the 'real world' ways, though Barter-Tokens change hands rather than money.  Exchanging one thing for another...that's the Barter Way!

It's a constant cycle of Bartering Possessions, Skills and Tokens to get ourselves the Things we want...those much talked about Coveted Things!  

Spot any mistakes or wonder what we were on when we wrote this? Shout at us - as nicely as possible of course - we're only human after all ; )