I may have been raised in Ontario, but I was born in rural Saskatchewan and I am, therefore, very familiar with the teenage dairy pastime of cow-tipping. When Ascender Rises Above left me a note to say I was the most recent recipient of some blog-tipping on her part I was worried, to say the least. Even to those who have never heard of cow-tipping must agree it cannot be a pleasant experience for the poor cow, so I held my breath, steeled myself and followed the link.

To my delighted surprise I found the experience to be much less unsettling than would a overturned cow. Blog-tipping is closer to hat-tipping than cow-tipping. Ascender makes it a habit of giving a “shout out” and awarding a Thinking Blogger award to three blogs each month that have caught her eye and I was fortunate enough to be one of them. As Ascender explains, according to Business Blogwire, “Blogtipping is where you publish a blog post in which you link to three blogs that make you think.” Apparently, you also get a link in Business Blogwire if you let them know about it.

The rules for blogtipping and a thinking blogger award are (summarized): 1. When you get tagged, write a post with links to 3 blogs that make you think 2. Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to this post so that people can easily find the origin of the blog that you enjoy. Easy enough, here we go:

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The original list I had was a consolidation of my blog list and Lis Kidder’s blog list. Then I found the list jointly created by Indiscretion and Moth to Flame, so we decided to consolidate, and Moth to Flame went through both lists and manually checked for differences and adjusted the lists (wow, by the way). The result is this HUGE list and I am very grateful to Lis Kidder, Indiscretion and Moth to Flame for all the hard work they have done joining the Etsy community through our collective weblog ramblings. Moth to flame is now managing the list, but if you leave a comment to add your blog on here I will pass it on and make sure you get added on.

The list, now newly expanded, can still be found here: The Etsy Blog List

There are an astounding number of Etsy sellers that hail from the Great North, so we have set up a web ring to connect the blogs of as many current or former Canadians as we can. The idea is to help generate traffic to your blogs (and hopefully, your stores) and to help us all keep updated with each other’s busy lives. It will help make this huge land a little smaller.

If you are a Canadian Etsy seller, feel free to join the ring and add your blog to the roll. Please submit blogs only at this time, but feel free to recommend fellow Canucks to join us. Please make sure you also check out the Etsy Canadian Shops List and the Etsy Sellers Blog List posted on this site and verify your shop and your blog are on these lists.

You can find many of us daily in the Canadian Buy/Sell Party in the Promotions and Critiques section of the Etsy Forums, and we always want to hear from you. You can also check out the Canadian Street Team – The Trans Canada Etsy Team – on the blog and the flickr group.

To join the ring, click here. For instructions on how to join, or for details about what a blog ring is, click here.