A very ugly secret…

Dec 20, 2010

This indus­try that so many of us love and work very hard to make money at with our ideas and classes has a very ugly secret. This indus­try has some in it that will make deals and not fol­low through. This indus­try has peo­ple in it who send nasty emails to artists accus­ing them of untruths.

Why do we as artists allow such treat­ment? Is it fear of ruf­fling feath­ers among the fol­low­ers of these peo­ple? From now on I will not allow this… if my truths ruf­fle feath­ers well I am sorry, some­times it is hard to accept peo­ple for whom and what they are. Their fol­low­ers need to real­ize and accept it as well and be thank­ful that they have been saved from such treat­ment from these peo­ple as even­tu­ally it will hap­pen to them too. Peo­ple who do not stick to their word and end up mak­ing money off of other artists should really look within and they too need to accept the per­son they are… uneth­i­cal thieves. Those who do not stick to their word or fol­low through on promises are not wor­thy of being in this indus­try. This indus­try is filled with won­der­ful artists that want to share their craft with oth­ers but the ugli­ness that comes from some makes it hard for some to want to con­tinue in this industry.

When will we as artist’s band together and stop allow­ing each other to be treated so badly? We need to band together now and stop this treat­ment. We can hold those account­able with­out fear of reper­cus­sion espe­cially if we band together. We can help oth­ers from going through what we have been dealt by those that are uneth­i­cal in this industry.

I have per­son­ally been sent email from a per­son who tried to bully me. Then come to find out this very same per­son did the same thing to sev­eral other artist friends. This per­son seems to be very into send­ing the so called nasty grams. I never replied and took this per­son for what she was… intim­i­dated. Let me just say I will never let that hap­pen again. If this per­son is big enough to send a nasty gram I hope she is big enough to deal with being revealed as I will reveal her. I still have the email she sent me on Jan­u­ary 1, 2009. I will not take this treat­ment ever again and I hope other artists will take this stand with me today, right now and forever.

I recently dis­cov­ered this same per­son who sent me a nasty gram is not going to pay artists in full for work per­formed that she prof­ited from. Thank­fully, all the com­pa­nies I have worked for have been pro­fes­sional and have always paid me in full for my ser­vices. If I were part of this tal­ented group of artists, I would do my best to get all those involved to band together, request pay­ment in full and accept no excuses on why pay­ment can­not be given. You tal­ented group of artists did your part. You kept your end of the deal and now you should be com­pen­sated as agreed upon. If pay­ment is not given, you as a group need to out this per­son and spare oth­ers who will be dealt the same fate in the future.

This per­son is the first one to jump in and accuse peo­ple of copy­ing her. Well let me just say I have dis­cov­ered items that she has “designed” that I know were copied first hand by cre­at­ing her pat­tern using two images I saw in Anthro­polo­gie not that long ago. As soon as I saw these two images I knew instantly she was heav­ily inspired by the designs I saw in Anthro­polo­gie. There is no doubt she copied these two designs it is that obvi­ous. Did she give credit for her inspi­ra­tion, of course not? Oh you copy cat you. You should be so ashamed of your­self. But you should be even more ashamed of your­self for not pay­ing these artists for all the hard work they did so you would be suc­cess­ful. So you can pat your­self on the back for a job well done… so you can bask in all the glory. Shame on YOU!

And to think you con­sider your­self a Chris­t­ian woman. Being a Chris­t­ian is some­thing you prac­tice year round not just on Easter and Christ­mas. I hope you and your fam­ily have a won­der­ful Christ­mas, I really do and while you sit in Mass on Christ­mas Eve, I hope you reflect on those peo­ple you cheated out of $1,000’s of dol­lars. These peo­ple, who most likely could use and were count­ing on that money this hol­i­day sea­son, while you and your fam­ily open up all your won­der­ful gifts I hope you reflect on those you did not pay and won­der just how they paid for their Christ­mas gifts. Shame on YOU!

I say to you artists never stop try­ing to get your money. You earned it. You did your part and now YOU SHOULD BE PAID in FULL!
Good luck to you all. Band together, stand strong and make this per­son do what is right!


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  • http://kj-starre.blogspot.com Kim Wat­son

    Lisa…I am so sorry to read that you have expe­ri­enced some­thing so hurt­ful at the hand of a fel­low scrap­booker. Kudos to you for shar­ing your feel­ings & talk­ing about this..from expe­ri­ence, talk­ing brings heal­ing.
    I hope your courage will inspire oth­ers who have suf­fered at ‘her’ hand to do the same.

    I hope the truth will shake loose what is owed to you.
    Strength to you.
    ~Kim

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks, Kim. I do hope I have given those who have been treated poorly the strength to stand up for themselves.

  • http://saturdayfinds.blogspot.com Diane

    Wow~ Lisa this sounds just ter­ri­ble, please do let me know who to watch out for. I have had things of mine copied in the past and the gal then sum­mited the “cre­ation” to one of Som­er­set pub­li­ca­tions. I did con­front her and she just lashed back at me and I did not get any sup­port from oth­ers no one wanted to get involved. It’s hap­pened more then once and it’s just shame­ful. I own your book and I love your work. I sure hope this group of artist do band together and let it be known who this per­son is so no one else gets burned. ~ Diane

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      I’m sorry to read you have had issues to Diane. So sad. I’m so glad you like my book.

  • http://www.erinyamabe.com Erin Yam­abe

    Hi Lisa,
    I am so very sorry you have been so mis­treated. I too, had an expe­ri­ence that I have for­given, but will never for­get. I pray that you find peace and am very proud that you are stand­ing up for your­self.
    It deeply sad­dens me know­ing that in this indus­try we all love so dearly, this kind of thing goes on ALL TOO OFTEN!
    much love and prayer,
    Erin

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks Erin. I’m so sorry you too have been mis­treated. It is all so sad.

  • http://brownpaperpackaging.blogspot.com Dee Dee Roe

    I don’t really know what to say. I am so sorry this hap­pened to you and oth­ers weren’t paid for their work. :(

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks DeeDee.

  • http://ccundy.blogspot.com Char4355

    I am so sorry Lisa…This is ter­ri­ble! I have had ideas stolen from a well known per­son who I’m sure has made .…alot of money! I know the hurt and the anger it has caused. No acknowl­eg­ment, no nothing…but it is what it is and I have leaned from it. There was no momey involved as they just took off on my idea but it still hurts.

    So, that being said I hope these artists DO band together to stop this per­son from being so hurt­ful and mean…there is no room in this indus­try for some­one like that.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      I’m so sorry Char. I really do feel if we all band together we can make a dif­fer­ence. Hugs

  • http://www.scrapbook-trends.com Nathalie Kalbach

    oh no– I’m so sorry to hear this– I hope this per­son will pay and stop doing the stuff she does. I have had ter­ri­ble expe­ri­ences in this indus­try with pay­ments too and it such a bad and sad exe­ri­ence — because in my cases it were those that acted up the most friendly and trust­wor­thy bussi­ness part­ners that later on didn’t hold their word.
    I wish you a won­der­ful Christmas!!!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Sadly Nathalie I have found myself stay­ing clear of those that act all too friendly and overly trust­wor­thy. Usu­ally in the end you are the one who gets burned in the end. Wish­ing you a won­der­ful Christ­mas too.

  • Jen

    Dear Lisa:

    I am a very big believer in stand­ing by those who seek to do right. I’m not an artist but am por­ing over web­sites and mak­ing many pur­chases to exper­i­ment with art jour­nal­ing and mixed media. I would be very inter­ested in learn­ing who to avoid (and, cer­tainly who to sup­port) while pro­ceed­ing in art with integrity. It hasn’t gone unno­ticed that you’ve been kind enough not to use the artist’s name. The power of art and the impor­tance of hon­esty and integrity are so rarely given their due and I would like to only stand behind prac­ti­tion­ers of both. Merry Christmas!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks for the kind words Jen. If you ever have any ques­tions with tech­niques please feel free to email me and I will do my best to help you out. Art is won­der­ful. Merry Christmas!

  • Jen­nifer Boehme

    Good for you Lisa!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks Jen­nifer.

  • Lin­da­So­nia

    Yikes! Some­times ugly secrets need to be brought out into the light — per­haps this per­son NEEDS to be exposed. So sorry, but not entirely sur­prised, that these uneth­i­cal prac­tices are occur­ring that cause hurt to oth­ers. I am not an artist, but have read blog posts from artists speak­ing to this very thing. It’s truly unfortunate.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      You are right, it is truly unfor­tu­nate. But hope­fully 2011 the guilty ones will begin to real­ize uneth­i­cal prac­tices will not be tolerated.

  • http://apeacefulplacetobe.blogspot.com Lisa

    Although I am not in this indus­try I have met many peo­ple in it over the past year and unfor­tu­nately know exactly what you are talk­ing about. I’ve seen a cou­ple friends come up with orig­i­nal ideas only to have some­one else (two big names in par­tic­u­lar) take the ideas as their own and profit from it. I think you are right — these peo­ple need to be exposed.
    I’m a strong believer in karma and these peo­ple will get theirs — believe me.
    Please don’t let this put a dark cloud on your hol­i­day. You are so incred­i­bly talented!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Lisa I too am a strong believer in Karma and hope to see the guilty ones get theirs. Thank you for your kind words.

  • Bren­daE

    Wow! this is the sec­ond type post­ing I have read recently regard­ing steal­ing of another’s work. I didn’t real­ize there were so many prob­lems in the world of art. It makes you almost not even want to post any­thing you do for fear of being accused of steal­ing. Yikes — I hope every­thing works out for you Lisa as I do love your art and I have pur­chased your book which I just adore. Regard­less of what­ever it is I wish you and yours a very Merry Christ­mas and just want you to know how much I appre­ci­ate you shar­ing your art with the world.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Yes Brenda it does make you not want to post any­thing online but artists love to share their work with oth­ers as well as help encour­age those to find their artis­tic pas­sion. I feel every­one has it and see­ing peo­ple blos­som in art is so reward­ing. I am so glad you like my book. Happy cre­at­ing and Merry Christ­mas to you too.

  • Tina Collins

    Kud­dos to you for speak­ing out!! You are extremely tal­ented. What goes around comes around!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks Tina. I do believe in Karma and it is going to hit some in a not so nice way.

  • http://texasscrapaddict.blogspot.com Txscra­pad­dict

    I had a sim­i­lar expe­ri­ence sev­eral years ago. A shop owner in fact, that is STILL open. I per­formed work, cre­ated projects for her, sent them to her. She used the ideas for classes that she taught around the coun­try and then had the gall to tell me.…..when called on the car­pet about non pay­ment, that she con­sid­ered what I had done for her infe­rior work and didn’t feel it nec­es­sary to pay me. I even­tu­ally got the major­ity of pay­ment. Some of my project were even returned to me.…they had been destroyed. Some of my projects I never saw again, but heard through oth­ers they were still on dis­play in her store, at scrap­ping events and were still being used as the basis for classes from which she prof­ited nicely.
    So good for you for stand­ing your ground. May you have a Blessed hol­i­day season.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      So sorry to read this. I have heard of this hap­pen­ing all too many a time. Good for you for get­ting the major­ity of what was due to you. Wish­ing you all the best this hol­i­day season.

  • patti

    Just wanted to say good for you and remem­ber karma is a bitch and she will get you when you least expect it.

    Love and miss you, have a won­der­ful hol­i­day season.

    patti

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Hi Patti, I hope to see or hear she got a good case of Karma that has been due her for quite some time. Miss and love you too. Merry Christmas

  • http://www.whatsnextnancy.blogspot.com Nancy C

    “Ditto” every­one else’s com­ments here. I, too, have heard sim­i­lar words from a cou­ple of other artists. Between karma & the cliche of “what goes around comes around”, we can hope the per­son you’re speak­ing of gets hers, soon. And, like oth­ers here, I too wish I knew your “who” so as to avoid them, but under­stand that you must pro­tect your­self, too.
    Sad, truly sad… The energy used to do wrong by any­one, could do so much good if used in bet­ter ways.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Nancy, I will never under­stand why some decide to use their energy to do wrong by oth­ers when they could do so much good instead. This has always puz­zled me. It is so much eas­ier to be nice.

  • http://www.mintycustom.com greg minty

    I know how you feel, its awful. Sol­dier on. Tomor­row will reap many more rewards for you.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks, Greg.

  • http://www.mintycustom.com greg minty

    oh and thank you for teach­ing me how to tie a gift bow!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      LOL… you are so wel­come. They are so easy once you know the trick!

  • http://dinastamps.typepad.com Dina

    Despi­ca­ble. I’ll never under­stand the nas­ti­ness and the evil that is in this industry.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Me either, Dina. It is amaz­ing. But I am deter­mined to make it better.

  • http://cain81art.blogspot.com Linda Cain

    The more I see of the indus­try, the less I like it. Peo­ple want to be treated fairly, but don’t seem to real­ize it when they’ve done some­thing hurt­ful to some­one else. Say they’ll do some­thing and then totally blow it off. Like Patti said “Karma is a Bitch!” I love it.
    I’ve had expe­ri­ences sev­eral times, and it’s amaz­ing how “they” have the gaul to think they are the ones who’ve been wronged.

    Hang in there, and stick to your guns. Seems to be a lot of this going around lately in the blogs. There are still some great peo­ple out there to work with. I’m lucky to have found them.

    Have a won­der­ful Christ­mas and know you’re not alone in this!

    Linda

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks, Linda. Sadly I know I am not alone on this one. Wish­ing you a Merry Christmas.

  • Cathy

    I am sorry that this or these dis-honest peo­ple have hurt you.…. Blow it off Lisa, they’re not worth the stress. I do think that some peo­ple copy for their own profit. Some­times maybe two peo­ple can have the same idea? One just beat it to the punch? I don’t know?
    Go on Cre­at­ing Lisa, I too own your book and have taken a few of your classes. I love your work. Your inspi­ra­tion is a great joy to me and my scrap­pin girl friends. Thank you for shar­ing.
    Merry Christmas.…I think you should reveal this per­son and put them in their place. They know who they are.…… Karma will get you!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks, Cathy. I’m so glad you enjoy my work, book and work­shops. I love shar­ing that is for sure. Wish­ing you a Merry Christmas.

  • http://threeguysandagirlmlnv.blogspot.com/ Patti Hutchin­son

    Lisa.…I just wanted to give you some hugs and sup­port. You are the bet­ter per­son for this and “she” will get hers!

    Have a very Merry Christmas!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks, Patti. Merry Christ­mas to you too.

  • Susan

    It is sad, but true, that there are uneth­i­cal peo­ple in the world. For those artists, like your­self, I’m sorry that these type of peo­ple cross your path. I appre­ci­ate you shar­ing your art and cre­ative spirit. It is so inspi­ra­tional to peo­ple, like myself. I do hope that those artists are com­pen­sated for their work because it’s the right thing to do. How­ever, if they don’t receive com­pen­sa­tion, just remember.…what goes around comes around and I wouldn’t want to be on the receiv­ing end of “karma” for the per­son who has acted in such an uneth­i­cal manner.

    Merry Christ­mas and Happy Hol­i­days to you!!! :)

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      I hope so too Susan. They all worked so hard and deserve every sin­gle penny they earned. I love to share my art and will always do so. I know Karma will get those that acted in an uneth­i­cal man­ner. Merry Christ­mas and Happy Hol­i­days to you too.

  • Donna C

    This is hor­ri­ble! I trust peo­ple until they give me a rea­son not too and it sounds like she’s given you and other thou­sands of them! I am dis­ap­pointed how­ever that you have not shared who this is. I hate to un know­ingly sup­pOrr dis­hon­est peo­ple. Please let those of us who need to know pri­vately.
    I have always admired your gen­er­ous giv­ing spirit and it’s dis­gust­ing to hear you have been treated like this. Hugs and Merry Christ­mas to you and the family.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Yes Donna she has given many peo­ple rea­son not to trust her. Hugs and Merry Christ­mas to you and your fam­ily too.

  • Clau­dia

    The only way these peo­ple or even any dis­hon­est per­son gets away with these things is because their name is not put out there. I betcha if his/her name were out there… they wouldnt be doing it any­more and there would be a lot of loss in sales and respect for that per­son!
    I am all about stand­ing up for the right thing. As long as you know you are 250% cor­rect in all your state­ments, and know there are no direct repur­cus­sions for you then out with the name, busi­ness, etc…
    I agree, karma is a bitch and Ive seen it unfold in the ugli­est of ways, but out­ing a per­son for dis­hon­esty espe­cially in the artis­tic world where it is hard to copy­right any­thing is bet­ter than sweet karma!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Oh I’m sure if her name was out there she would not be doing pulling such stunts. She is all about image, at least I think so. Even­tu­ally her name will come out peo­ple are not going to con­tinue to put up with this kind of treat­ment. That will be sweet Karma for sure.

  • http://tammytutterow.typepad.com Tammy Tut­terow

    I know all too well the type of thing you are talk­ing about.
    I will never under­stand why some peo­ple have to cre­ate ugli­ness in some­thing that should just be about joy.
    {hugs} I hope you know I think the world of you!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      It is sad isn’t it Tammy. I think the world of you too.

  • SuZeQ

    I am so sorry to read your words. You’re right — it’s an ugly secret. I kind of wish you would have revealed her name right here and now. Not that I am curi­ous, but only so that her name would be out there. She deserves it. Unfor­tu­nately your words will prob­a­bly go right over her head and she’ll think it’s some­body else that wronged you — cer­tainly NOT HER.

    Jan­u­ary 1, 2009 … what a great way she started off her year by send­ing you a nasty gram. A New Year’s Resolution?

    I just don’t under­stand peo­ple like her. Ugly. Con­niv­ing. Deceit­ful. Mean.

    I had a woman pull out her cell phone and take pic­tures of an album I cre­ated — every sin­gle page. She did this when I was away from the table (at a scrap­book store) — when I returned, she only had a few pages left and just con­tin­ued on. It took me a few sec­onds to real­ize what she was doing — I was so flab­berghasted, I never said a word — too stunned to speak! The worst part? She taught classes at the store we were in. I waited and waited to see if she would ever teach my album but it never has hap­pened — yet! The store went out of busi­ness but LSS open up all the time in Dal­las and I’m just wait­ing. So, on your last note of advice, I will band together, stand strong and make this per­son do what is right should it ever hap­pen to me again.

    Thank you for writ­ing about this — I’m just sorry you are still feel­ing pain. My hope is that she read your words and real­izes it’s her you’re talk­ing about. Now go have a cup of egg nog and cel­e­brate the season!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      WOW… peo­ple cer­tainly can flab­ber­gast you for sure. Peo­ple are amaz­ing I tell ya. Happy Hol­i­days… I love egg nog.

  • Shel­ley Haganman

    Lisa I am so very sorry to hear this! How awful! I too believe that peo­ple like this will get what they deserve! Hang in there and keep cre­at­ing because YOU inspire us and your good­ness inspires us too! Lots of hugs!

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks Shel­ley… YOU inspire me! I love your work.

  • http://stolenmomentsinn.com Susie Moore

    Lisa,

    I hope you are able to rest well tonight because you have done the right thing today. Peo­ple should not be per­mit­ted to steal and get away with it. Shame on this per­son. Not only has she hurt an hon­est and forth­right per­son (you), but is cheat­ing other peo­ple too. So sad.

    She prob­a­bly doesn’t even real­ize that the per­son she has cheated most is her­self. Per­haps she is cre­ative and could come up with new ideas — but it is eas­ier to steal. So maybe she will not even be able to reach where she could have reached had she been hon­est. Talk about karma!

    Sleep well and try to put this out of your mind for now. You are such a won­der­ful per­son and you do not deserve this. I wish you and your fam­ily a safe and happy hol­l­i­day together.

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thank you Susie. Happy Hol­i­days to you too.

  • A. San­born

    Sounds –ALL– to famil­iar… from non-payment of ser­vices to the CHRISTIAN val­ues pol­luted with JUSTIFICATION for their choices in being dis­hon­est! This gives my GOD a blackeye!

    Pre­pare your­self… some of those so called “artist” friends who so admire and loved you prior to your stand for TRUTH will aban­don you, dis­tance them­selves as their need for climb­ing the lad­der of suc­cess in this busi­ness means more –UNTIL– it hap­pens to them! I’m still treated as a pariah amongst some of the whos who in the rub­ber stamp indus­try! Unfor­tu­nately I decided to aban­don blog­ging and the thing that gave me such joy with my bit­ter­ness! KARMA is a bitch as this com­pany WENT UNDER! Their so CHRISTIAN they used CHRIST­mas to send a HAPPY HOLIDAYS let­ter in the attempt to sell the remains of their defunct com­pany! YES, they send even the ones they’ve burned a let­ter… remem­ber the word JUSTIFICATION!

    Stay strong, DO NOT let this DAMAGE you! I can under­stand your DESIRE to strip them for all to see, but what will this do to YOU and your VALUES if you do? {{{{ HUGS }}}} You will rise from the ashes!

    Merry Christ­mas & ALL things won­der­ful in the New Year,
    {-AS-}

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Thanks and I am sorry you have had to deal with uneth­i­cal peo­ple too. So sad. I will cer­tainly stand strong do not worry. Merry Christmas

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  • char­ity hassel

    ice­burg, meet tip– While there are many won­der­ful peo­ple and com­pa­nies in the indus­try… Lisa, there are count­less man­u­fac­tur­ers as well as indi­vid­u­als who are more than will­ing to use designer’s time, tal­ent, ideas, work and name to pro­mote them­selves only to not pay what was out­lined in a con­tract when it comes time to pay up. It’s a sad, inex­cus­able way to run a busi­ness and to behave as an indi­vid­ual. One such com­pany finally paid what was owed to me, but I know they owe many other peo­ple. It’s frus­trat­ing because if you say some­thing pub­li­cally you like like a crazy per­son, it’s often not enough money to file a small claim suit or breach of con­tract. Also, I found the head peo­ple of these com­pa­nies very dif­fi­cult to reach. I actu­ally had to look up the home phone num­bers of one man­u­fac­turer and called every month for at least 6 months before I was finally paid! It was embar­ras­ing, a waste of my time and frus­trat­ing. I’m sorry this hap­pened to you and to be bul­lied in an email after all your hard work must be infuriating.

  • http://www.shabbychiccrafts.com Veron­ica

    I agree 100% with you Lisa!

    I had some­thing sim­i­lar with another tag maker. For some odd rea­son she thinks she owns cer­tain designs. SUCH as, scal­loped cir­cles. Love­birds and hearts. lol

    She got nasty, I got nasty back.

    She is sup­pose to be a Chris­t­ian. She has a slew of fol­low­ers and I’m pretty sure if they saw her GREED, they would stop following.

    It’s GREED. Greed for fame. Greed for money. Greed!
    It’s sad…so sad.
    I can under­stand, when a per­son is unsat­is­fied with their life, they find joy in knock­ing oth­ers down. Try­ing so des­per­ately to hold on to the power of some­thing.
    DON’T allow that per­son to have that!

    Veron­ica

  • http://www.scrapitgirl.com Scrap It Girl

    I had to reread this sev­eral times, sorry to hear what hap­pened. I am not an artist but I teach scrapbooking/stamping classes in my home town & I have an ex-crafting friend who has sent me hate­ful emails and accused me of not being a good friend because of the oppor­tu­ni­ties I was receiv­ing, (jealous-girl) She made up stuff to try to hurt me and I see her all over the blogs, fake as can be. A friend of hers is an artist and copies other artists work all the time.. yet she is the first one to accuse oth­ers of copy­ing her.. some­day it’ll catch up to her, I do try to avoid the 2 of them on blogs which is sad, but I am hap­pier to not have either of them in my life. It’s sad that all of us hon­est crafters just want to sup­port each other & we want to share this won­der­ful craft with each other but then there are the few other women who want to go through life hurt­ing oth­ers, steal­ing ideas, and being hate­ful instead of being sup­port­ive and happy.

  • http://paperroses.typepad.com/paper_roses/ Chrys Rose

    It just dis­gusts me what this indus­try can turn out such ugly peo­ple. It can get so bad that there are times i’ve thought of just giv­ing it up and “retir­ing”. But then I just shel­ter myself in my own lit­tle spot in the world and do what I love. Cre­ate. Whether I share it with oth­ers or whether it’s just for me, I will just keep cre­at­ing and doing my own thing. There are sev­eral dif­fer­ent manufacturer’s and sev­eral dif­fer­ent “celebs/leaders” in this indus­try that I will not at alll asso­ciate with. It’s good to keep your eyes and ears open. (btw, I’ve found such com­fort in the quilt­ing world!) :) Have a merry Christmas!