Has it been awhile??

Has it been awhile or what? It has! Seems like things around the net had calmed down and everyone went back to their merry little lives, but man was I wrong! It seems that piracy is again on the rise, and in none other than a little group on google known as Rise of The Rebels. these people are right out there sending tubes of every known artist, scrap kit, commercial use stuff, hell gathering everything they can to share. Questions is, when will the big baddies come out to play and drag these people across the muck like they did before? Makes you wonder!! Until next time, good day!

Life goes on

Well, again everything is quiet in the world of digi scrapping. Looks like the ole bark side just came out of retirement to harrass Michelle H, and that really didn't seem to go very far as it seemed many people kept veering off on other topics and other people. Michelles store is still there and full of people, so she kept right on trudging forward and let this mess roll right off her back. Granted, I don't approve of what she did to other store owners, but what can you do about it? Not much.

I have heard and seen some very tricky and rather annoying emails going around about some new blog that wants to "showcase" stores, designers, and store policies and views on everything from sales, new designers, to piracy, and if you ask me, the questions they pose on their so called, "interview" are very misleading as they start off nice, and then end with all sorts of prying into your "views" on what punishment a designer should receive for piracy, should you verify all your designers have legal copies of their software, and even asking you to give them names of designers and groups that share stuff!!

Now does that sound like an interview to you or is that fishing for information? I'll have to snag a copy of the questions for you and post them so you can judge for yourself what the deal is. I myself think it is downright as rude and nasty as the ole darkside and other smack blogs have been in trashing everything and everyone.

Oh well, life does go on and we await the opening of the next smack blog with baited breath, however I don't think it will do much good because it seems people are just not as interested anymore in the "in your face smackdowns" that a few people have done. Til another day peoples, I'm off to rest and have some tea.

All is quiet it seems again

Well, looks like the masses just don't have the same interest they did in virtual blood anymore, lol I think these things go in cycles, like trends. One comes in, another goes out and it just keeps going around and around. Only difference is, the second time around not as many people follow the trend!

I'm not in very much these days because there just isn't much newsworthy to talk about. It's all the same old stuff, repeats if you will of the same drivel spouted before.

I have however gottena huge kick out of reading the comments, lol you people have got some imagination as well as a mouth a sailor would be proud of!

Once again, I find the need to remind you, I'm NOT Drama Queen, I don't know who she is, and frankly, I don't care. If this girl had a store and didn't pay you, then don't come here accosting me, because that has nothing to do with me, lol far from it! One of these days some of you will reach over your heads and pull that chain that turns the light on and you will see that not every freaking shadow that flashes across the wall is what or whom you think it is. It does get tiresome reading those accusatory emails demanding your money, when I don't even know who you are much less why I'd owe you money. lol Frankly, I think you'd be beter off filing a complaint with the better bsuiness bureau or with the stores domain host you have a beef with, they'll help find the woman you are after ebcause it sure as hell isn't me. lol

Now I'm off to breakfast and then cocoa and a much needed nap. Perhaps you ought to do the same.

Offering my thoughts

as if you really want to hear them.

Allow me to say that yes, I have been away, in and out of the hospital due to ongoing problems with premature labor pains. And yes, I have seen the numerous posts of those who doubt I'm pregnant, and those who have some twisted idea I'm drama queen. I'm NOT her, but you all will continously believe whatever your twisted little minds want to believe, so it really doesn't matter now does it?

I've read through all your comments, and I just want to say that some of you are pretty messed up in the head, and for the one single individual who keeps lurking here for hours and posting when someone else responds, do you have nothing better to do than sit there? I logged your IP in for 9 hours already! And what is even weirder, you have answered yourself three times! Do you have a split personality or something? Go back over to that other blog and sit for awhile where you obviously came from since the referal link goes right back there too!

In response to darkside coming back, I have to agree that I don't believe they have been a private blog all this time, simply because word of it would have spread like wildfire if it had still exisited, and why would they have posted their adorable little welciome back message if they had been private? Wouldn't it have been better to remain as such so none of the people talked about knew what was being said behind their backs?

The fact remains that these women who started that blog are vicious little dogs who like nothing better than stirring trouble. Otherwise why bother coming over here to announce themselves? My little opinion blog is small fish compared to what they have done in the past and probably will try to do in the future! They came over here to post their welcome back simply to drive traffic back to their site so they can bitch and moan again. But the way I see it, not many people are flocking over there to read like they were before. I think most people have gotten wise and learned to take what they read with a grain of salt instead of believing it outright.

Bottom line remains, people are going to be vicious backstabbers no matter what we do or think, and there is always going to be a school ground bully around somewhere.

I don't blame nemesis for taking her blog private, why would she want some other blog coming there and starting trouble? If the darkside came there and posted like they did here, then she did the right thing.

In closing, people get a life or something, take a walk, do something constructive. Stop believing everything you see as fact, and stop believing you know who everyone is or their reasons behind their actions. Leave the taggers and scrappers alone, it isn't your responsibility to be judge, jury and executioner.

What does it take

for people to sit back and think about what is going on around them? And for that matter why is everyone so adamant that AK is innocent in all this? Somehow I think the people opening paypal tickets against her as well as all those who are coming forward with similar experinces must have truth to it all, otherwise why would they all be commenting about what they have lost to this woman?

Oh, wait, I get it, everyone must be in on it! It's a conspiracy to take down one woman! It must be! Why else would everyone secrectly ban together and decide to ruin her? Damn, I missed out. Maybe I should learn how to make something so I can say I was taken in too and be in on the game!

Wake up morons! People who have dealt with her first hand can't all be conspiring against her surely they must be right!

And these constant changes in the story are hilarious. First off, she closed it, then opened it again, then it was hacked, then it is sold? HAHAH Hilarious! Which is it? It can't be all of them!

I always try and speak FOR those who have been wronged, and for the taggers and scrap taggers, because they need a place to fit in the design world too, and funny thing is you don't see the traditional scrappers out there bitching, just the taggers! Goes to show you the bad side of things doesn't it?

Either way, people stop bitching at me because of this mess, I didn't make it, lol And I have only spoken the truth about things I have SEEN with my own eyes, not here say.

Get a life of your own and a hobby for petes sake, lol

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

In defense of tag scrappers

Ok, I have followed all the drama of course. What else am I to do while confined to the couch, lol

I'm gonna weigh in on my thoughts about all this mess. First off, tag scrappers. I don't think everyone should be calling them names, or saying they cannot design, because honestly some of the tag scrappers have gorgeous kits, and they meet the need of the taggers out there who want the kits to use, so therefore in my mind, tag scrappers have as much right to be called designers as traditional scrappers do. For that matter, the tag scrappers have to make their kits full size and resize them especially for the tagger to use, and some of them actually sell both sides, and make good money at doing it.

So to be so harsh in your comments about tag scrappers is wrong. Give them a break, they design, they design with the tagger in mind and just because some of you would not buy a tagger kit, doesn't mean someone else feels the same.

Now then, on to the rest of the drama. I've seen the mess about Amanda, and now the comments about Amber, and if some of you remember a few weeks ago I posted all about Amanda and my thoughts about it as well as some one posting the very same copies of emails that were stuck in comments here, but yet I received all sorts of hell for letting the comments stand at the time, but now there is a new blog all about the nasty transgressions of Amanda and of course, it's the right thing to do to make the public aware of what has happened.

I've been accused of being Drama Queen, of Drama Queen Designs, and I am not her, nor anyone who actually tags, scraps, designs or anything crafty at all, lol I just sit back and watch the drama unfold and offer my thoughts, and right now my thoughts say that I am sick and tired of the holier than thou attitudes of those who are sticking by the nastiness going on! How can any of you sit there and offer defense of the actions that have went on? Doesn't it even occur to you to wonder just why so many people have come forward with the same stories of not receiving their products? Do you not wonder in the back of your mind if you have been cheated by these people and don't know it?

How can you sit there and say she is right when she lied? Lied about why her store was being moved, tried to ruin a mans livlihood by lying about him, lied to her designers about him and why they wer emissing money, kicked designers out of her store because they opened their own store, and who knows what else? How is that right? What does she have that makes you follow her like puppies after their master believing every word she spouts off? And believe me, it isn't slander if it's true and with all the paypal tickets being opened against this woman for being bogus in her sales pitch, it's going to come to a head and then where will you holier than thou supporters be left standing? Alone! That's where.

It seems odd that her store has closed, due to hacking? Not likely when it was supposedly a secure site! Mighty convenient that it gets "hacked" right when this mess comes to a head. And on top of it, Amanda was removed from digiscrapdepots new store going in too, makes you wonder why doesn't it? And now Amber trying to open up yet another store when the first one failed? She couldn't afford to keep it open, how does she plan to keep this one up?

Either way, I speak for the little people as always, and right now everyone who has been wronged by this woman is definately the little people! I hope you all get your money back and justice for the wrong doings of this woman!

Ok now, good points, bad points

Well, I must say that it seems there is a brand new touchy subject out there in the digi scrap world, and it seems to hit upon quite a few raw nerves. I have to say I agree and I disagree with you. Let me tell you why. First off, I do have to say it seems that everyone comes out of the woodwork during the holidays all spouting off about who needs a charity kit done, who needs the money for this or that reason, and after awhile it does grate on ones nerves because no matter what anyone says, no one truly knows if these "charity" kits are truly legit. Why do they only come out during the holidays? I don't feel comfortable buying any product online that goes for charity unless it comes from a legit site that I can actually truthfully verify. I know over there in the states you people have Shriners, War Veterens, and who knows what else that are actually legit corporations that need your help, and the Shriners have helped a family member who lives in the states, my sister to be exact who has a child with a birth disorder that the Shriners have been helping. She lives on military benefits while her husband is in Iraq, and that certainly doesn't cover medical expenses, so of course that charity gets what I can give it too.

But when it comes to all these different people who toss out their sob stories of a life gone wrong, diseases, disorders, and what have you, how do we honestly know that this is true? How do we know the money actually goes to these people and what they do with it? We don't. We only have whatever the person gathering the money tell us. There are so many places out there in the world that can help a person in their time of need, without them all turning to people online to help them out. Even though are very generous and kind hearted souls out there, none of us know what is the truth. How many generous souls have given money to people only for it to be spent on something wasteful?

So when it comes down to charity, I can see all of your points, and can see both sides of the coin. I personally choose not to give to people online who post their stories, not because I think they don't need help, because I'm sure they do, but because I don't know if their story is true or not. I have enough in my own life to pay for health care, my kids, my home, and day to day living without wondering what that faceless person with a sad story is really going to do with the money they get.

Go ahead, discuss it, leave your points, both good and bad, I'd like to hear them since you brought it up in comments.