Holla! to whoever wrote "please don't". I'm the OP and I was planning on responding with that, but you beat me to it! Glad to know I am not the only person who feels this way.
Holla! to whoever wrote "please don't". I'm the OP and I was planning on responding with that, but you beat me to it! Glad to know I am not the only person who feels this way. _________ There are at least three of us who feel that way.
Dang, make it 5. I mean I like Amy and everything, she is a sweetheart, that's true... but there does come a point where nobody wants to hear about someone else's minor problems and bad moods all the time, because we are all dealing with our own minor problems and bad moods. Shoot.
I don't see a thing wrong with posting on your favorite digi-forums what's going on in your daily life. It's a good way to create a sense of friendship among forum members, fellow designers, and scrappers. It's also nice to know that not everyone's life is all organized and perfect. Amy is outgoing and friendly and that's part of her charm. If you don't want to respond to her posts don't, because obviously you don't have a friendly bone in your body.
I know a couple of designers at A5. One of them told me that there is no drama involved with the designers leaving. Two of them have been considering retiring from designing for a while and the other has been going through something extremely difficult in her life and just felt like it was time to try something new to make a change.
I don't see a thing wrong with posting on your favorite digi-forums what's going on in your daily life. It's a good way to create a sense of friendship among forum members, fellow designers, and scrappers. It's also nice to know that not everyone's life is all organized and perfect. Amy is outgoing and friendly and that's part of her charm. If you don't want to respond to her posts don't, because obviously you don't have a friendly bone in your body.
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You don't know me, so I can see why you would say I don't have a friendly bone in my body for adding myself to the list above. But you don't know me. I am one of the friendliest, happiest, funniest people around, and I can't stand designers whose posts are more negative than positive. It drives me crazy. Why do they think we want to read about more problems, ALL THE TIME? One post like that in a great while is fine, but certain designers talk about the negative in their lives more than the positive, and it's surely not gaining them customer following/support. Just IMO.
So yes she can post whatever she wants in the public forums, but should know that it's not always doing her any favors to be so drama-encircled all the time.
^^^ What is so dramatic about telling about how your family has stomach flue or runny noses, etc? I just don't get that that type of post is that negative. Oh, I bet you are from the North, nevermind.
What's being from the North got to do with anything? I agree, it's not dramatic but if they are constantly posting about their life in terms of what's wrong with it (i.e. everyone's sick, the car broke down, my computer melted, etc) and that's the majority of their posting material, it does sway negative.
After a while no one wants to read about it. Just ask Royanna.
So designers should pretend that their lives are all happiness and things going smoothly except for once in a while when they can be honest? I don't agree with that. Designers are people, too, who are looking to connect with online communities and shouldn't have to pretend to be someone or something they aren't.
No one is saying pretend to be someone you're not. But you can't be all negative all the time and expect people to constantly pour out sympathy.
And yeah, it's a community, but it's also a business. I wouldn't go to my co-workers and constantly complain or share every nuance about my kid's snotty nose or sore throat.
There's a balance between being personable and professional.
I think you might be exaggerating just a bit about her sharing 'every nuance' of her kids snotty nose. Did she tell you the color and thickness and how many tissues she had to use? Good grief, she tells you when her kids are sick, even if they are sick often ... how unprofessional of her *rolls eyes*
Perhaps she isn't going for personable, but actually want to get personal. Like I said, designers are looking to connect in a real way online, too. It isn't just a business. They shouldn't have to hold themselves at arm's length.
That's why no one takes this business seriously, because everyone thinks it's ok to just blab your personal business all the time. I could give two shits about whether or not your kid is sick. I don't go to forums to hear about how crappy your day is.
These are the same designers that won't reply to you if you send them an email. So why should I give a flying fuck if they are having a hard day. I guarantee they aren't interested in my hard day.
And no, I've never even attempted to talk to Amy, this is how I feel about most designers that blab their every move to the world.
I think most of the time it's more about attention than creating any actual relationship with customers.
I am an After 5 shopper (not exclusively but most of my faves are there), and was sad to see Wish Bliss and Jenn leaving. I'm not really into the fantasy style, so I hadn't purchased from Kimla before. From what I've read on the blog and newsletter though there wasn't any drama.
Jen was the only designer there doing just templates, so I guess there would be an opening for a template designer pretty soon.
I DO go to forums to get to know designers on a personal level. And heck, if you chat with them on the forums you may just find out that some DO care when you have a bad day!
I've never had a designer not rely to my emails. I don't know which designers you're reaching out to, but not every designer is like that.
I don't give a damn if it's a scrapper or a designer going on about their lives. I just don't care. It's one of the reasons I stopped going to the forums. I don't read gossip magazines, gossip blogs, etc either for the same reason. It's boring and unnecessary. Yeah, I'm here on this blog but no one on this blog goes on about how heavy their periods are, how their kids are sick, how their husband lost his job, how they have such bad morning sickness they can't prepare meals, etc, etc.
I just realized that all the designers I purchase from keep their personal lives just that, personal. Sure, share the occasional happy or really bad moment, but not all the time.
Perhaps she isn't going for personable, but actually want to get personal. Like I said, designers are looking to connect in a real way online, too. It isn't just a business. They shouldn't have to hold themselves at arm's length. ------
True, but they shouldn't be surprised when it slaps them in the face either.
No one is saying pretend to be someone you're not. But you can't be all negative all the time and expect people to constantly pour out sympathy.
And yeah, it's a community, but it's also a business. I wouldn't go to my co-workers and constantly complain or share every nuance about my kid's snotty nose or sore throat.
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Seriously not unhappy to hear that there are others with nasty as rag times. Clots, squirts, go through a tampon every 15-20 minutes sometimes. Backed up with pads always.
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Perhaps she isn't going for personable, but actually want to get personal. Like I said, designers are looking to connect in a real way online, too. It isn't just a business. They shouldn't have to hold themselves at arm's length. -------------- I am the original, original poster about Amy and her drama. I never said she couldn't post these things, or that she has to hold herself at arm's length. She can do it all she wants, it simply annoys me... and apparently, annoys others enough that she is getting smacked on here for it. Can she do it? Why sure she can, it's a friggin' free world. But that doesn't mean it's not going to annoy people or cause her some PR nightmares (like this here). That is all.
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on. _____________
Hardly. I'm 5'10" and weigh 168 and I run marathons. Fuck off, bitch.
I can't believe the stuff that is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and I can't believe that both I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and the stuff that I can't believe is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter are both, in fact, not butter. And I believe they both might be butter, in a cunning disguise. And in fact there's a lot more butter around than we all thought there was.
For real, why do you scroll through 2200 comments? Just click "newest" and it takes you to the most recent page, which will have (at most) 200 comments max. Chill out. The blog owner could NEVER change the spaces, and I'd be fine. But apparently I (and the poster before me) are smarter than the average crowd around here.
Would it be so hard to post a new thread every other week???
It's such a pain to scroll thru 2200 comments ---------------- This would actually annoy me to no end. I only visit this blog every few days/once a week, and to have to sift through (potentially) multiple threads to get caught up would be a pain. I'd rather it be in one place, where I can keep track of where I left off and where I should start reading again. Having a new space every other week? That would be like every 200 comments or so. Going back to find ANYTHING would be a nightmare. No thank you. I vote it stays just as it's been, not that the blog owner is taking votes. It's her blog. Like it or leave it.
Meanwhile, I love most of Erica Zane's Designs and am sad she is leaving SM, but hopefully she'll reappear at a store where I actually shop. ----------------------------------- She's guesting at CatScrap right now - maybe she'll stay there permanently.
I can think of alot of designers who talk about every detail of their personal lives and even sharing the dramatic and it doesn't seem to hurt them at all. Off the top of my head Lauren Grier. Who doesn't know about every break up, kid problem, medical problem and more in her life? Libby whatever her last name is now and every detail of her pregnancy? Isn't Jadyday always asking for prayers for something too and blabbing about depression at the sweetshop? It doesnt bother me at all when I see designers sharing, it makes them seem like real people. I dont know what she is like behind the scenes but I've never seen anything that screamed drama in the scrapmatters forum or on her facebook page. I'm sad that Erika is leaving though I love her kits.
Isn't Jadyday always asking for prayers for something too and blabbing about depression at the sweetshop? -------------- What on earth are you talking about? Jadyday isn't at Sweet Shoppe. She's at SM. And if you don't know that, how are you telling us that you never see Amy being dramatic at SM... if you aren't visiting SM, either? (or else you'd know where Jadyday sells, right?)
She's guesting at CatScrap right now - maybe she'll stay there permanently.
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I feel sorry for her if she does.
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^^^ Ditto this. Partly b/c Catscrap seems to be falling apart a little lately, but also because I don't think EZ's style is very Catscrappy. That would be a weird place for her to land, IMO.
How is Catscrap falling apart? I think they have some really good designers there now. It's one of my favorite places to shop. If it's falling apart, I sure don't see it.
Sorry. Totally my fault for reading into what you wrote. I suppose I am so used to everyone on this blog saying idiotic things, I expect it (idiocy) and don't consider other explanations. This one was all my idiocy though. *sigh*
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work.
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on.
September 22, 2011 8:27 PM ----------------------------- This is just hateful. You might be a skinny/pretty girl on the outside, but you sure are ugly on the inside. WOW. just wow.
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work.
September 23, 2011 2:53 PM
^^^^ Sounds like someone with a personal issue. Can't say I blame you, because I don't think she is a nice girl. But I don't think her pages suck, really.
This is just hateful. You might be a skinny/pretty girl on the outside, but you sure are ugly on the inside. WOW. just wow. ----------- Really??? You're shocked that someone was crass on a SMACK BLOG? If you're so golden, why are YOU here on this blog? Enough w/ the holier-than-thou bullshit. Really, people, enough. I know I am not the only one who is tired of hearing it......
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on.
September 22, 2011 8:27 PM
You are an idiot. I am 120lbs and 5'5", and yet I rag like no tomorrow. It's a common part of PERIMENOPAUSE, bitch. Read up- you'll get there too unless your own shit rots and fall out one day. Or some poor doc yanks it out for you.
Now this is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can't stand designers who sell in one store, barely hang out there except to promote their crap, but actually post and hang out at SSD. Stupid suck-ups. They all think they will get a designer spot in the store one day if they hang out there, I guess. But then, I guess SSD encouraged that behavior by giving spots to Jenn Barrette and Meghan Mullens, two of the original suck-ups who couldn't be bothered to make the stores where they actually sold their designs a better place to hang out.
Doesn't the owner of SSD see right through it? I do.
Really??? You're shocked that someone was crass on a SMACK BLOG? If you're so golden, why are YOU here on this blog? Enough w/ the holier-than-thou bullshit. Really, people, enough. I know I am not the only one who is tired of hearing it......
September 23, 2011 3:29 PM ------------- I'm not shocked, no. But I have a right to point it out if I think someone is being uglier than is really necessary. Just because this is a smack blog doesn't mean everyone has to be completely hideous, right? And no, I never said I was "so golden." I just don't think you have to be so mean and vicious to make a point.
It's one thing to frequently share info about your life, thoughts, events, accomplishments, activities, photos and the occasional hardship on Facebook, a blog and in forums. It's a totally different story if you are constantly complaining or playing the victim card. In my experience, the people who seem chronically unhappy or see themselves as unlucky in life (enough to post frequently about it) are people to avoid. It is like a warning signal that they are likely a difficult person to be friends with or work with. But that's just my opinion.
As a designer who isn't in a top store ... seriously ... wth - I work my a$$ off - and do pretty well IMO. Who says a designer can't try to advance themselves in another forum? I think Jady Day would be a great fit at SSD. But stores like "that" want the designer to be begging.
I see nothing wrong with her trying to get in there. Her designs are gorgeous - and no - I'm not a fan/buyer/or anything - I just respect her as a fellow designer
I also think Jady Day's designs would be a good fit at SSD.
I have a hard time believing that the SSD team expects designers to kiss up to them in their forums if they want a spot. I would think if they have a design spot open and their best applicant is an amazing designer who is a good fit for their store they would accept her. Even if she doesn't brown nose in their forum. You take the best applicant for a spot, not the one who sucks up the best.
While I don't disagree Jady would be a good fit at SSD, I think you're dreaming if you don't think SSD only takes the people who hang out there. They absolutely do. I know of someone they passed over in favor of Jenn/Megan who is much more talented. But does not kiss their asses, so didn't get the spot.
Regardless, selling your designs in one store but hanging out in a competing store makes no sense from a business standpoint. It's like owning a hair salon, but getting your hair cut by someone else across the street, instead of one of your own stylists. You are basically telling people that its not worthwhile to shop in your store when you socialize with your competitors all the time.
While I don't disagree Jady would be a good fit at SSD, I think you're dreaming if you don't think SSD only takes the people who hang out there. They absolutely do. I know of someone they passed over in favor of Jenn/Megan who is much more talented. But does not kiss their asses, so didn't get the spot. -------
Without knowing who that "passed over" designer is it's hard to say whether your point is valid. She might seem amazing to you, but nothing special to most other people.
I can tell you that a designer who actually wants to hang out in the forums and chat with customers is a rare find, of course that is taken into consideration when choosing new designers.
I can tell you that a designer who actually wants to hang out in the forums and chat with customers is a rare find, of course that is taken into consideration when choosing new designers.
Fact! ------------------ So true.
That said, though, I do still think it's bad form to be more active in another shop's forum than in your own. I would go so far as to say it's semi-strange to be super duper active in another shop's forum altogether... but not taboo. But you shouldn't ever be more active somewhere else than you are at "home". Just sayin.
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on.
September 22, 2011 8:27 PM ----------------------------- This is just hateful. You might be a skinny/pretty girl on the outside, but you sure are ugly on the inside. WOW. just wow. -----
That was hateful? It was stupid and childish, but I wouldn't say hateful, and yes, I am a fat cow but I don't have issues about it. Maybe you do?
You are an idiot. I am 120lbs and 5'5", and yet I rag like no tomorrow. It's a common part of PERIMENOPAUSE, bitch. Read up- you'll get there too unless your own shit rots and fall out one day. Or some poor doc yanks it out for you. ---
Go and tell someone who cares. I don't care if you are 5 foot nothing and 300 lbs and have a light flow, I just don't freaking care!
I'm not shocked, no. But I have a right to point it out if I think someone is being uglier than is really necessary. Just because this is a smack blog doesn't mean everyone has to be completely hideous, right? And no, I never said I was "so golden." I just don't think you have to be so mean and vicious to make a point. ----------
Are you serious? The original statement wasn't that ugly, nor hideous, mean and vicious. I've seen much, much worse on this blog and yet you haven't pointed it out. I know this, because some of those really vicious things have never been pointed out as being such. Unless it's me doing it.
Regardless, selling your designs in one store but hanging out in a competing store makes no sense from a business standpoint. It's like owning a hair salon, but getting your hair cut by someone else across the street, instead of one of your own stylists. You are basically telling people that its not worthwhile to shop in your store when you socialize with your competitors all the time. ------
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work. ^^^^^^^ Isnt that SM's buddy?
I can tell you that a designer who actually wants to hang out in the forums and chat with customers is a rare find, of course that is taken into consideration when choosing new designers.
Fact! ------------------
As a designer, I think it's super important to interact with members of the community. If I were a store owner, I'd definitely be checking to see if new designer applicants are active in their store forums. But, I'd be interested in designers who are loyal, supportive and actively promoting their OWN team. In their own store's forum. Not in another store's forum.
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work.
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I don't know her from Adam, so I checked her pages. I can't see anything wrong with them. They aren't terrible.
They probably gave her a spot because she's an active scrapper and participant. How dare they!
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work. ^^^^^^^ Isnt that SM's buddy?
As a designer, I think it's super important to interact with members of the community. If I were a store owner, I'd definitely be checking to see if new designer applicants are active in their store forums. But, I'd be interested in designers who are loyal, supportive and actively promoting their OWN team. In their own store's forum. Not in another store's forum.
Would it be so hard to post a new thread every other week???
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dude i don't literally "scroll thru 2200 comments" (sorry, poor choice of words to use in the above post), i do go the the "newest" page, BUT it's still a LOT of comments to have in one thread.
it just seems like the blog owner here doesn't have much interest in this blog if she/he can't even take time to start a new thread at least once a month.
i think more people would take time to read & comment here if the blog was updated more frequently.
Off the top of my head Lauren Grier. Who doesn't know about every break up, kid problem, medical problem and more in her life? Libby whatever her last name is now and every detail of her pregnancy? Isn't Jadyday always asking for prayers for something too and blabbing about depression at the sweetshop? ------
I wouldn't know. I don't hang around the SSD forums.
dude i don't literally "scroll thru 2200 comments" (sorry, poor choice of words to use in the above post), i do go the the "newest" page, BUT it's still a LOT of comments to have in one thread.
it just seems like the blog owner here doesn't have much interest in this blog if she/he can't even take time to start a new thread at least once a month.
i think more people would take time to read & comment here if the blog was updated more frequently.
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IMO, it doesn't matter whether a thread/space has 200 comments or 20,000. Once you're at the "Newest" page, you're always dealing w/ somewhere btwn 1-200 comments. No matter what. So why should it matter if it's a lot of comments in one space? Immaterial.
As for your last comment about frequency of use based on that... well that's just ridiculous. For real.
I think a new space once a month would be nice though. That way if say you're wondering what was said about a particular blog train you can just go to that month's thread instead of having to sift through all the comments for something that may have been discussed in the middle.
I think emmasmommy's layouts are fine. They're not "works of art" but they seem to be her thoughts, her day, her kids, her story. Isn't that what scrapping is supposed to be about? Making memories. You'd really hate my gallery then. I used pictures of my *gasp* own family and write about things I believe in, like God, just like her. And no, I'm not her, don't know her, never hang out at SSD, etc. etc. Her pages look like she uses templates - which the majority of scrappers use.
Are you serious? The original statement wasn't that ugly, nor hideous, mean and vicious. I've seen much, much worse on this blog and yet you haven't pointed it out. I know this, because some of those really vicious things have never been pointed out as being such. Unless it's me doing it.
September 23, 2011 8:00 PM --------- You know, you can argue with me about the sky being blue, but that doesn't mean it's not blue. Just because you don't think the "fat cow in front of a computer with a donut in her mouth" comment wasn't especially nasty does not mean that it wasn't. It's my opinion that it was and I stand by that opinion.
As a designer, I think it's super important to interact with members of the community. If I were a store owner, I'd definitely be checking to see if new designer applicants are active in their store forums. But, I'd be interested in designers who are loyal, supportive and actively promoting their OWN team. In their own store's forum. Not in another store's forum.
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Amen, amen, and amen. Oh, and amen.
September 23, 2011 10:04 PM
^^^ Agree 100% Taking someone who is active in your own forum when they are selling somewhere else and aren't active where they sell makes no sense. Someday, there could be a new "it" place to hang out. And I'd expect them to repeat the same behavior. They'll go hang out over there, kissing people's asses in order to move up to that store. If I were a store owner, I would look to see what a designer's habits are in the store where she currently sells her designs. Does she hang out/interact in that store's forum? Does she leave comments on the layouts people make with her designs? Does she release new products regularly? If the answer is yes to all of that, then she would be likely to repeat that behavior in my store if I hired her. I might even make a purchase to see if I get a thank you email (so few designers do that and I'm always impressed when I find one that does). But, see, I've never been impressed with fake ass kissers, anyway. I see right through it. Not all people do. I guess some people love an ass kisser because it makes them feel important, but I just think it's fake fake fake.
You know, you can argue with me about the sky being blue, but that doesn't mean it's not blue. Just because you don't think the "fat cow in front of a computer with a donut in her mouth" comment wasn't especially nasty does not mean that it wasn't. It's my opinion that it was and I stand by that opinion.
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I don't see it being any nastier than talking about blood clots and how many units of blood you go through during your period. Some people find it just as offensive to talk about your bodily functions as it is to call someone names.
I don't see it being any nastier than talking about blood clots and how many units of blood you go through during your period. Some people find it just as offensive to talk about your bodily functions as it is to call someone names. --------------
...or moreso. WhoTF thought it was a good idea to start the whole period discussion anyway? Foul.
I don't see it being any nastier than talking about blood clots and how many units of blood you go through during your period. Some people find it just as offensive to talk about your bodily functions as it is to call someone names.
September 24, 2011 2:43 PM ^^^ I agree with that. I guess I could have taken exception to the whole topic of conversation, too. But I just decided to ignore it, instead.
Even if I had addressed it, I wouldn't have felt the need to call someone fat and tell her to lose weight or stop sitting in front of her computer with a donut in her mouth. The conversation was foul, yes. But those comments were just rude/mean. Two wrongs don't make a right.
OK, shut up already about what's mean, what's foul, etc etc. Who cares?
Now this is what I came here for. This is seriously an ugly kit. Don't always love her stuff, but this shocked me today. Dark elements, dark papers. Gross colors (puke brown/green?) I'm amazed her CT was even able to scrap with it, but I don't like any of the layouts, either. Well, the one layout with the plaid background is just okay, I guess. Serious miss on this one:
I might even make a purchase to see if I get a thank you email (so few designers do that and I'm always impressed when I find one that does).
----- Not every store allows designers to do this. They consider the customer's email address theirs, not the designers. So, don't discount designers who don't send thank yous. It's not always within their control.
Now this is what I came here for. This is seriously an ugly kit. Don't always love her stuff, but this shocked me today. Dark elements, dark papers. Gross colors (puke brown/green?) I'm amazed her CT was even able to scrap with it, but I don't like any of the layouts, either. Well, the one layout with the plaid background is just okay, I guess. Serious miss on this one:
http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=22317&cat=455&page=3 -------------------------- IMO, obviously she was just trying to figure out a way to use that new CU peacock feather that Something Blue Studios released earlier this week at Catscrap (and fast! so her kit could be the first one to use it! hurry! hurry!)... so she pulled colors from the feather in PS, and threw together a kit. And the verdict is that it's awful.
Oooops I stand corrected, I just checked the kit preview against the CU feather preview and they're actually different feathers. The bad news is: there is now no plausible explanation for why Barrette threw that kit together. *sigh*
how many sleeping pills would one have to ingest to not wake back up?
September 24, 2011 3:58 PM
What The Fuck.
If you are depressed, get help. Don't be a selfish ass and hurt people that care about you.
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To the OP, I am guessing that you are just messing w/ the crowd here at the blog for shits and giggles. If so, please stop. Some of us have lost friends/family due to this very thing, and it's not EVER funny to joke about.
If, however, you're actually depressed and seeking "advice": please follow the advice of the PP and get some help. Don't ruin the lives of everyone who loves you (and yes, there are surely many!) just because you feel that your life is messed up/ruined. Everything is changeable. Except for that kit by Barrette.
'm amazed her CT was even able to scrap with it, but I don't like any of the layouts, either. Well, the one layout with the plaid background is just okay, I guess. -------
Weird, I thought that was one of the worst. I liked the other layouts much better.
If you have had anyone close to you do this, you wouldn't be joking. It doesn't matter if the op is laughing at my reaction, there is no way I am going to encourage just in case.
a new space once a month would be nice though. That way if say you're wondering what was said about a particular blog train you can just go to that month's thread instead of having to sift through all the comments for something that may have been discussed in the middle. ---------------------------
yes, once a month would be fine if it was updated on a consistent basis
Perhaps she (the one asking about sleeping pills) is someone that you were just bashing like oh say Jenn B's fugly kit? I find it very interesting that the next post after someone pointed out her kit that there is a post about sleeping pills, trying to divert the conversation away from the kit in question
Perhaps she (the one asking about sleeping pills) is someone that you were just bashing like oh say Jenn B's fugly kit? I find it very interesting that the next post after someone pointed out her kit that there is a post about sleeping pills, trying to divert the conversation away from the kit in question
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Another reason the next poster's comment (about nothing is unchangeable... except Barrette's kit) was so funny. If it really was an attention diversion (the pill talk), then whoever wrote that got the kit right back in there again. LOL
I buy a kit every week or two if the mood strikes. While a scrapper can get by on just freebies if she wants to (from blogs, facebook, in forums for challenges, etc.), there's also nothing like a real, actual kit that isn't just thrown together and from which you can truly scrap multiple pages. So yes, I still buy sometimes. As for my sales lately, though, they are a little slow. It'd be interesting to take an industry-wide poll on that issue. Impossible, but interesting.
I guess that would depend upon your definition of 'top store' but yes, it's a popular store and I'm a regular designer. Sales have really slumped. Is it the economy or is the market just saturated with too much free stuff?
Do you sell kits or CU, or if both what's selling? the CU I assume.
Look, I know this seems like a nosey question, so I'm glad that this is anon but I just don't see sales for PU kits being that great anymore. The people that buy have full EHDs already and it doesn't seem like digital is really taking off. The economy is bad - really bad so that might have something to do with it.
Would it be too much to ask if people would just be kind of honest here and let us know if they're being affect too?
I sell at my personal store only and have had a decent month. I'm not a 'well known' designer, but have participated in blog trains that have apparently given me some good exposure.
but also because I don't think EZ's style is very Catscrappy. -------
I just checked her style, she seems to fit right in. Not that different from Aja or Little Butterfly Wings or Cheeky Monkey or even Creashens, they all seem to have a similar style.
Ive spent more this month than the past 6mths put together, simply cause Im getting albums ready for xmas gifts. Im not a designer or on a CT. I purchased a variety of kits from what I consider a top store(oscraps). And I will make them do multi pages (travel album will be over 40pgs)
To the person who asked about pills... Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Please get help. No matter how bad it is today there is always another day, things will get better. Please take a chance on life.
I'm really disgusted that nobody else posted anything potentially helpful for the person that cried out. You should always take this type of thing seriously...you just never know.
Well didn't you just hang the moon. I guess we will know who you are when you put the action in your shop. ------------- I was just thinking this same thing, LOL.
Sales Stink. The Economy Stinks. There are too many designers and too many stores. Does that answer your question? Yes, I'm sure that some are still doing ok but for most the money is no longer there, at least the kind of money many of us were making a year or even two years ago. Like others it's time to think about moving on.
Sales Stink. The Economy Stinks. There are too many designers and too many stores. Does that answer your question? Yes, I'm sure that some are still doing ok but for most the money is no longer there, at least the kind of money many of us were making a year or even two years ago. Like others it's time to think about moving on.
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You go ahead and move on. I'm not in this for the money. I do it for a stress relief and the money I get is a bonus.
I'm really disgusted that nobody else posted anything potentially helpful for the person that cried out. You should always take this type of thing seriously...you just never know. September 26, 2011 6:01 AM
And we don't care. If someone wants to off themselves, they will and there is nothing anyone can do about it. If they come here on a smack blog making some sort of out there comment, they only want attention. Period.
Maybe you should worry about saving all the enslaved, starving, oppressed, etc people of the world who WANT to live instead.
I'm really disgusted that nobody else posted anything potentially helpful for the person that cried out. You should always take this type of thing seriously...you just never know. September 26, 2011 6:01 AM
And we don't care. If someone wants to off themselves, they will and there is nothing anyone can do about it. If they come here on a smack blog making some sort of out there comment, they only want attention. Period.
Maybe you should worry about saving all the enslaved, starving, oppressed, etc people of the world who WANT to live instead.
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^^^ Wow. I didn't necessarily agree w/ the way the first poster admonished everyone here for not "trying hard enough to help" (although her point is very valid... you should always treat these things as though they are serious, just in case they are). But I can't believe you'd bother posting something so nasty and uneducated in response. And yes I know, I know, "it's a smack blog!" News flash! I am well aware of that. I also think it's in poor taste to say something like "If someone wants to off themselves, they will and there is nothing anyone can do about it." If this were true, suicide victims would NEVER bother to write a note, and NEVER bother to reach out (even if in a forum or blog or through an anon call to a hotline). They're testing to see if anyone cares. If they were going to do it regardless, they would never bother testing.
None of what I just wrote is truly in response to any of this here (I still maintain that the OP was just trying to mess w/ everyone here), but I am just hopeful that the rest of you don't REALLY believe the bullshit the PP just wrote about "nothing you can do can help," for your everyday lives. It's simply not true.
The kits at the big stores have gotten prohibitively expensive. I am not going to get into a discussion on whether they are worth it or not, I am just saying I have dropped down to less expensive stores where I can get a full kit for half price.
So yes, I believe one lady here could be having a great month (selling more kits at a lower price point) and one lady, more established perhaps, could be dying on the vine.
and on this:
they are dirt simple to make yourself.
I am not buying anything I can make myself unless it is bundled in a kit I want.
----- Any person who needs to do this can do the world a favor. There are far too many people in the world as it is. At least give the resources to people who want them and will do more with their lives than sit around and "test" people to see if they love them. What a bunch of shit that is.
Why don't you take your feelings of guilt that you couldn't save someone elsewhere.
The kits at the big stores have gotten prohibitively expensive. I am not going to get into a discussion on whether they are worth it or not, I am just saying I have dropped down to less expensive stores where I can get a full kit for half price. ------------- It is a bit interesting to see how people will consider a $10 kit too expensive. I guess we got used to lower prices, but if you look at the advantages of digital kits, maybe it would change the perception. Scrappers might be the types to scrap once, maybe twice with a kit and then discard it? if so, maybe $10 for a kit would be too much ($10 is only a hypothetical price). But look at the fact that you can use the papers and elements multiple times, and with some knowledge of your program, you might make something "new" out of supplies you already have.
Just guessing but you're probably one of the designers who sell at a higher price point and this is your justification why it's ok to charge a high price. It's your business to charge what you want for what you've designed. However, you can't justify people into spending a high price if they don't want to/don't think it's worth it.
^^^^^^^ Wrong. I sell in my own personal store. I agree that the price a person is ready to pay depends on the value they perceive it to be, but I think that looking at all the freebies, the extreme sales, and the huge collabs available to the digiscrappers, the "average" price has been going down, so of course, something twice the price will look too high. But I think that is the problem: the scrappers have been "trained" to look for the lower price and will pass on other products that, looking from a different angle, would actually be reasonably price.
It just depends on the angle you look at it: from the freebie/rock bottom sale, a $10 price will be high; from the paper scrapping world, a $10 kit that can be used 10 times creatively is not so expensive. So, literally, where are you coming from?
This hasn't been my best month ever, but it has been an above-average month. Over the last six months, I've averaged about $2500 a month. As of right now, I've sold about $3200 this month.
I don't know about the market being "down" but I am making more money this year than I thought I would, knowing how the economy has been. Maybe you are pricing your products too high if your sales have slumped?
^^^^ I would guess that your average is far more than most designers' average. You might be in the top 2% that makes above $1000. I am doing GREAT when I make $500 in a month and I know that most designers don't do close to that.
Maybe make an anon poll in here? there is one on the side about whether one supports DST or not. How about putting one with income?
I'm really disgusted that nobody else posted anything potentially helpful for the person that cried out. You should always take this type of thing seriously...you just never know. --------
Go ahead and be disgusted. I'm too busy looking after the people in my life who are having problems, I really don't have time for people that I don't know.
----- Any person who needs to do this can do the world a favor. There are far too many people in the world as it is. At least give the resources to people who want them and will do more with their lives than sit around and "test" people to see if they love them. What a bunch of shit that is.
Why don't you take your feelings of guilt that you couldn't save someone elsewhere.
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Why don't YOU take your callous disregard for human suffering elsewhere. You clearly have no understanding of what it's like to be in pain that you have NO control over. You talk as if a person who is suicidal can just wake up and think, 'Oh, wow, I am not starving in Africa, I suddenly don't have this mind-numbing grief anymore!' It's an illness, people aren't thinking clearly and they need help. They aren't just being selfish and manipulative.
As for doing the world a favor ... the children of a mother who ends her own life don't feel like it's a favor ... the wife of a husband who takes his life doesn't feel like it's a favor ... the parents of a teenager don't feel like it's favor ... the impact of one suicide doesn't just rid the world of that one person, it has a very huge, very real, impact on the entire community around that person ....real people have to deal with the losses. So yes, if there is a tiny chance that someone who is suicidal can be helped ... it's worth it.
I am just an average scrapper, not a designer. I am not active on any CT's, although I have been in the past. I am not active in any "scrapbook community", I don't post on the message boards, and I don't post my layouts online anymore. I read the Digi boards for entertainment, and am constantly amazed at what people share on the internet. I freely admit to reading the scrapbook smack blogs, it is a guilty pleasure.
You can email me at: DSTHallofFame@gmail.com
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September 21, 2011 7:34 PM
you may want to pray for yourself if you're reading this blog...
I'll pray for you.
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Please don't.
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Holla! to whoever wrote "please don't". I'm the OP and I was planning on responding with that, but you beat me to it! Glad to know I am not the only person who feels this way.
Amy Stoffel is leaving SM. Anyone know where she is going?
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I think she is at 9th & Bloom.
Who else is leaving SM? A post earlier said something about Amy not being the only one that is leaving?
Holla! to whoever wrote "please don't". I'm the OP and I was planning on responding with that, but you beat me to it! Glad to know I am not the only person who feels this way.
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There are at least three of us who feel that way.
8:31pm has it right!
There are at least three of us who feel that way.
8:31pm has it right!
September 21, 2011 10:57 PM
Make it at minimum 4.
Dang, make it 5. I mean I like Amy and everything, she is a sweetheart, that's true... but there does come a point where nobody wants to hear about someone else's minor problems and bad moods all the time, because we are all dealing with our own minor problems and bad moods. Shoot.
Make it at minimum 4.
September 22, 2011 12:28 AM
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At least 5!!
I don't see a thing wrong with posting on your favorite digi-forums what's going on in your daily life. It's a good way to create a sense of friendship among forum members, fellow designers, and scrappers. It's also nice to know that not everyone's life is all organized and perfect. Amy is outgoing and friendly and that's part of her charm. If you don't want to respond to her posts don't,
because obviously you don't have a friendly bone in your body.
Six.
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I came on here to ruminate on the After Five Retirement Exodis of Jenn Lindsey, WishBlish, and now Kimla.
It sounds like a good time to put in an application there if it's a good place to work? Your thoughts?
My thoughts are that the last place I'd put in an application is a store where a bunch of designers just left... for any reason.
amen to that!
I don't even know who Jenn Lindsey, WishBlish, and Kimla are.
I know a couple of designers at A5. One of them told me that there is no drama involved with the designers leaving. Two of them have been considering retiring from designing for a while and the other has been going through something extremely difficult in her life and just felt like it was time to try something new to make a change.
with a logo like this http://www.afterfivedesigns.com/shoppe/images/M/KIMLAHEADER.jpg where do you think she is going?
My guess is that she is going to start her own personal store on her website. http://www.kimladesigns.com/
I don't see a thing wrong with posting on your favorite digi-forums what's going on in your daily life. It's a good way to create a sense of friendship among forum members, fellow designers, and scrappers. It's also nice to know that not everyone's life is all organized and perfect. Amy is outgoing and friendly and that's part of her charm. If you don't want to respond to her posts don't,
because obviously you don't have a friendly bone in your body.
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You don't know me, so I can see why you would say I don't have a friendly bone in my body for adding myself to the list above. But you don't know me. I am one of the friendliest, happiest, funniest people around, and I can't stand designers whose posts are more negative than positive. It drives me crazy. Why do they think we want to read about more problems, ALL THE TIME? One post like that in a great while is fine, but certain designers talk about the negative in their lives more than the positive, and it's surely not gaining them customer following/support. Just IMO.
So yes she can post whatever she wants in the public forums, but should know that it's not always doing her any favors to be so drama-encircled all the time.
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What is so dramatic about telling about how your family has stomach flue or runny noses, etc? I just don't get that that type of post is that negative. Oh, I bet you are from the North, nevermind.
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And yes, I spelled flu wrong LOL.
What's being from the North got to do with anything? I agree, it's not dramatic but if they are constantly posting about their life in terms of what's wrong with it (i.e. everyone's sick, the car broke down, my computer melted, etc) and that's the majority of their posting material, it does sway negative.
After a while no one wants to read about it. Just ask Royanna.
So designers should pretend that their lives are all happiness and things going smoothly except for once in a while when they can be honest? I don't agree with that. Designers are people, too, who are looking to connect with online communities and shouldn't have to pretend to be someone or something they aren't.
No one is saying pretend to be someone you're not. But you can't be all negative all the time and expect people to constantly pour out sympathy.
And yeah, it's a community, but it's also a business. I wouldn't go to my co-workers and constantly complain or share every nuance about my kid's snotty nose or sore throat.
There's a balance between being personable and professional.
I think you might be exaggerating just a bit about her sharing 'every nuance' of her kids snotty nose. Did she tell you the color and thickness and how many tissues she had to use? Good grief, she tells you when her kids are sick, even if they are sick often ... how unprofessional of her *rolls eyes*
Perhaps she isn't going for personable, but actually want to get personal. Like I said, designers are looking to connect in a real way online, too. It isn't just a business. They shouldn't have to hold themselves at arm's length.
That's why no one takes this business seriously, because everyone thinks it's ok to just blab your personal business all the time. I could give two shits about whether or not your kid is sick. I don't go to forums to hear about how crappy your day is.
These are the same designers that won't reply to you if you send them an email. So why should I give a flying fuck if they are having a hard day. I guarantee they aren't interested in my hard day.
And no, I've never even attempted to talk to Amy, this is how I feel about most designers that blab their every move to the world.
I think most of the time it's more about attention than creating any actual relationship with customers.
I am an After 5 shopper (not exclusively but most of my faves are there), and was sad to see Wish Bliss and Jenn leaving. I'm not really into the fantasy style, so I hadn't purchased from Kimla before. From what I've read on the blog and newsletter though there wasn't any drama.
Jen was the only designer there doing just templates, so I guess there would be an opening for a template designer pretty soon.
I DO go to forums to get to know designers on a personal level. And heck, if you chat with them on the forums you may just find out that some DO care when you have a bad day!
I've never had a designer not rely to my emails. I don't know which designers you're reaching out to, but not every designer is like that.
I don't give a damn if it's a scrapper or a designer going on about their lives. I just don't care. It's one of the reasons I stopped going to the forums. I don't read gossip magazines, gossip blogs, etc either for the same reason. It's boring and unnecessary. Yeah, I'm here on this blog but no one on this blog goes on about how heavy their periods are, how their kids are sick, how their husband lost his job, how they have such bad morning sickness they can't prepare meals, etc, etc.
I just realized that all the designers I purchase from keep their personal lives just that, personal. Sure, share the occasional happy or really bad moment, but not all the time.
Perhaps she isn't going for personable, but actually want to get personal. Like I said, designers are looking to connect in a real way online, too. It isn't just a business. They shouldn't have to hold themselves at arm's length.
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True, but they shouldn't be surprised when it slaps them in the face either.
No one is saying pretend to be someone you're not. But you can't be all negative all the time and expect people to constantly pour out sympathy.
And yeah, it's a community, but it's also a business. I wouldn't go to my co-workers and constantly complain or share every nuance about my kid's snotty nose or sore throat.
There's a balance between being personable and professional.
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This exactly!
Designers not bothering to respond to an email really piss me off.
Damn I've got the cramps. I am passing horrible clots. I bet I went through 10 tampons today.
Anybody else get the runs when you're ragging?
It must be in the air, I'm having an extra heavy period, too. Nasty stuff.
That's just nasty.
Yawn. Why not go to DST and post about it? Better yet, do it in the DCR and don't bother the rest of us.
Damn I've got the cramps. I am passing horrible clots. I bet I went through 10 tampons today.
Anybody else get the runs when you're ragging?
September 22, 2011 6:32 PM
Yes. Clots, tampons backed up with pads and diarrhea. Are you in peri-menopause? It gets worse then.
Seriously not unhappy to hear that there are others with nasty as rag times. Clots, squirts, go through a tampon every 15-20 minutes sometimes. Backed up with pads always.
Are you thin or - not?
Who else is leaving SM? A post earlier said something about Amy not being the only one that is leaving?
September 21, 2011 10:29 PM
Erica Zane. No big loss there.
I had to have 2 units of blood one month from so much blood loss from my period. Really is a curse sometimes.
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on.
How old are some of you? 15?
Perhaps she isn't going for personable, but actually want to get personal. Like I said, designers are looking to connect in a real way online, too. It isn't just a business. They shouldn't have to hold themselves at arm's length.
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I am the original, original poster about Amy and her drama. I never said she couldn't post these things, or that she has to hold herself at arm's length. She can do it all she wants, it simply annoys me... and apparently, annoys others enough that she is getting smacked on here for it. Can she do it? Why sure she can, it's a friggin' free world. But that doesn't mean it's not going to annoy people or cause her some PR nightmares (like this here). That is all.
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on.
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Hardly. I'm 5'10" and weigh 168 and I run marathons. Fuck off, bitch.
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Who cares?
I love how you tell someone to "fuck off bitch" when you were posting bullshit the whole time and grossing people out.
No one cares about your marathons or your periods.
If your periods are that bad, you need medical attention. That is neither normal nor healthy.
I can't believe the stuff that is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and I can't believe that both I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and the stuff that I can't believe is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter are both, in fact, not butter. And I believe they both might be butter, in a cunning disguise. And in fact there's a lot more butter around than we all thought there was.
Can she do it? Why sure she can, it's a friggin' free world.
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This bugs me a lot. NO, it is NOT a free WORLD.
Meanwhile, I love most of Erica Zane's Designs and am sad she is leaving SM, but hopefully she'll reappear at a store where I actually shop.
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What's up with the blog owner here?
Would it be so hard to post a new thread every other week???
It's such a pain to scroll thru 2200 comments.
Maybe someone should start another digi blog if this blogger can't handle it......
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You scroll through all the comments all the time? How very inefficient. Just bookmark the most recent page, it's easy.
If you don't like the blog don't read it. I just click newest when I come to read. Pretty simple, but I guess it might be over your head.
For real, why do you scroll through 2200 comments? Just click "newest" and it takes you to the most recent page, which will have (at most) 200 comments max. Chill out. The blog owner could NEVER change the spaces, and I'd be fine. But apparently I (and the poster before me) are smarter than the average crowd around here.
sheesh if you don't like it you know what you can do, right ??
Would it be so hard to post a new thread every other week???
It's such a pain to scroll thru 2200 comments
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This would actually annoy me to no end. I only visit this blog every few days/once a week, and to have to sift through (potentially) multiple threads to get caught up would be a pain. I'd rather it be in one place, where I can keep track of where I left off and where I should start reading again. Having a new space every other week? That would be like every 200 comments or so. Going back to find ANYTHING would be a nightmare. No thank you. I vote it stays just as it's been, not that the blog owner is taking votes. It's her blog. Like it or leave it.
Meanwhile, I love most of Erica Zane's Designs and am sad she is leaving SM, but hopefully she'll reappear at a store where I actually shop.
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She's guesting at CatScrap right now - maybe she'll stay there permanently.
I feel sorry for her if she does.
I can think of alot of designers who talk about every detail of their personal lives and even sharing the dramatic and it doesn't seem to hurt them at all. Off the top of my head Lauren Grier. Who doesn't know about every break up, kid problem, medical problem and more in her life? Libby whatever her last name is now and every detail of her pregnancy? Isn't Jadyday always asking for prayers for something too and blabbing about depression at the sweetshop? It doesnt bother me at all when I see designers sharing, it makes them seem like real people. I dont know what she is like behind the scenes but I've never seen anything that screamed drama in the scrapmatters forum or on her facebook page. I'm sad that Erika is leaving though I love her kits.
Isn't Jadyday always asking for prayers for something too and blabbing about depression at the sweetshop?
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What on earth are you talking about? Jadyday isn't at Sweet Shoppe. She's at SM. And if you don't know that, how are you telling us that you never see Amy being dramatic at SM... if you aren't visiting SM, either? (or else you'd know where Jadyday sells, right?)
She's guesting at CatScrap right now - maybe she'll stay there permanently.
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I feel sorry for her if she does.
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Ditto this. Partly b/c Catscrap seems to be falling apart a little lately, but also because I don't think EZ's style is very Catscrappy. That would be a weird place for her to land, IMO.
How is Catscrap falling apart? I think they have some really good designers there now. It's one of my favorite places to shop. If it's falling apart, I sure don't see it.
Yari posted at SSD about anti-depressant drugs.
CatScrap is falling apart. Many designers are leaving/have left.
http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57268
Never said she sold there.
The only good designer at CatScrap is creashens IMO
can we be done with rolled paper flowers now, thanks.
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LOL Where is this coming from? I kind of like them.
The only good designer at CatScrap is creashens IMO
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This isn't that far off, actually. I do like Allison Pennington and Something Blue, too, but I could take or leave most of the others.
http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57268
Never said she sold there.
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Sorry. Totally my fault for reading into what you wrote. I suppose I am so used to everyone on this blog saying idiotic things, I expect it (idiocy) and don't consider other explanations. This one was all my idiocy though. *sigh*
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work.
Holy shit, literally, I just took a dump and it was like giving birth to a whale.
Oh yes, laurasmommy or whatever is not a good scrapper. I can't believe she is on any CT much less SSD.
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on.
September 22, 2011 8:27 PM
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This is just hateful. You might be a skinny/pretty girl on the outside, but you sure are ugly on the inside. WOW. just wow.
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work.
September 23, 2011 2:53 PM
^^^^
Sounds like someone with a personal issue. Can't say I blame you, because I don't think she is a nice girl. But I don't think her pages suck, really.
This is just hateful. You might be a skinny/pretty girl on the outside, but you sure are ugly on the inside. WOW. just wow.
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Really??? You're shocked that someone was crass on a SMACK BLOG? If you're so golden, why are YOU here on this blog? Enough w/ the holier-than-thou bullshit. Really, people, enough. I know I am not the only one who is tired of hearing it......
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on.
September 22, 2011 8:27 PM
You are an idiot. I am 120lbs and 5'5", and yet I rag like no tomorrow. It's a common part of PERIMENOPAUSE, bitch. Read up- you'll get there too unless your own shit rots and fall out one day. Or some poor doc yanks it out for you.
so you're just old?
http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57268
Never said she sold there.
September 23, 2011 10:54 AM
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Now this is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can't stand designers who sell in one store, barely hang out there except to promote their crap, but actually post and hang out at SSD. Stupid suck-ups. They all think they will get a designer spot in the store one day if they hang out there, I guess. But then, I guess SSD encouraged that behavior by giving spots to Jenn Barrette and Meghan Mullens, two of the original suck-ups who couldn't be bothered to make the stores where they actually sold their designs a better place to hang out.
Doesn't the owner of SSD see right through it? I do.
Really??? You're shocked that someone was crass on a SMACK BLOG? If you're so golden, why are YOU here on this blog? Enough w/ the holier-than-thou bullshit. Really, people, enough. I know I am not the only one who is tired of hearing it......
September 23, 2011 3:29 PM
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I'm not shocked, no. But I have a right to point it out if I think someone is being uglier than is really necessary. Just because this is a smack blog doesn't mean everyone has to be completely hideous, right? And no, I never said I was "so golden." I just don't think you have to be so mean and vicious to make a point.
http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57174
Speaking of sucking up... Why would she design stuff to match their QA when she's not even a designer there?
It's one thing to frequently share info about your life, thoughts, events, accomplishments, activities, photos and the occasional hardship on Facebook, a blog and in forums. It's a totally different story if you are constantly complaining or playing the victim card. In my experience, the people who seem chronically unhappy or see themselves as unlucky in life (enough to post frequently about it) are people to avoid. It is like a warning signal that they are likely a difficult person to be friends with or work with. But that's just my opinion.
As a designer who isn't in a top store ... seriously ... wth - I work my a$$ off - and do pretty well IMO. Who says a designer can't try to advance themselves in another forum? I think Jady Day would be a great fit at SSD. But stores like "that" want the designer to be begging.
I see nothing wrong with her trying to get in there. Her designs are gorgeous - and no - I'm not a fan/buyer/or anything - I just respect her as a fellow designer
I also think Jady Day's designs would be a good fit at SSD.
I have a hard time believing that the SSD team expects designers to kiss up to them in their forums if they want a spot. I would think if they have a design spot open and their best applicant is an amazing designer who is a good fit for their store they would accept her. Even if she doesn't brown nose in their forum. You take the best applicant for a spot, not the one who sucks up the best.
While I don't disagree Jady would be a good fit at SSD, I think you're dreaming if you don't think SSD only takes the people who hang out there. They absolutely do. I know of someone they passed over in favor of Jenn/Megan who is much more talented. But does not kiss their asses, so didn't get the spot.
Regardless, selling your designs in one store but hanging out in a competing store makes no sense from a business standpoint. It's like owning a hair salon, but getting your hair cut by someone else across the street, instead of one of your own stylists. You are basically telling people that its not worthwhile to shop in your store when you socialize with your competitors all the time.
so you're just old?
September 23, 2011 4:13 PM
Did you Google it the BIIIIIG word sweetie?
I'm getting there. And so will you. Time is a great equalizer. Your vocab might even improve.
While I don't disagree Jady would be a good fit at SSD, I think you're dreaming if you don't think SSD only takes the people who hang out there. They absolutely do. I know of someone they passed over in favor of Jenn/Megan who is much more talented. But does not kiss their asses, so didn't get the spot.
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Without knowing who that "passed over" designer is it's hard to say whether your point is valid. She might seem amazing to you, but nothing special to most other people.
I can tell you that a designer who actually wants to hang out in the forums and chat with customers is a rare find, of course that is taken into consideration when choosing new designers.
Fact!
I can tell you that a designer who actually wants to hang out in the forums and chat with customers is a rare find, of course that is taken into consideration when choosing new designers.
Fact!
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So true.
That said, though, I do still think it's bad form to be more active in another shop's forum than in your own. I would go so far as to say it's semi-strange to be super duper active in another shop's forum altogether... but not taboo. But you shouldn't ever be more active somewhere else than you are at "home". Just sayin.
CatScrap is falling apart. Many designers are leaving/have left.
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Who has left or is leaving? I haven't really seen a change on that list for quite a few months but I don't hang around enough to be certain.
yawn. Your heavy flows just mean you're a fat bitch who needs more exercise and less time on your fat ass in front of the computer with a donut in your mouth.
Let's move on.
September 22, 2011 8:27 PM
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This is just hateful. You might be a skinny/pretty girl on the outside, but you sure are ugly on the inside. WOW. just wow.
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That was hateful? It was stupid and childish, but I wouldn't say hateful, and yes, I am a fat cow but I don't have issues about it. Maybe you do?
You are an idiot. I am 120lbs and 5'5", and yet I rag like no tomorrow. It's a common part of PERIMENOPAUSE, bitch. Read up- you'll get there too unless your own shit rots and fall out one day. Or some poor doc yanks it out for you.
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Go and tell someone who cares. I don't care if you are 5 foot nothing and 300 lbs and have a light flow, I just don't freaking care!
I'm not shocked, no. But I have a right to point it out if I think someone is being uglier than is really necessary. Just because this is a smack blog doesn't mean everyone has to be completely hideous, right? And no, I never said I was "so golden." I just don't think you have to be so mean and vicious to make a point.
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Are you serious? The original statement wasn't that ugly, nor hideous, mean and vicious. I've seen much, much worse on this blog and yet you haven't pointed it out. I know this, because some of those really vicious things have never been pointed out as being such. Unless it's me doing it.
Regardless, selling your designs in one store but hanging out in a competing store makes no sense from a business standpoint. It's like owning a hair salon, but getting your hair cut by someone else across the street, instead of one of your own stylists. You are basically telling people that its not worthwhile to shop in your store when you socialize with your competitors all the time.
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Word.
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work.
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Isnt that SM's buddy?
I can tell you that a designer who actually wants to hang out in the forums and chat with customers is a rare find, of course that is taken into consideration when choosing new designers.
Fact!
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As a designer, I think it's super important to interact with members of the community. If I were a store owner, I'd definitely be checking to see if new designer applicants are active in their store forums. But, I'd be interested in designers who are loyal, supportive and actively promoting their OWN team. In their own store's forum. Not in another store's forum.
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work.
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I don't know her from Adam, so I checked her pages. I can't see anything wrong with them. They aren't terrible.
They probably gave her a spot because she's an active scrapper and participant. How dare they!
Some of you are just so petty.
Speaking of SSD, I can't believe they gave Laura/emmasmommy a CT spot. Her pages are terrible. Classic "throw shit on a page to fulfill my CT obligation" work.
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Isnt that SM's buddy?
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Who is SM? (besides scrap matters)
As a designer, I think it's super important to interact with members of the community. If I were a store owner, I'd definitely be checking to see if new designer applicants are active in their store forums. But, I'd be interested in designers who are loyal, supportive and actively promoting their OWN team. In their own store's forum. Not in another store's forum.
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Amen, amen, and amen. Oh, and amen.
Speaking of Allison Pennington, she's vacating Catscrap, too. Just read it on her FB page. Anyone know where she is headed?
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I'm guessing TLP since she's guesting there right now, maybe even for her 2nd time (or at least 2nd month). Probably a good move for her, if so.
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Who else is leaving?
Would it be so hard to post a new thread every other week???
It's such a pain to scroll thru 2200 comments.
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dude i don't literally "scroll thru 2200 comments" (sorry, poor choice of words to use in the above post), i do go the the "newest" page, BUT it's still a LOT of comments to have in one thread.
it just seems like the blog owner here doesn't have much interest in this blog if she/he can't even take time to start a new thread at least once a month.
i think more people would take time to read & comment here if the blog was updated more frequently.
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Why do you think that more people would read and comment and why do you even think that would be necessary?
Not being snarky, just asking.
Off the top of my head Lauren Grier. Who doesn't know about every break up, kid problem, medical problem and more in her life? Libby whatever her last name is now and every detail of her pregnancy? Isn't Jadyday always asking for prayers for something too and blabbing about depression at the sweetshop?
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I wouldn't know. I don't hang around the SSD forums.
dude i don't literally "scroll thru 2200 comments" (sorry, poor choice of words to use in the above post), i do go the the "newest" page, BUT it's still a LOT of comments to have in one thread.
it just seems like the blog owner here doesn't have much interest in this blog if she/he can't even take time to start a new thread at least once a month.
i think more people would take time to read & comment here if the blog was updated more frequently.
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IMO, it doesn't matter whether a thread/space has 200 comments or 20,000. Once you're at the "Newest" page, you're always dealing w/ somewhere btwn 1-200 comments. No matter what. So why should it matter if it's a lot of comments in one space? Immaterial.
As for your last comment about frequency of use based on that... well that's just ridiculous. For real.
I think a new space once a month would be nice though. That way if say you're wondering what was said about a particular blog train you can just go to that month's thread instead of having to sift through all the comments for something that may have been discussed in the middle.
I think emmasmommy's layouts are fine. They're not "works of art" but they seem to be her thoughts, her day, her kids, her story. Isn't that what scrapping is supposed to be about? Making memories. You'd really hate my gallery then. I used pictures of my *gasp* own family and write about things I believe in, like God, just like her. And no, I'm not her, don't know her, never hang out at SSD, etc. etc. Her pages look like she uses templates - which the majority of scrappers use.
Are you serious? The original statement wasn't that ugly, nor hideous, mean and vicious. I've seen much, much worse on this blog and yet you haven't pointed it out. I know this, because some of those really vicious things have never been pointed out as being such. Unless it's me doing it.
September 23, 2011 8:00 PM
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You know, you can argue with me about the sky being blue, but that doesn't mean it's not blue. Just because you don't think the "fat cow in front of a computer with a donut in her mouth" comment wasn't especially nasty does not mean that it wasn't. It's my opinion that it was and I stand by that opinion.
As a designer, I think it's super important to interact with members of the community. If I were a store owner, I'd definitely be checking to see if new designer applicants are active in their store forums. But, I'd be interested in designers who are loyal, supportive and actively promoting their OWN team. In their own store's forum. Not in another store's forum.
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Amen, amen, and amen. Oh, and amen.
September 23, 2011 10:04 PM
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Agree 100%
Taking someone who is active in your own forum when they are selling somewhere else and aren't active where they sell makes no sense. Someday, there could be a new "it" place to hang out. And I'd expect them to repeat the same behavior. They'll go hang out over there, kissing people's asses in order to move up to that store.
If I were a store owner, I would look to see what a designer's habits are in the store where she currently sells her designs. Does she hang out/interact in that store's forum? Does she leave comments on the layouts people make with her designs? Does she release new products regularly? If the answer is yes to all of that, then she would be likely to repeat that behavior in my store if I hired her. I might even make a purchase to see if I get a thank you email (so few designers do that and I'm always impressed when I find one that does).
But, see, I've never been impressed with fake ass kissers, anyway. I see right through it. Not all people do. I guess some people love an ass kisser because it makes them feel important, but I just think it's fake fake fake.
You know, you can argue with me about the sky being blue, but that doesn't mean it's not blue. Just because you don't think the "fat cow in front of a computer with a donut in her mouth" comment wasn't especially nasty does not mean that it wasn't. It's my opinion that it was and I stand by that opinion.
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I don't see it being any nastier than talking about blood clots and how many units of blood you go through during your period. Some people find it just as offensive to talk about your bodily functions as it is to call someone names.
I don't see it being any nastier than talking about blood clots and how many units of blood you go through during your period. Some people find it just as offensive to talk about your bodily functions as it is to call someone names.
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...or moreso. WhoTF thought it was a good idea to start the whole period discussion anyway? Foul.
I don't see it being any nastier than talking about blood clots and how many units of blood you go through during your period. Some people find it just as offensive to talk about your bodily functions as it is to call someone names.
September 24, 2011 2:43 PM
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I agree with that. I guess I could have taken exception to the whole topic of conversation, too. But I just decided to ignore it, instead.
Even if I had addressed it, I wouldn't have felt the need to call someone fat and tell her to lose weight or stop sitting in front of her computer with a donut in her mouth. The conversation was foul, yes. But those comments were just rude/mean. Two wrongs don't make a right.
OK, shut up already about what's mean, what's foul, etc etc. Who cares?
Now this is what I came here for. This is seriously an ugly kit. Don't always love her stuff, but this shocked me today. Dark elements, dark papers. Gross colors (puke brown/green?) I'm amazed her CT was even able to scrap with it, but I don't like any of the layouts, either. Well, the one layout with the plaid background is just okay, I guess. Serious miss on this one:
http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=22317&cat=455&page=3
how many sleeping pills would one have to ingest to not wake back up?
It's very dark. It would be hard for me to use that kit.
how many sleeping pills would one have to ingest to not wake back up?
September 24, 2011 3:58 PM
What The Fuck.
If you are depressed, get help. Don't be a selfish ass and hurt people that care about you.
I might even make a purchase to see if I get a thank you email (so few designers do that and I'm always impressed when I find one that does).
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Not every store allows designers to do this. They consider the customer's email address theirs, not the designers. So, don't discount designers who don't send thank yous. It's not always within their control.
Now this is what I came here for. This is seriously an ugly kit. Don't always love her stuff, but this shocked me today. Dark elements, dark papers. Gross colors (puke brown/green?) I'm amazed her CT was even able to scrap with it, but I don't like any of the layouts, either. Well, the one layout with the plaid background is just okay, I guess. Serious miss on this one:
http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=22317&cat=455&page=3
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IMO, obviously she was just trying to figure out a way to use that new CU peacock feather that Something Blue Studios released earlier this week at Catscrap (and fast! so her kit could be the first one to use it! hurry! hurry!)... so she pulled colors from the feather in PS, and threw together a kit. And the verdict is that it's awful.
Oooops I stand corrected, I just checked the kit preview against the CU feather preview and they're actually different feathers. The bad news is: there is now no plausible explanation for why Barrette threw that kit together. *sigh*
how many sleeping pills would one have to ingest to not wake back up?
September 24, 2011 3:58 PM
What The Fuck.
If you are depressed, get help. Don't be a selfish ass and hurt people that care about you.
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To the OP, I am guessing that you are just messing w/ the crowd here at the blog for shits and giggles. If so, please stop. Some of us have lost friends/family due to this very thing, and it's not EVER funny to joke about.
If, however, you're actually depressed and seeking "advice": please follow the advice of the PP and get some help. Don't ruin the lives of everyone who loves you (and yes, there are surely many!) just because you feel that your life is messed up/ruined. Everything is changeable. Except for that kit by Barrette.
Except for that kit by Barrette.
September 24, 2011 7:01 PM
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LOL. Witty!
how many sleeping pills would one have to ingest to not wake back up?
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Dunno, depends on whether you use sleeping pills on a regular basis or not. I'd say the whole bottle, or not.
'm amazed her CT was even able to scrap with it, but I don't like any of the layouts, either. Well, the one layout with the plaid background is just okay, I guess.
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Weird, I thought that was one of the worst. I liked the other layouts much better.
how many sleeping pills would one have to ingest to not wake back up?
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Dunno, depends on whether you use sleeping pills on a regular basis or not. I'd say the whole bottle, or not.
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what the hell? Don't even joke.
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why not? The OP is probably laughing at your over reactions of 'oh please don't'. I'm not going to play into that.
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If you have had anyone close to you do this, you wouldn't be joking. It doesn't matter if the op is laughing at my reaction, there is no way I am going to encourage just in case.
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I have which is why it's not going to bother me if some anon is carrying on about it on a blog.
Why get so worked up about it? It's not worth it.
a new space once a month would be nice though. That way if say you're wondering what was said about a particular blog train you can just go to that month's thread instead of having to sift through all the comments for something that may have been discussed in the middle.
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yes, once a month would be fine if it was updated on a consistent basis
It's a smack blog, not a forum.
So what's that got to do with anything?
Pills are a terrible way to kill yourself.
Perhaps she (the one asking about sleeping pills) is someone that you were just bashing like oh say Jenn B's fugly kit? I find it very interesting that the next post after someone pointed out her kit that there is a post about sleeping pills, trying to divert the conversation away from the kit in question
Who cares?
The only thing that poster wanted was attention and you all gave it to her.
Moving on..
Perhaps she (the one asking about sleeping pills) is someone that you were just bashing like oh say Jenn B's fugly kit? I find it very interesting that the next post after someone pointed out her kit that there is a post about sleeping pills, trying to divert the conversation away from the kit in question
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Another reason the next poster's comment (about nothing is unchangeable... except Barrette's kit) was so funny. If it really was an attention diversion (the pill talk), then whoever wrote that got the kit right back in there again. LOL
Not to change the subject - but is anybody actually buying anything anymore or are you designers just buying each other's CU?
I haven't bought anything in a while 'cause I'm flat broke!
I'm barely selling anything anymore - is it just me?
I buy a kit every week or two if the mood strikes. While a scrapper can get by on just freebies if she wants to (from blogs, facebook, in forums for challenges, etc.), there's also nothing like a real, actual kit that isn't just thrown together and from which you can truly scrap multiple pages. So yes, I still buy sometimes. As for my sales lately, though, they are a little slow. It'd be interesting to take an industry-wide poll on that issue. Impossible, but interesting.
I'm barely selling anything anymore - is it just me?
September 25, 2011 3:42 PM
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Are you at a top store? Or regular?
Are you at a top store? Or regular?
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I guess that would depend upon your definition of 'top store' but yes, it's a popular store and I'm a regular designer. Sales have really slumped. Is it the economy or is the market just saturated with too much free stuff?
is anybody actually buying anything anymore or are you designers just buying each other's CU?
I wondered this too.
Although some people here get uptight if you ask too many questions about how well CU designers do in sales.
I'm looking at one of my best months ever.
liar
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Do you sell kits or CU, or if both what's selling? the CU I assume.
Look, I know this seems like a nosey question, so I'm glad that this is anon but I just don't see sales for PU kits being that great anymore. The people that buy have full EHDs already and it doesn't seem like digital is really taking off. The economy is bad - really bad so that might have something to do with it.
Would it be too much to ask if people would just be kind of honest here and let us know if they're being affect too?
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My long comment wasn't to the 'liar' it was for the chick above her.
My sales, while not my very best, are very solid. I sell PU, not CU.
I sell at my personal store only and have had a decent month. I'm not a 'well known' designer, but have participated in blog trains that have apparently given me some good exposure.
As the original poster, I'm not a liar, and I sell only PU. I am doing well for me but have heard from others that sales are down all around.
I'm still waiting to hear who has left or is leaving CatScrap.
I see that someone mentioned Allison, but that's only one, not many as was stated earlier by someone.
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What's well for you? You can be honest, this is anon remember?
but also because I don't think EZ's style is very Catscrappy.
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I just checked her style, she seems to fit right in. Not that different from Aja or Little Butterfly Wings or Cheeky Monkey or even Creashens, they all seem to have a similar style.
Speaking of Creashens, I normally like whta she makes, but the heck was she thinking with these?
http://www.catscrap.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=19224&cat=0&page=1
http://www.catscrap.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=19225&cat=0&page=1
Aside from being truly hideous, they aree dirt simple to make yourself.
Speaking of Creashens, I normally like whta she makes, but the heck was she thinking with these?
http://www.catscrap.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=19224&cat=0&page=1
http://www.catscrap.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=19225&cat=0&page=1
Aside from being truly hideous, they aree dirt simple to make yourself.
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eww, one is fine in a kit but a whole slew of them is just too much!
This month's sales have been steady for me, too. I sell PU, not CU.
I've been playing around and just created an action to make your own composition book cover, including the spine and a label.
Not at a top store - and things have been steady - climbing from over the summer - I sell PU
Ive spent more this month than the past 6mths put together, simply cause Im getting albums ready for xmas gifts. Im not a designer or on a CT. I purchased a variety of kits from what I consider a top store(oscraps). And I will make them do multi pages (travel album will be over 40pgs)
To the person who asked about pills...
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Please get help. No matter how bad it is today there is always another day, things will get better. Please take a chance on life.
I'm really disgusted that nobody else posted anything potentially helpful for the person that cried out. You should always take this type of thing seriously...you just never know.
I've been playing around and just created an action to make your own composition book cover, including the spine and a label.
September 26, 2011 2:48 AM
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Well didn't you just hang the moon. I guess we will know who you are when you put the action in your shop.
Well didn't you just hang the moon. I guess we will know who you are when you put the action in your shop.
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I was just thinking this same thing, LOL.
Sales Stink. The Economy Stinks. There are too many designers and too many stores. Does that answer your question? Yes, I'm sure that some are still doing ok but for most the money is no longer there, at least the kind of money many of us were making a year or even two years ago. Like others it's time to think about moving on.
Sales Stink. The Economy Stinks. There are too many designers and too many stores. Does that answer your question? Yes, I'm sure that some are still doing ok but for most the money is no longer there, at least the kind of money many of us were making a year or even two years ago. Like others it's time to think about moving on.
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You go ahead and move on. I'm not in this for the money. I do it for a stress relief and the money I get is a bonus.
I'm really disgusted that nobody else posted anything potentially helpful for the person that cried out. You should always take this type of thing seriously...you just never know.
September 26, 2011 6:01 AM
And we don't care. If someone wants to off themselves, they will and there is nothing anyone can do about it. If they come here on a smack blog making some sort of out there comment, they only want attention. Period.
Maybe you should worry about saving all the enslaved, starving, oppressed, etc people of the world who WANT to live instead.
I'm really disgusted that nobody else posted anything potentially helpful for the person that cried out. You should always take this type of thing seriously...you just never know.
September 26, 2011 6:01 AM
And we don't care. If someone wants to off themselves, they will and there is nothing anyone can do about it. If they come here on a smack blog making some sort of out there comment, they only want attention. Period.
Maybe you should worry about saving all the enslaved, starving, oppressed, etc people of the world who WANT to live instead.
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Wow. I didn't necessarily agree w/ the way the first poster admonished everyone here for not "trying hard enough to help" (although her point is very valid... you should always treat these things as though they are serious, just in case they are). But I can't believe you'd bother posting something so nasty and uneducated in response. And yes I know, I know, "it's a smack blog!" News flash! I am well aware of that. I also think it's in poor taste to say something like "If someone wants to off themselves, they will and there is nothing anyone can do about it." If this were true, suicide victims would NEVER bother to write a note, and NEVER bother to reach out (even if in a forum or blog or through an anon call to a hotline). They're testing to see if anyone cares. If they were going to do it regardless, they would never bother testing.
None of what I just wrote is truly in response to any of this here (I still maintain that the OP was just trying to mess w/ everyone here), but I am just hopeful that the rest of you don't REALLY believe the bullshit the PP just wrote about "nothing you can do can help," for your everyday lives. It's simply not true.
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The kits at the big stores have gotten prohibitively expensive. I am not going to get into a discussion on whether they are worth it or not, I am just saying I have dropped down to less expensive stores where I can get a full kit for half price.
So yes, I believe one lady here could be having a great month (selling more kits at a lower price point) and one lady, more established perhaps, could be dying on the vine.
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they are dirt simple to make yourself.
I am not buying anything I can make myself unless it is bundled in a kit I want.
They're testing to see if anyone cares.
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Any person who needs to do this can do the world a favor. There are far too many people in the world as it is. At least give the resources to people who want them and will do more with their lives than sit around and "test" people to see if they love them. What a bunch of shit that is.
Why don't you take your feelings of guilt that you couldn't save someone elsewhere.
The kits at the big stores have gotten prohibitively expensive. I am not going to get into a discussion on whether they are worth it or not, I am just saying I have dropped down to less expensive stores where I can get a full kit for half price.
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It is a bit interesting to see how people will consider a $10 kit too expensive. I guess we got used to lower prices, but if you look at the advantages of digital kits, maybe it would change the perception. Scrappers might be the types to scrap once, maybe twice with a kit and then discard it? if so, maybe $10 for a kit would be too much ($10 is only a hypothetical price). But look at the fact that you can use the papers and elements multiple times, and with some knowledge of your program, you might make something "new" out of supplies you already have.
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Just guessing but you're probably one of the designers who sell at a higher price point and this is your justification why it's ok to charge a high price. It's your business to charge what you want for what you've designed. However, you can't justify people into spending a high price if they don't want to/don't think it's worth it.
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Wrong. I sell in my own personal store. I agree that the price a person is ready to pay depends on the value they perceive it to be, but I think that looking at all the freebies, the extreme sales, and the huge collabs available to the digiscrappers, the "average" price has been going down, so of course, something twice the price will look too high. But I think that is the problem: the scrappers have been "trained" to look for the lower price and will pass on other products that, looking from a different angle, would actually be reasonably price.
It just depends on the angle you look at it: from the freebie/rock bottom sale, a $10 price will be high; from the paper scrapping world, a $10 kit that can be used 10 times creatively is not so expensive. So, literally, where are you coming from?
This hasn't been my best month ever, but it has been an above-average month. Over the last six months, I've averaged about $2500 a month. As of right now, I've sold about $3200 this month.
I don't know about the market being "down" but I am making more money this year than I thought I would, knowing how the economy has been. Maybe you are pricing your products too high if your sales have slumped?
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I would guess that your average is far more than most designers' average. You might be in the top 2% that makes above $1000. I am doing GREAT when I make $500 in a month and I know that most designers don't do close to that.
Maybe make an anon poll in here? there is one on the side about whether one supports DST or not. How about putting one with income?
Oops... just realized that the poll about DST is not there on the side anymore. I am sure it was before!
Well didn't you just hang the moon. I guess we will know who you are when you put the action in your shop.
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Since I don't sell in a shop I guess you'll just never know, will you?
I'm really disgusted that nobody else posted anything potentially helpful for the person that cried out. You should always take this type of thing seriously...you just never know.
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Go ahead and be disgusted. I'm too busy looking after the people in my life who are having problems, I really don't have time for people that I don't know.
They're testing to see if anyone cares.
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Any person who needs to do this can do the world a favor. There are far too many people in the world as it is. At least give the resources to people who want them and will do more with their lives than sit around and "test" people to see if they love them. What a bunch of shit that is.
Why don't you take your feelings of guilt that you couldn't save someone elsewhere.
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Why don't YOU take your callous disregard for human suffering elsewhere. You clearly have no understanding of what it's like to be in pain that you have NO control over. You talk as if a person who is suicidal can just wake up and think, 'Oh, wow, I am not starving in Africa, I suddenly don't have this mind-numbing grief anymore!' It's an illness, people aren't thinking clearly and they need help. They aren't just being selfish and manipulative.
As for doing the world a favor ... the children of a mother who ends her own life don't feel like it's a favor ... the wife of a husband who takes his life doesn't feel like it's a favor ... the parents of a teenager don't feel like it's favor ... the impact of one suicide doesn't just rid the world of that one person, it has a very huge, very real, impact on the entire community around that person ....real people have to deal with the losses. So yes, if there is a tiny chance that someone who is suicidal can be helped ... it's worth it.
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