What the Heck!

The other day I received an email from my daughter who is an author at my blog@blogger telling her that MY blog was thought to be a spammer blog.  their little “robots” were doing their job?  HUH???  Excuse me but do you think that they would contact the OWNER of the blog?  OH NO!  That would be too hard to do.

I have this notice on my blog where you create your posts:

This blog has been locked by Blogger’s spam-prevention robots. You will not be able to publish your posts.

Blogger’s spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What’s a spam blog?) Since you’re an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on August 1, 2008. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Ok so this happened at 4:30 PM in the afternoon on the 31st of July and i acted immediately and they tell me they received my notice on the 1st of Aug?  Are they kidding me???  They don’t even have the right date unless they are located in Tim-Buck-Two!

So now I am waiting not so patiently for them to figure out how to unlock my blog.  I went to their so called help blogger and see that there are many more that this has happened to.  Hey I am all for ridding spammers but is my blog a spam?  I don’t think so.  I prefer blogger because I am used to it and I don’t want to redo my blog.  But WordPress makes it so easy to import your blog.  HA HA!

So maybe if I can con my daughter into fixing this one up and making it all pretty again and putting all my links and pics back on the sides then I just might stay here.  We shall see how long it takes for blogger to have their little mechanical robots undo their stupidity.

1 comment August 2, 2008

Gothic Arches Challenge

I have loved this site and not had the time to play and decided I needed to do something different so here is my entry for The Gothic Arches Challenge. Make sure you check out all the beautiful entries for this challenge. These gals are kicking it up a notch!

You can find the template for it here.

16 comments December 19, 2007

4 X 4 Friday Blue and Silver

There is always a first time for everything and I don’t think that I have ever made a 4 x 4 knowingly! I saw that the challenge for 4 x 4 Friday was blue and silver.

I messed around with my alcohol inks earlier for another challenge and had this background sitting on my desk and wanted to use the tree stamp on it. Well since I used photo paper and not glossy card stock I found out you cannot use your heat gun on it or it will bubble. Oops~

So I took a piece of reg. card stock and colored it with chalk inks and then stamped my image and used my silver embossing powder. TA DA!! That EP has been around in my stash for toooo many years not being used. I wish you could see the silver in the background using the alcohol inks but it just won’t scan!

I liked it so much I made it into a Christmas card! This only took about 5 minutes to do so I have some more of those silver “Merry Christmas” stickers so I will make up a few more cards to send out.

16 comments December 18, 2007

Snowflake Ornaments

Can you imagine that Christmas is just around the corner? This is sure going to be different for me this year. Living in NY most of my life I am used to lots of snow! Snowflakes all over the place. So since there is no snow in Las Vegas then I decided to make some snowflake ornaments!

These were fun to do! I wanted different colors of snowflakes that were nontraditional so I got out my supplies and experimented and was very happy with my results. Of course I had to leave one that looked more like a real snowflake! LOL!
The images that I used are all from Altered Pages.

11 comments October 26, 2007