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

Floral Challenge over at Paper Imagery Designs Yahoo Group

Paper Imagery Designs challenges are great!! For these challenges you need to use a PID image and post your art using the theme given. There is usually a freebie image posted for some to use but you must be a part of the yahoo group to play. SO many people are playing and having a great time displaying their artistic talents.

Here is my Floral Challenge piece. I used Nia from Paper Imagery Designs and painted a 4×5 canvas board with paints, inks, embossing powder and glitter paint. The frame is a die cut that you will be able purchase from PID very soon.

To Play along you need to join our Yahoo group and start creating!!!

July 1, 2008 will begin our Official Grand Opening MONTH!

We have many many prizes that will be given away. These prizes are not only collage sheets but other products that we have received. The drawings of these prizes will be randomly drawn from our membership through out the month of JULY. These prizes are only for the members of the PAPER IMAGERY DESIGNS YAHOO GROUP. Estimated value of the prizes is over $300.00 (could grow even more)!!! The prize packages will be a minimum of $30 (maybe more)
each to spread to many members of our group and you can only win once!

BUT>>>>>>FIRST>>>>> You need to join the group to find out how YOU can win!! Once you join refer someone to the group your name then gets placed in another drawing for referring the most people!!

1 comment June 24, 2008

Did you know…

That if you belong to Paper Imagery Designs Yahoo group you will receive a discount off the cover price of Altered Arts Magazine?

That’s right! So come on over and join, reserve your copy… we only order so many and they went in the first week.

The next issue will be coming out July 2008.

We are having trivia contests and giving away free sheets! Don’t miss out on all the fun, frolic and most importantly the sharing of some gorgeous art work using our collage sheets.

You can see our sheets here:

Paper Imagery Designs Collage Sheets

We are still running our BOGO sale…Buy one, get one free! It will end soon so don’t miss out. Make sure you also check out the Maya Road products we are carrying now.

1 comment June 6, 2008

Have you joined Paper Imagery Designs Yahoo group?

Yes we have a new Yahoo group for Paper Imagery Designs and we are having trivia contests giving away free sheets!! You don’t have to have our collage sheets to join our group. You can WIN some!!

Big plans for our grand opening of our group coming mid June so don’t miss out on all the fun and prizes that we will be offering.

Click here to join!

1 comment June 4, 2008