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.

Starting today July 25th and ending July 31st there will be a HUGE Birthday Sale!! Whose Birthday is it? MINE so everyone can celebrate 15% off your TOTAL Order! This is my way of having a Birthday Party!!

That includes ALL products currently in our shop:

Tim Holtz NEW Stamps $16.96 after discount

Stampington Stamps from $12.00 to $15.00 after discount

Maya Road Products from $1.70 to $6.00 after discount

and most of our VERY Popular Collage Sheets as low as $1.70 each WOW!!!!

Use discount code happybirthday (one word) for this sale!!! You won’t get these cheaper anywhere else!! I guarantee it!!! If you have a problem with the shipping estimate we will reimburse your shipping difference!

Each month we have an ATC jackpot lottery and this month’s theme is red, white and blue. So here is my piece that I did. I bought a magnet that had all the red white and blue glitter on it and altered it. Punched some holes with my crop-a-dile (that thing is so awesome) and added the embellishments. The liberty sign was part of the magnet that I took off and relocated it.

More bird houses for the bird house mingle! OMG!!! I tell you this mingle is full of beautiful altered bird houses.

We also had a black and white challenge also and here is my piece that I did on a canvas panel.

We are having way too much fun! Join us if you like! We even supply some free images if you don’t have any yet!

My daughter Gennifer is also doing this with me. She is not a crafty person at all but when she said she would do this I said ALL RIGHT!!

So here is her first cake! Not bad al all!!!!

I forgot to take pics of the cute little clown cupcakes we made last week. Darn! Every one ate them before I got a chance to snap them! LOL!!

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!!

I feel bad doing this but I have more important things to do then have to go back and delete them. As long as we have the internet there will always be those low lives that have nothing better to do then spam an art blog!

Gesh! GET A LIFE!

The image is from Paper Imagery Designs and this is NIA!