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Cookie drama. (Who would have guessed?!)
Oct. 4th, 2010 10:57 pmOn Thursday, I received an interesting cookie order possibility, and I set my mind to Creative Mode. I took a clipboard, paper, and a pen, and I sat on my front stoop outside for an hour or so while I sketched some designs. That same night, I refreshed my friends' list, only to have my jaw hit the floor! THAT was a fiasco late last week, for sure.
If you're not on Facebook with me, you probably don't know the story. A gal who had been on my friends' list for just over a month "created" some cookies using my designs. She posted them to her personal journal [which, of course, I see on my flist], and then cross-posted to several communities [which also popped up on my flist]. She gave no credit whatsoever for the design ideas, despite my pointing out another post of hers earlier in the week where she was copying another baker! THEN, when confronted on it, she "apologized" and claimed she didn't know they were my cookies, and that she had just found them through Google or Flickr. Riiiiiiigghht. [This is while she was an active reader/commenter of my journal through the previous month - the same period both of the original designs had been posted.] My friends stepped up in my defense, and she finally deleted all posts. However, she then began screening cookie-related posts in her own journal, rather than just unfriend me. I'm sure it best served her purpose to continue stealing ideas, though. I refused to play that game, so I just deleted her that evening.
She also added, "I'm sorry I found your photos online and thought they were worthy of my efforts." The real truth, however, is that she practically butchered my designs. For comparison, if you are interested:
my frog & boy (designed specifically for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_stacy)
hers
my trains (quickies for my neighbor's 2-year-old)
hers
Those are definitely HER pictures, by the way. (And they're locked to friends-only in my LJ.) I don't want anyone to think I'm denying her credit. *wink*
And that's the story. If you're not on my Facebook, however, go ahead and add me!
So, I baked some this weekend. I made a couple batches of cookies for two different orders, but I hesitate to show them off here again. Will they be straight-up copied without credit again? *sigh*
I'll keep my stuff public because it has really helped as far as getting a cookie business going. Plus, I like things public just like the other 99% of my journal. Since I can't stop the "Sally Stealers" of the world (thanks,posthaste), I'll just have to take the advice of a good friend: "Always be the innovator and stay one step ahead in the game. Then they just look like a cheap knock off."
Now I just need for the folks I mailed cookies to today to receive them so I can post! :-)
If you're not on Facebook with me, you probably don't know the story. A gal who had been on my friends' list for just over a month "created" some cookies using my designs. She posted them to her personal journal [which, of course, I see on my flist], and then cross-posted to several communities [which also popped up on my flist]. She gave no credit whatsoever for the design ideas, despite my pointing out another post of hers earlier in the week where she was copying another baker! THEN, when confronted on it, she "apologized" and claimed she didn't know they were my cookies, and that she had just found them through Google or Flickr. Riiiiiiigghht. [This is while she was an active reader/commenter of my journal through the previous month - the same period both of the original designs had been posted.] My friends stepped up in my defense, and she finally deleted all posts. However, she then began screening cookie-related posts in her own journal, rather than just unfriend me. I'm sure it best served her purpose to continue stealing ideas, though. I refused to play that game, so I just deleted her that evening.
She also added, "I'm sorry I found your photos online and thought they were worthy of my efforts." The real truth, however, is that she practically butchered my designs. For comparison, if you are interested:
my frog & boy (designed specifically for
_stacy)hers
my trains (quickies for my neighbor's 2-year-old)
hers
Those are definitely HER pictures, by the way. (And they're locked to friends-only in my LJ.) I don't want anyone to think I'm denying her credit. *wink*
And that's the story. If you're not on my Facebook, however, go ahead and add me!
So, I baked some this weekend. I made a couple batches of cookies for two different orders, but I hesitate to show them off here again. Will they be straight-up copied without credit again? *sigh*
I'll keep my stuff public because it has really helped as far as getting a cookie business going. Plus, I like things public just like the other 99% of my journal. Since I can't stop the "Sally Stealers" of the world (thanks,
posthaste), I'll just have to take the advice of a good friend: "Always be the innovator and stay one step ahead in the game. Then they just look like a cheap knock off."Now I just need for the folks I mailed cookies to today to receive them so I can post! :-)
