I get home after spending a stint in the hospital after getting severally dehydrated and delusional because I had been throwing up for 3 days non-stop oh and don't forget the diarrhea and the fact my husband missed a day of work, plus being up late several nights to help me while I was puking to be with in the emergency ward for two nights and a day, only discover that it was not a flu bug but a urinary tract or kidney infection causing all my illness I get to come home to the this hateful, hateful, email!
Subject: Isn't it ironic?
From :
Date : Tuesday, July 1, 2008 7:36 pm
To : Cora.Levesque@shaw.ca
We've been watching you and your designs for a long time and have noticed that you like to 'borrow' others design ideas... WELLLLLL guess what??? Someone has now copied YOURS!!!!!! And is claiming it as hers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)LOL We love that. We think you'll see it on Ravelry soon. Then tell us how it makes you feel!!!!!!!!!!!!
What goes around comes right back around...
Hope you can sleep tonight.
So to my hateful, spiteful friend I have this to say, GO AWAY! Didn't parents teach you that if you have nothing to say about anyone then don't say anything at all.
As to my friends once I am up and running, I will be back to more designing, however if this harassment continues I will be forced to sell my designs and not make them available for free. I chose to keep the persons name out of the email and I always say if people like to copy the work then it is a sign of a good designer, however I will be looking into copy write and talking to other designers. It states that these are my designs I have the originals safe with the date they were originally designed. Also, when I have been inspired by other designers I have Asked for permission from those designers to use their ideas and have stated that with in the design and have even posted a direct link to the original designers. They all have loved my take on there designs.
Sorry for ranting guys, oh and yes I did sleep well, when I wasn't throwing up and running to the bathroom every 5 minutes.
Cora
Hi, my name is Cora. I am a beginner designer and have a few patterns published at Cora Shaw on Ravelry (http://www.ravelry.com/designers/cora-shaw). I am married to a wonderful man. We are owned by 3 cats (Patches, Snowball & Pumpkin) as well as 3 dogs (Molly, Leo and Bear). I am dealing with End Stage Renal Failure and currently on dialysis.
Sounds like a very young writer there. Overuse of exclamation marks should be a hanging offence...
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