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Thats me today. I do not want to play. Is it naptime yet?

sponsors to list on our sidebar and i am done w/ those for the august stuff. WWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO.

Oh yeah. We are full of them….no, not hot air, surprises! We are gonna run you a contest just because we love you. And this is a product we could not resist sharing.

I just moved into a new house in March. Those of you that know me online, know I had this ridiculous fire in January, got of the military in Feb, and moved cross country, and  FINALLY got a new house in March (woo hoo), but its now July and the walls are empty. Its sad. Whats worse is we have the pictures for the walls sitting AGAINST the wall where they SHOULD go and they just lean there. My Dh said he “lost his box of nails”. To his credit, I walked down the hall this week and one was finally up. So…its a start?

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These are two of my personal favorites:

and

You think they could make one I could put over the toilet paper roll that says “Don’t leave me empty”?

To Enter: We are going to make this fun. You can enter as many times as you want. Yep, you heard that right. But to keep it fair, here are the stipulations.

Your first post MUST be you going to their ETSY store or WEBSITE and telling us..which artwork you want..where would you spend it. Would you personalize? Do you have something you like already there?

Your 2nd post MUST be you telling your users about their site and linking either their etsy or their store on your page and dropping the link here for us to see.

After that, you may enter as many times, in as many comments as you want, as long as they are at least one sentence long. Not one word, one sentence. You can say “My cat just took a crap” and that counts…but “cat. crap.” does not.  Each full sentence that is in a separate comment, will be allowed as long as you have completed the first two. So if you want to enter 500 times..knock yourself out.

This contest will be pulled on July 31st, the same as the Bambina Ballerina contest.

Have fun and if you are looking for Vinyl artwork for your car or home, please consider our sponsor, who has beautiful products.

trisha

[private](here is the first backpost and the 2nd follow up backpost prior to this so it makes sense)

Btw, i am so so so sorry for this. I have no where to vent right now. I am not used to blog stalkers. I wont be using this blog for this crap when we open.

Anyway, I spoke to my REAL customer Jennifer and she said that it was NOT her that did it (and that she was really pleased) and I dont have any recent Jennifers that I can see in any of my orders, nor can I remember a past situation that involved any damaged items, other then an item that I did replace for someone that was the wrong color and we got that all resolved and I made sure she was happy. I even paid for her to ship me the item back, which she said she totally understood the situation and wouldnt even take my shipping refund.

So i went to look at the report again, and its filed by a Brenda- but its signed by a Jennifer. At the time Brenda Submitted: 7/23/2008 2:44:22 PM

But then MINUTES later its updated by that blogger:

Kailasmommy  Submitted: 7/23/2008 2:47:24 PM

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SO i filed a rebuttal on the site including the emails and of course, posted that all here.

Remember I wrote that big long post the other day about a blogger that was giving away her giveaway to friends and all of that and then Toni wrote about her situation with her? Well, she stalks this blog still. She is pissed we wrote about it and even wanted Toni to remove hers, which she wont. So when she saw that this thing had happened to me, she used it as a way to exact revenge on us.

This blogger went to the page where the customer wrote the complaint and she filed a FAKE complaint under it. I am going to copy it here. You will probably all know who is insane blogger is. She is STALKING ME. She used this situation from here. UNREAL.

This is what it says:

Kailasmommy

Beaverton, Oregon
U.S.A.

I have seen this online site and feel it is way over priced. Word on the net is this woman is crazy!

Kailasmommy

Beaverton, Oregon
U.S.A.
Need To Add

I have also purcahsed from this site. While I feel in love with her items online, in person there was glue all over the place. The tule looked like a cat got to it. Just be aware items are not given as shown online.

____________________________________________________________________________________

So which is it KRISTIN….you bought from me (btw, she has not)   Or you have SEEN the site? Get your fake lie straight. LOL

So now I have a blog stalker. Awesome.  Can you believe companies are giving products to this blogger to give away to her friends and sister online?  I am usually above that, but I dont feel above that right now.

What is great, is I didnt even have to tell yall who that blogger was the other day involved, because by putting up something fake on a consumer site about me, she just made herself involved and yall can see that not only the claims Toni and I made regarding her site (which btw, we did not use her name or site name at the time out of courtesy, but it didnt prevent some of you of knowing who it was anyway), but now you can see for yourself that she is a liar, so basically she just called herself out.

Kristin, it would have been a lot smarter to change your location and your childs name. In fact, I cant believe you used your childs name in a screen name on a lie. Pathetic. We highly recommend you remove ALL LINKS TO THIS PERSONS BLOG FROM YOURS!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for taking the time to prove that you are crazy for the blogging world. I think you exacted revenge on yourself.

Now I call that some good Karma.

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If you have a contest, please feel free to put it in the comments!

trisha

[private]I own an online business. I do business all accross the US and yes, I have made mistakes. Its just me here working and I have a 3.5 year old and its hard, really hard, to run an online business and get things out, get everyones requests perfect, etc. Sometimes things go wrong. I have accidentally sent out the wrong bowholder to someone, I have left off customizations, and once I even sent the wrong tulle color by accident.

When those mistakes happen, and I have had the business for a year so they will happen, I am very apologetic. I refund any money involved for extra items they recieved and pay for shipping back to me, and send the fixed item out. If a minor mistake was made, like I did recently, I offer a cash back refund that is comparable to what they are missing. I have probably made 5 mistakes in a year..so not too bad.

Last week was one of those mistakes. Someone ordered a bowholder with “double” bows, meaning add a bow on top of a bow. My up charge is $1. I overlooked that. She wrote me when she got it and our exchanges are as follows:

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:37:53 -0700
> From: blacked out email
> Subject: RE: C5290749: New client order
> To: bambinaballerina@hotmail.com
>
> Trisha,
> I received the bow holder today and it’s very cute;
> however, I paid for double front bows and it only has
> single front bows. Thanks.
>
> Jennifer

My reply was:

She then sent me her paypal and just said she was dissapointed. I cant find this email. I then refunded her the $1 and sent her this:

>
> Jennifer, Again, I apologize. It was an oversight. I
> work w/ a 3.5 year old in the house and sometimes
> things get past me becuase it so up and down…I
> dont get more then 30 min at a time to work on
> something before I am running around again, lol. I
> have refunded you. All you need to do is pick up a
> yard worth of ivory or white satin double face
> ribbon at Hobby Lobby, JoAnns, or Micheals and tie
> in a bow and use a little hot glue to secure on the
> front.
> Sincerely,
> trisha>

She then replied:

Trisha,
It's not a big deal at all. I understand because I
have a daughter that will be 3 next month and trying
to get anything done is sometimes crazy. Thanks for
the refund and I'll be back to shop again! 

Jennifer

Ok, got that? I get an email tonight from a company..she, today, filed a “rip off report” against me and this is what it says

I ordered a bow holder and not only was I charged a very unfair ammount for shipping but the items were damaged and not seen as online. For as much money as I paid I would have expected better service. I recieved rude emails from the owner and finally I just let it go.

I sugeest you NEVER buy from this online site!

Jennifer
Dallas, Texas
U.S.A.

Uh. What? I was NOT rude! I refunded her and explained the mistake. It was a BOW. I even let her know where to go to get it and how to put it on the bowholder. A bow. She filed all that against me for a $1 of a bow and after she said she would buy from me again and “understood”. She didnt say a THING about a “damaged item” to me and even stated it was cute. And shipping? I want to say that you know a sites shipping charges BEFORE you purchase. I charged $8 priority mail shipping. Thats what it COSTS me. I charge $10 to CA, because that is what the USPS COSTS ME to ship priority mail there. Those are not costs I can change. I am a small business, I dont get corporate shipping rates from the USPS, I get the same as any Joe Schmoe gets.

Can someone tell me if I deserved that filing after reading our email exchanges? Do you know this site NEVER REMOVES a report even if I send them this information? And to top it off, now some company is stalking me trying to get me to pay them $500 to remove it and I didnt do anything even wrong.

My blood pressure is going insane.[/private]