Crap - I did it again

I think some people need to chill about some of this stuff..... Granted it's close, but it's not a big deal. I personally think you're fine... but that's just me, I say go with your gut feeling.

Heck no!!!! Keep in mind "Nothing new under the sun(dress)". After a point there's only so much original stuff you can conjure up. I get a giggle with Lori Robbins' (I think it's her) randomized titles. Bonnie Blue makes perfect sense to me (and makes me think of Gone with the Wind). YOU know it's a coincidence, so don't sweat it.

KarenK

Thanks guys. I was thinking about Gone with the Wind when I created and named her. I'll leave her up and see what happens.

NO! You have your own style and your own ideas. Just because someone else had the same idea doesn't mean you can't use it! I haven't seen Anne or AMR, so I don't know what her dolls look like. If yours are similar, just keep working at it. Your work will take have a Stalia quality of it's own!

Nope. If she came up with it on her own, it is not out of the question that you did also. Tell her you are sorry for the inconvenience of thinking the same thing at the same time, but unless both people are going to cancel their auctions, it is not fair. And even then, it seems rather stupid.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

This is so ridiculous! Has there been any hassle from anyone other than the potential buyer that emailed you?

You old timers around here probably remember the sea monster swim rings I did about two years ago, right around the time I started doing duckies? Well, other people have been doing them, and very well I might add. But because they showed theirs at WC and I never showed mine there, I have figured I better not make them because people would think I copied.

I know, I know... Stupid. But it's grief I don't need, and it's not a design that I feel married to, if that makes sense. But it still makes me squirm that I feel that way.

Tink

Yes I've been hassled from others out there about the dolls.

I hate that squirm feeling too. I would love to see your sea monsters. :-)

Starlia, I wouldn't worry about it.

What I want to know is, why do people find it necessary to point out these episodes of "copying"? Who appointed them the Copy Police?

Ellen

As a matter of fact I think it's logical that similar spring related thoughts will come to mind in (almost) March.

Tina

What if you make a Sunflower Susie... I am sure some one will say you copied it. No I didn't look to see if there was one already. lol Pansy Patti, Lily of the Valley Lily, Daisy the Duke of Whatever. lol The way I look at it... if you are selling a blue beach ball and someone else is selling the same blue beach ball... would it matter who thought to sell it first or called it a blue beach ball? I was confronted on my Paua Shell and the name. Can you believe that? Did it stop me from calling my Paua shell Paua shell? Nope! lol Don't cancel your auction because someone else feels threaten by you and will possibly cut into thief profits. All your items in my eyes are yours... unless you stole a mold they had, and decide to start up an assembly line and mass produce dolls. :)) Not a bad idea though! lol Starlia's Warriors! :))

Harry

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Starlia's Warriors...you are too funny.

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Good grief Harry, I can't believe someone called you on calling Paua Shells Paua Shells... wait, I take that back, no matter where you are, there usually IS someone petty enough to do that. Well, we don't care what THEY say, you're still the Paua King to us! :) Well Spike TV won their case against Spike Lee, who said they couldn't use HIS name for their channel, so at least some ppl are realizing how silly some of this is.

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Everything old is new again. Back in the 40's or early

50's there was a minor country music singer named Bonnie Bluebell. So who's copying who? Barbara Dream Master

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. Woody Allen

There's Spike TV? Well, they ALL stole the name from my Spikey Boy, even though he's only 3!

Shhhhhhhhhhh, don't tell Spike there's Spike TV. That's all he'll want to watch.

Y'know, I can't tell you how many times I've made the same *sort* of thing at the same time as another artist, (usually seems to be Tink, LOL!) though usually the results are quite different looking. I think that a lot of us gain inspiration from similar sources, so if two different people happen to be exposed to, say, the first crocuses of Spring or the first hyacinth of Summer, or go to the store and see bluebonnet bulbs (are those bulbs or seeds?), then you end up with two seperate spontaneous conceptions of inspiration at the same time. It

*is* that time of year! Wasn't it Anne who taught you how to make the dolls? If it was, *she* must be OK with you making dolls, and the coincidence of making one in similar, springy garb is just that... coincidence. After all, it IS almost Spring!

-Kalera

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I don't recommend it. Has crappy commercials. And some really dumb shows. Striperella? Sheesh. I just watch the SciFi on it! :) Certainly not for 3 year olds!

Y'know, I can't tell you how many times I've made the same *sort* of thing at the same time as another artist, (usually seems to be Tink, LOL!)>

LOL - yes - with me it is Karen... she and I seem to be on the same wavelength sooooo often it's funny. Even funnier - I remember when she decided to move to AZ - and I told her where I lived there as a child. Sometimes people's lives and ways of thinking correlate sooo much. Sharon Peters and I once had a long email conversation - in which we speculated that we might have been twins separated at birth - and somebody changed a birthdate on a birth certificate! LOL (not really -just kidding)

Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

I watch the SciFi and CSI on Spike TV. But it's for the testosterone set..... ~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

I think Striperella is a hoot. We have only watched it a couple of times...but they are just dumb enough to be funny.