This piece brought tears to my eyes! Beautiful

This is so nice!

That has to be the best compliment ever Stephanie, thank you, and thank you Marianne :)

Wonderful!

Wishing you a wonderful Spring too!



Tried your link, but it looks like I have to be a member.



:-)

Hey Lise :) I've updated the link, maybe it works now but there is a chance you do need to be a member to access it..

Wow. I am absolutely stunned. I have had many ideas stolen from me over the years, which is heartbreaking enough, but this is just insane. I have seen so much brilliant work that I would LOVE to say was mine! And so many things I wish I dreamt of first, of course...we all do, but I find others works to be brilliant, and I love the fact that mine are atleast mine. How awful. Fight this. Fight it with all your might, as your work is YOU, no one else, and comes from your soul. @ newspapers by me are entangled in a lawsuit, where one blatantly copied the others' obituaries, down to the last comma, and refused to stop, which is what led to the lawsuit. We all want to live life peacefully, well, most of us, anyway, but on occasion, we must stand up for ourselves and fight for what's ours. Good luck, darling, and I hope this other artist learns their lesson.

That's terrible. It's too bad that people just can't just have pride in their own work.



Do you sign your work? That way no one can say they did it if your signature is on the actual piece.



Also, I tend to embed my online images with a © signature. That helps a bit.



But I do notice that lots of very famous artists do not do this & often have very large jpegs. I wonder how many of their images have been stolen off the internet & ended up in someone's portfolio. But perhaps they know that if the actual work is signed & been seen by lots of people then the on-line image doesn't count all that much?



Anyway, just some thoughts. I hope you can at least embarass them... perhaps put their names & links to their stolen images right on your website (or right next to your image) with comments like they must like it a lot to steal it & pretend that they are you? That's what I might do (I think) in this kind of situation...



Many blessings to you as you work this out.



Lise

Thank you Enchanted! Yes it is pretty insane. Somehow it seems that these people think what they do doesn't count somehow, that they are allowed to get away with it. Maybe the concept of distance, with me being in Norway. I mean she's tried to literally block me away, as if that's going to make me disappear somehow lol



Indeed I want this to end, at this point I've told everyone in every community that deals with hand made art, I just made a general post with the pictures and let everyone see it. Well my blog has so far received more hits than it has in months..



Most of the time these people don't thrive, at least from most of what I've seen and heard, they just get nowhere. In any case I'm taking even more precautions now than ever before because as you grow, so does the possibility of these things..



Lise, the one of a kind pieces which are the ones she has copied don't have an actual signature on the pendants but a badge with my initials attached to the necklace. The ones that haven't been sold are with me in any case, so there's plenty of proof really. It's just finding out what to do with it.



When an artist gets well known then it's definitely harder for anyone to impersonate them and get away with it, so unless someone's making money off stolen work, they probably don't make that much of an effort to stop them. That's my guess anyhow..



I am going for the embarrassment all the way lol, I made a blog post with the actual pictures and a detailed explanation to everything. It's so blatant that anyone who sees it feels what I feel right away, just as I would if I saw it done to anyone else!



And thank you :)

YOUR WORK IS BEAUTIFUL. I'M SO SORRY SOMEONE COPIED IT LET ALONE SOLD IT TOO. BESIDES BEING ILLEAGAL ITS JUST PLAIN SINFUL.

How excellent is this!?! Your stuff has always been wonderfully creative, full of detail, going beyond plain craft and into the exploration of what can be imagined.



What's "mazing" though...?

Thanks alot Tommy! It's really a milestone for me. Mazing is the boutique where I sell my jewellery at locally. So they got an article and the girls must've talked alot about me because of all the people they have on comission, they pretty much talked about my work.



And the rascals didn't say anything till I went there yesterday!



There'll be a fashion show tomorrow for the magazine, with local fashion and I've a feeling there's more they didn't tell me about. I'll have to find out when we go :)

Dear Lorianne, I see your fairy magic is spreading !

Well done ^_^