Aug 16
Pink Saturday and Did You Know?
Posted by Melissa at 6:48 am in Antiques, Art, Blogging, Photography, Stuff

So, a couple of other ladies out there in Blog land are participating in Pink Saturday. I love pink, why am I not doing this? So, I am.

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  • click the pink doll to go to ‘How Sweet the Sound’ the blog that started Pink Saturday. You’ll find many other great blogs to visit.

Before I post pink pics, I wanted to clarify something. We all know, don’t we, that content on the internet is copyrighted, yes? When I post pictures from Flickr, I never ever, without first getting permission, put a picture on my blog that is copyrighted or doesn’t have the ‘blog this’ button available. I was at Author Suzanne McMinn’s site, Chickens in the Road, and she’s been plagiarized! I had to laugh. Not because she was copied, but because this other person is passing off someone else’s life experiences as her own! Now, I can understand, if you think you don’t write well you might be enamored with someone’s ability to build imagery, but come on! Surely you’ve lived enough life to where you don’t need to steal someone else’s? Now, I’ve gone to blogs and have seen someone write about something I thought would make a great topic, but I write from my perspective and do not use any of their words. This person had gone to Suzanne’s blog and copied text, verbatim, right from her posts. Writing IS hard. Don’t start a blog unless you have, or can find, something to say, and not take it from someone else’s life.

That said, sigh, here is a photo for Pink Saturday.

Hand painted pin and earrings, the type with screw backs. I can’t imagine painting something that small.

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  1. Beverly wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 6:57 am

    Happy Pink Saturday, Melissa. Please e-mail me, and I will send you information about posting.

    Your pin and earrings are just lovely. The painted work is so delicate.

  2. Joanna {sweet finds} wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 7:08 am

    Crazy. I would like to say I can’t imagine someone else doing that… But I know they do! Someone did it to Chez Fifi… We all read her blog. She so freakin’ popular. How silly is it to copy something word for word knowing there is a great chance another reader is going to figure it out. Doesn’t that wind up making you look like the silly duck when you get caught? Love the pin & earrings by the way. xoxo, Joanna

  3. Dawn wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 7:29 am

    I remember wearing some of those old screw back type of earring. Thanks for the memory!

    The earrings you shared are so pretty!

    Happy Pink Saturday,

    take care,
    Dawn

  4. g wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Welcome to Pink Saturday. Its very true, that online our creations are vulnerable. I haven’t worried about this yet, but your friend’s situation is weird.

    Love the delicate earrrings.

  5. Patti wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    Love those sweet earrings and pin! LOVE -LOVE- LOVE!
    Happy Pink Saturday!

  6. Tricia Arledge wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 10:16 am

    Love the earrings. The roses are a lot like the ones on the dishes I collect.

  7. Nikki wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Gorgeous set Melissa!

    It is rediculous that someone would copy, esp. when most of us run in the same “field” so to speak, so we’re bound to come across the copier and original at some point!

  8. Queen Goob wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Happy Pink Saturday! I took the plunge today as well and posted my first Pink Saturday.

    Amazing about the plagiarism…or rather not that amazing, huh. I guess I should copywriter my own photos, better go figure out how to do it.

  9. Miss Rhea wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    I love your pretty Pink Guilloche pin and earrings !! My best friend Sharon from Sweet Vintage Rose paints teeny tiny heart charms smaller than that. What an amazing art form. :) Your set is just perfect. :) Hey, thank you for the info on Dr. Oz, I couldn’t find anywhere to write to him directly. But I am having my reg. Dr get me a new referral for a second opinion. Well, I have just voiced how I feel about copying on my blog not too long ago, so I wont add anything to that, except how sad that is, for both the victim and the copier. Have a Great Pink Saturday !! :)

  10. joy wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    They are so elegant. I remember trying to wear some of my grandma’s screw-back earrings when I was young and they hurt the heck out of my earlobes.

  11. Kathy wrote:
    August 16th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    Beautiful set. Delicate, sweet, and pink.!
    Kathy

  12. Patricia wrote:
    August 17th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Love jewels for a Pink Saturday !!!

  13. Kathy Thacker wrote:
    August 18th, 2008 at 12:10 am

    Love the earrings and pin. It is hard keeping a blog going. I just started my 3rd. I must be nuts. I love the green checks on the comment page. Had never seen them before.Kathy

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