Thursday, March 14, 2013

A little progress on Winter Faeire Dreams

Here lately, I have been reading like crazy! I am not sure what came over me but I have found myself unable to put a book down and do some stitching. I did make good progress on my sweet little fairy: I got kicked out of the Mira group on Facebook yesterday. :( I am very upset about it, but there is nothing to be done. They were forcing us to sign a roll call with a statement in it that I could not agree to. After trying to reason with the admins, and making a post to explain why I couldn't sign it (I just wanted my friends to know why I would be disappearing), I was booted, within 5 minutes. It was very disturbing and upsetting. I actually still can't believe that it happened. I promise I am not a trouble maker. I have behaved according to the rules the entire time I have been a member, about a year I think it was. I understand they needed to see who was still an active member but the way they are doing it, and refusing to back off the statement they made, is just plain nuts! They told me they didn't mean it the way it sounded, it was just a play on words. If that was the case I think they would have been willing to reword for me, and others who were bothered by it. Since they didn't, I can only assume they DO mean it and the group is heading in a direction I don't wish to be a part of anyway. But I will miss it! I was there several times a day, had friends and so enjoyed looking at, and commenting on, everyones pics. Power abusers..I thought of that this morning. "We can boot her for not agreeing with us so lets do". Thats what happened, basically... Oh well, whining aside! I am still going to stitch Mira's of course, I am planning to buy the new one ASAP. There are other places to share and see pics that existed before that group so I guess its time to go back to the originals. :) Thanks for reading, and sorry for the lengthy whine, I needed to talk about it. I will do my best to forget it and not bring it up again..lol. Melissa

6 comments:

Melissa said...

So sorry to hear about your troubles with that group. It sucks! But you know what, they don't deserve you if that's their attitude!!!! How foolish...

Keep stitching those Mira's anyway!

xo

Melissa

The Crafty Princess said...

Hey Melissa, your post is the second time this week that I've heard about nasty bullying that goes on these FB groups. I've never been a part of one and after all the horror stories I won't bother. It freaks me out that such a thing goes on in the lovely serene happy world of cross stitching. But there you go. I just stick to blogs to see peoples work and to cheer them on, as I love a whole range of designers so it's a good way to see everyone's projects.

Don't let it get you down. As you said it wasn't a path you were willing to take so kudos to you for standing up to them. It sounded a bit brutal though. I'm glad you're still stitching Mira's and that it hasn't affected you in that way. Good girl!! Happy Stitching stunner xox

Melissa said...

Thank you for your encouragement. :) I am so thankful for all of the beautiful blogs out there! I am in other groups where these things don't happen, but I do consider that environment prone to issues. I didn't think I would land in the middle of an issue however. Have a great weekend! Lots of stitching! :)

Joysze said...

She's looking so pretty!!! :D

I'm so sorry to hear about the FB thing. :( I'm never on my FB page, but after hearing stories like yours, I don't think I'd ever wanna spend time in those groups.

chicago.mermaid said...

I am so confused....I am on the Face Book Mira group and I have NO idea what you are writing about! I have watched on Chatelaine as you stitched your Deep Blue Sea. Mine is an UFO but, I will go back and finish as I bought the kit from ECC and spent a lot on the project. Anyway, as I stated...what the heck are you saying...that you were a " BULLY" victim?! In what universe did this happen?!

t said...

Hello Melissa,

I just got kicked out the facebook group too for posting a pic that Nora had previously posted of design and asked if this was the new one. The "admin" tried to make some lame excuse for deleting my post and when I questioned it, I got the boot.