BEVER BE SILENCED - The Truth prevails ..
Im tired of being silent - about three Bullies in social media !
The truth is out on this onslaught on social media now since 2016 .. from three grown jealous women !
I have decided to tell my side of this ongoing ridiculous onslaught of three grown women trying to defame me on social media one of them since 2016 over a snowman .. yes I said 2016 and snowman !!
I will not use their real names in this statement - and please do not write me to ask. If you don't know them already then it’s a good thing because who needs friends like these women !
Bad Grandma #1
This was a dear friend of mine well I thought, I did her hair for 25 years and as we became good friends she asked me to teach her how to solder and make jewelry fun box Shrines al the things shes soldering now! We sat at my kitchen table as I shared hours of my skills and knowledge while providing her all the supplies she needed to go home and solder! I gave her everything !
This friend was able to attend many of my workshops as my guest and again received free supplies. She maybe paid 75.00 on occasion but most were free classes she happily received!
She attended an Art camp on the Oregon coast for a generous discount and only paid $250.00! At that same Art camp, in my opening speech I had told her how much I had always admired her creativity and what an inspiration she she had become during these years. She cried her eyes out during my speech and told all of us there that her own family had never even admired or recognized her creativity. I spoke from my heart. She is one the more incredible artists I had ever met !
I had been warned by so many others over the years of who she really was, and how she's wronged others in the Art world. My sister-in-law is married to the son of a local artists (in the 80s) and Bad grandma copied this artist and shamefully, this case ended up in the hand of lawyers for her wrong doing! But, giving her grace, I trusted her. shame on me!
I can tell you this, deep down inside, I KNEW BETTER to NOT let her in my circle! I question why we don't we listen to or recognize those little signs ! My husband had never liked her around and constantly told me almost every time she was here, ‘you're going to be sorry teaching her anything’ and ‘why are you so good to her!’! I even invited/encouraged her teach both at my studio and at an art camp! I introducing her to my whole world of art and friends. sadly
Honestly I thought I could help her become a better person, and for a few years I did! I witnessed her heart open up to others more … it is too long of a story to go here, but those of you that know, sadly really know how much she had changed .
In 2017-18 - Mutual friends that she met in my home studio workshops kept telling me more things she was doing behind my back. she was teaching , and grabbing students from my classes she attended!
She was not tech savvy at all, so I helped her with everything to do with anything on the internet, including ordering her supplies for her. Again, many times never charging her a thing! I did not mind at all because that’s what good friends do!
I created her a blog - that’s what we did back then- blogging. Because she couldn't figure it all out, I always did her posts for her . I taught her Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. I had no clue that my kindness would backfire within the social media world. She still today has 3-4 Instagram accounts because she repeatedly loses her password and must create a new account! she doesn't have me to help with that anymore ! Who knew I was training an enemy !
Finally, I could no longer tolerate the lengthy betrayal of a long 25 year friendship and her using me ! .
I wrote to her on her blog that I hosted (off my own blog) , I wrote her a post of everything I had wanted to tell her for a couple years, it all spewed out. I detailed how she hurt me and how I should have known better from her past behavior. I told her how I should have listened to other mutual friends who repeatedly warned me over the years. I left this note on her blog for maybe about 6 hours, allowing enough time for her to see it as she got the notifications on the posts , and then I closed her blog forever !
She hadn't updated her blog for a few years, and the blog was quite stagnant, ensuring she was the only one that would see it, but honestly I didn't care who saw it, its my own words of truth! .
I am not a confrontational person at all and so many rapidly warned me , so for me to even do this was way out of my comfort zone, but I had to get it all out of my head and heart, I was so very DONE with her ! It was not easy on me; it took me a couple years to truly recover from this betrayal of a treasured friendship. I didn't want to let anyone else do what she did to me, my trust was so broken! I loved her family; her husband is one of the best men you will ever meet. I was very close with one of her daughters, she worked for me several years ... it was sure hard to just end it all.
I have not spoke to Bad Grandma since 2018 -
Betrayal of a friendship is difficult, but I needed to cut it off immediately. She taught at my Oregon coast retreat in 2018 - We were not speaking then, but being professional, I let her complete what commitments were originally planned. It wasn't easy for me at all to have her there, but I did the right thing! She rode to the retreat with three other students, and she complained about all of them to the girls cooking at the retreat. She complained about how it was the longest ride ever and just nonsense crap about them. And much to my surprise, ironically she has become their good friends now! Why you ask - in order to keep a close connection to me!
If anyone asks me about her in class, my response is always, I have not seen her in a while, I think she's doing great! - I refused to make this about no one but her and I. Sadly we do not share the same behavior and are very much the opposite with her ongoing smear campaign in my name.
Since 2020 ( ish ) she posts on her Instagram account that she sees her work on Pinterest and it leads to my Website - saying that I am not giving her credit to her hard work and I have stolen such photos, and or copy her work . It’s always a little different story each time she fires up ( depending how much alcohol she consumes ) Not to mention, she doesn't understand Pinterest or social media. I always post students photos from Classes and it leads you to the class they took from me .. I deleted all my photos connected to her being here in classes last year ..
She posts these pictures claiming that I need to be stopped while slamming my name and continues year after year. I do post students work that link to the class they took, the pictures she's referring to are from classes she took 10 years ago ! I removed them all last year off my Pinterest .
After forensic analysis, these recent Pinterest posts are not posts that I have created but have been associated to my blog and workshops- anyone can create a post and link to me…but the creator can be identified. The reality is that the ‘original creator of the Pinterest post linking to my blogs and workshops’ needs to be stopped!working with Pinterest legal side was a wonderful delicious I made, it took me right to the creator of a fake Terri Brush account , this person was posting them often , and lucky the forensic side of Pinterest is a really great paper trail .
Then Bully number two and three all join the bandwagon and further fuel the onslaught claiming that I am stealing their work! This further fuels the fire for others to unknowingly criticize, degrade and threaten me again and again, and year after year.
Please understand that when my students take my classes, I have aways taken pictures of their work and put it on my instagram and Pinterest and my website ! They all love it, including Bad grandma! Sadly at the onset of the onslaught, I scrubbed Pinterest of my created posts thinking this would stop the ridiculous accusations. Here is a post she recently made, that I am featuring her work on pinterest and giving her no credit for all her hard work ?? HUH it was a Retreat she attended that I taught her how to make these? total nonsense !
These pictures I took of her work, some in her studio, after a class here at my studio I took ALL the students to her studio to shop !.. she sure was Happy I did that ! and Now all the sudden these pictures she says I claim ! .. NO ... the keeps reposting theses same pictures off Pinterest now for the lat 5 years making it look like I keep posting them !..
It’s her only tool to jab me, she thinks it’s wrong these show on my Pinterest page and lead to the class she took (for Free let me remind you!). she obviously does not understand Pinterest !
The reality is that if she had an issue with me for posting her work (from 10 years ago) in my class on Pinterest, she could have come to me and asked me to delete them!! even easier she could have contacted Pinterest to ask for them to be removed !
She has slandered me now for so many years it’s become all a Big blurr- and I honestly could care less - other than the fact that I am tired of it and saddened by the extremely mean comments, messages etc ., received from people she is telling .
I also realized how easy it is to file a complaint with Pinterest to have a photo removed with evidence you own the original photo !.. so WHY didnt she have the photos removed if thy bothered her so badly ! . we all know WHY !.. remember I had to help her do everything on social media ! ..
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Dirty Mouth Aussie #2
This one is a real Doozy – a pitiful trucker mouth , that has a history of trying to ruin many many artists life ! what a truly miserable jealous women ! - I have never met her and never so glad I didn't ! but I was having her come teach here at a Retreat in 2020.
She refers my students and followers my CRONIES !! she says they all BULLY her which is quite funny because none of them know a thing about her nor about this ! so my guess is her trucker mouth is leaving her own slime trail !
Moving forward in 2020 - covid hits and our world changes.
My next online class had just opened which I had been working on several months , - it was learning to make your own Tin types and Tin Type jewelry. Oh Boy, she suddenly attacks me telling me I was copying her resin book! I told her she was welcome to view my online class, it's nothing to do with her resin books. Note, I have never even made a resin Book! Also, she doesn't teach how to make tin types, she uses vintage ones? Makes no sense right ! How did she contrive that I was copying her at all?
I won’t get too much into her bad behavior - she wouldn't even go look in my online class, and I even tell the students in my class to look her up that she teaches a cool resin book they would love! She also repeats that I bully her terribly and ruined her business. I think not, as she single handedly ruined her own business. I have never at any time bullied her nor anyone, nor have I identified who these players are. They have all looked bad from their own behavior.
Unfortunately, she joined forces with Bad Grandma! I don’t think, they have never met but what the share in common is that they both don't like me! OK, whatever!
As bad grandma makes her yearly slanderous post about me on her instagram , Dirty mouth Joins right in and shares it on her Facebook Platform and off they all go! She refers to her as her Beautiful Friend, makes me laugh they don’t even know each other! and honestly if Bad Grandma ever met her,I say with a laugh she would not like her one bit ! ..
*I will also add that I got a Death threat from a women from her country , well documented paper trail ! A Death Threat to me , that I am being watched I better watch my back ! This has been reported to authorities , and is not taken lightly by Law ! I hope this person enters USA this year , justice will be served ! handcuffs would look good on you .. Just remember if you want to make threats to anyone , a trail on social media, your phone etc is easy for them to track ,even if you delete it !
Each year these posts instigates a shit storm of mean people firing ridiculously harsh messages to me!
These people are clueless as to what is true and if someone defends me with facts, they immediately get deleted and blocked! Where there is smoke there is fire…seek the truth.
Their slanderous behavior instigates others to send me hate messages. I even received a death threat which has been recorded with the police department. A death threat is a serious crime not to be ignored.
Who knew the Art world could become so damn ugly! Really, who knew old women can behave so ugly! Old Grandma is in her 70s and I think it is time to GROW UP! I always wonder what the HELL do here husbands go thru and miserable they must be with such unhappy wives..
Snowflake # 3
This is a tough one! And Snowflake is the only one I give very little grace to on this! There are many fingers pointing so many directions and I have just been informed of who is the bad actor behind most of it! Sorry but I cannot think of a better name for this person keeping this stupid snowman ordeal going on and on! Now Snowflake has jumped on the slander bandwagon with the two above mentioned bad actors attacking me every chance she gets! She has repeated her claim since 2016 to continue this on social media 7 years now! its a situation we will never agree on .
So lets go all the way back to 2016 - yep do you even remember 2016!
I teach my Holiday two day workshop every year, and it’s a super fun class… a caged snowman and some snowman ornaments..
Snowflake had gifted me this snowman ornament, it was hanging on my studio tree.
Everyone in the class was taking pictures of all the ornaments on that tree and lots of them were gifts from others.
a 4th person who knows nothing about the art world has jumped into the slander slime trail - is the big player is the game, she/he took the ornament off the tree and set it on the workshop table and took pictures of it. Many students were taking pictures of all the ornaments on my tree, as they always do when they arrive at my studio for EVERY CLASS !
Turns out this dead weight posted it on instagram, she/he was here at class, and I’m not quite sure if Snowflake saw it on her page or a friend of snowflake quickly told her that I was teaching her snowman due to the picture that was posted by Bad Actor mistakenly told her friends ! This person also bought my class sample !
I knew immediately that this looked like I was teaching her snowman ornament. I can honestly see why she thought that!
I told the ENTIRE class several times that day that this was not our project and that referenced the artist that made that ornament. I even talked to a mutual student friend of Snowflake and Ithat takes both our workshops ,if she would make sure and let her know that I DID NOT TEACH that snowman..
Here is what the Students made that weekend, (See pics below. The caged snowman was sitting on a tin reflector, so she thinks I copied that vintage tin reflector from her snowman, they all had lots of vintage ephemera in their kits and always do in al my classes , snowflake isnt the only person to use vintage ephemera !
it’s all so stupid! REMEMBER lets all go back to 2016 - you know these worms were bullies in high school !
Aren’t we are all adults and professionals and yet she is going to fight about a snowman? COME ON! Let's fight over the snowman for 10 more years ! your looking more and more ridiculous ..
Snowflake jumps on the band wagon with the others, joining forces with the on the defamation of my character claiming that I have copied her snowmen several times. Remember we're still in Since 2016! Yawn .. grow up !
If she actually owned the snowman copyrights she should do something about it Right !! ….but there is no copyright on snowmen…. She did not design the snowman…Snowmen were created long before she was born!
This just goes on and on! They all three post the trap line on their social media, so people read and just assume I'm doing all this fabricated montage of garbage!
So, I won’t say too much about dead weight because she/he become a bigger player in this path of destruction since 2016! I was recently informed, she/he took the pictures of the ornament on the work table that day which I knew and watched her do. but recently was told she/he got home and DID copy Snowflakes snowman and made more and gave them as gifts and sold some in her work office !!! toy can't make this crap up !... they all deserve each other !
Unbelievable that this game has continued since 2016! Note, I have not talked about this ugly mess as it’s such a long land stupid story of trash talking women attacking me to what benefit?
I have ignored but I will no longer! I won’t say more other than it will be stopped! If you believe them, I urge you to do some research! Those threatening me and sending mean messages, you really don’t know me at all!
The message behind this shitstorm is that when you read something on social media, is that it may not be true! Never just assume things are true ! Seek out the facts People!
Sadly, this has changed everything about what’s in my studio that students can see and photograph! Inspiration used to be such a compliment right! with Pinterest you can learn anything for free !
Every teacher goes thru all this same BS .. it's part of what we do .. haters gonna hate ! Misery LOVES company ..
I am going to close with this - - I am not perfect and neither are they , I am sure there are plenty of people that don't like any of us over art ! . - it’s part of putting yourself out there. Coupled with business success is a stiff competition and jealous people that want to see you fail for them to succeed. Yet, there is plenty of room for us all to succeed in this world of art! Can’t we all get along and support each other?
When you see grown women attack someone on social media or anywhere , do you ever wonder,
gosh this could be me they attack next ! Are these people I want to be my friends? I think not!
If you are friend with them you are NOT a friend of mine! .. keep them close to your side..
All of you just watching need to be brave and tell them how you feel !.. but I will warn you , it’s all a one sided fight they will delete anyone telling the truth ! ..
IF you think it's ok what they are doing then you do not know me at all ... and shame on you for not speaking out and asking quesions !. Although those that do try to Artie on their trashy pages , get chewed up and spit out, I mean how dare they let anyone comment the truth about tme ! A one sided bullshit story would be considered Politics !
If someone is attacking your character, it’s against the LAW!
Cyberbullying is against the law worldwide!
*There are very strict guidelines with big consequences.
If you are being bullied, speak up immediately.
Why I waited all these years was stupid- but stupid no more! I am Speaking LOUD and CLEAR ! .
I am grateful for all my kind friends and supporters who do know me and do support me. It saddens me that I must explain and defend myself. I thought that with being quiet, it would all go away. These attempts to cancel me for all these years have not been successful, but enough is enough!
And Thank you to the grooves of letters I have received on so many stored who these women have attacked in the past ! Their history she has enlightened me of the support of the the bully nonsense they also do to others ..