Suzy Scrapper Murdered at Craft Tradeshow...news at 11
Las Vegas, NV:
Suzy J. Scrapper of Denver Colorado was brutally and mortally attacked in the Las Vegas Convention Center in the early morning hours of August 16th. It appears that she and her attacker, Janet A. NtPublished of Carson City Nevada, were having a discussion in the ladies room when NtPublished began to agressively demand that Scrapper help her to get a layout published. Witnessess aledge that Ms. Scrapper continued to insist that she could do nothing to help NtPublished who was beginning to behave very violently towards her.
"She had her backed up in a corner with her finger in her face and a Quickutz tool in the other hand!", claims one witness, also a scrapbooker, who requested to remain anonymous. "She began swinging the tool at her! The thing weighs like 3 lbs or something and she just kept hitting her with it and screaming at her about "forgetting her roots" and saying that she thought she was better than everybody else! I wanted to tell her to stop but I was afraid that she would turn on me! All I could think of was that if I died then somebody would make off with all of my stuff that I'd left in the conference room! So I ran to get somebody to help."
The convention center security did manage to disarm NtPublished and detain her, but not before Scrapper had suffered several deadly blows to the head. Police and Paramedics were called to the scene but were unable to revive the 35 year old mother of 2.
NtPublished was arrested by Las Vegas police. When asked why she viciously attacked the young woman, she became very agitated and replied, " I used to talk to that *expletive* everyday when she was on 2Peas! Everyday I'd tell her how great her work was and encourage her to submit her work. So she does and she get all of this recognition and suddenly she doesn't know my name!! All I wanted was to be on a damned design team, that it! No, I can't get a leg in because it wasn't enough for her to be on 6 teams, she had to have 7, then 8 and I was left eating her dust! She deserved what she got!".
It appears that the ladies were part of a mass conglomeration of scrapbookers and crafters who gather serveral times during the year...
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Okay, reachin' a bit there. Or am I?
Is this the future of scrapbooking?
Will there be some nonsensical tradgedy that will finally turn the industry on it's ear?
Will someone have to get hurt to finally get industry bigwigs to stop and take note of the dangers of turning a time honored tradition into the next Survivor ScrapIsland?
Will there be a point in time when it will be shameful to reveal to people that you used to scrapbook because of the negative stigma that will attatch itself to the hobby?
I don't know. I certainly hope not.
But I can say that with the way that things are going today, that kind of future for this hobby is a very real possibility. So who's going to be our Tanya Harding? Who's going to be our Nancy Kerrigan?
What do we honestly expect? Masked internet marauders are swarming all over the online scrapping arena in a tissy! There is a lot of resentment festering underneath all of those online facades, and it has to surface at some point!
So is all of this ugliness just what we should expect? I really have a hard time understanding how someone can spew that type of venom at someone and attack their families and then turn around and lovingly scrapbook a picture of their children. But that's just me.
Yes, I've been to the Critic blogs... I think that there is a fine line between criticing and criticizing and those blogs aren't on the nicer side. I've seen personalities torn to shreds and i've also watched other people try to steer the conversation back towards a constructive path and get torn to pieces and labeled a "hand slapper" or "know it all". All in the name of free speech.
On the other hand, I've been to the online communities that seem to fuel the ire of these blogs, and they are no better than the blogs. The exclusionary tactics. The self promotion and the mean spiritedness are something that even the blindest of people couldn't miss.
My question is why. Why do we need all of this? Why did the industry choose to take yet another tradition and extort it? Why does the persuit of the all might dollar equate to blatant attempts to separate and segregate scrappers? Why does the success of a scrapper have to be tied to the number of Design Teams positions they occupy? Why does there have to be a gage for success?
To me, the successful scrapper is the one who finds joy in creating beautiful memories for his/her family. To me the successful scrapper is the one who can close her eyes every night with the assurance that she has done what she can to make the world better and not worse. In my opinion, it the entire scrapbooking world adopted my idea of success, the mock news story above will never come to fruition. I won't hold my breath.
I'm working on regaining my status as a successful scrapper. I have my sisters who are successful on many levels and who keep me grounded in my reality. I have accepted that the competition aspect of all of this is nothing but poison to me.
Do I begrudge anyone who looks externally for their success validation? Nope... if it weren't for them, the magazines would be non existant.
Ask yourself this: What makes a successful scrapper to you? Are you trying to be a successful scrapper?
Suzy J. Scrapper of Denver Colorado was brutally and mortally attacked in the Las Vegas Convention Center in the early morning hours of August 16th. It appears that she and her attacker, Janet A. NtPublished of Carson City Nevada, were having a discussion in the ladies room when NtPublished began to agressively demand that Scrapper help her to get a layout published. Witnessess aledge that Ms. Scrapper continued to insist that she could do nothing to help NtPublished who was beginning to behave very violently towards her.
"She had her backed up in a corner with her finger in her face and a Quickutz tool in the other hand!", claims one witness, also a scrapbooker, who requested to remain anonymous. "She began swinging the tool at her! The thing weighs like 3 lbs or something and she just kept hitting her with it and screaming at her about "forgetting her roots" and saying that she thought she was better than everybody else! I wanted to tell her to stop but I was afraid that she would turn on me! All I could think of was that if I died then somebody would make off with all of my stuff that I'd left in the conference room! So I ran to get somebody to help."
The convention center security did manage to disarm NtPublished and detain her, but not before Scrapper had suffered several deadly blows to the head. Police and Paramedics were called to the scene but were unable to revive the 35 year old mother of 2.
NtPublished was arrested by Las Vegas police. When asked why she viciously attacked the young woman, she became very agitated and replied, " I used to talk to that *expletive* everyday when she was on 2Peas! Everyday I'd tell her how great her work was and encourage her to submit her work. So she does and she get all of this recognition and suddenly she doesn't know my name!! All I wanted was to be on a damned design team, that it! No, I can't get a leg in because it wasn't enough for her to be on 6 teams, she had to have 7, then 8 and I was left eating her dust! She deserved what she got!".
It appears that the ladies were part of a mass conglomeration of scrapbookers and crafters who gather serveral times during the year...
************************************************************************************
Okay, reachin' a bit there. Or am I?
Is this the future of scrapbooking?
Will there be some nonsensical tradgedy that will finally turn the industry on it's ear?
Will someone have to get hurt to finally get industry bigwigs to stop and take note of the dangers of turning a time honored tradition into the next Survivor ScrapIsland?
Will there be a point in time when it will be shameful to reveal to people that you used to scrapbook because of the negative stigma that will attatch itself to the hobby?
I don't know. I certainly hope not.
But I can say that with the way that things are going today, that kind of future for this hobby is a very real possibility. So who's going to be our Tanya Harding? Who's going to be our Nancy Kerrigan?
What do we honestly expect? Masked internet marauders are swarming all over the online scrapping arena in a tissy! There is a lot of resentment festering underneath all of those online facades, and it has to surface at some point!
So is all of this ugliness just what we should expect? I really have a hard time understanding how someone can spew that type of venom at someone and attack their families and then turn around and lovingly scrapbook a picture of their children. But that's just me.
Yes, I've been to the Critic blogs... I think that there is a fine line between criticing and criticizing and those blogs aren't on the nicer side. I've seen personalities torn to shreds and i've also watched other people try to steer the conversation back towards a constructive path and get torn to pieces and labeled a "hand slapper" or "know it all". All in the name of free speech.
On the other hand, I've been to the online communities that seem to fuel the ire of these blogs, and they are no better than the blogs. The exclusionary tactics. The self promotion and the mean spiritedness are something that even the blindest of people couldn't miss.
My question is why. Why do we need all of this? Why did the industry choose to take yet another tradition and extort it? Why does the persuit of the all might dollar equate to blatant attempts to separate and segregate scrappers? Why does the success of a scrapper have to be tied to the number of Design Teams positions they occupy? Why does there have to be a gage for success?
To me, the successful scrapper is the one who finds joy in creating beautiful memories for his/her family. To me the successful scrapper is the one who can close her eyes every night with the assurance that she has done what she can to make the world better and not worse. In my opinion, it the entire scrapbooking world adopted my idea of success, the mock news story above will never come to fruition. I won't hold my breath.
I'm working on regaining my status as a successful scrapper. I have my sisters who are successful on many levels and who keep me grounded in my reality. I have accepted that the competition aspect of all of this is nothing but poison to me.
Do I begrudge anyone who looks externally for their success validation? Nope... if it weren't for them, the magazines would be non existant.
Ask yourself this: What makes a successful scrapper to you? Are you trying to be a successful scrapper?
posted by Essentially Jae' at Thursday, October 26, 2006
1 Comments:
Wow, Jae, that is some piece of work. As I don't visit any other UK scrapping sites, never mind US ones, I've obviously been living in blissful ignorance of how cruel the scrapping world can be. So thank you for this blog and drawing my attention to it. I shall continue to live in my own little scrapping world, and I sincerely hope you will soon find yours and be comfortable there too!
Love and hugs!
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