The Next Birthday Gifts...

The tale of 2 quilts. I frequently cut out and build out/up two quilts at a time. I like to have choices when I am putting them together, alternate blocks to place/put together. And when 2 nieces/nephews birthdays are approaching, it just makes sense to 'keep me out of trouble' to make them similar. No "how come he/she got..", "why didn't I get...".

These two are going out into the mail soon. The first, with the gray boarder and purple binding is backed with fleece, and though it has a woven fabric interior, to help protect the stitches from being stretched to breaking, it still doesn't have the 'body' of a more traditional quilt, which is what the second quilt is. Made during the 'lock-down' when fabrics/options weren't as available as they usually are, I'm lucky I have such a big stash! They are almost exactly the same, but quite different!

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  Fleece backing, woven 'batting'

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  Flannel backing, woven batting

After Facebooks Nasty-ness

Not believing that Facebook could so unconscionably, maliciously and without reason or grounds destroy what I spent time and effort to build, I kept making masks. As the first week after came to a close, I was slowing down perceptively.

At the end of the second week, I had done all the work to build out this website, researching other advertising options and had come to a near stop sewing. It's now the end+ of the third week, and I am quite depressed about how they allowed me to be blown out of the water by what can only be, well you put a word to it. Mine are all very, very negative.

I wont be making any more for awhile, well, unless something happens and I sell at least half of my current inventory. I have new fabrics too, purposely purchased for masks. It's just so sad.

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  Mask fabric delivered a month late

Facebook Destruction

My Cloth Face Maskk Sale Page Image

On April 24, with unthinking and unreasoning censorship Facebook removed my business page from sight. It added an appeal button to the top of my page, that only I could see, however, using a mobile device that 'Appeal' button lands on an Error page. No amount of closing the site, the device, the browser allows it to resolve to any appeals page.
On the DeniseMadeIt (that now only I can see) page via computer, I found a 'disagree' button, and clicked it. I've searched for days for a 'way in', to no avail. On May 11th, it's still not published, my business completely destroyed because I built this portion on Facebook, reasoning that it saved a lot of time (which it did.) I had built up a thriving tiny business, and they destroyed it, without consideration, without review and without recourse.

Of course, I expected my page to be back up the same day. After several days I had to map out a new direction. I moved to Google Advertising of my own site, this site. They wouldn't accept a 'gift card' or purchased card for payment, so I had to get into my bank, to open another account, with a different debit card, to protect my accounts from any outside group having access to them. Next I had to spend hours and hours building out the Face Mask page. Once up and with the new card, it took Google several days to approved my first 'smart' ad, for which they determined that 'Face Masks, 4-Layers, Lots of colors and Fabrics' was an automobile ad, and used the word 'Journey' to be the catalyst to display the ad. Needless to say, no clicks or purchases. The next ad I set up, NOT a smart ad, was supposedly approved 3 days ago, but has not yet displayed once. And of course, all the sensible key words (cloth face mask..) are only allowed to the big buck advertisers...

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  after 3 on 4/24/20

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  Appeal leads to Error

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  Google Ad - Google Not Helping