Not to mention the women has some very loose screws! To bash you and others all over the internet shows more about her mental health and the amount of time on her hands than about you at all. No WORKING industry professional would have that kind of time.

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Buttercup Mercantile » Remodeling Our Store SAVE
gidget’s store. so scary I shiver all over. psycho home sewer. wish I had created a tag for just plain crazy.
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oh my. Is gidget off her meds? wow. wannabe who pretends to work in industry.
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In case anyone is wondering, I don’t take meds. Maybe I should get a letter from my physician, too??
Keep Trying Kathleen. You won’t find any malicious attempts from me anywhere.

http://www.michaeltbarrett.com/2009/06/26/an-open-letter-to-kathleen-fasanella/

http://www.michaeltbarrett.com/2009/06/27/kathleen-fasanella-incubates-more-than-fashion/

It’s a new depth in paranoia that you infer Gidget is my sock puppet. Not only are you insulting her, you’re also inferring I’m afraid of you. The truth is: I make more money working my business than wasting time playing your silly games.

How far out of left field is this Sarah M “example” coming? How is this in any way relevant to the fact that you deleted Gidget’s comment, patronized her, insulted her, taunted her, and then got bent out of shape because she objects to being mistreated?

It seems to me that you are more than capable of creating enemies on your own. But, since you want to try to smear Gidget’s professional reputation, allow me to interject:

How is it that you are capable of rendering a professional assessment of the Sarah M situation, anyway? Who hired you to review the project? Did you spend any time sitting down with Gidget – at least, figuratively – to review the technical approach? Did you review all the pattern & sample iterations? Did the iterations match the designer’s notes? What about the other jobs surrounding the Sarah M job? Was the Sarah M job an exception to the norm? What were the contributing factors to that specific end result? Which of those factors were under Gidget’s direct control? What is the specific, stair-step plan toward improvement in order to reinstate her status in your Rolodex?

Based on your own account, it doesn’t appear that you performed any investigation or provided any nurturing surrounding this case.

It seems to me that your analysis, interviewing and research skills could bear some improvement. Maybe you might want to consider having a 3rd party independently verify your findings before you publish. Because what you’re doing through inference and innuendo amounts to professional sabotage.

When was the last time you rendered a perfect sample from a first draft? Many of us have seen your tutorials. The sewing is relatively clean. But, it’s no real prize winner. Are you so sure you could stack up to the same standards you want to hold everyone else accountable for?

If you want to push your own skills harder and further by setting ambitious goals, it’s a free market – help yourself. Maybe you should pry yourself away from this “database” that you can (and, do) edit, change and delete records of everyone else’s “incongruities” in and join us in the free market? If your services are as superior as you insinuate, you’d surely be able to make a fair wage just by being better at it than the rest of us.

I wish you well. i hope you attain all that you feel you deserve. I hope you and your family are prosperous and healthy. I send my sincerest wishes for a full and happy life. Good bye.

Hmm.. let’s see – anyone else you can send an email too? Nope – don’t think so.

If you paid $85 for the book, you didn’t buy it from me or Amazon. The list price is $60.

My legal name is :

GIdget Joyce Lynn O’Hara Barrett
My company’s name is : Buttercup Mercantile, LLC
Buttercup 149 is a division of Buttercup Mercantile, LLC

And it was 85.00 for the book in 2005 – maybe it was 2006 – by my lovely husband, Michael Barrett
It was also two donations 1 around 2007 when you began expressing the need to charge a fee to forum members, of 25.00 and 100.00 in February of this year when I read that you were charging 45.00 a year to catch me up to that point. Do I want a refund? Not at all – services rendered – fees paid.

This has to do with a personal issue – You deleted my post without saying you were going to do so. Nothing else.

I can state factually that you delete posts, because you did mine.

Here is the message that you sent me before doing so without my knowledge:

“I’d rather we didn’t get into a lot of controversy. J is still a member in good standing and you’re free to contact him. He is welcome to return at his discretion. I think he would be surprised at the warm reception he would get.”

Funny – I didn’t read that as: I’m going to delete your post. My comment was to only express sadness at the obvious (by then) argument that you were having with a fellow contractor.

As for Sarah Marr – she got her money back – value-added embroidery. She never completed a proper sample with binding. I made it clear to her that I was new and if she was willing to take a chance on me, I would take a chance on her.

I was left with a week and half (after she had to send more fabric and the masks I cut out and fused had come back from the embroiderer – for whom I paid the expense of btw) which covered a holiday to figure out what satin to use and try to make it work.

I returned her products, all remnants and a check for her deposit back to her at my own expense (84.00 for shipping) overnight in case she could find someone else to finish the job.

As for Evelyn – I asked your opinion because she stated she knew you. Oh Yeah – and I only asked it once! Wanna check that email again?

Anyone wanna see any letters? I’ve got copies too.

As for your return of the 100.00 I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole. You keep that Kathleen, it’s been earned with blood, sweat, and tears.

Don’t threaten legalities either. I’ve made no libelous or slanderous comments, I’ve merely stated the facts as they happened to me.
This is my personal blog. Last I checked – I have a right to my own opinions and to post reviews.

As for taking down my site via web service provider? Well – we are the service provider and it’s our server.

Thank you for showing your colors. I don’t need to prove anything.

Oh, and I am healthy and happy and busy – Thanks for asking.

To avoid problems, it is probably best to only say what you know to be certain. For example, you said “because no doubt it will be deleted – as I find most are:”, how do you know most are? How can you know that? You can’t. That the forum is littered with so many criticisms of me kind of makes the opposite point. In addition, the mention about slamming and saying “real” industry people have left..is also untrue. In your email your email to me, you said ” I certainly don’t intend to fight any battles for anyone else” but isn’t that what you’re doing? The problem is, you don’t have all the facts. You really *don’t* know. You don’t know because I haven’t done exactly what you accuse me of, slamming. Speaking of slamming, did I tell a soul about that last contract job you did? I helped you get that job. Sarah came to me for a referral of you and I said she could trust you. That you ruined the whole lot, Sarah lost out and I looked bad for recommending you. But did I slam you? No, until this moment, I haven’t mentioned it to a soul. You’d said your husband was laid off so I passed your name out very liberally for awhile, I felt really bad. Sarah is the only one who gave me feedback. As with other referrals I’ve made that were bad (like Irv, who you also think is “real”) nobody wanted to tell me the referral I made was bad. So much for slamming.

The truth is, as much as you may like your friend, he’s …embellished… his history and if you read his earliest entries on the forum, he freely admits he’s never worked in the industry. I have a database of his contradictions with urls to the published entries by date. Certainly nothing I could fake. Are you sure you want to go toe to toe legally over something I can prove? Like I said, I understand you are upset altho I do not know why (there’s something else going on) but if you’re slanderous and libelous making unsubstantiated claims, it’s easy to have your host pull the site which is kind of a waste of everyone’s time. Say all kinds of horrible things about me you know are true, lord knows I have plenty of sins but back off what you cannot prove.

Here is the response I left to your comment:
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Wow Gidget, call me confused! I emailed you beforehand explaining I wanted to delete your comment (the only off topic one) and I thought we were good. I don’t understand why you didn’t say so. That seems like back biting to me. With all the personalized help I’ve given you, emails, phone convos, even getting you jobs etc, I’d say $100 for the book and only one year’s renewal when you’ve been on for three plus, is the deal of the century. I wish you continued success as you move forward
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I still have these messages, coming and going in my inbox and can prove it legally if need be. What I don’t understand is, there’s got to be some horrible huge miscommunication here. You’ve never acted irrationally before. Gidget, what is going on? This reaction doesn’t make sense considering our friendly relationship thus far, what else is going on in your life?

Since I posted this, I searched my records and found a donation from you on March 12, 2009 for $100. Considering how you’ve repaid my many efforts on your behalf over the past four years, I really don’t want it. I have sent you a refund, Transaction ID #0XK054499E1155608. I have posted a screen cap of the transaction which anyone can see, assuming you don’t delete this comment that is. http://bit.ly/qLHb8

You know, one thing strikes me as odd. You have no problem benefiting from the referral system when it is to your advantage, such as when you wrote me about Evelyn (other than when you’ve gotten work). I told you she was a lovely person. That wasn’t good enough, I had to tell it to you again. I got too busy to follow up but I meant to write Evelyn at the time to tell her she should check with Sarah for a referral about you. I can’t give a referral for you anymore. I can only tell people to check with someone who did hire you. As you know, Sarah was very dissatisfied. That’s a referral network. But like I said, it works both ways. It’s kind of self serving to expect a one way benefit, imo.