Thank you Ashlea. We constantly remind (mostly new) folks about sharing and copyright. Yours is a good reminder and we appreciate you for it. Come back and play some time, we really have lots of fun and fellowship here and please know that this is NOT a common occurrence here.

Haven't seen this discussion about Design by Juju and Bunnycup have the same owner. Ridiculous cause your style is so different :o)
You know that I love your designs (and I'm a much too good buyer - ask my paypal-account ;o) and I hope you will still tempt me to sell more designs than I could stitch in 5 lifetimes. Your designs on my lamps looks so cute and I'm addicted to your fairies (and pirates and princesses and gnomes and animals...).
Greetings, Bettina

i have been on this site almost every day and have not heard this about both sites being the same person. and what would it matter if they were? as for sharing designs,i understand that this is frowned upon and some even newer people than myself might have been asking for designs to be emailed to them.new people only do this because they don't know about the stealing concept, or the frowning. all the designs i have seen from both sites are beautiful! and i m not into sharing as most sites stipulate this.so keep putting out the word about frowning and more new people will be aware. this embroidery thing is exploding now,so new people are everywhere.sincerely, lynne

You are all right - it is not a big deal if people do confuse Julie's and my site - it has been going on for years. In some ways Julie and I 'grew' up together in embroidery. We started out about the same time and have been in touch for 10 years now supporting each other. But of course I don't want people thinking we are hiding anything (ie running sites behind different names etc). Thanks for being understanding on the sharing issue too. There is so much going on all the time that it takes up much of our time (and other digitizers). Unfortunately once we become aware of it, we have to follow it up. I can spend literally weeks at a time mostly just following up copyright issues which is a double whammy as it is not an activity that makes an income (and at the end of the day I do this business to make an income and support my family). But just wanted to say thank you all for the support!

I buy from only select sites and these are 2 of my favorites. I must be dense as I never even thought of yours as being connected!!--AND, I can't pick a favorite!! Your explination on sharing is wonderful and I hope I can remember all the points when someone asks to" borrow" one of my designs. I don't even like to borrow a cup of suga!r When I got my first embroidery machine the dealer was very emphatic about NOT sharing and I guess that has stuck with me.

Hi, Ashlea! Thank you SO much for making this post. I'm not sure what the deal is confusing your two sites, but it sure is nice to hear from a digitizer from another website that the so called "sharing" of designs is illegal. I think the problem lies with the word "sharing", which sounds so nice and sweet and helpful. The word should be "stealing", which is what it actually is, only a lot of people are afraid to say it because people won't think they're "nice". Thanks for giving another website owner's perspective on the problem. We don't get it too often here, but it does crop up from time to time. I think many people don't purchase their machine from a dealer, but get them at WalMart or eBay or elsewhere, and therefore don't get the education that a dealer would give them about copyright designs and a lot of other things. Thanks for explaining it again, there's always newbies out there for whom it's new information. Come and play with us when you have the chance, when you're taking a break from digitizing! Big, thankful hugs, Marji

Bunnycup, welcome to Cute!
I love both of your sites and you are both very talented digitizers.

Thank you Marji for clarifying that it is stealing not sharing. I hope those that violate copyright read this post from Bunnycup and realize that is isn't just a few that believe it is wrong -- it is actually violating the law and stealing from people who are trying to earn a living.

Hi Ashlea,

I am the one started the discussion comparing the two sites a few days ago. I mentioned some similarities, especially the website designs seem very similar and some categories are similar. I know most embroidery sites have similar categories, but you both have some uncommon categories, and that's when I started wondering.

I love both sites and there are so many sets I would love to buy from your site hopefully soon if you are going to have a big holiday sale. I actually looked through every page and added many sets to my wishlist after purchasing from juju's site the other night as she has a good sale now. I had both sites open making sure I don't get too many sets in the same category. I know your designs are not the same, but I already have designs I can never stitch out in my lifetime, and I was trying to not to collect, for example, too many robots sets.

You are very generous to offer so many retired sets for free. I have downloaded most of them and hope to try them out soon.

Thank you for the clarification and I hope my discussion didn't upset you in anyway. If I have, I apologize.


I totally agree that it's is wrong and illegal to share embroidery designs. I hope nobody thinks I am the one who is doing that.

Best luck with your business!

Lucia

Hi Lucia

You are so lovely. No, I am not upset in the slightest by the comparison and I completely understand where you are coming from. Both Designs by Juju and we have very cutesy style designs with similar themes - but that comes from both of us having a LOT of collections and both of us also trying to keep up with the market trends. I just don't want people to think that we are hiding anything. I do know that Designs by Juju is extensively redoing their site so hopefully the sites will be very different when they do (and we are actively working on our members log in area to provide a different range of options to our site). So they should on face value look very different soon too. Thanks for the lovely compliments and please know that I am by no means upset by the comparison!

Thank you so very much
Ashlea