I got a great big heaping helping of spam last Friday. This one was a doozy. I'm so sorry if you got my "teary-eyed message from a hotel in London." I can assure you I wasn't there and I didn't get mugged. If I had, I would not send emails to every. single. one. of my contacts asking for money to be wired to me. Of course, I was irritated when I first heard about the spam, but I figured, oh well, that's okay, I'll just send an email to my contact list telling them sorry and to ignore the previous message. But when I got home and accessed my account, I found that I had nothing there. No saved emails that I was going to get back to later, no archived and categorized messages of things I'd been keeping for the past 15+ years, and no contacts. Not a single solitary one. Those effing spammers cleaned out my entire account. I'm trying to get the contacts restored via Yahoo!, but so far no response. Needless to say, I am through with Yahoo. I've set up a new gmail account, you can send me an email by clicking on the link in the top left sidebar. You can now contact me at greetingarts (at) gmail (dot) com. And please do, that way I'll have your email addresses again. I lost everything, even my own parents' email info! Luckily I remember my sister's...
Anyway. That was my whole Friday... and Saturday...
But on Sunday we had Easter fun.
I made a few Easter Peeps pins, one was given to Rebecca's teacher on Friday, and some were for the kiddos. I used the template found here, just reduced it way down so that it was a little less than 2" tall.
I attached a miniature one onto a hair tie, so Jessie could wear it as a bracelet.
I knit up some tiny baby bunnies (we call them mini dust bunnies) and put them in a few Easter eggs. The rest had erasers or jellybeans. We went to Grandma and Grandpa's house, invited a bunch of the relatives, had an egg hunt, dyed eggs (32!), decorated cookies, and ate a lot. Like a lot a lot. Very nice afternoon.
Now it's back to dealing with the spam.
No worries about the spam, I knew someone took over your account. I sent you an email letting you know but obviously you didn't get it since they erased everything. I use gmail and love it, I think you'll like it too.
Your peep pin is adorable. I've got those knit bunnies on my "to-do list". I'm hoping I'll be able to make a few tonight.
Happy belated Easter!
Posted by: Zakkalife | Monday, April 25, 2011 at 11:03 AM
So sorry about the spam - I emailed you too but I guess it's gone into the ether. Some people just have waaaay too much time on their hands if they can spend it messing up other people's stuff!
Love the peeps. I made something similar for my girls last year, but since we don't get peeps over here they weren't quite so excited as I was!
Posted by: dottycookie | Monday, April 25, 2011 at 11:50 AM
I had the very same thing happen to me on a hotmail account. Very sorry for what you're going through. I too changed to gmail and have had no problems since (and as a BIG bonus -- no junk mail at all!)
Love the peeps :)
Posted by: Karen | Monday, April 25, 2011 at 02:38 PM
the thing is - that spam is not even believeable ....
Sorry they got you and hope that gmail treats you better.
Posted by: jodie | Monday, April 25, 2011 at 04:02 PM
I'm really sorry that all of your saved items and emails are gone. That would make me sad.
Posted by: Beth | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 02:24 PM
I emailed you too. So sorry about those awful spammers.
Posted by: Kuky | Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 04:52 PM
Can you believe I just found that email in my inbox?! So I had to come over here and check that you were ok. Bloody hackers. I hope you've got most if not all of your email addresses back now. Hope you and the family are well! xoxo
Posted by: Jhoanna | Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 08:44 PM