Sew much love

Hello ❤ I will be listing today 4 new project bags in the shop. I am trying to add each week some bags that I am sewing with love during the week. Learning this new skill has changed my life. I am totally addicted and it makes me sooo happy sitting behing my machine and creating with colorful pieces of fabric. I bought my Juki one year ago. It’s been exactly one year!! and since that day I used it almost every day. I made a lot of quilts. Most of them live happily in loving homes around this globe and that makes me really proud. And lately I discovered the joy of making bags. And the bags are also flying around this planet to new homes and that makes ny heart happy ❤ and thankful ❤ I made myself a promise to learn each week a new pattern and try it. It’s been a blessing. Thank you so much for reading me here. I will try to be more present in this little corner of mine. Much love. Angie

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Magnolia bag 💜❤

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How my Instagram got hacked…

Hello dear friends and welcome to my blog. This blog is a very old and very special place to my heart. I used to come here every single day before the rising of social media. I have many friends that still remember that place. I wrote the last blog post here in 2011 that was years ago 😉 My boys weren’t born then and I was a mom of 2. So many things changed in my life since. I feel the same but different at the same time.

Today I want to share exactly what happened to me and how my Instagram got hacked. To be aware and not fall in the same trap as I did. I was fortunate enough to know somebody who knows somebody that works at Facebook. And this special lady helped me get my account back. But I know that this is not the case for everybody and it is really annoying when nobody FROM Instagram and Facebook reply to your emails, messages and you feel alone. NOBODY. You have to know that nobody will answer you back. You are not a business account WITH A MANAGEMENT TEAM. You are not worth talking with or dealing with. You feel like a helpless child alone in this whole planet. In any case this is what exactly happened to me. Maybe this will not be the case with someone else. I sent seeking help messages. I reported. I sent emails. I got a single email from Instagram sent from a robot saying to send all the details in an email: what exactly happened, what was the name of my account before it got hacked and the email linked to my account. And I replied. I sent all the proofs etc AND NOBODY ANSWERED BACK. NO ONE. NOT A SINGLE PERSON. But this is not what I am writing today about. Today I want to share how the hacker worked to steal my account so you don’t fall in the same trap if it happens with you.

It is very simple…

One month ago, my daughter suggested me to write a request to Instagram to get verified. She told me that a verified account is protected and better for me and that I can have it easily because I have a high number of followers. So I sent a request to Instagram. 3 weeks after I received an email from “Instagram” with my name and Instagram logo and address etc saying that my account is ready to get verified and that I need to contact the Instagram support team. I was so happy and of course I did not for a single moment think that maybe it is a spam. I replied to that email asking how should I get in touch with that “support team” An hour later someone talked to me by whatsapp. The whatsapp number is US based with the Instagram logo etc and this someone told me that again my account will get the verified badge and they need me to do some steps in order to. And me, like a complete idiot, I followed the steps that he was telling me to do on whatsapp. He told me that now I will receive a code by sms and that I should screenshot it and send it to him. Then that I will receive another code by email and that I should screenshot it too and send it to him. And that was exactly what I did. Then I received an email from Instagram saying that someone is trying to access to my account and when I clicked on the link that says that it is not me, the link was already expired and the hacker changed already my password and my email too. Very simple. I helped him to change the password. He accessed my account and he clicked on the : I forgot my password. Instagram sent me a code to change the password. And I sent him that code!!!! Do you see how simple that was. And can you imagine how dumb and angry I felt?

Then he told me that the account couldn’t get verified and it will be deleted now unless I pay to Facebook a certain amount of money. I, at that moment, understood that it was a hacker but it was too late.

This is the whole story. I can say that I helped the hacker hacking my account. So please be aware. If you will get verified from Instagram you will get verified without anyone talking to you, without any email and any whatsapp sent. You will get verified without receiving any email and without asking you to do anything. Click on a link. Screenshot a code etc 😊 Instagram will get you verified without your help 🙂

This is the whole story my friends. Thank you for reading it. It is a sad story but luckily it ended well. My account on Instagram is 10 years old. It has all my memories and family moments. It has all my kids pictures. And my work. All the blankets, quilts, projects I did. All the little moments I shared there day after day.

When the hacker changed the account into private I could not see any picture of mine anymore, any hashtag. I felt sad, angry. I felt that it is so unfair. All my hard work through the years gone. Gone in a moment. And nobody was there to help me get it back. I couldn’t sleep for many nights. Then I decided to start over with a fresh account. I lost hope recovering lemondedesucrette. I opened a new account lemondedesucrette2. And started little by little contacting you, you the greatest persons in this wonderful community. You that I can call friends without even meeting you in real life. And you started sharing the sad news on your stories and people were able to find me again on Instagram and follow me again. And everytime I got a new follower I was like crying with joy. And I was ready to continue with that new account, new page, new projects. Start over from zero and continue. Sharing my everyday, my crochet, my colors etc

AND then, yesterday, the good fairy contacted me and told me that she will try recovering my original lemondedesucrette and she succeeded.

AND MY ACCOUNT WAS BACK.

Please be aware dear friends. There is evil on this planet. But there are good humans too. Fortunately.

Sending you all my LOVE.

Angie

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And life goes on…

4 days already. 4 days that my Instagram account got hacked. 5000 pictures stolen in minutes. Moments, beautiful moments of life turned “private” and soon may be deleted. My heart is crying. I can’t find sleep. I am angry because I feel the injustice. Why? Why evil exists… And still no answer from Instagram…

Confetti love

But life must go on…. When you can’t change things, you try to continue with what you have. I have my family, my online friends (even though I lost them for now and I must search for them one by one and contact them. It is not easy to contact 105000 persons, 105000 friends that were a part of my life so far and that I lost in minutes), my crochet, my sewing machine, my colors, my home. And I feel blessed. And thankful. Despite everything.

Little friends

I am working now on finishing my Confetti blanket. I was going to launch it as a CREATE box this week along with a free video of the pattern. The video is ready. I will wait a little before launching it. I still have a couple of rows to do and the edging. And the blanket will be ready. It is beautiful. And I love every stitch of it.

my Charly

I did also some watercolor this weekend. Strange how watercoloring calms me. I was so nervous and stressed I couldn’t hold my hook or sew. But I could do some painting and it calmed me down. I love painting flowers. Colorful flowers.

wild flowers

And I have 9 new project bags almost ready. They are beautiful. All of them. I can’t wait to show them to you!

That’s all for today! Enjoy your week!

Love

Angie

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I am happily back to blogging ;-)

Hello lovely friends, I miss you and I miss writing here to you and sharing with you my everyday. So many years have passed since my last post. So many changes in my life. But. I am back.

Yesterday my Instagram has been hacked and I felt sooo sad and sooo angry I couldn’t breathe properly. So I needed a space where to share this sad news and I came back here and decided to write posts again because I really missed writing to you. The hacker wants me to pay him money so he gives me my Instagram again and I feel so frustrated. He changed my picture and my name (he replaced lemondedesucrette with cheislegendary2. Oh how I hate you cheislegendary2. You are my nightmare!!!!) And he deleted my bio. And I felt violated. Like he saw me naked. Like he violated my intimacy. He took my followers, my friends, my everyday companions and I hate him. He stole a part of my mornings routine. He stole a part of my life. I reported him to Instagram but no news from Instagram yet. I am still waiting. I don’t know if I should pay him or no. Should I?

Well, I don’t know what will happen next. Would I be able to have back my Instagram account? Will I loose it and start over again from ZERO? Will he delete my account and my more than 5000 pics? I feel so sad and lost. But the good news is that I am happily back to blogging again and that I miss you soooo much here.

Love

Angie

P.S: The 2 cute bunnies in the pic above are my Jojo . My latest amigurumi pattern that you can find in my shop lemondedesucrette.com

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