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Real Parties Vs Staged Parties

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Parties are big business, hey we even have a blog dedicated to Parties but I am struggling to find party inspiration from parties that are actually REAL.

You may recall my previous post about store bought cakes vs Professional cakes and I think this blog post comes under the same gripe discussion.

This party blog is not aimed at professionals- it’s for the Moms and Dads out there who want to give their kids the best DIY party they can.

Are we inspiring you with un-achievable expectations?

At a guess only about 20% of our parties appear to be real, the rest are styled by 1/2 a dozen professionals that majority of households couldn’t afford to replicate.

So here I am –  Just a girl blogger asking  boy   readers to love share with her.

Do you want to see more REAL parties?

Are you happy reading about OTT (Over the top) styled parties cause they still inspire you?

Here are some other articles you might like.

How to make a fake cake. 

Plastic Vs Fantastic

Here are some of my own personal REAL parties.

Kayden’s Beach Party.

Diwali Bollywood Party

Mermaid Party

Have you read?

Cross Stitch Forum Asks for Proof Stitches Aren’t AI

There are a lot of stories out there these days about AI use in the crafting space for everything from answering technique questions to writing patterns. 

And there’s a lot of content about how to spot AI patterns, or even just photos on the Internet that people are claiming to have made but are clearly AI generated. 

As the models get better, though, it can be harder to tell. Gone (mostly) are the days of AI sewing patterns with models who have too many fingers, but one thing it’s still hard for AI to replicate is individual stitches. 

You’ll see this in knitting, crochet and cross stitch, where a project might look good from a distance but if you zoom in you’ll see there aren’t individual stitches, or they don’t look the way real stitches would look. 

That’s part of the rationale behind a change at r/CrossStitch, the largest cross stitch community on Reddit, which now requires people to show a close up of their finished projects (lots of people seem to be showing off the backs, too) to prove their projects aren’t AI. 

Lord Libidan reported on this news and I agree with them that I’m not sure why people in an online forum would be sharing AI “finished objects” when it’s a venue where you can’t sell patterns. But I understand their desire to keep the forum free of AI images. I wish Etsy had such a requirement so that people selling patterns had to prove they’d actually stitched them (though there are plenty of patterns that just show a chart and not a finished item, AI or not.)

Lord Libidan probably has a different perspective because he’s seen people selling kits made from an AI version of a free cross stitch pattern of his. Which is another layer.

I have my own feelings about AI and crafting but I just think it’s really interesting both the things people will do with AI without saying it’s AI and the lengths other people will go to in order to prove something is or isn’t AI. Or even calling something AI just because it’s really detailed and looks good? What times we live in. 

[Photo via Lord Libidan, closeup of an image made by Google Gemini’s Nano Banana]