B&B Review: Stacy Julian’s Blog

Each Thursday I review a book or blog about scrapbooking.

This week I am reviewing Stacy Julian’s blog. She is the author of a handful of scrapbooking books, was an editor for a scrapbooking magazine, and co-founded Big Picture Classes. I really love her approach to scrapbooking and scrapbook organization. In a nutshell: keep it simple.

I reviewed her blog posts from October 11, 2010 to November 10, 2010. There were 16 posts.

Only one post was really about scrapbooking and it was by a guest blogger. The rest of the posts were varied: a post from a cruise she is on (where she is teaching scrapbooking classes), a post from her assistant, a post about a local craft fair, a post about the things she did that day, a post about a website created by a friend, a post about a trip to Disneyworld, a post about what her kids dressed up as for Halloween…I think you get the idea.

Stacy Julian’s blog is clearly written for both her family and her fans. She includes posts about the goings on in her family (and she writes that her “blog is one way she scrapbooks”). She also promotes her work in the industry at Big Picture Classes. If you are looking for her blog to teach you about scrapbooking, you are going to find very little of that here; you are going to need to go to Big Picture Classes. The randomness of her posts leads me to believe that her blog is also for her fans–it’s a way for them to get to know her a little better as a person instead of just as an industry expert (which she very much is). I would like to see more posts of pages she has made or projects she has in progress. I think readers would enjoy that and still sign up for classes at Big Picture Classes.

Overall, I would encourage you to visit her blog and really explore the whole website. The blog is just one piece of it–the only part I reviewed.

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