B&B Review: Becky’s Blog

Each Thursday I review a book or blog related to scrapbooking.
The Review
Today’s review is of Becky’s Blog by Becky Higgins. I reviewed her posts from January 21 to February 22, 2011. There were 20 posts during this time frame.
Becky’s posts are diverse and most are not about scrapbooking at all. I see her more as a lifestyle blogger rather than a scrapbooking-focused blogger. So why even review her blog? Well, she’s kind of a big deal in the scrapbooking industry. She has created quite a following through her idea books (such as, Creative Sketches for Scrapbooking) and her work at Creating Keepsakes.
During the month, she shared a file of one her sayings that readers could download for free and use in their home décor. I have seen her do this before, but I am unsure how often she shares these files.
Becky began February with a photo challenge. This is something else she does occasionally, but there does not appear to be any regularity to it (so if you wanted to follow the challenges specifically, you just have to keep coming back to the blog to find them). A few posts later, she shared some of the photos her readers had taken based on the challenge.
There were a couple of giveaways. One thing that sets Becky’s Blog apart from others that do giveaways is that she doesn’t necessarily devote a whole post just to the giveaway or just to the winners. The announcements for the giveaway and the winners often appear in posts about other topics.
There were a couple of posts about Project Life – Amber Edition, which is her product line. There were photos of reader-submitted photos of them with their kit. Becky also wrote a post about how she used the digital version of her kit to create a scrapbook of one whole year of her life in one day.
Overall, Becky’s Blog is a nice place to go if you want to find out how streamline your scrapbooking (by doing Project Life) or home décor. Becky’s Blog is not really a blog about scrapbooking. It is a lifestyle blog with a smattering of scrapbooking thrown in. If you want to read a blog with an explicit-scrapbooking focus, there are better options out there. That being said, if you are a Project Lifer, then you should probably be reading Beckys’ Blog.

Publishers and Authors
If you are a publisher or an author and would like me to review your scrapbooking-related book or blog, please email me at stephaniemedleyrath at gmail dot com.

Stephanie