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I love your name...I think that it fits well under these circumstances.

lesstalkmoreart - See it as arrogant if you want but I would rather people not listen to my shows if the minute they disagree with me, they have a 12 hour conversation about how horrible a human being I am.

It's pretty clear that's an exaggeration. Well, to me at least.

It sounds to me that someone enjoys creating all this drama and hype around how she is 'hated', and she has 'haters' and how we are all talking about how horrible she is. Sounds to me like someone wants to be talked about and enjoys the notoriety.

All that has been said are versions of that she's hand slapping people for having an opinion and she doesn't realise how hypocritical she looks right now. People have also commented that because of this hand slapping and arrogant nature, they won't be supporting her podcasts anymore.

Nobody has said that she is a horrible person? Nobody has personally attacked this person? Can't see what the big deal is myself. She provoked it, people responded.

You are such a freaking hypocrite. How many times did you get caught accidentally posting under your own name and then deleting your comments on the old smack blog? Of course, you've always claimed that your comments were super innocent, but I have always wondered why you deleted if they were innocent? Why weren't YOU willing to stand behind the comments you made under your own name?

You have a history of being nasty and then playing victim when you get called on it. You present this super virtuous front and accuse others of bullying and ugliness....all while engaging in the same behavior. This is, what? The third or fourth or fifth time this has come up with you?

I read your posts and think, "the lady doth protest too much." 

You're all right. You got me. I started a conversation on that FB group HOPING AND PRAYING someone would copy and paste it here. I said, "Oh dear God, please let someone be bored enough with their life that they will just copy and paste every word I've said so I can tick off a bunch of the former Peas." Yep...my dream came true. I love to stir up drama. Being told off on here for now, what are we going on, 14 hours? It has really made my day. I just sit around wondering what I can do to stir the pot. Daily, really. That's what I live for...drama.

Yep...that makes total sense. Listen, do you people not have anything better to do than to continue to tell me off? Really? I know there are some that the hatred goes WAY back, back to the days of Two Peas and there's nothing I can do to change it but really, it seems a bit much. I am guilty of having the audacity to have a conversation somewhere else and saying that I think many people think they should be able to decide how someone like Becky does business. That was my point. The point has been twisted and trampled on now. Continuing to berate me and tell me how clueless I am and how nasty and hypocritical I am...what is the point? Does it make you feel better about yourself? I guess so. You really all must be bored to continue to talk about me this long.

I get it. Some of you think I'm horrible, overly opinionated, hypocritical, a drama queen, let's see what else, hateful, nasty, etc. You've said it. I hear you. I have listened. You have been heard. 

I am done but I just wanted to say that not at any point has anyone called you nasty, horrible, or anything along those lines. Not once has anyone called you a bad person.

TracieClaiborne learning of your comments has been disappointing. I've enjoyed offerings on your site and here. But, I do not understand how you see discussion about products and marketing as a personal attack on the owner. We are on this board because we want the industry to thrive, listening to customer feedback should be part of every business plan.

If my reference to her meeting Lisa Berenson bothered you, we can discuss it. It wasn't a criticism.

Yes, in the last day I made a more personal reply about the video. This is the image Becky Higgins, The Company, choose to represent themselves. I commented on the Trivago man being awkward two years ago, and no one felt the need to defend him.

I don't see it IRL, so this kind of thing shocks me. If a business colleague declared a critique invalid, saying it was mean or jealous, they would be laughed out of the room! If these are the scrapbook industry "insiders" then it's no wonder it is dying. Their own small-minded attitude is killing it.

I am not bashing the fan girls. I have scrappers I just "like". But when they become a business and want our dollars it's a different situation.

Please respect the difference Tracie. You give much to this community, and I don't want to lose you.

There once was a real, living Michael, does she post her criticism on separate board to spare his living family?


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I know that's a little much, but where would it stop?

I've just reread the last day. I see a lot of RefuPeas talking about a concept, wanting to have good products and voicing opinions. And one that turned it into a personality show. I'm so glad the majority wants to have this place to discuss trends, products and ideas!

this thread makes me sad.

I'll be honest, I lurked for 10 years at the old 2Peas site because the drama and the 'mean girls' kept me from posting (I had @500 posts in those 10 years). The Refupeas seemed to be the kinder, friendlier version. This thread reminds me of 2Peas -and not in a good way.

Not here to defend anyone. I think taking discussions from one place to discuss at another CAN be done in a respectful way - hey we were talking about x in another group and I wondered what folks here think? But when it's a opportunity to gossip/make fun of/bully/criticise PEOPLE from another site - that's crossing the line, imo.

I don't think it was nice of Tracie to post about our site elsewhere the way she did. But I also don't think it was nice for her post from there to be copied and posted here for us to pick apart either.

Can we just agree to disagree, shake hands, and move on?

That just rubbed me so wrong. Because she wants to get in with AC or something at some point so she won't take her very real criticisms public.SaveSave

The irony is that AC produces much of the Recollections brand.

I have taken two classes from Becky.  Ive had the opportunity to take classes from almost all of the industries stars.  I can say without hesitation, her work was embarassingly lame...at CKU in Orlando.   i felt the examples she put up on the screen were going to be the joke of what not to do.  They were terrible and unfinished.  The second class was in a CKC in Mesa AZ.  Her fabulous new technique was to cut an inch  line on the side of your layout, bend it back and put a brad in it....that was it!  She really thought she was a creative genius.
Project Life has to go down as just about the most boring attrmpt at scrapbooking since sticker sneeze.

PL is great. I just think kit clubs are doing it better than she is. Square corners give options...rounded corners can't be squared anymore than you can glue your hair back on if it is cut too short...but I also get that is a part of what makes her brand unique to her. Quality is continuing to decline and as much as I love many kits, I am tired of paying for product that shouldn't have passed quality control. My finished pl album is my most favorite project of ANYTHING I have created and her ability to mainstream pocket scrapbooking was genius. I wish I didn't feel the way I do about her brand because of that, but I do.

Before PL, I hated cut apart sheets and found them useless. I immediately used up the b side if it wasn't double sided cut aparts just so I could stop looking at it and being annoyed. Now they are my favorite papers!