Becky Higgins and Magnolia

Agree -very strange!

That is just effin' creepy and downright weird. I use to be a BH apologist. No more! I think she's a nutcase and a wannabe follower.

If I was Joanna I would be so freaked and mad. Joanna is spiritual not a Bible Thumper or a Multilevel Marketing Mormon. Different day, different story of another #FakeGreedyChristian using God to make themselves important.

Becky is going to end up with a restraining order. Crazy bitch.

Awkward and creepy.

I think lots of "sheople" send things to famous people. BH, probably gets things sent to her from her sheople all the time. Of course, personally I think sending things to famous people you don't really know is weird. Maybe I'm just not enamored enough with anyone, or I'm too cheap to send someone who makes way more than me anything.

Now if BH was sending the book as a part of a business attempt and stated it as so in her post. I'd think it's a good business ploy. In business, things like that are done to show what you're capable of and to show off your product. However, if it's a business attempt then it shouldn't have been posted in her social media, imho. However, since both of their businesses are not old school corporate America and more social media inspired nouveau corporate America, then maybe this is how things are done, and I'm just out of the loop.

OMG this is for real? BH needs to back down, this makes her look weird, and desperate. I'm pretty sure the Magnolia Farms empire doesn't need the help of BH. It's okay to have different looks in life, and. It everything needs to cross over. Not everyone needs to scrapbook to preserve memories.

The Gaines are far smarter than people give them credit for. Sure, they lucked into HGTV finding them originally, but since then, they have been in control of themselves, their products and their lives. And for BH to think she has something to add is ridiculous. Just ridiculous! I know who they both are, but there are actually people out there who don't know who BH or Magnolia is! She needs to back off and step down, she looks ridiculous.
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There are no words. It's none of her damn business how Joanna does or does not record family memories. She doesn't need to KNOW about Project Life. How extremely arrogant. Beyond creepy receiving a photo book from someone you don't know.

This is either an embarrassing lack of self awareness or an embarrassing amount of self importance.

No, it's both.

Taking promotional photos (or other people's photos) from online is definitely not cool in my book. That was the problem I had with the first post where she used a promo photo of Joanna Gaines and tagged her and all the rest. It's just odd and creepy. OK to do if you're fangirling with other fangirls but you do not tag the famous person when you're doing that, especially if you're a mature adult. (Are her kids horrified by this weird obsession?) I could maybe understand if she'd made a book of her own pictures from her visit there, although I still don't understand what she's trying to achieve. 

At first I only read the second page of this thread because I thought it was the old BH stalking JG thread brought back to life. I couldn't imagine that she could have topped her initial weirdness. After this (and that godawful dress) I'm starting to wonder if she's OK or if her judgement is actually impaired. 

Cringe Inducing.

I have MAJOR second-hand embarrassment from all of this. I doubt this woman needs BH's wrapping paper stuff when her brand is popular enough. I mean, I respect BH for starting PL and everything but the kits are not even popular. I get my pocket cards from other companies and not hers.

This is all super unprofessional.

Immature, unprofessional, and stalker-like behavior. It's quite embarrassing, actually.

I see this a bit differently than everyone else here. Before I start, though, a disclaimer: I have never met her, have never had any interaction with her, and I have never been one of her fans.

I don't follow any celebrities, scrapbook or othewise, so I googled her out of curiosity due to this thread. That search took me to the write up on her Project Life site.

She was editor of the now defunct Creating Keepsakes. I assume that she probably realized from her time as editor that busy working moms don't usually have the time or money to create the expensive and elaborate pages often showcased in the CK magazine.

Her Project Life was a smart idea at first, since it appealed to the moms who take photos but don't have time to scrapbook. It was the opposite of the Creating Keepsakes focus, but it still had a very limited appeal. The paper manufacturers made cut outs to fit pocket pages, which helped keep Project Life going. Otherwise I do not think it would have lasted this long, and it appears to be losing popularity.

Becky and her scrapbook related endeavors over the years have presumably provided a very comfortable income for their family. According to the Project Life site, she moved her business out of her home and into office space 3 years ago. I am a former small business owner, so I know that the cost of office space and probably staff would have made her overhead costs skyrocket, perhaps more than she anticipated. I think she expected that Project Life would remain popular. I don't see her current efforts as greed, but a desperate attempt to keep her family income from faltering. Most people ridiculing her would probably also try to find ways to preserve their family income if they found their income dropping.

Unfortunately, like so many home based business owners, she never got a business degree, so she does not really know how to market. She has been unusually lucky to have been able to capitalize on the scrapbook hobby for so long.

Yes, I thought the Becky dress was ugly. Yes, I think her posting on the internet about her efforts to team up with Joanna Gaines is foolish and just makes Becky look ridiculous. When it comes right down to it, though, I think she is mostly naive, and her followers aren't helping.

Just my two cents.

I think a lot of her business experience has been different than that of most small business owners (certainly different than mine or that of other small business owners I have known). She rose to fame quickly, and she capitalized on it. Most small business owners have to be more savvy to succeed as long as she has. Should she have surrounded herself with people who know more than she does? Of course. But it's possible that she surrounded herself with her friends and supporters instead, who gave her a false sense of how things were going, and who may have encouraged her no matter what.

I think her recent attempts indicate desperation. Her actions do not seem to me like the actions of a business owner who had actually hired anyone who knows more than she does when it comes to business.