I was thinking ...
I hope you're looking forward to a FUN weekend ... or relaxing or project-oriented or do-nothing or pampering or catching-up-on-little-stuff or whatever you want this weekend to be.
I just signed a few books (for a fundraiser) and am getting ready to ship them off to the winners. And I was thinking ... you know, I have a couple extra books here. Why not give a couple more away?
So add your comments below, stating the following:
1. first name only
2. the state or country where you live
3. one idea of what you think would be just so cool to see on my web site
That last part is for fun. My web site will soon be much more than just a landing page, so of course I'd love to hear your ideas. If something really strikes me as interesting or fun or "man, I've got to do that!", then you just may be receiving a book in the mail soon.
Deadline? End of day on Tuesday - the day after Memorial Day.
I just signed a few books (for a fundraiser) and am getting ready to ship them off to the winners. And I was thinking ... you know, I have a couple extra books here. Why not give a couple more away?
So add your comments below, stating the following:
1. first name only
2. the state or country where you live
3. one idea of what you think would be just so cool to see on my web site
That last part is for fun. My web site will soon be much more than just a landing page, so of course I'd love to hear your ideas. If something really strikes me as interesting or fun or "man, I've got to do that!", then you just may be receiving a book in the mail soon.
Deadline? End of day on Tuesday - the day after Memorial Day.
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2:45 PM
216 Comments:
1. Katie
2. NJ
3. Your household organization tips--just through your layouts it seems that you have a great system going! :)
1. Lara
2. California
3. How about a photo blog entry that's a step-by-step look at you creating a scrapbook page.
Deborah
Virginia
I think it'd be really cool to see more layouts you've done with your sketch, (it can be a past one, I love them all!) or some project you're doing that's not a scrapbook page, but uses scrapbooking products, or even tips on how you organize.
1. cristal
2. Arizona
3. I would love to see something uniquely "Higgins" that you've created for your home.
1.Michelle
2. California
3. VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS! Your creative process, organizing tips, ways to use different tools and maybe even a day in the life of Becky Higgins!
1. Susan
2. California
3. a challenge of some kind. doesn't need to be a sketch challenge, or even neccessarily a scrapbook related challenge.
1. Trish
2. Pennsylvania
3. How about a "Today's Faves" or "Current Faves". This could cover anything from scrap tools or product, current reads, recipes, films, etc.
It would be sooo fun and inspiring to see your scrapbook space. See how you organize your paper, etc.
Love your blog. cant wait for more to be up
I guess I should follow directions.
1. Babette
2. Texas
3. your scrapbook space. How you organize your paper, etc.
1. Ally
2. Florida
3. Daily Sketch or challenges would be awesome!
1. JackieAnn~
2. on the beach in California =)
3. A Vacation Album...from start to finish...planning the trip... journaling the trip..making a scrapbook with all the pictures and memorabilia...we could travel with you in spirit =)
1. April
2. Florida
3. I would love for you to post photography tips! My favorite part of all your layouts are your photographs!
1. Ashley
2. Washington
3. I have two ideas - one is to put a section on your site for tips about family history. I know your book expands on this, but maybe you have other tips that aren't in your book that you could share on your site? And two - a recipe section.
1. Rochelle
2. Utah
3. I would love for you to create a playlist on your blog so we can listen to your fav music as we read your blog.
Hi Becky
1. Cindy
2. Michigan
3. Things that inspire you and why (for example: photos, songs, quotes, recipes, scenery, etc)
I am loving your blog! The recipes are wonderful also! Thanks!
Kendra
Arizona
I would love to see how you organize. You seem like you really have it together with your family and scrapbooking. I really like order and would enjoy seeing how you do it. I also like your current favorites.
1. Kerry
2. Texas
3. I would love to see a list of tips from you on what should be included in a baby's first year book. I have your book written with Lisa Bearnson "Our Family Scrapbooks" and I think there are some wonderful "lists" that you have in your About Me section. I tend to have a lot of similar ideas and would love to see what you think is important to remember about a child's first year.
1. Andrea
2. Washington
3. sketches; all kinds - 12x12 one/two page spread, 8 1.2x11 one/two page spread or landscape, 8x8, cards, project sketches/ideas
1 Heather
2 alberta, Canada
3 How about you in front of a webcam answering our questions "live" once in a while?
1. Denise
2. Washington
3. How about a card of the month idea? It could be a card that is relevant to a holiday or event for that time of the year, or something as simple as a thank you card. I loved your idea for Porter's teachers, so I duplicated your format and made myself a dozen cards. Now I have several on hand when one is needed at a moments notice. Thanks for the inspiration!
1. Amy
2. California
3. I would love to see your son's pre-school pages. I am planning to start my son's, too, but I love your style, and would love to get some ideas! :-)
1. Pam
2. Michigan
3. Several sketches (ones you've used before or not) that are similar and work together that people can use when making theme/gift albums. People could write in with an album idea and you can put on your blog a few sketches that work together. (I'm in this situation currently and am at a loss!)
Thanks!
1. Laura
2. Arizona
3. I'd love just to see lots of layouts and cards that you have made!
jonna
oklahoma
tell us how you develop a project, do you always start with a sketch
Marlene
Utah
I would love to have a weekly challenge. It could be a making a certain kind of card, following a sketch to create a layout, a layout with a certain theme, a mini-album, a journaling starter or an organization project. A week after the challenge is given, you could post your results. And maybe a place for challenge takers to post their results as well?
Love your blog - looking forward to the rest of the website!
Hi Becky!
1. Sylvie
2. Vientiane (Laos)
3. I think it'd be great to see how you organize your life between family, friends and scrapbooking!
Thank you for having this blog :)
1. Lisa
2. Texas
3. Hi Becky! I would love for you to post an "ORGANIZATION TIP OF THE DAY". I would love to see a daily tip that you yourself use whether it be a household cleaning tip, toy organization when it comes to your children, organization of families clothing, organization of mail, organization of scraps and supplies, etc. Just a daily tip to get people motivated to get organized!! I know if I knew other people were working to get organized, it would be a great motivation.
Michelle, Alberta Canada
I would love to see sketch ideas...I have found your two books so useful in scrapbooking pages.
Shawnna
Texas
I would love to see some fun pics of your little ones :D
1. Beth
2. New Hampshire
3. I would love to see a step-by-step of how you create your sketches. Do you start with the sketch, or come up with the layout and then sketch later. I think that would be awesome. That and maybe a "Thursday Tips" feature, where you could start off with tips, and we could all add more in the comments.
Kathy
South Carolina
I think a project once every few weeks with you making a few suggestions & guidelines then just seeing what everyone comes up with. Paper crafts and other passions you may have. Maybe there could even be a way we could post online our creations you inspired.
tania
ohio
what about a day in the life of becky----told through photos.
1. Susan
2. Tennessee
3. I think it'd be a great idea if you could have a weekly or bi-weekly tip and occasional picture of your "organizing system" (i.e. house, organizer, scrapbooking, family history albums, everyday life, etc.) I seem to remember your having mentioned in a CK article that you've been organized since you were a kid and having this on your blog would really help those of us, who are challenged, organizational-wise! Thanks for having this blog. :)
1. Veronica
2. Victoria, Australia
3. I would like to see something to inspire - a quote or a colour combination or an exclusive sketch. Something to get the creative juices flowing.
Darcy
Kentucky
I would love to see a few of your very first scrapbook pages and/or how you integrate your creativity with your children.
1. Laurel
2. Washington
3. have a weekly 'spotlight' of sorts, like "Friday Faves" and show us some of your favorite products/tools out there!
1. Kathy
2. Missouri
3. How about "Sketch of the Week"
where your blog guests submit sketches and you pick one for the sketch of the week and then the other blog guests submit their pages and you post the best on your blog?
fritzscraps@yahoo.com
1. Kassie
2. Utah
3. Color combinations you love, tips for finding time to scrap, organizational tips.
1. Michelle
2. Texas
3. I would enjoy seeing some sort of "Question and Answer" section; you could share your wisdom with us, and if appropriate to the question, allow other ladies to post their experiences also. Sort of like the "It Worked For Me!" section of one of the parenting magazine.
1. Cheryl
2. Missouri
3. Examples of pages you've done using the same sketch.
1. Heather
2. Florida
3. More side Link to your favorites: Ex: link to your favorite camera, favorite camera lense, photos of favorite color combos, favorite layouts. Idealy, this would make it easy for people to see answers to common questions so you don't have to repeat yourself (at least not as much).
1. Mary
2. Wisconsin
3. I really loved how we could see album ideas in "Our Family Scrapbooks" with Lisa B. If you could continue with that idea and show what types of pages you might include for different types of albums, I think it would be a great springboard when I want to start a new album but don't know how to organize. You could show pics of your own albums at times, but just lists would be helpful too. You could then share readers' interpretations of your tips in your blog.
1. marshan
2. ohio
3. I really just love to get some of your ideas on organization mainly for scrapbooking but even throughout your home. Or, I've always wondered if you make any of your home decor around your house like by altering something...a picture frame or what not.
Love your blog. Thanks for starting one!!!!
1. Katie
2. Idaho
3. I love getting ideas for "every day living". Your pages always seem to have some great traditions, recipes etc. I think it would be fun to have a link (add some photos) of some of your traditions, recipes, play time etc. Being a mom of young kids I love finding new stuff, and like I said I love looking at your pages with some of these great ideas.
1. Corina
2. New Jersey
3. I'd like to see more about how you organize.. I love the way you do your albums! :)
1. Megan
2. Georgia
3. A timeline of how you create sketches for personal use but especially for the magazine and how you create the layouts. Do you make multiple layouts with the same sketch for possible use in the magazine
1. Abby
2. California
3. You should either create a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly (due to your busy schedule) personal challenge for yourself. It could relate to a technique you haven't pursued yet but always been wanting to, maybe utilizing different media or tools you haven't explored yet, etc... Maybe post the challenge at the beginning of the month and then have the outcome/result scrapbook layout posted at mid-month or at the end of the month. What do you think?
1. Rorie
2. Nevada
3. I've loved every one of the recipes you've posted so far. I would love to see a section just for recipes, your family favorites, new ones you've tried, stuff like that.
1. Melissa
2. Utah
3. I have admired your photographs for years! The thing I would most love to see is a collection of your photography tips: when and where to take pictures, how to dress and pose people well, the best photography equipment, gear, and settings, etc.
Tracie
TN
I would just love to see more of your work!!! How you come up with sketches too. I think we are all wondering that.
But don't give me the book...I already have it and I adore it. I would rather someone else have it that doesn't have one.
Jodi
Utah
I think it would be fun to see your "weekly top 10." It could be anything, everything, and completely random. Just 10 random thoughts/ideas (not necessarily even related to scrapbooking).
1) Shari
2) California
3) I've read many times in your work that you like organizing. I'm somewhat challenged in this area chasing two kids around and still finding time to scrap AND keep a home, so would love to see some more of your "practical wisdom" that help keep you on track, i.e. loved your tip on your simple "life announcements" book, that you don't have to "scrap" everything.
1. Margie
2. California
3. It would be great to have something interactive to get people to keep coming back again and again. It would be fun to see you respond to a challenge. You could do this through video or photographs. Then you could pass the challenge onto your readers. This could be done in any order, for example, posting the challenge first, then have readers post their results, then the following week you show the video or photos of how you answered the challenge. You could expand the challenges from simply scrapbooking to organization or other areas that your "fans" are interested in.
Another idea is showing how you find new trends in the industry. Where do you look - office supply stores, magazines, etc. You could feature things that you have brought into the SB industry from other places. Then you could show how you use it in the SB/cardmaking industry.
I'm always looking for new and unique tips to integrate into my scrapbooking. And I love a good challenge.
1. Heather
2. Arizona
3. I'm loving all the question/answers. :) How about some more scrapbooking ideas, techniques, pics of your oh so organized studio?
Sandra from California.
Becky...I would like to see you do some "bonus" sketches. I love them and that's why I subscribe to Ck. I always use your sketches. Also how do you balance life with 2 kids and work???
1. Jacqui
2. England (yep its raining!!)
3. Just by glancing down at the comments already left- I think we are all in awe of your very organised house!!
Recently, on Lisa Bearson's blog , she was delighting in your very organised bathroom cabinets! I think you should set the challenge of us all organizing and then completing a layout of how organised our bathrooms have become!!
1. Louise
2. Australis
3. I'd love to see more pics around your house and everyday stuff you have laying around. Maybe that's too personal but would be fun!
Lou
amd I actually live inn AUSTRALIA - i just cant spell it :P
Lou
1. Judy
2. Victoria, Australia
3. "The other side of Becky" . . . we all 'know' you as Becky with the great sketches, organisational tips, great photos, etc (which of course, you are - I LOVE your stuff!) . . . but what about Becky's "otherside"??? What bugs you, what else do you do for fun (yeah, I know - Scrapbook!!) . . . What IS Becky's 'evil twin' like ??? Maybe we are like you, after all ;)
1. Gail
2. Australia
3. I would especially love a weekly/fortnightly inspiration "idea". Someplace to look when our scrapbooking mojo's have gone on vacation and just need a kick start! Could be something small such as a cool product or technique to try or a whole layout.
1. Kendra
2. Indiana
3. I adore your sketches too. I'd love to see a sketch of the week with a layout. I can't wait for your new book!
1. Christine
2. Ramstein AB, Germany
3. More recipes! I love the nutella and crescent rolls! :) Fast easy recipes equals more time for scrapbooking! Right? More sketches would be nice. Especially with 4X6 photos that are uncut. I love quick and easy and it's always a shame to see the background cut out of photos in layouts.
Thanks for the fun give away this weekend!
1. Jamie
2. Alabama
3. Lisa B. is always bragging on how organized you are. You seem to share my style so how about a "Tuesday's/Thursday's Tips" section. It could be anything from scrapping to storing your Christmas ornaments.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Cheryl
Minnesota
How about a "Places and Faces" feature, weekly, or whenever you encounter an interesting place and/ or face (person)?
This would give us insight into your goings-ons, and make for some interesting photos and "journaling."
I think this would be interesting for us whether you stay locally and we see, for example, your favorite local coffee shop and it's proprietor, or, of course, if you go on a cool trip.
Thanks, Cheryl in Minnesota.
1. Emily
2. Georgia
3. Inspirations for the week(ex: a link or pages that showcase inspirational items you've come across that really inspire you-mag. articles/photos/web sites ets...) We all need an inspiratinal boost now and then. :)
1.Kirsten
2.Ohio
3. I think it would be fun to see a "Christmas in July" challenge on your site. Maybe you could come up with a timeline for us (and you too) thoughout July, with creating our Christmas cards (or Christmas gifts). Every year I tell myself how great it would be if I could get organized and have these done early, so Nov/Dec aren't so stressful and crazy! Thanks for this fun contest!
1. Taya
2. Arkansas
3. I love the idea of some type a challenge (scrapbook, organization, good deed, etc.) for the week and/or month. LOVE your blog Becky and am looking forward to your new website and sketches book! Thank you for inspiring us all.
1. Teresa
2. Virginia
3. Would love to hear how to scrapbook your family - I mean do you have "family" scrapbooks in chronological order? Do you have individual scrapbooks for each child? Do you do (or will you do) separate "school only" albums? And, how many scrapbook page layouts do you have per year/per child? Sometimes I think I try to capture every event in each child's life...and well, I'll need to buy a new house just to store everything by the time they reach teenage years!
Thanks Becky!! Love your new blog!
1. Natalie
2. Kansas
3. I would love to see pictures of your scrapbooking room and organizational system.
1. Jessica
2. Edmonton, AB, Canada
3. A link to all your scrapbook pages and maybe one to a bunch of tasty recipes!
Hi Becky!
Name: Jody
State: Michigan
Idea: You meet so many interesting people through CKU, CKC, etc. I would love to see your website feature the people you meet. The scrapbook pages they are creating and the stories they have to tell. A photo of these people with you would be fun too!
Thanks for blogging!
1. Casie
2. Wisconsin
3. I would love to see an newsletter. Maybe something that is like what Heidi Swapp is doing in her BPS class. A monthly look in to how you scrap for yourself. Your favorite techniques, your method, favorite products to use, etc.. Maybe include a challenge as well and we could post our projects based on it here. Of course including a sketch or two would be great also!
1. Shirley
2. New Jersey
3. How about utilizing scrapbooking supplies for other craft projects? Nothing's too silly or not-doable. Unconventional organization tips would be fun, too (for example, I'm using a wire dish rack that my mother never used to organize my 12 x 12 papers. It's the perfect size :)
1. Danielle
2. North Bay, Ontario (Canada)
3. I would love to see a weekly challenge ~ where you would post your favorite layout of the week (that you've done) and then post a challenge regarding that layout.
1. Aimee
2. Ontario, Canada
3. I would love to see a "make your own sketch" kind of idea. I have visions of opening up a blank canvas .. then having titles .. pictures .. "re-size" the ones on the side bar .. drag them onto our blank page .. play around with them .. .. a journaling box on the side that you can drag over .. we can make the blank canvas into our own "becky higgins" sketch!
1. Marilyn
2. TEXAS
3. How about a sketch of the week, or just a challenge to use 1 or 2 different items on a LO for that week.
1. Meghan
2. Florida
3. More and more of your amazing layouts :)
Jennifer
Ohio
Sketches Sketches and more Sketches!! I love your sketch books!!
1. Linda M.
2. North Carolina, USA
3. I still like how you share your favorite recipes. To me, that is something that adds a personal touch to your blog. A lot of people don't like to share things like that...even my friends don't share some special recipes. I would like you to continue with those. I really enjoyed you sharing the deviled eggs recipe in your column on the CK website.
Becky
Delaware
Back when I was updating my blog daily, I had a "Counting my Blessings" post once a week. There I would list 4-5 things/people/whatever that had been a blessing to me over the past seven days. Sometimes it was a specific person, sometimes it was something as simple as a kitchen appliance making my life easier! It really helped me to remember to be grateful and content in the midst of my daily routine. Why not try something like that on your blog section?
1. Christina
2. Kolding, Denmark
3. A 'Challenge Becky-column'. Visitors to your site and blog get to challenge you by posting techniques, links to pictures, layouts etc and you pick a challenge and everybody can join you in completing it.
1. Donna
2. Nevada
3. Photograph Fundamentals:
Since photos are at the core of scrapbooking, I would love a look at how you store and organize your digital images, organize printed photos before you're ready to scrapbook them, what you do with any photos you didn't use on layouts (or if you only print what you know you will use), and ultimately where do the photos on your layouts end up. Which ones go into Porter and Claire's individual scrapbooks, which ones go into family albums, and do you ever duplicate layouts to include them in more than one scrapbook?
Cathy
Florida
I think that the idea for sketchs
is a good one. I know that the new sketches you do are probably for magazines and new books, but you could post one of your old sketches (even from your first book) and give us maybe a week or
two to submit a layout and choose
a winner. I think that it would be
fun to use old sketches to see what
updated layouts we come up with.
Also, love the recipe. You could
always get readers to share some of theirs, if you ever run out of recipes to share.
1. Christine S
2. Michigan
3. I would like to see people that you encounter, your organization tips, Sketches!, and anything inspiring that you can share. Thanks!
1. Colleen
2. Beaverton, OR
3. Organizational tips besides scrapbooking..I like to clean (yes, it's true) and organize also..and I am always looking for new ideas. I have been enjoying the recipes also.
1. Deirdre
2. Moab, UT
3. I'm so happy to have found your blog---find you so inspiring in so many ways. I'd love to see a "Home Inspirations" or weekly non-scrapbook related post with recipes or organization tips. Thanks to you I now roll all our beach towels for a much neater linen closet---can't even remember where I heard or saw you say that!
I'd also enjoy hearing what inspired you---from music, books, to other scrapbookers. You could shine a light on good things you've found.
Thanks!
1. Jen
2. Utah
3. A weekly challenge for us would be a lot of fun as well as sketches.
1. Mishel
2. Canada
3. A fun easy "craft" projects area. Like those baby headbands you made for your daughter. So cute!
1.Rebecca
2.Nebraska
3.More organization ideas and a lo "A day with the lives of the Higgins"
1. Teri
2. NY
3. How about a "Makes Me Happy" area...people, pictures, places, things that make you smile?
rebecca aka "becky"!
florida
I'd love to see your scrapping/creating room and what makes you happy and creative!
Tanya
CA
I would love to see some "before" and "after" layouts of some photos you have scrapped before - what you did with them "then" and how you would do them "now"
1. Bridget =)
2. Maryland!
3. I'd love to see LOs with "less than perfect" pictures. The ones that are so dear to you b/c they captured a moment or something precious, where the photos are imperfect, yet perfect...
Thanks!
1. Natalie
2. Kansas
3. Becky, This is an "add-on" to my post from earlier. In addition to seeing your scrapbooking room and organizational methods, I'd like to see your new line of Lisa and Becky products and how you use them in your home/scrapbooking room/office, etc. I loved seeing the picture of your rub-on and I think most people would love to see more of that, and how you use your own products!
Sandra
Florida
How about posting a column with content that is reflective of your values and spirituality? Your thoughts that week, opportunities to make others' lives better, blessings, challenges, prayers, discoveries and so on. It could bless others and posts could bless you too.
Tya
Michigan
I would love to see tips/tricks on creating a balanced sketch for a layout.
Terrie in Arizona
I would love to hear how you use "old" supplies and products and incorportate them into new "fresh" layouts. When I talk to other scrapbookers, so many of them are bogged down by all these old supplies and would love to use them in happy co-existance with the new stuff! Thanks
Shannon
New Mexico
I'm not sure what I want to see. I'm sure whatever you choose will be great. I just want that book!!!
:) Honesty is always the best policy.
1. Tabitha
2. Las Vegas
3. More LOs based on your skecthes, different looks and different ways you used them would be great
Angela
Arizona
I would love to hear the top 5 highlightes of your day!
Kim
Iowa
Inspirational quotes. I love to use quotes in my scrapbook design projects. You are always so inspirational....so I would love to learn about your favorite quotes.
1. Marty
2. Michigan
3. a current family layout. I enjoy your layouts of your kids growing up!