TO THE CREEPY IMPOSTER
Dear Facebook and Flickr user Makena Becker. you are not me. those photos are not yours. and those children certainly aren't yours either. your creepiness has me reeling. you have five hours to remove all my photos, all my words, and all your really skeevy claims to be someone you are not before i take legal action. you have infringed on my copyright. and i am pretty freakin' ticked off and grossed out by it.
thank you to reader paola for letting me know about this.
i would have loved to keep this a lot more vague and focused more on the idea of creating your own life, how figuring out who you are, little by little, and being true to that potential and the people you love is what makes life really great. and i think the higher road is to maybe leave names off.. but i can't. this is just too weird and violating and there is no possible explanation i can think of where someone would do this "innocently." if you have an idea, i'd love to hear it. i'd love to have something to wet the fury burning in my chest.
until then, i've got a birthday party to prepare for.
also: i have operated this blog the same way i try to live my life- based in faith and happiness and expecting the good rather than fearing and expecting the worst. this is not the worst, but it is really really weird. and i may need to adjust things around here for awhile until i figure this out..
ADDED: dear people (the non creepy ones), i love you. i sincerely do. i wish you were all here in person. i would hug you and thank you, wipe away my angry tears and take you to the park for a big picnic. we'd eat fruit, watch kids run around, soak up the sun and celebrate life (and the fact that the pictures were all taken down! hooray!!). after getting in our fill of spring at the park, you'd help me try to foster a little bit of sympathy and a little understanding for those who do things that aren't right, but then we'd let it go and move on... and after all that i'd try to sucker you into helping me make cupcakes and clean and decorate for tomorrow's party.. i've got a lot to do and am suddenly sooo very tired.
thank you again. truly.
xoxoxo
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 11:02AM
Reader Comments (537)
this is so sad.. i was hoping you would come back at one point.
take care!
Katie, Please come back to us....xoxo
I loved your blog and come back from time to time to see if you are posting again. I am so sorry about what happened but really hope you will come back!
Keep hoping to see a new post. Miss being inspired by your creativity! I hope you have been able to find a resolution that gives you peace and I hope one day you're able to share your creativity with us again!
XOXO
I've been checking routinely since your last post, hoping you'd start up again. Understand if you don't, but we'd all like you to reconsider :)
Thanks for all the inspiration!
Rebekah
Come back. I just hate how those (sorry) fucking advertising wankers are abusing your comments now as well with their advertising bullshit. Go away. No one cares or is going to link onto your crap.
Come back Katie. xx
Your blog inspired me to finally start sewing for my little girl, who's now 5. Your stuff is amazing, and I loved popping in on your blog to see what you and yours were up to. It sucks that there are sucky people who abuse something as lovely as your blog and life. I am sure you've moved on, but I still check back here, hoping for an update.
Thank you for the inspiration, and take care!
I just really hate that sick Makena Becker. She ruins everything.
Just wanted you to know that you have inspired me in so many ways and I am now a sewing FOOL. I owe it all to you and the precious things you do for your precious children.
I hope you'll come back soon and I wish you all the best!
Thanks for keeping it up so that we can still be inspired by all of you've accomplished and shared. I keep coming back hoping you'll feel up to returning, but honestly I'm just grateful that you've kept it here. I hope all the positive comments bring you comfort.
so sorry that this happened. thanks for not taking your everything down. hope you know you are missed!
i wanted to add my thanks to you for all the inspiration--your dresses and projects made me want to learn to sew, and now i am. i also adapted your granola recipe (to make it gluten-free) and it is now nearly a staple at our house. thanks for putting yourself out there, and i'm sorry this project hit this kind of mess. i wish you the best.
Miss you! Keep coming back to check in to see if you've updated! Hope you are having a lovely autumn in Brooklyn!
Just came across your blog. I am mom of three, 2 girls and 1 boy and I have just ventured into the world of sewing. I have been busy making dresses for my little girls and LOVE LOVE your blog. You have made the cutest little dresses and outfits. Do you use patterns, or are you so good that you whip this stuff up all on your own? I want to make so much of it! I need to know where I can get the patterns. You may have that info listed somewhere on here and I just have yet to find it. I hope you continue to blog. You have inspired me to keep sewing. Thanks!
I am so bummed that you haven't returned to this lovely blog of yours. I hope you do someday! I was always uplifted, as a (single) mom, by seeing your creations and your family. You seem to have your priorities straight.
Come back, please?
I loved your blog. I keep checking to see if maybe you're back and reader missed it. Your girls dresses were my absolute favorites, and so inspiring to me. Come back please?!?! We all miss you.
Dear Katie,
I agree that is completely creepy and a total violation and I don't blame you for not posting anymore. But I would just like to add that I, a non-creepy type, really miss your posts. I wish you would come back. Don't let the terrorists win.
xoxo Katie (that really is my name, not trying to be a weird impostor)
Dear Katie,
We love you! come back!
One more voice. I'm sorry for what you went through. I hope you can find another space or way to share your work, as you are obviously loved and an inspiration to many.
Hi Katie,
~ still missing reading you, and coming back from time to time.
Always a pang to see the last post's header glaring on top of your loving&lovely blog.
Hope you'll come back sometime. All the best to you and your family.
Emma from Germany
Ah damn I just found this website and it's no more! Looks great. You're obviously hugely talented with a huge love for life and people. Sorry that some random weirdo has made you have to change how you wanted to express yourself, but I understand. I'd have done the same thing. So a belated thank you & I'm going to really make the most of all the old posts!
Katie
I put a link to your wonderful blog in my website, writing in one line about it : "a creative, sensitive blog that will make you think "I want this woman's life". I swear that is what i've written. Now i see someone actually took it one step too far, and also that you are here no more. I wish you would come back, and hope you and your family are well.
www.ronitkfir.com
Hi Katie,
Just wanted to say that I keep checking, hoping for new posts. I'm leaving the link to this blog on my own blog, in the hope that some day you'll come back and post again. I'm really curious to see how you'll decorate your adorable little apartment for Christmas this year.
Even if you never post again, thank you for the wonderful blog that you did post. And I hope that someday soon you will be inspired again. Just remember, she was only one wacko... there's a lot of nice, kindhearted readers out here waiting for you to come back.
Hope you and your darling family are doing well,
Heidi
i keep checking back. alas, there is nothing new. come back! we miss you.
I just have to say, again, WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I am in love with your projects and now have my very own baby and goddaughter to make things for. Your blog was my favorite!! Your writing is sensational, the pictures stunning, and your life inspirational.
I will stop with the begging. But know you are very missed.
I miss this blog, your blog. Hoping life is treating you good.