Yes, Pinterest.
The neverending time-suck of do-it-yourself door wreaths, 10 course crock pot dinners, and every e-card ever created.
And yes, I love it just as much as the next girl.
(I'm pretty sure if there were any guys reading this post, I just lost them. Don't worry, fellas, it's just as likely as anything else that the next post will be about the circus that is reffing in the NFL right now. Granted, it could also be about cuppycakes - whose recipe I got from Pinterest - but who doesn't love cuppycakes?!)
While there is a good bit of carp out there (carp = crap), there's actually some good stuff too. Enough good stuff that I always sign off hungry, ready to reorganize every room in my home, with a grocery list of supplies from Home Depot and AC Moore. I don't have the time (or the energy) to turn this into one of those Pinterest Success/Fail blogs, and there are some good ones out there, but anything that I do try, I'll be sure to post about (with pictures, whenever possible because, honestly? There's probably not much better than seeing me up to my arms in hot glue, glitter and feathers).
I have all sorts of random boards - amazing bathrooms, beds that I covet, inspirational quotes, beautiful things that are green or teal, cute things I want to snorgle, and, of course, a Disney board. My 'Can't...Stop...Laughing...' board is probably my favorite. At any given moment when I'm considering pitching something in someone's general direction, I can pull up that board for some laugh-so-hard-I'm-silently-shaking-and-crying moments.
But here's the thing, I've only ever re-pinned things others have already pinned. I have NO idea how to pin anything new. And honestly? I've not yet felt I need to. I figure, eventually, everything on the internet will be pinned to Pinterest. Woohoo! One stop shopping!
In the meantime, I'll just continue re-pinning the e-cards that aren't too raunchy or rude (and still laughing at the ones I won't re-post), wiping the drool off my keyboard as I re-pin things that are made of butter, sugar, chocolate, butter and frosting, and looking for inspiration to get my butt to the gym after a 10-hour workday (an elusive pin, at that).
So, dear reader, tell me what YOU pin!
Dear Nik,
ReplyDeleteOn your Pinterest page, hover over "About", right up there next to your name at the top. Go down 2 items to "Pin It Button." Click. Follow directions. Begin to pin your own stuff. :)
Love,
Your Enabler
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Ahh, the word carp. I feel so at home here.
ReplyDeleteI am kind of the opposite. Most of my pins are ones I found. Most of them are home decorating ideas. I have huge dreams for what I want to do, and zero money. Pintrest lets me live vicariously. My other boards are mainly photography ones. Images that I love.
I spend way too much time pinning and not enough time doing but I have used some fantastic DIY cleaning products that I found on pinterest and it's a great place to keep all the bag and quilt patterns I want to make someday. I just make sure to print them out in case the link expires before I get a round tuit - you know what that is, right? Someone started a "what works" pinterest board but it seems people are just randomly pinning to it so it's pretty useless.
ReplyDeleteI have been making an effort to actually do pins instead of just pinning. Most of the. Have worked really well. I love your cant stop laughing board, it always makes me happy to look at it.
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