I have a new obsession. I can not lie.
Pinterest.
What is Pinterest, you ask? It's an online bulletin board where you pin pictures and links to all of your interests .. thus Pinterest. I had heard about this website a while back but never thought I could utilize such a tool. Then, a few weeks ago, it was referenced on the same day by two separate blogs I follow. I took it as a sign that I needed to revisit the issue.
I went to the website and requested an invitation. (By the way, if you are interested in joining, let me know and I will send you a direct invitation. It's faster that way.) As I awaited the evite, I began to click through pictures and figure out how everything worked. I started to grasp how others were using the site and began to realize it could be a wonderful tool and not just a social outlet.
As you probably know by now, I would thoroughly love to be Martha Stewart (sans the jail time) and so I am constantly brushing up on my organizing, cooking, reading and general homemaking skills. Since I work full-time out of the home and I do not have an unlimited budget or time, I tend to plan more than create. That's not to say I don't follow through, because I do, it's just that I take a little longer to get to the final result. I like to break things down in stages, versus completing an entire project outright, because it's generally faster and cheaper that way.
Up until now I kept all of my ideas stowed away in my brain, flagged in emails, etc. This has worked for me thus far because, as it turns out, I have the ability to store large quantities of inspiration in my head. I do have a limit though. A couple months ago I arbitrarily decided to start planning SEVERAL projects .. some large, some small, some for now and some for a year or two down the road. Crazy, right? Probably.
I had been trying to think of ways to manage all my plans when I landed on Pinterest. I realized I could just create a board for projects and store the information in one location. I can tag pictures or articles or anything. So this is how I have decided to use it. I have a board for each room that I want to decorate, recipes I want to make, outfits I want to wear, ways I want to store future belongings, etc. It's wonderful! I know there are a ton of reasons and uses it would be good for but, personally, it was a simple decision.
I encourage you to check it out. Maybe it's not your cup of tea but just maybe it is. If nothing else, you can at least spend a few minutes looking at pretty pictures :)
I went to the website and requested an invitation. (By the way, if you are interested in joining, let me know and I will send you a direct invitation. It's faster that way.) As I awaited the evite, I began to click through pictures and figure out how everything worked. I started to grasp how others were using the site and began to realize it could be a wonderful tool and not just a social outlet.
As you probably know by now, I would thoroughly love to be Martha Stewart (sans the jail time) and so I am constantly brushing up on my organizing, cooking, reading and general homemaking skills. Since I work full-time out of the home and I do not have an unlimited budget or time, I tend to plan more than create. That's not to say I don't follow through, because I do, it's just that I take a little longer to get to the final result. I like to break things down in stages, versus completing an entire project outright, because it's generally faster and cheaper that way.
Up until now I kept all of my ideas stowed away in my brain, flagged in emails, etc. This has worked for me thus far because, as it turns out, I have the ability to store large quantities of inspiration in my head. I do have a limit though. A couple months ago I arbitrarily decided to start planning SEVERAL projects .. some large, some small, some for now and some for a year or two down the road. Crazy, right? Probably.
I had been trying to think of ways to manage all my plans when I landed on Pinterest. I realized I could just create a board for projects and store the information in one location. I can tag pictures or articles or anything. So this is how I have decided to use it. I have a board for each room that I want to decorate, recipes I want to make, outfits I want to wear, ways I want to store future belongings, etc. It's wonderful! I know there are a ton of reasons and uses it would be good for but, personally, it was a simple decision.
I encourage you to check it out. Maybe it's not your cup of tea but just maybe it is. If nothing else, you can at least spend a few minutes looking at pretty pictures :)
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