A good friend approached me today and said she had seen my Pinterest boards and loved them....to which I blushed at appropriately - partly because i was truly honored that she liked what she saw and mostly because I knew that her compliment would be followed with a comment about how MUCH or OFTEN I pin.
Which she did comment about but in a sweet friendly way.
I admit that if I see it - I pin it.
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But I will also like to state that I do not sit and peruse Pinterest for hours on end Re-pinning (mostly because I have a timer I set so I do not pin-away the hours). Do you hear it? The slight defensiveness and justifying. I come from a long line of justifiers.
I do love to "pin" and I love using it as a tool to really book mark my ideas. I am incredibly visual - it the way I process the world around me - and Pinterest gives me a way to store and collect images and ideas very similarly to the way I imagine my brain to collect the thoughts.
It's my favorite way to discover an emerging style I am working on and organize my want to do desires....and to simply share it with other. I love looking at the boards and seeing the collecting of photos and getting the big picture.
The book-marklet helps me pin things all over the web super quick which is probably why I have close to 2000 pins.
I use it for recipes, project for Kate's school work, books I want/have read, style board for each room of my house....
After my friend mentioned it I thought I might pop on my board and was shocked to see I have 99 people "following" me. What? Who are these people? I had no idea. I have been so busy using it for my sole purpose I had no idea I had more than the hand full of followers I started with... the ones I convinced to join in the first place.
More shocking was the 38 "boards" and the 1788 "pins" - which may grow by the time to you read the post. WHOA. Those are not super high numbers - but they do represent a good chunk of time.
All of this has inspired me to do a few things.
- Make a REAL collage. I haven't done this in a while and it 's about time to bring this virtual thing into my real touchable world. I get back to you on the subject of the collage and process later.
- Start tackling the projects I pin. The list of ideas is long enough and I am spending more time organizing ideas that realizing them. Time get down and dirty with these projects.
- Challenge myself with interesting boards - most of what i do is super useful - but what if I did a board labled: God's Love at Work or Sadness... Then I could pin things I interrupt to fit in the label...basically and artsy virtual collage...
- Ask myself often : Who am I following...is it a style board or my Father in Heaven? Am I looking to see what someone else is pinning or avidly looking what awesome thing God is doing in the lives around me? Who is following me in real life and where and I leading them?
Alright - there you have it, another thing to add to my list of vices : Pinterest.
You can check out my pins here:
http://pinterest.com/carriedanna/
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