Pinterest

Today I thought I would share with you my love of Pinterest.  I am assuming you have all heard of it?  For anyone that hasn't it is a Website where you can collect visual bookmarks of anything, from anywhere on the web.  It is a place to build collections.


You know how when you are browsing and you find something you like and want to keep?  What do you do with it?  Book mark it, email it to yourself?  If you pin it instead you can pin it on to your own boards so that you will always have a visual reminder.  Just like you might have pinned something on your bulletin board years ago.


So how do you build a collection? You can follow other people and re-pin their finds to your boards; or you can use the "Pin It" button which you install in your browser toolbar. This magic little button allows you to pin any image from wherever you are straight to the board of your choice.


I digress.  I am sure you know all this already.  If you really don't the best way to check what it is all about is to take a look yourself XXXX and when you do make sure to follow some of my boards.  Be aware though, that it is seriously addictive and can eat up whole chunks of time. 

I love Pinterest.  I have 58  boards  covering a great range of subjects.  I have pinned over 14,500 items or articles. Why do I like it?  Because it is simply a fantastic resource  for everything!  Interested in flowers, you can find loads of wonderful stuff here.  Interested in new recipes, gardening, travelling, fashion, dogs?  You name it and it is on Pinterest.

Love shoes?  Love Pink shoes?  You can find a ton of stuff covering that topic on Pinterest.  Like purple cars?  You'll find them here.  Green birds?  Yep they are here.  I am trying to make the point that whatever you are interested in Pinterest is a great place to find information or if you prefer then just look at the pictures.

I started out with a “Craft Ideas” board and I collected all kinds of things that I thought I might like to have a go at in the future.  It is an awesome resource for crafting inspiration.  My craft ideas board has 364 pins.  Bare in mind I have other boards with different names that are still about crafting EG. sewing patterns, Hama beads, felt craft, quilting the list goes on.  I will never be able to do even half of all the things I have pinned.  I would need to live several life times.

One of my favourite boards, with over 3000 pins is my “Pinktabulous” board where I collect all things pink.  I LOVE pink,  Pink is my favourite colour (closely followed by purple and blue).  Pink is awesome.

Here are a few pins of things that are on my Pinktabulous board.

 Just love the pink fence and Daisies.

 Not sure that Simon woud be happy driving this!

 I just know they must be strawberry flavour.

 This is somewhere in Morocco.

 Pink hair!  I want pink hair.

 Pink birdy.

 This pink bike is almost as lovely as my Florence.

My other favourite boards are the craft ideas one and also my flowers and quotes one.  I'll show you some pins from them another time.  Oh and my buttons board too.  I Love my buttons board.

Before I finish this I must just tell you a funny thing.  Have you ever come across somebody so full of their own self importance that you just have to LOL?  Tonight I got blocked by another pinner.  Why?  Because I was re-pinning too many of her pins!   I am obviously a serial collector!  Just making collections for the sake of it!!

Err, that's kind of the whole point! 

Plus, bare in mind lady that pins do not belong to anyone.  They are just visual links back to a web page. Open and available to all. 

If you already use it, or you decide to try it out, have fun and do lots of pinning.  Before you know where you are I guarantee you'll be hooked and you'll look at the clock and realise that bedtime was 4 hours ago.

Must go now as my bedtime was 4 hours ago!

JILLY