Getting Crafty

Everyone that knows me also knows that I enjoy doing crafty things. I do them with my kids, for other people and just for fun.

I love to look up ideas online and come up with my own twist to them, especially for birthday parties and parties in general.

Recently I had a few friends send me invitations to join the latest and greatest site called Pinterest. In the beginning, I had no clue as to what the fuss was all about. My friend Maria suggested that I give it a try and yes I fell in love almost immediately.

Now, the funny thing about Pinterest. It cracks me up when I hear people saying "I found this on Pinterest" or "I got this from Pinterest". NO, you got it from the Internet! Pinterest really is a super cool search engine with awesome features. I basically do the same thing on Pinterest that I would on Google, like look up "Mulan Birthday Cakes" and I am shown multiple images to pick from.

The perks however, are that you have a "virtual" pin board that serves almost as a bookmark to "pin" your favorite ideas and or photos from any given site all over the net. There is a search feature but the neatest part about it to me, is that you can view your friends virtual pin boards. You can have a list of friends that you "follow" on Pinterest view their pins and even comment on them and re-pin them yourself if you choose. This I love!

Now all I would like to see is how many of those "ideas" and or "things" I'm actually going to get to try and do. There are some amazing things sitting on my pin board right now and tons more waiting for me to discover them.

It really is a great new site and it can become addicting searching other people's pin boards and the site itself, BUT if you actually get to some of the projects you pin it's definitely worth all the time spent searching and re-pinning.

Today's agenda; making heart shaped favors for some ladies at Church. Happy crafting everyone!