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Monday, August 22, 2011

Is It Pinteresting? My Latest Inpirations.

 I recently got swept up into the Pinterest craze.  It's an easy one to get swept up into.  There are so many incredible photos that people are sharing there, that I can follow links for days discovering creative ideas, getting lots of inspiration, and finding new artists that I truly adore.  For those of you who havn't caught on yet, Pinterest is a virtual pinboard.  Almost like an etsy treasury or a Flickr Round-up but better, because you can organize your boards, keep adding for days, and any photo file on the web is fair game.  What I love the most is how each person's boards reflects glimpses into their passions, their hopes, and dreams, and their style, really you get a fun picture of who the person is (or who they would like to be).

I also REALLY love that you can easily find exactly where the original image came from.  As an artist whose art images are flying around the web going who knows where, I think this is a brilliant feature to respect the work of original creator/poster.  Pinterest is not for everyone, though.  My husband totally does not get it.  He barely uses facebook and so this new social networking idea has totally perplexed him.  Try explaining what a virtual pinboard is to someone who doesnt really use social networking interfaces and see how silly you sound.  So we have this joke between us now, whenever he sees me clicking away on the computer across the table during our morning coffee time, he asks me (with a bit of a smirk on his face, mind you) "What's Pinteresting Today, Hon?"  To which I reply, "Oh my goodness, you should see this incredible yarn bombed tree!" or "look at the rainbow made of coordinated crayons" or "this is the most adorable baby bunny I have ever seen!"

At which point, he looks at me like I am nuts, smiles affectionately at me and goes back to checking sports stats on his phone.  So perhaps my overly manly man isn't my audience for this new found love of Pinning amazing images, but I have a feeling I am preaching to the choir here.  Any Pinterest groupies here?  Let's have a Pinterest party today!  Here are some of the links from my boards that have me swooning and brimming with creative ideas. 








As you can see, I am having a bit of an obsession with fiber arts and color.
What do you find Pinteresting?  I would LOVE IT if you could post links to your latest Pinterest favorite find in the comments here.  I want to see a bit of your passions and dreams.  Oh, and not to be totally self serving, but I would be honored if you ever wanted to "pin" any of my photos or artworks to your boards.  It's a great way to get more people to see my artwork.  
Have a Pintastic Day Everyone!
XO, HARMONY

14 comments:

  1. I love yarn-bombing (that tree is amazing!) but I just cannnn't get into Pinterest!

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  2. I love pinterest, it is so addicting.

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  3. WOW! I love your blog! So bright and cheerful.... can't wait to creep (i mean leasurely read) through the rest of it :)

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  4. Pinterest is amazing!! I'm addicted something fierce :D

    {I'm signing up for the Freckled Nest giveaway!}

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  5. Hello from Freckled Nest - I love intrest too! Such a fun site :)

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  6. Love the watercolor bunnies :)

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  7. As per your request, here's my Pinterests: http://pinterest.com/summerbis/

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  8. I'm gonna be a copy cat and try my hand at that crayon art. That's just too cool!!

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  9. I too am in love with pinterest and now have my daughter-in-law and she has her friends obsessed! love it and your blog, check mines out if you ever have a chance...
    www.lilbitofmyworld.blogspot.com

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  10. I love all the color. I'm always inspired by color too! I'll have to thank Leigh Ann for featuring your, now I have more to discover!

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  11. Those are greeeaaat pics from pinterest! i am addicted o pinterest and color!

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  12. I love Pinterest. I pinned the crayon photo too!

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