I received an invite to join something called Pinterest back in October. I distinctly remember saying to some friends at a pumpkin carving party that I would not join because I didn't need another distraction like facebook. It was only a couple weeks later that I peaked into Pinterest and was immediately hooked.
What is Pinterest?
It is basically a virtual bulletin board customized by you.
I was always guilty of "bookmarking" things online and never referencing them again. Even more frustrating was when I would bookmark a recipe or webpage and could not find it in that long list of unorganized bookmarks...or could not remember what I named it. Pinterest is the perfect solution! You create your own categories/boards for things you like to search for online: home decor, craft ideas, recipes, a great bag or book. Okay, you got me, it really is a chic thing. But in all honesty, it has been a fun and rather handy resource for me the last few months.
For example, I like to make my kids birthday cakes and have fun with it! I have a board for birthday ideas with cake ideas I have found online and pinned, and a few fun ideas some other people have pinned and I "re-pinned" onto my own board. This was Abby's cake I made for her 6th birthday. It was so fun and turned out super-cute!
We had a little fun the other week cleaning up all the old broken crayon pieces in the bottom of our little shoebox of crayons. We baked them in a silicon cupcake pan.
For a little fun in our homeschooling activities last fall, we traced and cut out the girls hands and feet. I let them decide what they wanted to make out of their cut-outs. Katie made a butterfly, and Abby made a tree and a chicken.
At Christmas I took a fun idea from Pinterest and put the kids handprints on ornaments. I let the girls paint their fingers to look like snowmen. I messed up on Wesley's handprint...I was so focused on getting a good clean print that I didn't put his print in the right direction, so I had to get a little more creative and make it into something else--I went with a little reindeer. And it turned out pretty cute I think. I completed it by writing their name and the year with a marker on the back.
My favorite Pinterest idea come to life was the Christmas wreath I made. A friend from church hosted a "Pinterest party", where everyone brought the fixin's for their favorite Pin. This is what I attempted, simply made by stringing ornaments around a wire hanger!
For Thanksgiving, we took on our own crafty little project inspired by Abby. I think she saw it on nick jr.
We traced and cut out a template of the girls handprints. Then rolled out sugar cookie dough and traced our template. I added a smidge of cookie dough to the thumb to give our turkeys a beak-like look.
Then we iced and decorated and had some messy fun.
These were originally going to be place-holders at the Thanksgiving dinner table,
but we decided not to put everyone's names on them after all. They turned out so cute!
So, if you think Pinterest might be for you then check it out. Leave a comment and I will be glad to send you an invite. Click, Join, Follow, and have fun! Happy Pinning everyone!
Linking up with Carissa at Lowercase Letters for Miscellany Monday
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