Feathers in My Hair: Oh how you've piqued my Pinterest!

Oh Pinterest...how crazily addictive you are. When I first learned of Pinterest, I just saw it in people's Facebook status updates, "Thank you Pinterest!" attached to a picture of Christmas jars....I didn't get it...Then I did some research and saw that it is a virtual pinboard where you can post things you find on your own or repin from other posters. Very cute idea. Once I got my formal invite to join, it was on! There I was scouring the web for inspirational and cute things to post - recipes, books, ideas for my dream home, etc. I really have come to love it.

I've come to love it so much that I got a little giddy when one pin I posted had 91 repins! Woo-hoo! Why does this make me happy? I have no idea. It's pointless really. A pin board is something you see as valuable and inspirational. Who cares if others want to share my pin? I mean really......I do!! Just being silly, but it's a cool site. I've got several crafty ideas from there, and plenty more I'm willing to try.

A few random things I've noticed about Pinterest though:

1.) I'm not trying to judge people's boards and stuff, but some of these things do concern me. One of them being boards devoted to fitness and physical appearance. There's absolutely nothing wrong with posting fitness tips - I love it, it's great, hoorah. BUT, I do have a problem when people have boards of pictures but nothing but incredibly skinny people - like model skinny, not realistic, unhealthy unskinny. One girl had a whole board with just captions of "Hot," "Wanna have those legs!", etc, etc. For whatever reason, it all just slapped me in the face. We always hear how the media plays into body image and whatnot, but this site makes it very clear as it's right in your face. I just want to comment on some of the pins and type, "THIS ISN'T CUTE OR HEALTHY!!!" Blahhhh.....but what really threw me over the edge was a massive repinning of a fitness regime. It seemed innocent enough at first until you continued to read through the list of about 50 tips. It actually was a list of how you can be a successful anorexic or bulemic. I hope that sh.... was pulled from the site real quick. Ugh.

2.) Maybe I don't like to jinx stuff - maybe it's just me. I'm not going to post baby things or plan my wedding until those things are actually in the works. Okay, I will call myself out on the whole dream home thing. I am posting things for the home, but that is something that is technically always in the works. But nurseries and wedding dresses, not until it's somewhat of a near reality will I be posting stuff. Hopefully I will get to do this one day on Pinterest as it will be super duper addictive.

Here are a few things I've made recently: