Pinterest.  Oh, my.  I kept putting off even typing the url into my browser for fear I’d never leave.  Yet here I am, posting it about it on my blog.  I guess it was inevitable.  There was an initial fear that, much like my Bookmarks, I’d pin everything in sight, never to revisit any of it.  And much like my Bookmarks, I assumed I would randomly think, “I really should spend some time organizing all those things I bookmarked/pinned.”  It was pretty much guaranteed that my Boards would become jumbled messes of things I would never be able to find when {or IF} I ever decided to follow through.  With all of that weighing heavy on my shoulders, I joined Pinterest and started pinning, making a conscious effort to only pin things that I actually thought I would use or make or do or revisit in some way.  I’m happy to say that so far I have done one Pinterest project.

I first saw the wooden Christmas trees here, via a stranger’s post on Pinterest.  Over Thanksgiving, J and I went to his parents’ house and took some time to rummage our way through some old buildings and get some lovely old wood to re-purpose for our trees.  We didn’t even have to paint or change anything with the look of the wood. J and his dad made a few cuts, and viola!

Last night J and I went to the holiday party for his PhD program and participated in the White Elephant gift exchange.  When someone way ahead of us opened a box of canning jars, I knew I had to have them.  Do you KNOW how many projects there are for canning jars?!  The jars ended up being a hot item, but we ended up with them {I’m sure whoever brought them was shocked!}.  Afterward I was asked, “Did you get those for canning, or because of Pinterest.”  Busted!  But I was glad I didn’t have to explain myself (:

If you’re on Pinterest, feel free to follow me – just click here!

~Anna