A Pinterest Curator's Apology

The last few evenings I have been elbows deep in Pinterest looking at all the cards I have pinned. I joined the social media site because it is perfect for hoarders who don't want to clutter up their homes. Unfortunately, as with hoarding at home, sometimes you have to purge and organize electronic collections too.

My apologies
At 1,000+ pins the Cards board became overwhelming. The cards have been repinned into the categories below to make finding what you are looking for easier. The Cards board has 321 followers and the individual boards each have 150 followers. I didn't want 171 followers to lose the cards they liked on the original board. I am sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Each new board is linked here:

Baby
Birthday
Christmas
Congrats/encouragement/support
Fancy folds/pop-ups
Geek/tech
Get Well/Sympathy
Girlfriends
Image
Layout/sketches
Love
Masculine
Missing you
Punches/die cuts/embossing folders
Sentiments
Shaped cards
Stamps I own
Technique
Thank you
Thinking of you/hi
Washi tape
Wedding/anniversary


Happy Crafting,

Card Maker & Pinterest Curator

Pinterest inspiration follow through

Halloween Sodas
Originally uploaded by Kalyber

How many pinterest boards do you have? How many pins are on those boards? How many times have you actually used that inspiration to make or do something?

I admit it I am a pin hoarder. I have tons of great ideas pinned on my boards and today I finally made something I saw on Pinterest.

Today I got an email asking us to bring something to a cut scout Halloween party and I knew I was going to make a orange soda pumpkin I had seen. I went to the grocery store and got a couple of bottles of orange soda and then realized that there are guests that drink Coke, Pepsi and Root Beer too so I got those too.

My son and I figured out which images to put on the bottles with dark liquid. We had to keep it to white because that's the only other color of vinyl I had. I had a skeleton shape I purchased last Halloween and used that for the Pepsi and Coke. We then purchased a ghost because I was being lazy.

We made sure to put the name of the soda in the vinyl design because once the caps are off no one would be able to identify their favorite.

Happy Crafting,
Katie

The Weekly Pinterest Roundup

Please do not pin from this page. Click on the link name under the image and see all the details that go with it from the source.

The Katemade Designs Pinterest policy

I do not like to repin things. Even though about 80% of pins on the site are repins I try not to go there. I prefer to go to the source and see what the creator of the project, product, or idea has to say about it. I "like" a lot of things on Pinterest but until I have time to go to the source it will not be repinned. I make exceptions for quotes and things I tag for others. I don't necessarily need to see the original if I just want to tell a friend about a cool idea I saw on someone's pin board.

Now that you know here are this week's most popular pins.

Source: starlitstudio.typepad.com via Katie on Pinterest

Source: shufflehits.com via Katie on Pinterest

Source: papersmooches.blogspot.com via Katie on Pinterest

Source: flickr.com via Katie on Pinterest

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Happy Crafting,

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The Weekly Pinterest Roundup

Source: bluevelvetchair.blogspot.com via Katie on Pinterest

I am trying to put together a workable weekly (not weakly) blogging schedule. Some days I am too busy to post anything. Work and Cub Scout meetings and standing appointments make a thoughtful, useful Thursday blog post nearly impossible.

SO

In an effort to be a more regular blogger, I have decided to let my Pinterest followers/repinners decide what goes up on Thursdays. I've decided not to post images of items from my wish list because it makes this post longer than it needs to be and I would rather promote projects than products here. If however a company would like to send free products and/or cash my way to promote or review products I will not stop them and will gladly make repeated mentions of their fabulous (if that is the case) products. 

wink. wink. nudge. nudge. 

Yes I have been listening to a Dave Barry audio book, why do you ask?

Please do not pin from this page. Click on the link name under the image and see all the details that go with it from the source.

Source: ohthelovelythings.blogspot.com via Katie on Pinterest

Source: hellohydrangea.com via Katie on Pinterest

Source: katemadedesigns.blogspot.com via Katie on Pinterest

One of my own projects, really? Cool.

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Happy Crafting,

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