A basic tutorial on using Pinterest.
Have you signed up for Pinterest yet? It's such a cool place to hang out and I can't believe that no one thought of this years ago! It's basically a place to photo bookmark all of your inspiration. Whether it's recipes, crafting, weddings, yoga, home decor, art, music, junk or whatever else you're in to.
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I joined up a week or so ago and it was a little confusing at first but trust me, it's well worth figuring out. And, one quick note, there are still a lot of glitches and hiccups on the site. It freezes up a lot and you get error messages when trying to 'Pin' (save) photos and often have to try again.
I got an invite from a friend -- that seems to be the fastest way to get in. Otherwise, you can go to the site and request access. Once you get in, you can search for anything in the search box or browse through your friends' 'boards' (photos). Then all you have to do is click on 'Repin' in the top left-hand corner of any photo to 'pin' (save) the photo to a 'board' (basically a category that you create for each of your photos on your account, think inspiration board).
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When you hit 'Repin', you then choose a category (that you already created) or make a new one, in the first box. Then you have the option to type in a little description -- or when I don't feel like doing words, I just type in a '.' or a '♥' because you have to put something.
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You can also 'Pin' new photos to your boards from your favorite websites. All you have to do is go to the site, open up the particular post that you want to save a photo from (i.e. a tutorial you want to link to), copy the url for the post. Go to the top right-hand corner of your account on Pinterest and click on 'Add' then 'Add a Pin'. Paste the Url address in the first box. Choose or create your category in the second box. And type in your description in the third box. Then click on the arrows below the photo on the left until you get the photo you want. Then hit 'Pin it'. (You also have the option to check a box at the bottom to share your 'Pin' on Facebook if you'd like.)
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Another cool feature is that you can follow all or some of the boards of other people. So, say you come across someone that has a great board on home decor but they have another one on antique cars but you don't care as much about that one, you can choose to only follow the board on home decor. You can follow or unfollow any boards at any time.
One thing I haven't quite figured out yet is how you find other people on there. Some of my favorite bloggers I've been able to find via other people's lists of people that they're 'following' (listed above their profile photo). But I can't figure out how to search for someone because when you put a name in the search box, it either brings up their work/art or nothing at all from them (yet I've found them by the previously mentioned route).
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I love having all of my inspiration in one spot as opposed to a bunch of separate bookmarks (like they are on Delicious). It's so fantastic to go to one of your boards and see all of the photos that inspire you in one spot. Check it out, I'm sure you'll love it too!
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On a quick personal note, I haven't been able to spray paint as much in the past week due to the crappy weather. But I've been bustling through my house on a purging/organizing streak. (I'm pretty sure that will be the endless anthem around here.) My loft has never been put together completely since I did a big purge last year (hence the lack of photos of it) but I finally have a set of retro metal cupboards that I picked up garage saling last week that I'll be able to put up there so I can finally put stuff away! They're white and in great but somewhat junky shape but once I scrub them down, I'll line the shelves with pretty paper or fabric and use them as is. Some day, maybe I'll get around to painting the exteriors but the storage solution is more important right now.
The craft show is in three weeks and I still have a ton of stuff I want to do for it! -- time to hit crunch mode as soon as I pull the loft together a bit. I'm planning to hit up three estates sales tomorrow -- crossing my fingers that I'll find some more dressers, cupboards or lockers for storage around here. I get to go sans kids (super excited about that!!).
Ha! I just discovered pinterest. I am in love and spending too much time pinning.
Check out the post I put up on my blog
pasqualirumpus.blogspot.com
Good Luck with your sale.
Posted by: jennifer d | June 16, 2011 at 04:09 PM
I'm glad to hear you have problems with Pinterest freezing up, because it does that to me all the time. I never could get the bookmark thingy to work, so I just keep a window open with Pinterest on it and another window when I am searching the internet. I have noticed that you and I have a lot of the same tastes!~ (But, we already knew that, right?)
Posted by: Shara | June 16, 2011 at 05:30 PM
I was going to mention that you can save a link to your bookmarks but maybe you already tried that. Waaay easier than the way you described for pinning. If you have the link saved (it didn't save exactly the way they told me to but it works) you just click on it in your bookmarks and all the photos on the page will be grouped together and you click on the one you want to pin. Easy peasy!
Posted by: Heidi | June 16, 2011 at 10:19 PM
I must admit I've been wondering just what exactly Pinterest is..but as I spend SOOOO much time on the internet as it is I never went and checked it out. Shoot, now it sounds too good not to! Thanks for the little highlight:)
Posted by: Elizabeth | June 17, 2011 at 09:29 AM