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My Pinterest Life

This is where I live on Pinterest. Won't you come in?

Do you ever want to live inside your Pinterest? Like, just crawl up inside your Pinterest boards? They are so beautiful, and organized, and full of creativity and deliciousness and happiness. There's just so much goodness there. It's delightful.

Luckily, I'm pretty fond of my actual life, so it's not sad or anything. Really, it's not....I'm afraid I made it sound sad somehow. Anyhow, in an attempt to bring a little bit of that Pinterest wonder into my every day life, I did something crazy and made a board for pins I actually plan on doing. Like, within the near future. Because, I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but my "crafty" board alone has like a billion pins. It gets a little overwhelming after awhile. So I needed an official "to-do" list of sorts. And I named this board "My Official To-Do List". I'm nothing if not creative.

Now, I kept my board private, because...I'm not sure. Maybe I thought it would be embarrassing for everyone to see all of the things I actually plan on doing if it takes me forever to do them. Or maybe the thrill of a secret board is just too great. Secrets are fun, I don't care what that rhyme says.

So, that being said, I plan on sharing with you all what I accomplish. I'm already on a role with the cooking, which is really saying something. I've started doing a weekly meal planning kind of thing (yet again...I haven't been great at sticking with this) and I've tried several recipes just in the last couple of weeks, and we've only had one absolute disaster. Like, I chunked it in the trash and had leftovers for dinner disaster.

Until then, wander on over to my Pinterest boards and join me in my lavish lifestyle. It's so great there. No tantrum throwing toddlers, no toilets that need cleaning, no zillions of toys on the living room floor...and there's an entire board full of mostly alcohol infused beverages, if you're into that kind of thing.

A Little DIY Inspiration

I recently admitted to my slight obsession with Pinterest. While it is a wonderful source of inspiration, what good does it do if I never do anything productive with that inspiration? It's a dilemma I think the majority of people on Pinterest can relate to. 


 So basically I need to start putting some of the amazing ideas that I find to work. I'm trying to spend as little as possible for the month of June (we were going to do a "No Spend June" thing, but who are we kidding?). So I need to find projects that I can do using mostly things that I already have laying around the house. So here is what I think I will be attempting:


I have some version of this. Black frame, maybe some scrapbook paper? Surely I have a dry erase marker somewhere. I don't know, we'll see what happens.


So cute! And empty wine bottles shouldn't be too difficult to come by...


I know I have a few frames with broken stands...I also have a silver frame that has started to tarnish that could use some spray paint (obviously I don't throw much away). Plus I lose my keys approximately five times a week, so it something I definitely need. This shouldn't be too difficult.


I have a pretty little mirror frame that I spray painted black, then the mirror part got broken (like two years ago). I kept it because I thought surely I would replace the mirror. I didn't. I feel like spraying it with chalkboard paint is a much more realistic goal.

So there you have it! I'm pretty excited to see if I can accomplish a few of these things. Lord knows I love a project, and Arsen shouldn't be annoyed by this one since it requires very little monetary investment. And he won't need to help me. Probably.

Next up: Pinterest recipes! Apparently I'm feeling really ambitious today. Now that I'm typing this out I'm realizing tackling all of this will require quite a bit of effort on my part. The cooking part is what scares me. So I'm gonna calm down and not make any promises. How 'bout, wish me luck? Let's go with that.