Pinterest & the Craftermath

So if you're a female and you know how to use a computer you probably know all about Pinterest. This virtual bulletin board has given women (and a few persnickity men) an amazing way to keep tabs on ideas they find online, in the hopes they'll bring them to fruition in their real lives! 

Do it yourself projects, outfit ideas, wedding planning tips, photography, recipes, home decor... really anything you find online that you want in your real life, you "pin". I was SUPER excited about this when Betsy introduced it to me (just like she has introduced basically everything good in my life to me), but lately, I've started to resent it a bit.

I've tried a handful of these little DIY projects and none of them turn out anywhere near usable. I don't have the time or patience for cutesy little hand-made knickknacks. I WANT to, but I don't. That's why I shop on Etsy. So I can buy cutesy hand-made knickknacks and tell people I made them. Duh. 


 Can't afford any of the clothes I pin, and I definitely don't do any of the exercise moves I have pinned. I haven't tried any recipes... I don't cook (I had to Google how to spell "recipe") but I just know it wouldn't turn out as easy as it looks. Pinterest is kind of starting to make me feel like a big failure. Thanks but I don't really need a website's help with that...


Thanks to Pinterest, single ladies now have a way to organize their dream wedding (even if "the happeist day of their lives" is eons away). This includes me. I have my own board of wedding ideas should the opportunity ever present itself. Go ahead. Judge.



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No fiance, no engagement ring, no boyfriend, but about 107 ideas of how I want my wedding to look. Screw you Pinterest, I could have done without that.


Birthday parties, wedding/baby showers, and holidays will never be the same now thanks to this website. If you don't have a dining room table on which hurricane vases sit, filled with sparkly ornaments and glittery sticks at Christmas, you're not trying hard enough!!!! If you're throwing a shower for one of your gal pals and you don't have mason jars and floofy decorations at every corner, well, good for you for trying, but try a little harder next time.


I'll keep going to this website though. It's a fantastic way to kill time if needed, and does get the creative energy flowing. Just wish I could be as cute, creative, healthy, skinny, married, happy, rich as my boards are!