But do you ever try any of the stuff you pinned? Lately, I've been reading a couple of blogs that are devoted to 'testing' popular pins and seeing how well they turn out. I enjoy the humor, although often the language is a bit off-putting and I especially enjoy it when a pin proves disastrous. I guess that's the cynic in me that wants to say--"See? I'm not lazy-- I just never tried it 'cause I knew that wouldn't work...". Actually, the more pins I read, the easier it gets to pick out the phonies and I don't even bother with them. Like this one for baked apples:
Even a culinary catastrophe like me can tell those apples are not baked.
But then there are projects that are appealing enough to think--"Hey, that's cool and I don't think I need to even look at the original directions to make it!" Like this:
I was immediately drawn to it because:
1. It's a rainbow;
2. Even Jacie wanted to make one right away and
3.-- It's. A. RAINBOW. I am a sucker for most things rainbow.
So we bought a two-pack of 16 X 20 canvasses on sale at A.C. Moore, a bunch of crayons at the back-to-school sales, tacky glue and commenced our projects. We played with different layouts, glued the crayons in place and let them dry. Jacie asked to put a caption on hers. I thought it a great idea so I stole it. So, after a lovely warm evening on our front steps with our only hair dryer going for about an hour, we were left with these works of art:
Jacie's caption reads " live life in color".
Mine. The caption is from the Harry Chapin song "Flowers are Red". This song is why I love rainbows.
Jacie and her art. Don't tell her I 'showed her off'.
It's a Pin-Win! Go for it. But look for a real baked apple recipe for your baked apples and ice cream.
3 comments:
I love Pinterest - I've tried several recipes. Some were good, some bad. I've pinned a lot of maybe-one-day sewing project links.
I noticed something last week though. Pinterest has added people to my following list. I'm not following them, so I can't unsubscribe to their pins but it's still adding them - I just want to see pins from people that I want to see them from! Has this happened to you?
I never really noticed, Amy~ Pinterest oftens tells me if a Facebook friend has started pinning and once in a while I go through those and follow the ones I want. But I don't spend that much time there so I really haven't paid attention.
Mom those look great! I love them!
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