In Which I Go Back To College (Well, Kinda)

Do you remember those girls back in college who would clip photos from stacks of magazines and then tack them on a bulletin board ... or the door ... or all over the dorm room wall? Well, I was one of them.

When I didn't feel like working on yet another essay was done with an assignment, I would relax by flipping through various fashion and home decorating magazines in search of photos that spoke to me. Photos that were truly gorgeous (but not something I wanted to keep forever and ever) ended up on display on a bulletin board. Others ended up glued in a scrapbook. This one:

Here's another page:

I continued my hobby until ... well ... until I got tired of the magazine clutter in my house (which would be about a year ago. Tee hee.) I thought I had kicked the flipping and clipping habit until I was introduced to Pinterest by (I'm guessing) a fellow flip-and-clip addict, Leigh Ann.

When LA first introduced me to Pinterest, I had no (p)interest in joining. ;-D But then this past weekend, when I didn't feel like cleaning the house had some free time, I made the mistake of looking through boards belonging to various members. And I got hooked.

Instead of clipping a decorating idea from a magazine, I can search for one online and "pin" it to my virtual bulletin board on Pinterest. I can also create as many boards as I want so spring ideas are separate from fall, or winter, or summer. You get the idea.

Right now I have 14 different inspiration boards, with many more likely to come. If you want to see what I've been working on (and what exactly inspires JM), click here. You're also welcome to follow me there if you decide to create your own account. But fair warning ... it is addicting. Thanks, LA. ;-D