I'm Pinterested

Today Ben and I had four of our sort-of-long-distant (hailing from Madison and St. Cloud, MN) friends visit for the day. We took them to the Public Market to enjoy the array of foods available, toured the Miller Brewery-something we have wanted to do since driving by it so many times-and realized we had six people around our table for dinner the first time! I think. It sure felt that way.

James took some great pictures and I'll hope to post those once I see them on Facebook. It was a great day, and such a treat to hang out somewhere other than a hotel in Minneapolis, where we congregate for conferences several times a year. We will have to visit their homes soon.

While here, the girls introduced me to a site called Pinterest.com. Apparently they had tried to invite me to this earlier, but I mistook it for an invite to a social networking site and deleted it. Now I'm checking it out, and I can see why they wanted to share it! It's so fun, and right up my alley.

Check it out: www.pinterest.com

It's an online way to organize ideas you love and be inspired by others. This will probably work better than my binder of ripped out magazine articles and pictures I've been keeping [although I will never love looking at anything on the computer more than on real pages].

You can find everything from awesome images like this (#Edward_Horsford Photography/water balloon bursting at high speed) :

to craft ideas I never would have thought of on my own, like this:

Now I'll just need to make sure I don't spend TOO much time on this site!