I think I started using Pinterest back when I got engaged. I think scrapbooks are messy and stupid, but I wanted a way to procrastinate collect ideas for the wedding, and more importantly, the honeymoon. I also had a board of sayings called THE WALL and visual writing prompts tacked on STORYBOARD. I didn’t have a board for my blog, because I didn’t know that was a thing to do. And so, I pinned wedding things and purple things and…
1. It complements my healthy-eating plan. When I’m eating grapes or rice-cakes and therefore hungry, it helps to re-pin cake recipes. 2. I can keep wedding ideas together without glue or paper-cuts. 3. It’s a source of my daily Zen. 4. And sometimes it tells me what to do next. 5. It’s shown my that broken books can be beautiful. 6. It tells me I’m not the only one. 7. If I pin a project, I might actually try it.…
I have a confession to make. I have not been planning/dreaming of my wedding since I was six years old. There are no scrapbooks, files, dog-eared wedding magazines from the ‘80’s. The first and only time I made any kind of short-lived scrapbook, I glued my fingers together. True story. Two and a half years ago, I began to picture myself married. To Sarge. Being married, that is. Not the wedding. And so, when we began to discuss what the…
