Sitting on the couch last night, I handed Bearhands the remote and started catching up on the day’s social media. Joe Hockey was handing down the budget and the inevitable commentary started to appear in my Facebook feed. The unsolicited political rants and the shame of having made an arse by sharing a story about a Chinese miner who supposedly survived 17 years trapped under ground earlier in the evening soon chased me over to Pinterest. It’s such a lovely place over there. There’s delicious food, clever crafting, ideas for making sight words less dull, idyllic holiday destinations, inspirational quotes and loads of pretty, pretty things. Plus there’s the other reason to like it: I’m yet to embarrass myself over there.
I love making neat little collections of pins. I have a board for the dreaded princess birthday party I’ll be forced to throw this year. I pin ideas for the pool area that we will one day save the money to build in the backyard. I pin fabulous photography ideas in the hope that my skills will improve via osmosis.
I started thinking about the many clever Australian bloggers who are creating great recipes, beautiful crafts and writing beautiful tutorials. My Pinterest feed is fairly heavy in American content and I got to thinking that it would be nice to increase the Aussie component of my feed. Ever have one of those ideas that you just can’t get out of your head? This one just wouldn’t depart. An Australian Pinterest link party – one where pinners could come to find inspiring content and bloggers could share their crafty/tasty/helpful posts and be pinned. What the hell? I think it’s a good idea and my judgement is always spot on!
The lowdown on the I’m Pinning Around Link Party:
- The party will start every Wednesday morning and close at midnight on Thursday. All welcome.
- Bloggers: if you’d like to join in: share one post that you think is perfect for Pinterest, then browse the other posts, find two that interest you, visit the site and pin directly from the original post.
- Readers: I hope that this will be a fun way to find some new blogs to enjoy.
- Each week I’ll choose a few of my favourites to showcase the following week.
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If you’d like to spread the word, please feel welcome to grab the I’m pinning around button.
In hindsight, I cannot help but look back and realise that the Chinese miner story was a hoax. The man apparently lived on rice, rats and phosphorescent moss. I’m just counting my blessings that I was alerted to the ruse before I shared the story about the boy found in Borneo who had been raised by orang-utans. Now that was a story!
are you on Pinterest?
ever made an arse of yourself on the internet?
Please leave a link to your Pinterest profile in the comments and I’ll follow you.
Yes! This is what is missing in my life. A Pin-lky. Ha! Love this idea, Amanda. As much as I love Pinterest, and that’s a whole lot! Go you!
Music to my ears Bec! Thanks for joining in. x
Fantastic idea Amanda! You can count me in! Not sure how pinnable this recipe is, but it is pumpkin season & I am loving using ours to make all kinds of treats!
For what it’s worth, I was totally sucked in by the miner story too! 🙂
I love pumpkin too Jodie. Glad I wasn’t alone in my naivety! Thank you for joining in, my inner teenage girl was worried I’d be partying alone! 🙂
I love pinning, and this is such a great idea! Count me in!
Thanks Ana. Glad to have you aboard! 🙂
Great idea Amanda!
Thanks for joining in Abby! x
Love this idea! I pin events and activities for kids and families.. So not technically craft or food.. Would that be appropriate?
Loved the miner story – made me laugh out loud when I saw your retraction last night – that made the story even more interesting ;-p
Hi Kate, I’m in desperate need of some new ideas of things to do with the girls – please join in, I’d love to have you onboard.
The miner story was shared by so many people so quickly, so you can only imagine the groan I made when I realised my mistake.:)
Top idea! Look forward to seeing beauties!
Thanks for joining in Vicki. xx
I hope it takes off lovely, haven’t the time to get into Pinterest, yet! We’ve all been sucked in by a hoax at some stage! Blame tiredness x
Thanks love. I was certainly distracted – cooking dinner, bathing kids. Pretty funny (and naive) in hindsight! 🙂
What a great idea. I even know a couple of other bloggers who would love to get on board. Pinning mad they are! You also just gave me another board idea. I too am on the lookout for my dream pool…..
That’s great news Elisha, the more the merrier! I’ll find your pool board and follow it – there’s plenty of pool porn on Pinterest!
I missed the whole Chinese miner thing!! But I did just google it and have a chuckle!! I’m pretty sure I’ve fallen for a few hoaxes so don’t feel too bad.
Great idea too by the way xxx
Great idea Amanda, added my link.
Great idea Amanda, next Pinterest friendly post, I’m in! 🙂
Love this idea! Mine isn’t a recipe or anything crafty, but a post that’s important to me and hopefully might get pinned and seen more!
This is a fabulous idea. I love pinterest and blogging so you have combined two of my favourite things into one. I will try to remember to pop by every week, but short of that I am off to follow and like some new people! Thanks again! Aussie, aussie aussie!
Great idea – I’m not on Pinterest. I know, what????
Love this idea, I’m starting to get sucked into pintrest a lot more now. Count me in!
I’m in, fun idea. Every now and then I get fancy and try to optimise the images in my blog post for Pinterest to try and get some traction and I just did one last night so I have one ready to go for Wednesday 🙂 It might be a good idea for us to create a group board to pin to as well cause they tend to do well but are generally huge American ones. My pinterest profile is http://www.pinterest.com/QTQF/
A group board is a fabulous idea Kate. I’ll get one set up and share the URL next week. Thank you. x
A pinny linky! Awesome! I better get myself sorted out on Pinterest then 🙂
I’m still trying to learn how to use Pinterest effectively. This is a great idea and the name is inspired! I’ll be humming that now…pinning around…move out of my way….
What a great idea Amanda! Now if only I had any pinworthy recipes 🙂