Sometimes you just have that one friend who finds a squirrel joke funny. I oddly have many. To them I give my 1 am ambien induced art creation. You know who you are. If you have no idea who this is for or why a squirrel joke may be funny, it's OK. Go ahead and pin and tweet it anyway using those buttons on the side. Your friends will thank you for it. Oh, and then follow me on Pinterest. If you are the type of person who pins pictures of a blind squirrel searching for his nuts, I totally want to be your friend. ...
Ghirardelli Chocolate Peppermint Bark Snowflakes
After my last post mocking the people of Pinterest that produce these gorgeous things no mom can ever live up to, I am a bit embarrassed to post my latest project: Ghirardelli Chocolate Peppermint Bark Snowflakes. Last year I fell in love with Peppermint Bark Snowflakes that I saw on Pinterest. I became a little obsessed. The problem with these is that you cannot make them without this specific mold (affiliate link) Well, you can make them in other shapes or in a pan and break them up but let's face it, you are looking at these because they are simple and make you look like a genius. And that my friend, is all in the mold. I purchased my mold in November last year and got the first one by New Years. I turned around and bought a few more and they arrived by Valentines Day. *sigh* You may be out of luck for this year but it is cheap enough to try and put away until next like I did. OK, are you ready for this crazy complicated recipe to making you look like a genius? Ghirardelli Chocolate Peppermint Bark Snowflakes Step 1: Go to the store and buy Ghirardelli Chocolate Wafers. I bought these bulk bags at Sam's Club for $7.50 a piece. You need both Dark and White Chocolate. ...
The Real Moms of Pinterest Revolution #RMOP
Oh Pinterest. I love you so. The beautiful photos you post inspire me to bake beautiful cakes, dehydrate orchards of apples, redesign my home every season, and dress my children in perfect matching clothes at all times. NOT. What you really make me do is feel like a massive failure. And a little snarky. WHO has time for this stuff? Really? I am a working, homeschooling, traveling mom that has no time to color spaghetti (which actually doesn't work unless you use professional dye that they never tell you about). So when I saw this photo from SnarkECards on Facebook this morning I wanted to jump up and down on my couch shouting YES! THAT! And apparently I am not the only one. Holy FB reactions Batman. Apparently a lot of moms feel this way. So I started my own pinterest board...The Real Moms of Pinterest . Right now it just has one lonely pin. But couldn't this be awesome? Real pics of real lunches. Like the carton of ice cream you gave them, not the themed bento box. What your kitchen really looks like, not the Martha Stewart version. Who's with me? Anyone brave enough to post what the Real Moms of Pinterest actually live like? I will. Here ...
Confirmation That I Suck As A Superwoman
By now, most everyone knows about Pinterest. It's basically a virtual bulletin board of things you love, hate, aspire to, inspire you....really whatever you want to 'collect'. It's the same thing we all did as teenage girls, collected magazine pictures of bands, outfits and boys. Someone just figured out how to make it online and let you share it with the world. I'm not going to lie. I am kind of obsessed with it. I fall asleep most nights swooning over cupcakes I will never make, projects I will never do, and pictures I wish I had taken. It's addicting. And I am in awe that there are women (and men) out there that really do this stuff. I'm convinced pinterest is made up of two groups of people: my mother-in-law, the uber Martha Stewart Room Mom extraordinaire and then people like me. You know, the mom that is actually asked to just buy some cupcakes at Costco instead of bake them at home. Pinterest has given me some awesome ideas that I am totally planning on doing. Like this surprise for my nasty mailman this winter... Source: smosh.com via Barb on Pinterest Or the creepy cupcakes I could totally buy from Costco, mess up and stick doll parts in to ...
The Case For Being Clickable VS Pinable #pinterest
Last month, I gave a presentation on the Disney Fantasy Cruise on using Pinterest to gain traffic for your blog and increase brand recognition. The crux of my presentation was sharing the discoveries I have made through trial and error pinning food, lifestyle, and DIY photos for the purpose of driving web traffic. I cautioned people to learn from a mistake I made last month in trying to make our photo's pin-able. What I found is that being pin-able does not always translate to being click-able. Which is the goal of most people trying to use the pinterest platform to drive traffic. Mind you, I use Pinterest for many reasons other than traffic building but as pointed out all over the web, for some lucky sites Pinterest now drives more traffic than google +, linkedin and youtube combined. Case in point are two DIY posts that I orchestrated the social media behind (a relationship that has since ended) As you can see from the graphic, the Skip The Frosting post was repinned approximately 62,000 times and resulted in 89,000 pageviews while The Lorax Dinner Makeover had a great Pinterest showing of 48,000 repins but only 9,000 pageviews. Looking at a sample of ...