When Facebook began, I was enamored. Entirely. Now, it seems that a new networking website has captured and indeed captivated my attention. Pinterest. I have my niece to thank for this new infatuation, though, to her credit, I must admit that the number of teacher ideas I have seen on said website does expunge her from any real guilt. If she has the hutzpah to put these ideas into action, children everywhere – and me by extension – shall be blessed and grateful.
I digress…
The number of ideas I have entirely plagiarized from Pinterest is reaching logarithmic proportions, so, to assuage my guilt, here I am going to list my recent creations and thefts:
- Canned biscuits in the waffle maker. Who knew? Turned out great.
- Chocolate cake mix in the waffle maker. Boys ate it with ice cream. Froze the extra. Just like baked in the oven but faster!
- Next time, canned cinnamon rolls in the waffle maker. Supposed to be just as good. (Clearly, I have been underestimating my waffle maker all these years.)
- Thanksgiving centerpiece made from a truffle bowl, un-popped popcorn, tiny pumpkins and walnuts. No shopping required. Love it!
- Homemade, liquid hand soap. Amazingly inexpensive to make, fun for the boys, and entirely practical.
- Homemade, antibacterial, multi-purpose cleaning spray. Again, very friendly on the pocket book.
- Tips on better Modge Podge usage. No more wrinkles for this decoupager.
- A glitter jar. Fill a Mason jar with glitter glue, food coloring, and water. Use it as a time-out tool. Child is not released from time-out until all the glitter has settled. Plus, watching the glitter calms the child down.
Things I have been intrigued by on Pinterest but have not yet tried:
- Make-it-yourself play dough kits/party favors. Fascinating.
- Frozen fruit popsicles.
- Bleach pen t-shirt. Use colored t-shirt and draw designs with a bleach pen. An alternative is a white t-shirt and a Sharpie; then use alcohol to smear the ink for effect.
- Best method for personalizing/letter-painting wood crafts.
- Hot dog wieners with spaghetti spiked through them. Then, after boiled, the noodles and wieners make hot dog spaghetti. Resulting image gives me the creeps, but I imagine the boys would like it.
- Decoupaged, tile coasters.
In the end, I am not sure that Pinterest has changed my life; in truth, it has likely wasted a good bit of my ever-illusive free time, considering the number of wedding ideas and decorating insanity I had to wade through to get to the gems I was interested in.
In the end, though, I do find this website more interesting and infinitely more practical than OTHER networking sites, riddled with tedious status updates, odd location check-ins, and a host of odd applications that my younger friends seem so taken with.
One caveat… You do have to be officially invited to join Pinterest. If you want me to put in a good word for you, please just email!
PS No worries. I have no plans to make this blog one of those craftier-than-thou creations. Clearly, those who would follow the wanderings of my mind are not ready for that transition. :)
