Pinterest love rant

I don't know why I love Pinterest so much. Well yes, I do, but it's because it has so many ideas that I would have never thought of on my own. This summer I made a lot of Pinterest crafts, and I will put pictures of them up soon. It just amazes me how fairly cheap items can be made pretty by a coat of paint or some twine.

Mason jar that I hot glued twine I bought from the dollar store. It took a while to wrap around and the glue is kind of chunky but it looks really cool. I added a white ribbon I had and it's a great pen and scissor organizer! 

This project was a work in progress for a while. I painted an image of a trail going through the woods but it looked sloppy. Then painted it white, then yellow with Rust-Oleum Summer Squash yellow spray paint and added this quote that my boyfriend tells me a lot. I love the splash of yellow!

Found this lamp at Volunteers of America, a local thrift store for $3. It had a hideous pink horse lampshade so I threw that away and found this one for $6 at Meijer. Spray painted the base with the same yellow (note: I am obsessed with this color, as you will see) and I love the result! I just need to get better at spray painting and not making it drip...

 My grandma gave me this little box which I spray painted yellow (oh really?) and then used a spray adhesive (Elmer's brand) and stuck pieces of twine to it. Also spray painted this ugly trash can yellow to make it more fun!

 I bought a picture frame and some river pebbles (why didn't I just find them on the street... no idea) from Michael's and hot glued the pebbles on the frame. It took a while and I tried to vary the colors so there weren't too many whites or blacks, but I really like the result. The light was on when I took this picture but it's my favorite one of me and my fella.

I had this old picture frame that wouldn't work on a table top (the little stand was too short or something) so I took that off, put a piece of scrapbook paper in the frame, took the glass off, added push pins and hung it on the wall for a cute necklace organizer.

Most of these crafts I found on Pinterest or just got inspiration from the old random things I had lying around. Reusing and repurposing is the best way to go! I really want to make a laptop case but my sewing skills are lacking and school has started and I didn't do it all summer so... that may not work.

I dress way cuter now that I have Pinterest to give me ideas. How to tie scarves? Yep! Add a little necklace or ring for decorative appeal? Ok! How to combine the different pieces of your wardrobe? I already kind of knew these but I love the ideas people come up with. Also, Refashionista.net is a fantastic website of a girl who only bought clothes from thrift shops or donations from family and friends for a year and would do some sort of sewing project with them. She made some REALLY ugly pieces beautiful again.

Also, two of my favorite things about Pinterest are 1) how to save money tips and 2) cleaning product tips. As a college kid, I'm always looking for ways to save money. Whether it's from recipes for food (chicken fried rice) that you could get from a restaurant or make for a fraction of the price at home, or how to save on utilities, where to get discounts, cheap date ideas, or random websites that simply list how to save a dime, they are all SO helpful. I also really like all of the natural cleaning products that people use. Things like hydrogen peroxide, vinegar, baking soda, and BLUE Tide can be used to clean everything in the house. These are way cheaper and safer than bleach and other cleaning products and apparently do really well at cleaning! I have yet to try them, but once again frugal me is looking forward to trying them!

Ok. I love Pinterest. So many ideas. The end.