Hmm…that looks pinteresting…

I have heard people talking about Pinterest for awhile now. Not only did I not know what it was, I didn’t really have any desire to find out. People were talking all about things they’d “pinned” and I just didn’t care. Then one night my friend Leslee sent me an email telling me that I just HAD to join this Pinterest thing and that I’d love it.

So I signed up and explored it awhile and thought nothing more of it. It looked like a bunch of pictures of things. Things for crafty type people…and crafty I am not. Sure, I can cook fine, I can sew on a button, and I can make a baby like nobody’s business. But actual crafting? Yeah, not my thing. In fact, I’d asked for a sewing machine since John and I got married. I finally got one this past Christmas and now IN OCTOBER I still have yet to finish the PJ pants I started back in March. Yeah, I just don’t have the crafty bug.

[Pinterest enters stage left]

It started out with me following one or two people (Chelsea and Lauren, I blame YOU both for starting me on this path. You two just had to pin such cute things to suck me in, didn’t you?). Now I don’t know if it was seeing all these inspirational photos or finding things that I really wanted but couldn’t afford to buy, but I suddenly had the bug to create EVERYTHING. I’m now obsessed. Obsessed, y’all. I sit on my iPad at night while Megan watches Lost and John reads the news. I don’t even pin that many things…I just look! I look at what everyone else is pinning! I look at how people turn cabinets into play work benches for their kids! I look at old men’s t-shirts turned into beautiful sundresses for little girls! I look at what recipes sound delicious! I LOOK AND LOOK AND LOOK WHILE I STILL CAN! Oh Baby Jesus, please don’t let me go blind. I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t see all these lovely, beautiful pins! The pins, I tell you, THE PINS!!!

And the best part? I’m actually DOING some of the stuff that I’ve pinned. So far I have made a lovely advent calendar, spray-painted a chandelier, and sewed not one but TWO dresses. The first dress is crap but the second one! Oh the second one. Check out my sweet mad skillz. With a Z. So it’s SERIOUS.

Yeah, I could have taken some better pictures where, ya know, my boob isn’t up against a windowpane and thus square-looking. But never mind that! Why are you looking at my chest? Look at the dress! The anchors! The belt! The fact that it’s NOT falling apart. Big things are happening in the Campbell household. BIG. THINGZ.

Anyway, I’d love to chat more about my lovely dress but I need to go do some VERY important things. What kind of things, you ask? Oh VERY important things. They involve my computer, my mouse, and a little click over the phrase “Pin This.” No, I’m not obsessed. Why do you ask?