Pinterest for Ombre Rage - Painted Utensils

Ombre color schemes are all the rage lately. Between thinking about ombre colors with chevron patterns my mind has been racing on ways to make these two things work in my every day life. Last week Wednesday during my normal Pinterest browsing I found a pin that stopped me dead in my track. The pin was a tutorial on how to paint your own cooking tools in an ombre scheme.

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My prayers had been answered. I fell in love with these utensils. I knew that it was perfect timing to give these tools a try. I started by visiting my local WalMart store to pickup a standard bamboo kitchen tool set. The set ran me right around $5.00 for 5 pieces. I later found a 3 piece set at Target for around $4.00 that also did the trick. It was fun picking out my own acrylic paints for the tools, along with white to create the ombre look. That just left the sealant. I purchase some polyethane in a spray can, which worked perfectly for coating the painted ends.

Here are the results of my efforts. Although the initial cost was probably around $20 for the first set, each supply could be used multiple times for other sets.

I'm excited to use these sets as home warming gifts, wedding gifts, or even just a standard party gift. Another successful crafting project thanks to Pinterest.

How Do I View My Pinterest Boards?

So you spend time pinning all types of glorious pictures to your pinboards, when it suddenly hits you. You want to view what you've pinned, or you may even wonder if you've already pinned something. There's nothing worse than having a duplicate pin.

It is time for you to discover one of my favorite things. It is time for you to view your Pinterest boards.

To view your boards:

1. Login to your Pinterest account.
2. In the upper right-hand corner of your Pinterest homepage, click Boards from the drop-down list.

Your view will suddenly change, and voila! all of your Pinterest boards will display by name. To view the contents of any one of your pinboards, simply click the pinboard description or board image, and then sit back and enjoy your board! That's all there is to it.

How the Neighborhood is a Changing

I can say that I've been pinning on Pinterest for nearly a year. Although it wasn't the beginning of Pinterest, I know that I jumped on the bandwagon long before the rest of the crowd decided to check it out. When I searched through my Facebook friends, I only found a handful had Pinterest accounts.

Times are changing. I've noticed that I've started to get a lot more pins on my home board from some pinners I do not recognize. I've noticed that some of my friends I thought I followed, I'm not following. I've also noticed that I suprisingly have pins on my boards that revolve around businesses or advertising. I'm suddenly wondering what happened to my safe and friendly neighborhood pinboard.

I've spent a good amount of time lately fixing who I'm following, deleting pins, and un-following some people I never really thought I was following. I'm very confused and hope that this temporary glitch was just that... a glitch.

The neighborhood is getting a lot more crowded on Pinterest and now I have many more friends than I realized on Facebook now on Pinterest. Times are changing. I just hope Pinterest doesn't change so much that the value is lost.