Pinterest Creations

Wow, words fail me when it comes to Pinterest. I LOVE it. I have been wishing something like this existed for ages I just didn't know it!

No more cutting, pasting and printing out quilt ideas and filing them in a cabinet. No more printing out recipes until I am actually ready to try it. I am saving toner, paper and time not having to go through mile long list of bookmarks.

Now that I am homeschooling there are so many great ideas out there for lessons and projects. I can't imagine homeschooling without Pinterest! Just 3 weeks of homeschooling and I am already reaping the benefits of using Pinterest to keep track of ideas for school.

In the spirit of my love for Pinterest and my new camera, after being camera-less most of the summer I am posting pictures of projects I found on Pinterest or did while I was "nesting".

 This Pinterest idea involved a circle made of masking tape and bean bags. I couldn't figure out how to make masking tape become a circle so I improvised. I didn't have any bean bags but we are learning, A, B, C, D, E, F so now we have the "Letter Toss" game - Objective: review letters & toss them in the box. I hide the square under the nursery throw rug when not playing. We can continue this through out the alphabet.







We are using this curriculum. I don't do it all because my boy isn't much for singing at this point or memorizing poems. I use this as my skeleton and add or take away based on what he needs to learn. He has already mastered many of the skills they plan for like using "Please" and "Thank You."








We are working our way through the Creation story. The Sun and Stars were my idea to go along with the lessons. It is amazing to me to see his world beginning to take in the Creator of the world and we have actually been praying more together and asking God to help him make good choices / decisions. A couple times he has even asked to "Pray." It does a mother's heat good!

I have found lots of quilt ideas on Pinteret or just found ideas and pinned them. These pillow cases were my own creation. I had wanted to use the transportation fabric and I also thought doing this project would of course put me into labor... Ha! But I was happy to get it done during nap time. I pieced together pieces until it fit the pillow. It was very haphazard but I frequently work that way! To make the most of the fabric I did 2 different sides.

I did find this last project on Pinterest. I knew I had to do it because I am just not into cutting faces into pumpkins!

It looked so simple. I considered getting a fake pumpkin but I have storage issues so I went with a real one. I still have 2 more pumpkins to do and will probably put the kids names on them. This was fun for me. My son thought the dots were "chocolate chips" but I have corrected him on that point and replaced the missing dots.



I am going to create a board of completed projects because there is little point of pinning ideas if you don't actually do anything. It will be nice to have a record of Pinterest creations!