Monday, September 17, 2012

Do you use Pinterest?

I stumbled upon Pinterest fairly recently, and I will admit that at first I thought it was silly. Pinterest is a way to easily grab photos from around the web and share them. There are lots of photos of cute puppies, rainbow layer cakes, and new ways to put on eye-makeup. I wasn't impressed.

But then I realized that there are a lot of amazing garden photos on there if you go looking. And it is an easy way to browse through images looking for inspiration, something I love to do!

Eventually it also occurred to me that it is a great way to group photos and start making folders of garden styles. My eventual plan is to use the folders as a tool to show homeowners what style of garden might work with their home. That plan might take me a while to execute, but here is the beginnings of it, if you'd like a bit of eye candy: Kate Presents on Pinterest.

What about you, do you use Pinterest? Have you come up with ways to use it that are about more than just looking at puppy photos?


© Kate Wiseman 2012. In San Diego? Want your own waterwise landscape design? I'd love to help! Please visit www.sageoutdoordesigns.com for more info.

4 comments:

  1. YAY!

    Just followed you. Great work!

    A suggestion: the boards "Things I Love" and "Inspiration" are not titled very usefully. Hopefully everything on your board is something you love and that inspires you. I'd suggest being more specific — both to help prospective fans to choose which boards to follow (or unfollow) AND to help make pinning easier for you.

    :-)

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  2. We love pinning garden designs as well, and its a great place to round up our garden and wind chime themed blog postings. I also love sharing photos of amazing gardens and outdoor spaces from others!

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  3. Good suggestions! If I have some time today, I'll work on my boards some more!

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  4. Love your post and nice idea I always pinning beautiful garden and structure from pinterest..

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