My Pinterest Terms and Conditions

As many others in blogworld, I'm addicted to the Pinterest craze. How many social networking sites can I be a part of? Facebook for friends/family, my blog, librarything to track my books, ravelry to feed my knitting obsession, weight watchers boards. I have not joined twitter because I just can't add one more. But pinterest has to be one of the most addicting. Over the past week there's been all sorts of hubub about their terms and conditions. My Mpls neighbor Kelcey, an attorney who understands all this stuff, did a very thorough Q & A blog post if you were like me and didn't really dive into all the legal stuff. (Who has time for that when there's all the pinning to do?) After reading her answers I'm pretty comfortable still using Pinterest. http://www.socialnetworkingnanny.com/pinterest-copyright-questions-and-concerns/

However, I'd like to suggest that Pinterest add the following to their Terms and Conditions or Disclaimers or something (note: I haven't actually read through their T&C to know if these could be included, but I'm betting they aren't)

1. Pinterest won't be held accountable for the years lost in your life by using the website as a procrastination tool. 
Truly, how do college kids actually go to school any more? All we had back then was IM, email and napster and that was a huge time suck. I can't imagine Facebook, Pinterest and all the rest. Well, actually I can....the piles of laundry taller than me are a good indicator. Although, I had those while having my nose stuck in a book so Pinterest is really just another tool. Anyone else put a time limit on how much they can pin? I set myself to about 15 mins at most. Pretty easy now, but tough when I first started.

2. Pinterest will not be responsible for bodily harm from amateurs trying to be expert crafters. This includes, sewing and knitting notions, glue guns and any sharp tool.
Last year my friends and I commented how we all had tons of DIY ideas on our boards, but hadn't actually done any of them. So the Craft Club began! (another excuse for a night with your girlfriends with yummy snacks and wine. if you feel you don't get enough at book club, add in a craft club) Last weekend I drove up to Julie's house in St Paul for some good ol' crafting. We made coffee filter flower wreaths. The tutorial we pinned it from is here (Kelcey, I'm following her copywrite restrictions and not posting her tutorial, just linking to it!) I'm also going to mention that the blog is in Polish. Look at Pinterest just bringing everyone together. It makes me want to sing We are the World. By the way, Julie just dipped the coffee filters in water with food coloring...none of that messing with intricate color techniques. It took quite a lot of trial and error to get the flowers how we wanted. Karen figured out that by folding while twisting we could get more of the rose look. Julie did more of a tulip style. Unfortunately she had a bad run-in with the glue gun:

See the blister?! Ouch! She was down for the count.

After the wild and crazy night of crafting where we went to bed at 11:00, I had exactly 4 roses glued to my wreath. I thought it would be better to make all the flowers first before gluing, but I'd be showing up at home with very little to show for a whole night in the cities. I ended up finishing it at home and rushing to glue the flowers on during Penelope's nap time, my thumb also suffered from a glue gun blister. I pushed on and completed my wreath (that's some real craft dedication, don't you think?)

So here's the finished product. I wish I had kept with my idea of making all the flowers before gluing, but I got bored with the flower making and glued before I had done all my roses.

Chris commented that he never thought I'd be into crafts. I'll have to blame Pinterest and my friends who think we should actually DO some of the crafts we pin. These Minnesota friends sure can be demanding, but I'm happy they let in an outsider ;)

Oh, and here's Julie's finished wreath. Definitely worth the blister!