Two more reasons I have been neglecting this little old blog are two things that I have just discovered (yup, a little late there):
instagram for the iPhone and
Pinterest for pinning your favorite linked images all over the web in categories of your own choosing. Both are pretty addictive especially because unlike your ordinary bookmarks or photos on your own computer, you can share all your stuff via your favorite social media device: Facebook, Twitter, etc.
And since I just figured out* how to share my Instagrams on the blog, I'd thought I'd kill two birds with one stone - update my blog and share some of my latest instagrams here.
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| Date night! Harry Potter in IMAX 3D |
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| Zara reading one of Sofia's library books. |
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| Yet another diy book from the library. Love thumbing through design books. |
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| On a rare hot day in grey Bellevue, the girls will cool off in the kiddie pool (which is decked out with a built-in slide and a sprayer - the giraffe head). Yup, they are in their clothes. |
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| One festival I never miss: the biannual Urban Craft Uprising in Seattle. |
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| Sipping tea at our favorite Chinese restaurant. |
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| Zara is NOT a picky eater. Here she is chowing down on mongolian beef and Singapore noodles. |
As for
pinterest, I wish I had jumped on the bandwagon sooner! It's a great way to keep those images you find on the web in one place. I also find that it's a great way to promote your own blog or site. You can pin your own images, which then get linked to your blog. Then your followers can re-pin your pins and their followers can re-pin, and so on and so on. For example, I just discovered
a scrapbook page that I had posted at the JessicaSprague.com gallery (before I had signed up at Pinterest so I had not pinned myself). It had been
re-pinned ten times already!
I have also noticed that Pinterest has a great way of helping you get followers. It prompts you (much like Facebook) to add people you might know. As far as I have seen, Instagram does not have this. As a result, I have only one follower on Instagram (boo hoo) and 83 followers on Pinterest ( and I signed up for Pinterest only last month. I've been using Instagram for five.
Anyhoo, I hope I can
enable you to try out these two sites! But don't blame me if you start neglecting your own blog ;)
*At first I wasn't sure how to link them up here (there is no button on the iPhone app that I know of), but I just downloaded Webstagram and figured it out. Yay me! Above the photo there are little letters: T | M | L | O I assume they stand for tiny, medium, large and not sure about the "O". Anyway, I clicked on the medium and copied the URL and used the photo button on blogger. So far so good. (If there's an easier way, please enlighten me!)
