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Look… How Pinteresting!

April 28, 2012 - Updated January 23, 2020 // 14 Comments

Look How Pinteresting is something I sporadically started post to showcase different things I pinned on my boards! All images are linked and go to Pinterest where I found it!

From my “All Things Bookish” Board:

Jane Austen cake bookish cake

 

Love this Jane Austen cake because ,well, it’s beautiful & it’s Jane Austen themed!

From My “Going To The Chapel” Board:

Bookish engagement wedding pictures

We are doing our engagement session in June and I’d love to do something similar.

 

From my “Get In My BELLLYYY” Board:
 
Chipotle Shrimp Tacos with Pineapple-Mango Salsa
My food board is PACKED with tons of mouthwatering things so it was  hard to pick but this is one thing I’m excited to make for a nice summertime meal.
 
From my “See, I Can Be A Proper Girl” Board:
 
 
cute outfit yellow sweate

Want this whole outfit. Fits my style well.

From my “Things To Save For A Day You Need A LOL Or A Smile” Board
 
funny someecards
 
Truth!
 
From My “I Wish I Was Crafty” Board:
 
DIY wallpaper bookshelf crafts

I am FOR SURE doing this. Adds such a nice look to plain bookshelves and this totes can add a pop of color to our living room. SO MY STYLE. But seriously, go check out my craft board. SO MANY GOOD THINGS. Hard to choose!
 

From My “Wanderlust” Board:

 

Borneo Rainforest Canopy Walkway

Borneo Rainforest Canopy Walkway

 

And from my “Random” Board:

 
 
Friday Night Lights merchandise
I need this!! LOVE LOVE LOVE FNL! Best show everrr.
 
 
From My “Reasons To Buy A House” Board
 
 
chevron couch
 

Love this so much. Can’t get enough of chevrons these days.

 

From My “Things On Pinterest I Actually Made/Did” Board
 
 
Green Monster Smoothie with SPINACH

Green Monster Smoothie…with spinach! Actually tasted pretty good..need to perfect it though. Will LOVED it and he’s sometimes hard to get on board with healthy food.

PS. If you want an invite to Pinterest..send me an email! And let me know if you are on Pinterest so I can stalk your boards! šŸ˜›

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  1. Rie @ Mission to Read says

    April 28, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    Freaking epic! I mean the bookcase thing and the outfit! It is so incredibly you and so chic! Love it! I’m not sure if you follow me on pinterest.

    Reply
    • Jamie says

      April 28, 2012 at 4:00 pm

      The bookcase thing made me squeal when I saw it. It’s just SO perfect. ALSO..I love that we get to know other bloggers so well that we get a sense of their style! <3

      Reply
  2. Shannon@BooksDevoured says

    April 28, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    I love that Jane Austen cake SO much!!! I am pretty new to Pinterest still but I like it. It does make me wish I was craftier though! Also, that smoothie scares me a little bit! It is just SO green!

    Reply
    • Jamie says

      April 28, 2012 at 6:52 pm

      Isn’t it incredible?? I saw it and was in awe. Pinterest totally makes me wish I was more crafty, girly, Betty Crocker-ish. I’m hoping it will propel me forward in those endeavors lol šŸ˜›

      AND THE SMOOTHIE. It took me forever to actually take a sip of it. FREAKED ME OUT. But Will wasn’t gagging sooo I took the plunge.

      Reply
  3. elena says

    April 28, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    eeep I love this whole post!! I’ve had Pinterest for awhile but have been SO LAZY when using it. I think I have around 3 boards and it’s always surprising when I get an email saying someone repinned something of mine. Everything about this post is the best from the Jane Austen cake to qt outfits to wanderlust to Friday Night Lights (TEXAS FOREVER). I really need to be healthier and the Green Monster Smoothie sounds v. intriguing! Off to poke around your pinboards now. šŸ™‚

    Reply
    • Jamie says

      April 28, 2012 at 6:54 pm

      Haha I get lazy with Pinterest too sometimes! Then other times I’m a pinning machine. So glad you liked the pins I featured!! Hope you enjoy my boards and thanks for stopping by.

      PS You rock for being an FNL fan <3 TIM RIGGINS

      Reply
  4. Kelsey @ The Lost Book Reports says

    April 29, 2012 at 12:20 am

    Try the Glowing Green Smoothie..

    Reply
  5. Anna says

    April 29, 2012 at 10:04 am

    MUSTARD SWEATER <3

    Reply
  6. DT from Dead Trees and Silver Screend says

    April 29, 2012 at 10:42 am

    I love me some pinterest. Ill have to check oit your boards.

    Reply
  7. Burgandy Ice says

    April 29, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    *sigh* I love Pinterest!! Great feature. I’m following you, now!

    http://pinterest.com/burgandyice/

    Reply
  8. Jasmine Rose says

    April 30, 2012 at 2:14 am

    The “Love is not fiction” picture is absolutely adorable! Husband and I took a few wedding pictures in the library, but I wish we could have gotten more.

    Reply
  9. Reut says

    April 30, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    I love e-cards. SO SO MUCH. I saw one that was tagged true love that said, “I would hold in my farts for you.” Me and my little bro had a good laugh about that one. Example of seven-year-old humor:

    Him: Poo
    Him: OMG HAAHAHAA A LOOOOOLL ROFL HAHAAHAHAA

    Reply
  10. Alexa @ Alexa Loves Books says

    June 21, 2012 at 1:09 am

    Yay for Pinterest! I believe I’m following just about every single board you’ve got on there. That having been said, I am in LOVE with the Jane Austen cake. It is SO pretty. I wish I knew how to decorate cakes so I could make that one for myself!

    Reply
  11. Katie @ Inkk says

    October 21, 2012 at 10:08 pm

    i love all your pins! i just started doing a weekly meme at my blog called ” Inspired Fridays” where i post a bookish pin from pinterest. check out last weeks http://inkkreviews.blogspot.com/2012/10/inspired-fridays-bookish-collage.html
    thought you’d might like it. happy pinning !

    Katie @ Inkk

    Reply

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A book recommendation for all my historical fictio A book recommendation for all my historical fiction readers - The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. My holy grail historical author came through for me again. I can’t express how much I cared for and was pulled into the lives of these women living in a boardinghouse in DC during the McCarthy era just as much as I was racing to find out what happened in this house. The tension mounted as we got to what actually happened?? Masterful. Truly. #historicalfiction #bookrec #bookrecommendation #historicalfictionbooks @williammorrowbooks
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The Trouble With Anna — I enjoyed this delightful little historical romance about a heroine who is carving out her independence only to find out, when her grandfather dies, that he tied her inheritance/future to marrying her best friend’s brother — a not-so-happy surprise for both of them. I could understand why they both had some guardness/walls up and I enjoyed watching them slowly start to lower them.

Mayhem and the Mortal - I’m not too far into this romantic fantasy but it is one of my most anticipated that came out last month and I’m excited to dig in more.

Hamnet — I know, I know. For April I decided not to make a traditional TBR list of books I wanted to read but instead give myself some prompts to guide my reading (bc I’m overwhelmed with all my choices at hand) without feeling rigid. One of the prompts was to read a book I HAD TO BUY but is still unread. So going to finally get to it. Have you read this one or watched the movie?

What are you currently reading?
I had been waiting for the perfect time to read th I had been waiting for the perfect time to read this one after Random House sent me a finished copy as TJR is a longtime auto-buy author.  I found myself caught up in all the space joy and wonder and feeling quite parasocial about the Artemis crew...I decided now was the time.

I had no idea what I was getting into.

I hadn’t really known what it was about but I didn’t really need to given its TJR & the fact it was 1980s NASA & astronauts.

But this book was about love to me - romantic love, platonic love, familial love, love for something bigger than yourself, love for the person you are & are becoming, love in the face of obstacles, love for what lights you up.

Having been invested in real life astronauts & their journey lately really made this book even more vivid to me — seeing the bonds of the crew so deeply, feeling the fragility that exists while they are doing this wondrous & crazy thing that often still boggles my mind that we can do.

And, hardest to put into words, that feeling of awe in the expansive nature & capabilities of love & the universe that I felt when a husband named a crater after his late wife which doubly helped me understand how Joan & Vanessa felt looking back at earth.

It made me sob & feel everything about being a human so deeply basically from that Frances/Joan phone call at 86% of the way through until the final words. Like could not breathe.

*might be a tiny bit spoilery so beware:

I think the way she wrote this was so impactful bc we start out knowing something bad happens &it’s not even that far when we know that some of them def won’t make it back & some are alive in peril.

I was like ā€œoofā€ when *it* happens early on. But each and every chapter where we learn more about these ppl & their relationships felt agonizing & I was retroactively grieving for them more deeply every turn of the page.

The hurt and grief just compounds from a moment that was sad from the jump to something that had dug in deep to me.

To know what happens right before this mission makes the mission control bits even more excruciating. Makes the peril a character is in hit even harder than just ā€œoh that must be scary!ā€. 

I loved it. I needed it bad.
The theme of Q1 was ā€œjust go with itā€ — it being m The theme of Q1 was ā€œjust go with itā€ — it being my reading whims, quirks and troubles.

Interesting things:

1. January started out rough. I only read 1 physical book and leaned very heavy into audiobooks only. At first it was distressing that my brain -thanks to current events and their effect on my mind - couldn’t work out how to sit down and read with my eyeballs but I was like…let’s just roll with it and wait for it to pass. So I waited and enjoyed a ton of audiobooks.

2. I don’t think I’ve ever read so many thrillers and mysteries in a quarter. It’s a genre I love but I’m normally quite more balanced. However, it’s what I was craving and what my brain was tolerating so…I just went with it.

3. I have always been a reader led by my moods (both how I feel reading wise and personally). This quarter was FERAL. Like the most feral mood reading ever. I couldn’t even categorize it. I’d decide on one book enthusiastically and suddenly I was like…absolutely not that.

4. I read way less fantasy than normal which was WEIRD but I felt like I also wasn’t surprised given my brain space.

5. I really started to resent people even more who said ā€œit’s a book account stop talking about politics etcā€. Babe, I’m a human who gives a shit but ALSO this has and always been an account of MY reading life. And my reading life was profoundly affected by the things that were going on in this country. Like they have been before - whether it’s been current events or things like having a kid, being depressed, slumps, etc.

6. I return to the fact that, for me, I am happiest when I pay attention to my reading whims. The end of the month I had a very specific reading mood (wanted time travel element but not a heavy time travel book) and I decided to pick up A Rip Through Time at the end of the month and I’m now halfway through book 4. Having the best time ever!!! 

Anyways, tell me how your reading life was in Q1! Fave books? Biggest surprises??
New historical fiction books on my radar for April New historical fiction books on my radar for April and I feel like there is quite a bit of variety. Any of these on your TBR? #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #newbookrelease #newbookreleases
Being someone who reads based on their ever shifti Being someone who reads based on their ever shifting reading moods (sometimes very feral) makes library holds and tbrs very hard. It’s the worst when 5 weeks ago I would have gobbled the library hold up but now when the hold comes in I’m like…I think not. #readersofinstagram #readerproblems #librarylife #librarybooks #moodreader

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