Pinterest I'm addicted

Is there a room where people cough and shuffle their feet in embarrassment as they all take their turn to stand up and say "My name is....... and I am addicted to Pinterest!"

I joined Pinterest straight away when the buzz hit Twitter and facebook. I even joined up, but I could not think what to do with my empty boards.

I looked at them and thought why would I want to trawl the net looking at pictures and pinning them to my Pinterest boards.

 I used to keep scrapbooks as a child and collect pictures of rooms I would like to have, clothes I would like to wear, hairstyles and food I wanted to eat. However the bug did not hit me and a few attempts at pins I just thought why would people want to look at my boards?

Then just before I went on holiday I saw a little competition tweeted and being an avid comper, had to have a go.

I re-pinned somebody's picture and put it onto a board I named competitions.

I was blissfully unaware, I was never going to win, I had committed my first mistake of pinning a fellow compers repin, similar to retweeting a competition tweet from an entrant not the brand.

It was a repin from the lovely comper Jane Willis, who never told me off, though she was probably aware!!

Jane is the fountain of wisdom for competition advice, she has some fab tips on her blog for compers, tweeters, FB'ers and Pinners. Just spotted a post on  entering rafflecopter giveaways, (handy for my blog.), so many people don't get entered!!

  See http://competitiongrapevine.blogspot.co.uk/ for handy tips.

While on holiday, I had a play, realised I was not pinning the competitions direct from the prize giver, determined to do it right and pin properly I started and a new addiction began. A week later I won my first prize and this week I have won again. I'm hooked!!

I started off with the competitions and now my boards are growing with more themes.

Some of my own boards

Competitions I like looking out for the the pin to win competitions, its nice to share them with others and its a place to pin ones that require a repin for the entry.

Wishlist Started to try to win a £50 Amazon voucher competition with the Super Lucky blog  www.superlucky.co.uk  The competition was held by the amazing comper Di Coke, the theme was creating a Pinterest board which had images of the prizes I would love to win, the competition is now over, but the Wishlist board is still a place I pin prizes I'd love to win.

Humour  I have found I like looking at the funny pictures and any that make me laugh go onto my humour board.

Exercise My exercise board is full of tips, advice, OK, OK,  its really ways to avoid exercise and a bit tongue in cheek.

Food Porn This is going to be filled with my own dishes and those I want to make, eat, drink or just drool over.

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Purple This is a new board and if you have a look  you will see its a board for a specific competition, which is actually a Rafflecopter draw, but for extra entries a purple board can be made on Pinterest, if you are interested go via the link below to have a chance.

http://www.superlucky.co.uk/2012/06/win-aspinal-of-london-clutch-wallet.html

Other boards have been set up to try to win prizes and if you take a look, you may find you want to take part too. Just make sure  you click on the pins not repin as it won't reach the prize giver.

A great one running at the moment by www.i-escape.com and its a chance to create your dream holiday, anything goes and you just pin images (5 from them and any other dream qualities, you would like your hotel break to have.)

If you are not on Pinterest I would be happy to send you an invite, just leave your email below. Not sure how many I can invite at a time, so it will be first come first served.

If you are already on Pinterest, please do follow me and I will follow back.

Happy Pinning, I warn you, its addictive.

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