Keeping Creative and Organized

I am definitely two things: creative and organized. The internet makes it so easy to both explore and express my creativity.  One of my favourite hobbies is checking out professional blogs, DIY blogs, food blogs or researching ideas for up coming events and parties. My bookmarks list has become so long it is no longer effective.

A real corkboard

Pinterest has allowed me to keep brain less cluttered. Basically, it is an online "board" where you post photos. Remember those corkboards we all have in our homes or office? Yup, just like those ones. I am a highly visual person; if it's important, I need to see it. Pinterest allows you to add as many boards as you like for different categories. My two fullest boards are my food and DIY boards. These boards have become a home for my projects waiting to happen. By "pinning" a photo, you are virtually adding it your board,
along with the link to the website where it came. You can refer to it anytime, instead of trying to clog your real corkboards or your brain with all your ideas.  You can "follow" other people's boards and you can share yours with friends. You can also just browse through the latest and most popular pins on the home landing page. It's a great way to save the important stuff you want to refer to later on. It's great inspiration!

Your own personal virtual boards!

The other tool I recently discovered and have been using non-stop is Bloglovin. Do you ever have trouble keeping up with all your favourite blogs? Do you ever wish you knew the instant a new post went up on your favourite blog? Bloglovin does both for you! You add the blogs you like and seperate them into categories (mine for example are: food, fashion, health, DIY). When you login, all the newest posts from all the blogs you follow show up from newest to old. ALL in ONE place! You can even mark them as "read" to help you keep track.Both Pinterest and Bloglovin work marvelously together for me. Most of my "pins" come from blogs, so essentially these tools help save me time. I say essentially, because I have now created another problem for myself: I spend too much time distracted on both! Fortunately, all the free time I used to spend on facebook is now directed towards these more efficient and useful organizational tools for my life.