frankenstein friends.

Not Pinterested.

DIY is all the rage right now. It’s been popular among more specific groups of people (the Amish, hippies, weirdos, and others on the outskirts of society) for quite awhile, but the appeal of DIY has more recently hit the mainstream and now it’s pretty cool to create things from scratch. For those of you living under a rock, DIY stands for “Do It Yourself”. I wanted to come up with some funny things that DIY could mean, but we don’t all have endless amounts of time to think of clever DIY acronyms. Sorry.

The explosion of Pinterest has definitely helped bring this DIY craze to the next level – that level being world domination.

As a person who signed up for Pinterest, but has yet to figure out why or how to use it (but has over 40 followers!) – I’m going to give you my uneducated description. Basically, you make a digital inspiration board – a scrap book of things you like (I Freudian-slipped that sucker and typed “crap book” the first time around). You “pin” images that “interest” you that you have found on the World Wide Web. (( Do you get how that worked? Did you see what just happened there? Pin + Interest = Pinterest?!?!?!?! Stupid. ))

Recipes. Fashion. Home Decor. Landscaping. Art. Whatever. It gives meaning to scouring the internet for hours because now you have a little folder full of snapshots you took of stranger’s websites at 3 AM to share with all of your friends ( and by “friends” I obviously mean acquaintances ). Now, everyone I know can look at a pinboard I made of pictures of Bruce Willis’ children. You’re welcome, world.

Obviously one could easily ascertain that Pinterest holds little blame when it comes to the DIY take over and, for the most part, that’s true. It’s not Pinterest’s fault. They don’t make you create a pinboard full of DIY creations. It’s all the ladies (Yes, I’m saying it’s mostly women. Hey, Hate Mail! Nice to see you again!) that utilize the website entirely to create a feeling of inadequacy for the fact that the rest of us aren’t making our own butter.

Now those of us who want to go out and buy something that’s pre-made by the youth of China have to feel ashamed about it. We have to  take off our price tags, decoupage some craft paper on it, add washi tape and act like we spent all day making our new bathing suit. A woman at my office came by my lunch table recently to show off a new vest she made from cutting up an old t-shirt. Thanks, Pinterest. Classing up the workplace one person at a time.

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So I know I sound like I hate making things and I hate that other people make things. This is not entirely true. I mostly love it. If you are good at making things and have the time and money (because 9 times out of 10 it is way more expensive to make you own butter) – – by all means, go crazy. There are two main reasons why DIY bothers me.
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Reason #1: People who DIY everything and make you feel bad about not having the time and money to also DIY everything.
Reason #2: This thing.
This is an image I found pinned from Design Sponge.
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Design Sponge is pretty much an all-encompassing design blog. Soaking up all areas of design…like a sponge. A design sponge, if you will. Mostly, I find this to be a mildly interesting blog to cycle through when broadening my mind with a book or learning a new language have already received their fill. I know I said it’s about Design, but really it’s just a blog of things and places and stuff. Sure, we could argue that it’s design, but you could argue that about most anything. They are using the term loosely.
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But back to the phone stand.
WHAT THE HECK.
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I feel like this DIY phone stand is just a jumping off point for creating an entire line of household items.
It will go so nicely with this plate, napkin, and coaster set I made.
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And this pillow.
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I can’t wait to make presents for everyone for Christmas this year.
waj mahal.

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