To see what has been pinned from my blog, the link would be: http://pinterest.com/source/hartwoodroses.blogspot.com.
What you get when you go there is a page that shows everything that's been pinned from the site, by whom, and who has repinned or commented or liked the pins.
Like this:
Most of the time, people pin photos of my furniture or building projects. Sometimes I see that they have pinned photos of my roses. My most popular photo, as you can see, is the post where I detailed how to use Annie Sloan's clear and dark waxes on my big blue dresser.
What I noticed yesterday is that someone pinned photos of Lu-Ray Pastels dinnerware that I took at the DC Big Flea. She titled her Board "Lu-Ray Love", so knew that I had a fellow Lu-Ray fanatic on my hands, and I clicked through to see what else she had on that Board. (I find the best stuff for my own pin boards this way!!)
This person appears to be a recent Lu-Ray collector, and she has been quite busy, pinning dozens of images from sources all over the 'Net. As I scrolled down, I found another one of my photos ... this one was our cherry china cabinet, filled with a portion of my own Lu-Ray collection.
She didn't pin it from my blog, though. It came from a Google search, and the link-back was to google.ca. It's definitely mine ... I'd know my own china cabinet anywhere. The provenance of the photo won't get lost, thought, no matter where it came from, because I insure the safety every photo that I publish online by applying a watermark.
There have been one or two comments recently from Anonymous folks complaining about my watermark, saying that it's distracting and takes away from my photos. Perhaps it does, a little bit. When I edit my photos, I always adjust the opacity so the watermark is almost transparent to try to help with this ... like on my hummingbird photo from last week.
Because my watermark is always on my photos, I don't worry that folks are pinning and re-pinning my images. In fact, I am extremely flattered that anyone would take the time to search out things that I have published and that they like what they find enough to pin it to use later.
So, Folks, feel free to pin whatever you find here that you like.
Speaking of pinning ... Do you have favorite people that you follow on Pinterest? I always love seeing what my rose friend, Carolyn Parker, is pinning. (warning: don't click that link unless you have LOTS of time to spend. Carolyn's boards are gorgeous!)
Want to see what I have on my Pin Boards? Click HERE. (In response to a suggestion by a kind reader, I have added a Pinterest button to the top of my sidebar.)