Day 8: purple people eater

{ What I Wore: J.Crew skirt & scarf // Frye Campus boots // Old Navy faux leather jacket // Everlane tee }

{ Get the look }

purple pencil skirt {$22.99} + tee {$7.50} + (faux) leather jacket {$39.99} + leopard scarf (save {$14.99} // splurge {$59.50}) + boots {$54.99}

Thank you ladies so much for your advice yesterday about what to wear to my first blogger function - I knew you fashionistas would have all the answers!

After another round of feedback on Instagram last night (I am such a mess), I found a winning outfit, and it completely took away the stress about being super awkward, now I'm just looking forward to meeting other Nashvegas bloggers!

After the break I have some serious issues to discuss: Pinterest

So, as you all know Pinterest is amazing (le duh) - seriously, how did people plan a wedding before it existed!?

But there are some Pinterest problems that we need to talk about.

(this is all inspired by {av} of Long Distance Loving, see her posts on the matter {here} & {here})

1. Pin with love

Before you pin, check on the source. If you can (and you should have no excuse not to), find the original source! You can install a link to this site {http://jarred.github.com/src-img/} on your internet toolbar to quickly locate the source of most any image... I use it all the time, and it seriously couldn't be any easier! You wouldn't want anyone sharing your pretty images without credit, so make sure this link love starts with you!

2. Clean up your pins

Sometimes it isn't about quantity it is about quality - and this is one of those times!

This past weekend I went through cleaning up my gift & wish list boards (in preparation for some fun new things!), and I was appalled at the number of pins linked to spam boards, ambiguous addresses & outdated sites... those are things that I put out there on the internet, tied to myself, and my site, after all! 

I want to support quality and honest pins to things that I truly love. 

I never met an organizing project I didn't like, so the couple of hours I spent this weekend checking on the sources of my pins, shuffling the boards around, & dusting out the cobwebs of pins that I no longer have an interest in, actually made me happy. It certainly thrills me to death to see my new squeaky clean boards!

Pinterest is such a fabulous site, so let's put forth the effort to maintain updated resources, and properly linked images, so that we can keep it around for years to come!

If you want to spread the word, you can use the hashtag that {av} has established: #cleanupyourpinterest