Pinterest – The Oaxacaborn Blog

If you follow Oaxcaborn on Instagram, you know about our succulent planting adventures (see below photo) so it’s no surprise that this week’s Monday’s Pretty Things is all about greenery! This was inspired by a couple of things — one, the incredible Urban Jungle Bloggers project, and two, the fascinating conversation here about the challenge of spending time outdoors if you, like many people, are an apartment dweller. (Most people don’t actually live on a rambling ranch!)

Hopefully these Pretty Things — and the #UrbanJungleBloggers Pinterest board — will inspire you to create your own green oasis no matter where you live.

Hanging plants via Atelier Solarshop

Urban window via Rennes on VSCO

Floral workshop via Wit & Delight

Japanese home via Spoon & Tamago

White interior via Ukkonooa

Fika via Oaxacaborn on Instagram

Inspiration

INSPIRATION :: Before Pinterest, This is How We Saved Inspiration

May 10, 2013May 10, 2013 Gina @ Oaxacaborn

Remember back before Pinterest, before Tumblr, when inspiration was tactile and we could circle it with sharpies and cut it out and tape it to notebooks and stack those piles of inspiration on our desks?

Before Pinterest, these are the images I would have torn from the Early Summer 2013 Serena & Lily catalogue.

Christmas

CHRISTMAS :: A Fun New Blog Discovered in the Blogosphere – Scandinavian Christmas

December 9, 2011November 1, 2012 Gina @ Oaxacaborn

I just stumbled across a delightful gem of a blog called (no big surprises here) Scandinavian Christmas. According to the bio, it’s written by “A Swedish-Norwegian family who lives in the very north above the polar circle, and blogs about our favourite season.” It’s brand-new this year, so be sure to go back to the first post (October in the archives). I’m honestly surprised this blog isn’t more popular!

(Click on each of the photos below to see the original post).

It’s still 14 days until Christmas, so there are sure to be more great posts from this blog over the next couple weeks. You can visit the site directly, grab the Scandinavian Christmas RSS feed to add to your readers, follow Scandinavian Christmas on Bloglovin, or follow AnnaLinda’s Pinterest boards!

[Update: I’m planning a special Scandinavian Christmas series in 2012.]

How To

How to use Google Images to find the original source of an image on Pinterest

September 14, 2011October 12, 2011 Gina @ Oaxacaborn

Click photo to enlarge.

When you repost an image from Pinterest onto your website or blog, always make sure you credit the image’s original source. (“Source: Pinterest” or “Image via Pinterest” doesn’t count.)

If the image was pinned directly from the original source, you’ll easily be able to find that source just by clicking on the image. However, lots of stuff on Pinterest wasn’t pinned from the original source, so clicking it will just bring you to an uncredited version of the image on someone’s Tumblr or blog. (Sad face!)

If that happens, here’s to how to find the original source:

In Pinterest, right click on the photo. Select “Copy Photo URL”.
In Google Images, click on the camera icon.
Paste photo URL and click “search”.
Locate the original source from the results.

Now, go back into Pinterest and leave a comment on the pin with the original source, so the pinner can update their pin! =)

Want to know more about how to credit images? Check out this poster by Pia, Erin and Yvette on Design*Sponge.

Inspiration

pinterest: my ‘dreamy outdoors’ pinboard of pretty summer days

May 11, 2011October 12, 2011 Gina @ Oaxacaborn

have you heard of pinterest? i love it — it’s a fabulous virtual pinboard which allows you to easily save inspiring images from any webpage. the best part about it, in my opinion, is that it saves the source of the image, so when you look back through your pins & boards, you always know where you found any particular image. it’s also ridiculously easy to use. when you’re on a webpage with an image you want to save, simply click the ‘pin it’ bookmarklet on your toolbar. pinterest then pulls up all the images on that page, and all you have to do is click on the one you want to save, choosing which of your boards you want to pin it on.

i thought i’d share a few photos from one of my pinterest boards.

via apartment therapy via stacey bode