About eight years ago, my sweetheart and I began planning to build some kind of structure in our backyard. One night, I googled “outdoor structures”, which led me to the HGTV Rate My Space site. At that time, I didn’t know anything like that existed on the Internet. I lurked there for about six months, finding photos of real people’s beautiful homes, before I finally began posting a few pictures of our home. It was so much fun for awhile.
Then, the meanies moved into the RMS site. Just as they are on blogs, they were commenters who weren’t posting their own rooms on RMS, and they made a lot of folks stop posting on RMS. Then, one among us, Michael Lee West, began a blog (Designs by Gollum) and got the word out to some of us who were long-time RMS members. Once again, I was so out of the loop, I didn’t know what a blog was!
Looking for Rainbows in the Moonlight on Tumbler
After awhile, most of the “Designs by Gollum” readers, started their own blogs. I was one of the last DBG readers to start a blog. That first night I pushed the “publish” button, I thought it would be my first and last post to this blog!
It is so hard for me to believe that the first blog post I published was five years ago! It is also so hard for me to believe that this journey began as I tried to get ideas for an outdoor structure eight years ago, and we still haven’t built the structure in our backyard!
This has definitely been a journey of learning, and when I learned about Pinterest, the learning continued. The search for the perfect outdoor decor continues, and Pinterest is encouraging my dreams.
At least, I’ve apparently admitted to myself that when I’m looking at ideas for our backyard, I am just dreaming. These photos were taken from my Pinterest board, “Outdoor Dreaming”.
You can find some of my other outdoor dreams on my Pinterest board.
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Thanks for coming to see some of my summer inspiration. laurie
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