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Whether you’re decorating your tree, making your gift list and checking it twice, cooking a holiday dinner or traveling to distant places, Pinterest can help make your holiday season more fun and festive! You may even discover gifts for yourself.
Time is running short, but no need to panic. Pinterest is chock full of boards and pins to help you make the most of your holidays. Even if you’re rushed to get everything done, you can look as if you planned for months with these creative ideas on Pinterest!
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Decorating
Do you get in a rut, decorating your house the same way each year? Break out of your annual routine and get your creative juices flowing with these boards that will inspire you to try something new!
Christmas Ideas I Love by Lynda White
Christmas Decorating Ideas by Denise Morrison
Christmas Decor by Emily Morton
Gift Ideas
Pinterest can give you gift ideas and help you organize your gift list. Make use of secret boards on Pinterest to gather gift ideas as you surf the web. Pinterest now lets you create up to six secret boards so you can gather your gift ideas away from the prying eyes of others.
As you surf the web, pin gift ideas you find at different websites. Instead of adding items to a cart and forgetting where you left them, add items to a pin board so you can see them all in one place.
Get gift ideas on Pinterest too. Check out 2013 Pinterest Holiday Giving Guide to get “pinspired” ideas for others. Find boards with gift ideas for the special people in your life, such as:
Fun Gifts for White Elephants by Queen Latifah
Gizmo Gifts for Geeks by Guy Kawasaki
Christmas Crafts
Make special memories with ornaments you make yourself. You don’t have to be crafty to make keepsake Christmas decorations and ornaments, for your tree or to give as gifts.
For inspiration, check out these Christmas craft boards:
Christmas Crafts/Decorations/Gifts to Make… by Beth Ealy Hill
Christmas Decorations to Make by Sue Nicholson
Handmade Christmas Ornaments by Elizabeth Banks
Christmas Recipes
Whether you’re going to a Christmas cookie exchange, baking goodies for gifts or entertaining in your home, you may want to check out some new recipe ideas. Pinterest is a bountiful source of new recipe ideas to try, with pictures accompanying the instructions.
Christmas Recipes by Kandace Meinen
Christmas Recipes by Michelle (The Scrap Shoppe)
Christmas Recipes from Kathy Cummins
Christmas Cookie Recipes by Jennifer Melder
Pinterest iPad App Update
Just in time for the holidays, Pinterest has updated its iPad app to make it easier to use. You can now pin from your camera, clipboard and websites in the new app.
You can also navigate Pinterest from a new menu at the bottom of your screen. Tap and hold a pin in the app to show a new menu of options.
The Pinterest iPad app is available free from the iTunes App Store.
Bottom Line
Let Pinterest help inspire you this holiday season. With ideas for gifts, recipes, crafts and home decor, Pinterest can make this season more fun and festive.
Your Thoughts
Are you looking for creative ideas for the holidays? Have you discovered any cool gift ideas or recipes on Pinterest? Do you get inspired from Pinterest? Let us know in the Comments section below and share with us your favorite boards!
Hi Carolyn,
Oh…I am already inspired looking at all these awesome pictures 🙂
You know how much I love Pinterest, and it’s tough nowadays to get away from it because of these lovely pins people keep putting up. I love the Christmas decorating ideas, the recipes, and the gifts too.
You shared some lovely boards that I need to check out additionally now. More than half the time one’s glued to seeing and reading all of these awesome things people have to share – I surely am running late in my replying to comments, thanks to Pinterest!!
Thanks for sharing these with us. Pinterest rocks, and so do YOU 🙂 Have a nice week ahead 🙂
Thanks, Harleena. Yes, writing Pinterest articles takes about 300% longer than writing other articles because it’s so easy to get drawn in by those amazing pins. I will look at pinboards and the next thing I know it’s an hour later and I haven’t written a word in my article!
I’m glad you’re a Pinterest fan too and that you are enjoying these fantastic boards. I hope they inspire you to have a fun and festive holiday season, Harleena!
Pinterest is great as an aspirational social network. While we have heard mostly good things about treadmill desks, not so sure it would be a good fit with the type of work we do.
Hi John, Yes, I wonder how easily I could use my computer on a treadmill desk. But what a great way to multi-task!
i am fresh blogger but never use Pinterest for my blog but now i am thinking of using it
Hi Xuhair, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! Yes, Pinterest is a great source of traffic for my blog, but that’s not the main reason I enjoy Pinterest. I would visit that site even without any traffic from them. Pinterest is a very inspiring site for me.
Hi Carolyn,
I haven’t been using Pinteresting in a very long time, but now that I see all those nice Christmas images, and your guide, I really want to start using it again. I am not sure why I stopped, I guess it might be because I started using Instagram and I am using all those other social networks as well. It’s hard to keep up with everything.
Btw, that treadmill desk looks awesome 🙂
– Jens
Hi Jens, Yes, it can be very difficult to keep up with all the social media sites so you have to focus on the ones you enjoy the most. Pinterest is one of my favorites. I’m on Pinterest a lot, even when I’m not writing about it.
I know, that laptop desk treadmill is amazing. I would love one of those!
Hi Carolyn,
I’ve been checking out ideas on Pinterest. I think some of the people who collect images have really good taste. I see a lot I like from food ideas to French style kitchens. Designers should take note of what’s on there and see what people really like and not what they are forced to buy because of lack of choice!
I explained camera settings on one of my posts this week, so if you want info on apertures, speed, ISO and white balance that’s the one! The one on a Zillion Ideas showed how to do something a bit artistic with a distort in PhotoScape. We had sunshine for an hour earlier and I didn’t have much to do, but it didn’t last long. Hopefully, I’ll get a canal picture on Sunday. Sun and showers forecast and I’m planning to use a tripod!
Hi Mike, I really enjoyed your post on distortions. Very cool! I never got into photography enough to mess with the different settings, Auto was my setting of choice.
I love Pinterest and I also often use it 🙂
With the given image, Pinterest is great for decorating, recipes and even gifts. I just need to find the right boards for this purpose, as is the case with this article.
Nice article. Thank you for sharing with us Carolyn.
Hope you can enjoy your weekend :-bd
Hi Nanda, I’m so pleased that this article helped you to find new boards on Pinterest. Exploring Pinterest is fun, but can be time consuming when you are finding boards that don’t quite fit what you’re looking for. Holiday boards can be a very useful source of inspiration.
Happy holidays, Nanda!
Yes, it is very unpleasant find boards that do not fit with what we were looking for. It was such a waste of precious time.
I often found unique and new images that I had never encountered elsewhere, maybe that’s why exploration Pinterest is fun. 🙂
Thanks for the advice, Carolyn.
You’re very welcome, Nanda!
nice post for celebrating Christmas with pininterest , Thanks for the pictures to PIN it in Christmas