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cimoreneI use Pinterest to save things in advance that I can later post to my decorative arts blog, ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
designobjectory, and the other day I got annoyed because Past Me had saved some pins to the wrong folders out of laziness (the algorithm guesses which folder you might want, and if you haven't been exclusively saving to that folder it's usually wrong, and it takes extra moves to scroll through the drop-down list or type to search them).
So I moved them around... and then got a compulsive tidying bug and deleted a bunch of old folders I haven't used in years, and then started reorganizing the folders that I do still use, going back through some of them and deleting things that are no longer relevant, and then reorganizing my biggest folder, which was for Art Deco/Bauhaus/Streamline Moderne/Machine Age, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts/Mission/Prairie Style. Arts & Crafts is a contemporary of Art Nouveau, and Art Deco evolved out of Art Nouveau with a substantial overlap between the periods and styles including many objects that show influences of both. And also I kind of like them both similar amounts, and they both appear in my favorite historical period (the 1920s-30s, that is), so when I started pinning that stuff I guess it made sense to put them together. But as of yesterday there were almost 2000 things in it, and it was just too big.
The Arts & Crafts movement of William Morris's wallpapers is my favorite aesthetic, and that, with its related movements, encompasses a wide range of distinct aesthetic threads. I spent almost all day yesterday separating it out into a bunch of subfolders and removing the more Art Deco-related stuff to another one.
The problem with sorting stuff related to one of my favorite hobbies is that I have so much fannish excitement and trivia floating around in my brain that it's tough to decide how finely to sort it. And also it's very easy to just get lost in the zone browsing through it and adding more images to the same categories because they're my favorites.
I couldn't stop there though, and I lost a lot of hours today just sort of noodling around, moving and deleting random things compulsively. We did move the Heteka (the vintage midcentury rustic steel single bedframe, now used as a daybed/bench) up to the library, so there's a lot more little stuff I can do around the house soon (hanging art, vaccuuming, clearing space for furniture painting projects in the dining room - sewing curtains and things...).
It stopped snowing, but it's ankle-deep out there again. On the plus side, this means it looks pretty again, I guess!
So I moved them around... and then got a compulsive tidying bug and deleted a bunch of old folders I haven't used in years, and then started reorganizing the folders that I do still use, going back through some of them and deleting things that are no longer relevant, and then reorganizing my biggest folder, which was for Art Deco/Bauhaus/Streamline Moderne/Machine Age, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts/Mission/Prairie Style. Arts & Crafts is a contemporary of Art Nouveau, and Art Deco evolved out of Art Nouveau with a substantial overlap between the periods and styles including many objects that show influences of both. And also I kind of like them both similar amounts, and they both appear in my favorite historical period (the 1920s-30s, that is), so when I started pinning that stuff I guess it made sense to put them together. But as of yesterday there were almost 2000 things in it, and it was just too big.
The Arts & Crafts movement of William Morris's wallpapers is my favorite aesthetic, and that, with its related movements, encompasses a wide range of distinct aesthetic threads. I spent almost all day yesterday separating it out into a bunch of subfolders and removing the more Art Deco-related stuff to another one.
The problem with sorting stuff related to one of my favorite hobbies is that I have so much fannish excitement and trivia floating around in my brain that it's tough to decide how finely to sort it. And also it's very easy to just get lost in the zone browsing through it and adding more images to the same categories because they're my favorites.
I couldn't stop there though, and I lost a lot of hours today just sort of noodling around, moving and deleting random things compulsively. We did move the Heteka (the vintage midcentury rustic steel single bedframe, now used as a daybed/bench) up to the library, so there's a lot more little stuff I can do around the house soon (hanging art, vaccuuming, clearing space for furniture painting projects in the dining room - sewing curtains and things...).
It stopped snowing, but it's ankle-deep out there again. On the plus side, this means it looks pretty again, I guess!
