I’m so honored to be kicking off sfgirlbybay’s “Pin It Forward” today with nine of my favorite bloggers. In case you have no idea what “Pin It Forward” is, check out my blog post here. Caught up? Cool! So the theme for Pin It Forward is “what home means to you.” After thinking about this long and hard for several days, it occurred to me that, for myself, home has meant so many different things, (and been in so many different places) over the past ten years. I decided to share that with all of you through a story board I created telling the story of what home has meant to me from my first home all the way to my present. Come check out my Pinterest story board! I’ve numbered each shot so you can follow along in order. I hope you enjoy learning a little bit more about me. Here are a few highlights below…

Home used to be a very simple place that existed in a small suburb of Los Angeles

Until the day home became a very different place

Until, once again, home became a very different place

Until, as it happens, home has once again become a very different place

It’s in Berlin with my oldest brother

It’s in the Bay Area with new friends

home is everywhere that you are loved

Thanks again to Victoria Smith from sfgirlbybay for organizing such a massive event! I had a wonderful time reminiscing about this very personal topic in my life that I don’t often share with the people around me (let alone on my blog). Also, a HUGE thank you to the Pinterest team. I can’t sing your praises enough. I am inspired every time I log on and I have had so much fun expressing myself in a new way through your site.

I’m excited to pass the Pin It Forward torch over to the talented Christiana at Ferm Living. I can’t wait to find out what home means to this co-owner of one of my favorite shops, Hygge and West (I hope it includes some of her amazing wallpaper!)

It’s a little late in the day but I didn’t want to head out for the weekend without posting this week’s Friday I’m In Llama. This week’s image was pointed out to me by my good friend Divya via Kate Daigneault’s beautiful photographic inspiration board on Pinterest. This photo entitled “fashion and llamas” (how great is that!) was taken by Gemma Booth who has quickly become one of my favorite photographers. I can’t stop looking at her website!

Happy Friday everyone! I can’t wait to post my “Pin It Forward” inspirations on Monday!

At long last, the lovely Victoria Smith, over at sfgirlbybay, has released all of the exciting info regarding her next Blog It Forward, or in this case, Pin It Forward! The “pin” refers to my favorite new website called Pinterest. Pinterest is “a place to share visual collections of things you love.” For me, the things I love are clever products, gorgeous dresses, things for my best buddy (Miles the LAMA shop dog), all things tea related, as well as a visual reference point for the incredible Latino designers I currently work with and hope to work with in the future!

Pin It Forward is an excellent opportunity for some of you awesome bloggers out there to get an exclusive invite to Pinterest and start pinning what you love. The theme for Pin It Forward is “what home means to you.” This can be anything your creative mind wants to put out there for the rest of us to ohh and ahh over. For a more in depth explanation, check out all of the details over at sfgirlbybay. I’m super excited to be kicking things off on May 24th along with nine other incredibly admirable bloggers. I’m so honored to be in this group!

A mis lectores en español.  Si les gustara juntarse a Pinterest y ser parte de “Pin it Forward”,  déjenme saber estaría muy contenta de traducir cualquier instrucción. ¡Pero, apúrense!  ¡Hay solamente 300 tres cientos espacios y se están llenando rapidísimo!  Pinterest es amigable mundialmente ya que es un lugar de vista para compartir sus imágenes favoritas.  ¡No hay palabras necesarias!

I hope everyone falls in love with Pinterest the way I have. It’s been my obsession for the past couple of months and is a site that speaks to everything I love. I’ve probably expressed this to the Pinterest team a million times but I want to again congratulate them on creating such an inspiring place on the internet. Thank you for letting me be a little part of that. Way to go guys!