Pinterest, Copyright, and My Blog

It's the dreaded "I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long" blog post. Somewhere online I remember seeing someone's montage of this line (Google it, you'll see how cliched it is) so I try not to use it. But, here's the reason for the gap in posting:

A couple of months ago there was a fracas involving a blogger who posted photos of a project she did, said photos made it to Pinterest, and a well-known craft store removed her watermark and used her photo on their Facebook page.

Now, I'm not so arrogant as to worry this would happen to me. I love my own projects, and I know you view my pages for inspiration and may like to see what's going on, but I don't really think any of my images will be going 'viral' on Pinterest anytime soon.

But.... it did get me thinking that it might not be a bad idea to protect myself, and my family (who appear in the majority of my layouts). So for now I'm disabling Pinning on the blog, and I apologize for the inconvenience. Some of you (most of you?) may never have noticed. Others may be annoyed. I do request that if you really would like me to re-enable it, please let me know! If there's a need for it, I will go the other route and watermark my images and let you pin them. But I won't know there's a need for it unless you tell me, so please leave comments or e-mail me at kerriestrong@gmail.com. Once I figure out an easy way to watermark (or get a really good camera) I will re-enable.

And with that, I can get back to posting from my phone, which is apparently the only way I can do it regularly. :) Meanwhile, I will be updating with some new CTMH stuff, and doing some catching up with the layouts I've already done.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and Happy Scrapping!
Kerrie