I love pins. Especially little ones with sayings on them. Is it no surprise, then that I’ve fallen into the new web trend? The one where everyone is sporting buttons from other web sites? And where else would I sport these pins, but on the backpack I carry every day.

First, it was Eric over at Bad Tofu sending me his new button in exchange for a laptop bag I made him. Sure, it doesn’t really seem fair. After all, the button was way better, in my opinion. And he sent me two! But, while I was waiting for his pins to arrive, I couldn’t stop myself from ordering from Prickie.

It took me an hour to choose six buttons, and then an impatient week or two to get them. I love them, though. After a photo session, I spent a good twenty minutes deciding on backpack placement.

But then, the mother of all pins finally arrived. The 9rules pins, the reason I got hooked on pins to begin with. The arrived, and I had to rearrange the bag again.

Since I was limited to my phone’s camera this week, I took a close up photo of the pin so you can see what I mean. It’s brilliant. And if anyone ever recognizes it, I can pimp myself for being in the network.

I’m also thinking of doing pins for my own site. I have no idea if there is any interest, though, so we’ll see. I might just get them as a little somethin’ somethin’ to include with the laptop bags when they finally go up for sale. I’m thinking a full set, using the fruit vectors that the rockstr Bryan Culver made for me. So, of course he’d have to get the first mailing.

I’ve also been looking into buying a pin maker, but at $200, it really isn’t in the budget for something I’d be using essentially as a toy. I’d love to have one though, so perhaps I’ll save up. Because, I love pins.

Yay! pins.

- “Don’t Phunk With My Heart” Monkey Business: Black Eyed Peas

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