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Mrs. Flamingo, Montreal, Canada Age and Occupation: 25, Graphic Designer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Nursing Student Engagement Date: December 2004 Wedding Date: June 21, 2008 Venue: Imperia Hotel (modern chic hotel) About Me: I am a passionate designer who loves anything pretty. I heart all paper products (eco-friendly of course). My passion revolves around anything considered glamour; vintage and modern. In my free time, I love reading Martha mags, designing jewelry and making a pit-stop at Starbucks for a chai latte. I'm also a chocoholic at heart and my family drools over my homemade truffles.
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Fun Boards With Polyvore

April 14th, 2008 @ 3:32 pm by Mrs. Flamingo

I’m an inspiration board junkie and if I could, I would make them all the time. Unfortunately free time isn’t my friend at the moment, but luckily thanks to Junebug Weddings and Absolutely Beautiful Things, I found the solution to my problem.

Polyvore is a web-based application that allows you to take images from online stores and drag and drop them into a collage. It’s now my new friend. Can you imagine the possibilities?

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You can also add your favorite online stores using their bookmarklet, or simply add items from their already existing library. As simple as 1,2,3 and you have a mood board that can be shared with the world. To top things off, (something I find very interesting) every product within the board is linked back to the online store where it is available for purchase. :)

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I spent hours on this site and kept removing and adding things. It’s so much fun! What I love is that everybody has a different vision of things so you could play a little game with your friends using Polyvore. Give them a theme and color combination and see what each person comes up with.

Polyvore even has its own blog which I immediately added to my Google Reader. This website is now my new online stylist/theme finder/personal shopper/best friend.

Have you used this program? How do you go about making your inspiration boards?

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brendalynn (message)  154 posts, Blushing bee

oh-em-gee, I think you just cut my work productivity in half! (unless I can find a way to make this help with work, too?)

I love inspiration boards, but I’ve started to realize that its easy to make them more about the photography or the setting–instead of an actual product or design…. this should help me make it a bit more focused… (& generally nifty)

 
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Erin

This is great! Is it free?

 
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GetMarried4Less (message)  915 posts, Busy bee

i was inspiration boardless until i discovered the Mosaic maker feature of Flickr at http://www.bighugelabs.com.

awesome and quick. it doesnt provide much in the way of creative layouts, but to simple pull together a grid of inspiration pics, its awesome!

i’ll have to check out polyvore as well!

 
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Miss Flamingo (message)  1,267 posts, Bumble bee

Erin… it is free. and so much fun… if you want to save your boards you just have to sign up… but its free :)

 
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ErinSea (message)  172 posts, Blushing bee

How cool! I’m still not sure I”m talented enough to take this on, but it’s better than I fared with photoshop or similar methods of inspiration creation. If anyone feels like making me a board, I’d love it!

 
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Buckeye

How lovely! Yet another way I will be less productive. Oh, and an FYI Miss Flamingo, I was perusing White Aisle’s website (as I’m prone to do!) and saw they had 8 inch chandeliers on sale, and thought of you!

 
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mrsbic (message)  96 posts, Worker bee

I’m OBSESSED!

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=1275519

created this in no time flat and i’m pretty sure the rest of my monday work-productivity is squashed! HA!

 
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Davids

This looks a really cool application, nice find! I’m sure this will take up a few hours of my day!

 
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Lisanne

Ooooh - where is that cake from (in the pink board)?
Love it!

 
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Lynie

Wow….I just finished wasting an hour and a half on there. I need to get to work.

 
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Miss Flamingo (message)  1,267 posts, Bumble bee

@Lisanne: The cake is from the brides.com website. Who makes it… i have no clue, but its a start. Good luck.

 
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Christy

Hooray for Polyvore! Isn’t it fantastic?! I wish there were more hours in the day so I could play with this. Thanks so much for the mention of our post, I had a blast “researching.”

 
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My

This seems like fun. Off I go to play…

 
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infoscibride

These are beautiful! And I NEED that black ring next to the cupcake in your second one!! I will die without it. Please say you know who makes it??!?!

 
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Miss Flamingo (message)  1,267 posts, Bumble bee

@infoscibride: Its from http://www.monsoon.co.uk/icat/accessorizerings

But I checked on the website and doesnt seem to be there… maybe its sold out. I dunno…

 
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Josephine

Thanks for sharing this site! It is a lot of fun but especially love how it connects you to the site where the image was found! And can I thank you for creating the two samples above? You just put all my wedding ideas together for me!!! THANK YOU!!!

 
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infoscibride

Oh wow, Ms. F…. all their jewelry is amazing, though! Thanks so much!

 
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Nicole P

where are those shoes from that last set from??

 
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Miss Flamingo (message)  1,267 posts, Bumble bee

@Nicole P: There from:
http://www.zappos.com

Hope this helps!

 
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Jess Lee

Thanks for writing about us, Miss Flamingo! We just did a post about wedding inspiration boards on the Official Polyvore blog that mentions you: http://blog.polyvore.com/2008/06/wedding-inspiration-boards.html

 
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