Pushpins

Teach your child to stay away from your desk, and keep staplers and other sharp objects such as pushpins, pencils, paperclips, scissors, and letter openers well out of his reach. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This becomes really useful when you're trying to give family or friends directions; e-mailing them a map marked with graphic "pushpins" is a lot easier than printing out the instructions from Mapquest. ❋ Jack Kapica (2008)

My cats pull out pushpins, tear down my posters, and have seriously damaged my window blinds to the point where people can see in my room. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the wall above him, photos of children, no frames, dangle from pushpins. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Now large patches of the wall were bare, save for pushpins trapping small bits of paper. ❋ Christie Golden (2011)

Artist Eric Daigh, 33 year old husband, father born in California and now residing in Northern Michigan, creates portraits by putting ordinary pushpins in posterboard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I used pushpins to fasten the photos onto the tiles. ❋ Washingtonpost.com (2010)

Each portrait requires about 11,000 pushpins which Daigh applies by one at a time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Daigh uses blue, red, white, yellow and black push pins (he sprays green pushpins black since there are no black pushpins) to create his masterpieces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Said it was ridiculous to believe that the stars hold up the sky like pushpins. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ford Motor Co., meanwhile, is recalling more than 30,000 2010 Transit Connect vans to replace pushpins holding the liners above the driver's head. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I remember taking the top off a case for pushpins and mounting it on top of the power switch of the machine so that no one could turn it off," the book quotes Hong as saying. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Get pushpins from flowers to by the couch (2 different decorations). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ford is recalling 33,728 of its 2010 Transit Connect vans to replace pushpins holding the overhead material in the headliners. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The pushpins failed to meet federal requirements for head protection. ❋ Unknown (2010)