My "Project" Lenses

I'm an opinionated, hands on kind of person, so I like to let everyone know what groups and projects I'm involved in and WHY. Whether it's tearing down society's misplaced ideals of beauty at Beauty Culture Magazine, or helping those in need in Africa, you can find the latest info and happenings on these lenses.

Beauty Culture Magazine

Beauty Culture Magazine

Beauty Culture’s mission is to present healthy, positive role model alternatives for girls and women that celebrate their boundless individuality and unique beauty. It is our hope that we can exemplify the importance of inner beauty through edu...

BadMsM's Knit-O-Rama

BadMsM's Knit-O-Rama

Knitting has taken me places I never thought I would go, and helped me touch the lives of so many other people I would never have met otherwise. I never imagined that all the hours I spent teaching machine knitting to myself and others would pro...

Alpha Secondary School & Vocational Training Center

Alpha Secondary Vocational Skills Development Center

c/o Alpha Childcare and Community Development Organization (ACCOD) P.O. Box 1274 Jinja, Uganda Tel: 256 77 448596  http://www.alphachildcare.org Richard Lubale, Director accod_ug@yahoo.co.uk  Alpha Secondary School & Vocational Skills D...

Destiny Creation Ministries

DESTINY CREATION MINISTRIES

http://groups.msn.com/destinycreationministries   P.O. Box 336 Nakuru. Kenya. East Africa.  Tel 254 724 215 807   Pastor John G. Kamau, Director   praises75@yahoo.com Our Vision  To connect people to their God given Destiny by first...

Miss Sandy

Miss Sandy

By default, I have become the family historian. But I'm finding that I'm also becoming a Super Sleuth and champion researcher (Google is my friend!). No wonder then, when I happened upon the enchanted kingdom that is Squidoo, I found a...

Northern California Bond Club Knit-A-Thon

Northern California Bond Club Knit-A-Thon

The last time I held a knitting event like this, we had people travel as far as 1500 miles to attend. This is a fiber arts event that is for anyone interested in knitting, crochet, weaving, and spinning. Whether you work by hand, loom or machine...

Welcome To My World: The Studio Of BadMsM

Welcome To My World: The Studio Of BadMsM

Everyone needs a space to create, whether it's a kitchen table or an entire building. I've run the entire gammut, and now have the ideal place to knit, sew, spin, embroider, and teach my children! Follow me as I take you through my studio. Stop by o...

Cari Clement- SUPER HERO!

Cari Clement- SUPER HERO!

Cari Clement is the Director of Fashion and Design for Caron International, a spinner and importer of hand knitting and crochet yarn for retail sale. She is the former co-owner of Bond America, a domestic knitting machine manufacturer which she sold...

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Goofy, Random Lenses

These are just fun, spur of the moment lenses. Enjoy!

Hangin' With BadMsM

Hangin' With BadMsM

Here I am with one of my knitting machines. This was taken for a newspaper article before my first trip to Uganda in 2004. Notice that there is NO YARN on the machine at all! So, to begin:  I started life as the youngest of five girls growing up i...

No Clue

No Clue

If you're one of the many, the undecided, the CLUELESS, this is the place for you! Look around and see if you can find something, ANYTHING that will help you in your quest for what you want...

Life As A Lefty

Life As A Lefty

FACT: There are over 30 million left handed people in the United States alone. FACT: No se zurdo literally translates as "Don't be left-handed" in Spanish, but in slang it's "Don't be stupid." FACT: A study published...

James Brown's Jukebox

James Brown's Jukebox

Celebrity Friends remember James Brown: “What James Brown was to music in terms of soul and hip-hop, rap, all of that, is what Bach was to classical music. This is a guy who literally changed the music industry. He put everybody on a diffe...

80's Dance Party!

'80's Dance Party!

    Hey, we all need to dance more, and what better place than in front of your computer monitor! Get up and shake that groove thang...c'mon, you know you WANT to...besides, no one's looking, and you know I WON'T TELL! Remember, requests are b...

William Shatner Sing-A-Long Page!

William Shatner Sing-A-Long Page!

William Shatner has had a much-mocked musical career, starting with the 1968 album The Transformed Man. Delivered with orchestral backings with the odd "psychedelic" flourish, his exaggerated, interpretive recitations of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Luc...

Spock Sings!

Spock Sings!

During and following Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy released five albums of vocal recordings on Dot Records, including Trek-related songs and cover versions of popular tunes. The albums were extremely popular and resulted in numerous live appearances and p...

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My How To/Informational Lenses

Being a mom and a real cheapskate, I've had to learn to do things on my own. So, I'm sharing my info with you, too. They say experience is the best teacher...

How To Wear A Hat

How To Wear A Hat

Here I am in a 1920's style cloche (say CL-(long O)-SH - the French word for bell), in a picture taken by my good friend Mr. Zan for a photography class, circa 1986.  When I moved out on my own at the age of 19, I got my first REAL job at a...

Charlotte Mason Home Schooling

Charlotte Mason Home Schooling

Charlotte Mason (1841-1923) was a British author and educator who began what is now the modern home school movement during the 1880's. She was appalled by the poor education of the middle class by governesses with little or no training...

Giving Back

Giving Back

My favorite line from "The Blues Brothers" was "We're on a mission from God!" I've never really thought of it before, but helping out in your community, or the world community, can be a divine calling. But where do you find a cause...

How To Become A Merchandiser

How To Become A Merchandiser

Question 1: What is retail merchandising? Answer: activities designed to promote in-store sales, including shelf layout, counter cards, mobiles, point of purchase displays, events, etc.  Question 2: How did you become a retail merchandis...

Nutrition & Autism

Nutrition & Autism

In May 2000, I took my youngest son, Benjamin, to the doctor to have his hearing tested. I suspected that he may have some type of hearing loss, because he was not developing as well verbally or socially as his older siblings did when...

Border Collies

Border Collies

I got my first Border Collie, Teddy (short for Theodore Edward Bear- Ted E. Bear) in 1974, when I was nine years old. I was always more of a cat person, but Teddy's personality and intelligence quickly won me over, and I called my parents t...

Wine Tasting For Beginners

Wine Tasting For Beginners

About 13 years ago, my father-in-law decided to indulge his passion for fine wines and start his own vineyard. So, with my mother-in-law in tow, he started his adventure with initiative, five acres of rocky hills in Calaveras County, and a dream...

Pony Killer's GTO

Pony Killer's GTO

A man once married and sold his beloved GTO, and dreamed of owning one again, if only in another life. His prayers were answered when he received a work bonus toward the purchase of a new commuter car...and the dream was REBORN... This is hi...

My Hubby John- Super Hero!

My Hubby John- Super Hero!

He very kindly returned a pair of underwear I'd left in the washer, and asked me to have breakfast with him the next day. He told me later it was love at first site. Four years, 10,000 miles and 3 marriage proposals later, we were married on Hallowe...

Wines of Calaveras County

Wineries of Calaveras County

Nestled in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California about 170 miles east of San Francisco, Calaveras County was a bustling land of gold and silver mines in the late 1800's. Famous people like Mark Twain lived there and wrote about the ar...

Living Large- Raising A Big Family

Living Large- Raising A Big Family

People often describe me as "Wonder Woman" or "Super Mom", when most days it's probably closer to "Crazy Woman" and "Super Tweaker". I already know what you're thinking. You're right, it's NOT as...

How To Make Your Own Facial Cleansing Oils

How To Make Your Own Facial Cleansing Oils

I was hospitalized for a short time last year, and as I was cleaning up to go home, I found a sample of facial cleansing oil in my overnight bag. I get a lot of these types of samples when I'm modeling or styling for different vendors, so I tuck them...

Easy Steps To Improve Your Health

Easy Steps To Improve Your Health

 How much more could you get done if you had more energy? What aspects of your life would improve: your family relationships, your career, your love life? Scam artists make millions every year trying to sell the "Magic Bullet"...

How To Bake Healthy Gourmet Dog Biscuits

How To Bake Healthy Gourmet Dog Biscuits

With all the recent pet food recalls in the news, baking your own dog biscuits makes sense. Maybe you have a pet who is getting on in years,  has allergies, or strict dietary restrictions. Whatever your reasons, home made biscuits...

Naming Your Baby

Naming Your Baby

My husband and I had six children. It is difficult coming up with a good name for your baby. Of course everyone has their own opinion about it, but as always, opinions are like belly buttons, everyone has them, but they are not always attractive or w...

Recycle Your Clutter

Recycle Your Clutter

Did you know many things that you may be ready to throw away can be recycled, or donated to charity for reconditioning and reuse? Keep reading for ways to keep toxic items like cell phones and electronic equipment out of landfills and help others at...

At Home: A Romantic Dinner For Two

At Home: A Romantic Dinner For Two

As a mother of five, I know how hard it is to find time for romance. Maybe you have a busy home life and/or a hectic job. The trick is to schedule some time for just the two of you. You often hear romance compared to fire; here's how to fan the flame...

Shin'ichi Suzuki

Shin'ichi Suzuki?

Considered to be one of the most influential pedagogues of the 20th century, he often spoke about the ability of all children to learn things well, given the right environment. "Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability, just as...

How To Make A Kilt

How To Make A Kilt

I should say "NO" sometime. My kids decided to join an Irish Pipe and Drum band last spring, and their uniforms include, you guessed it, KILTS! So, because I love my kids so much, I spent a fun filled and informative day on the Net, researching kilt...

How To Bake A Pie From Scratch

How To Bake A Pie From Scratch

My paternal grandmother was widowed very young, with 8 children in the 1930's. Living in a small Colorado mining town, there weren't a lot of career opportunities available. But, being of hardy Danish stock, she set forth to meet the challenge. You s...

How To Say "I Love You" In Different Languages!

How To Say "I Love You" In Different Languages!

Just in time for Valentine's Day! Now you can say those romantic words we all long to hear as many ways as you like. Dazzle your lover with your cosmopolitan, jet setting vocabulary! Enrage your Rivals as you leave them dejected in the dust! Win big...

Lent: What It Means To Me

Lent: What It Means To Me

One of my favorite hymns was written by Elder Joseph Brackett, Jr. in 1848. He was a member of a religious group known as the Shakers here in the USA. It is called Simple Gifts: 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'tis the gift to...

The "Ten"-tacles Of Squidoo

The "Ten"-tacles Of Squidoo

I found Squidoo in February 2007, and quickly learned to use its vast potential to promote my own projects and favorite charities online (and raise some money for them, too.) Now that I am a full fledged Squid Activist and Squidoo Evangelist, I want...

Opt-Out! Freedom From Junk Mail and Phone Calls

Opt-Out! Freedom From Junk Mail and Phone Calls

Fact: More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail. 42% of timber harvested nationwide becomes pulpwood for paper. Fact: The energy used to produce and dispose of junk mail exceeds 2.8 million cars. Fact: About 28 billion...

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Product Or Service Lenses

These are some time tested products and services, I have personally used, and liked so much I made a lens for them! Check it out...

Simone's Plain & Simple

Simone's Plain & Simple

I first met Simone Delaty, a native of France, in 1986, when she had recently purchased a small farm in Wellman, Iowa. She owned a small apartment house across the street from where I lived in Iowa City.  She was in the process of restoring...

Share Your Memories With Smilebox!

Share Your Memories With Smilebox!

Use your own photos, music and videos to make unique slide shows, greeting cards, e-cards, postcards, photo albums and scrapbooks. Then you can email, blog, or print them. Smilebox makes it easy with hundreds of design templates to choose from (it w...

Shine With ELF Cosmetics

Shine With E.L.F. Cosmetics

I work as a merchandiser, model, stylist and makeup artist. In 2005, I began merchandising a new line of cosmetics called e.l.f. (eyes, lips, face). The amazing thing about this line is that EVERYTHING only costs a buck! ONE DOLLAR! Including hi...

Ben's Beanery

Ben's Beanery

Ben is my youngest son, and he just discovered coffee. Ben is also an aspiring artist, and one of his comic characters is Larry The Stick Dude. Since he's too young to get a job in the real world, he wanted a lens on Squidoo; a lens that co...

Wade Whimsies

Wade Whimsies Ceramic Figurines

Wade Whimsies first appeared in 1953 and were a product of the need for new retail lines as the Wade potteries lost contracts in their traditional industrial ceramics market. The result was a series of miniature porcelain animal models. Wade had prod...

Gallo Center For The Arts

Gallo Center For The Arts

The Gallo Center For The Arts will provide an array of live performances, educational opportunities for all ages, and rental spaces for special events to the Central Valley. Click below for event availability. November 1, 2008 Vaudeville Daze - Golde...

Shop Smart With Cool Savings.com

Shop Smart With Cool Savings.com

I discovered CoolSavings about ten years ago, when I had four children under the age of 10! Money was tight, and this site was such a help to me. They have free printable coupons for stuff like diapers, pet food, travel deals and free sampl...

Free Online SEO Tools

Free Online SEO Tools

      Why pay for books and programs that are already obsolete? There are plenty of free SEO tools available online that work much better, and you just can't beat the price! If you are like me, by now you've already spent a fortune for ebo...

Travel Speak

Travel Speak

I love language, because I love to talk. I like to know what's going on around me, and I love meeting new people. I'm an adventerous person, and I love to travel. So everytime I'm meeting foreign visitors or going abroad, I try to pick up some s...

Super Spanx on Squidoo!

Super Spanx On Squidoo!

A one-time copier sales person, Sara Blakely, took a hard look at the hosiery industry and created SPANX, a line of seamless shapewear that can give any woman the sleek, sexy shape she needs to look fantastic in the latest fashions. SPANX are now wo...

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Majorly Cool Non-Profit Lenses!

These are great organizations with an even greater mission and message: LOVE!

The Foundation For A Better Life

The Foundation For A Better Life

The mission of The Foundation for a Better Life, through various media efforts, is to encourage adherence to a set of quality values through personal accountability and by raising the level of expectations of performance of all individuals regardless...

The Random Acts Of Kindness Foundation

The Random Acts Of Kindness Foundation

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation inspires people to practice kindness and to “pass it on” to others. We provide free educational and community ideas, guidance, and other resources to kindness participants through our website at www....

Bpeace- The Business Council For Peace

Bpeace- The Business Council For Peace

The Business Council for Peace (Bpeace) believes that entrepreneurship is a foundation for creating hope and stability in regions where conflict exists. Bpeace gives business people the opportunity to have an active role in building peace. At Bpeace i...

The Smile Train

The Smile Train

What Makes The Smile Train Different:   * Focused on a single problem: cleft lip and palate. * Teach a man to fish: we empower local doctors in                 &nb...

WomanCanDo.org

WomanCanDo.org

More research is needed to understand women's unique health needs, and it is crucial that women who do participate in research studies are informed volunteers. Some Things Only a Woman Can Do is an education campaign launched by the Society for Women...

Opportunity International

Opportunity International

Opportunity International strives to reach the world's poorest people through its microenterprise-development programs. Recognizing that the large majority of the world's poorest people are women, and that they contribute decisively to the well-being...

The Family Giving Tree

The Family Giving Tree

The Family Giving Tree is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people in the Bay Area obtain the basic necessities of life. With the help of corporate sponsors that host Giving Trees, generous individuals who donate gifts and funds, and enth...

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My Favorite Things (Lenses)!

These are some of my favorites from TV, movies and literature...

Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy

Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy

Writer and political cartoonist Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938) created the character Raggedy Ann first as a doll in 1915, and published the first volume of her stories in 1918 (her brother, Raggedy Andy, was introduced with his own volume of st...

Sapphire & Steel

Sapphire & Steel

Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) and  David McCallum (Man From UNCLE) star as Sapphire and Steel, two entities, or elements, who help deal with weak spots in the corridors of Time. Time itself is portrayed as a malevolent,...

Blake's 7

Blake's 7

This is a wonderful show in the style of "Dr  Who", that  inspired other sci fi favorites like "Babylon 5". I saw the show for the first time in 1988 on PBS, and I've been a huge fan ever since. The story revolves a...

Waiting For God

Waiting For God

Diana Trent, an "inmate" of the Bayview Retirement Home, is determined NOT to age gracefully. A never married, retired photo journalist, Diana has been used to living life on her own terms and speaking her mind. She resents society's practi...

Survivors

Survivors

This 38 episode series explores the very frightening, and very real possibility of a pandemic caused by science without conscience. When a leading scientist creates and then unleashes a killer virus that sweeps the planet, those left behind must...

Xanadu

Xanadu

The title of Xanadu came from an unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, entitled "Kubla Khan". It was inspired by an opium induced dream Coleridge had one night. He tried to write it all down when he awoke, but was interrupte...

Eerie, Indiana

Eerie, Indiana

Maybe you moved as a kid, I know I did- many times. One of the first things a kid does in a new town is take in the landscape and culture, however small, or weird, the town may be. Enter Marshall Teller, the new kid in town, who is discovering that t...

Laugh-In

Laugh-In

This show was the brainchild of comics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, and was America's response to Monty Python's Flying Circus. Rowan and Martin were among the first to openly ridicule society and break many of the taboos in TV back then: they voiced o...

Neverwhere

Neverwhere

This six episode series tells the story of a corporate drone, Richard Mayhew , who helps a wounded stranger bleeding on a London sidewalk, much to the dismay of his high maintenance  girlfriend. The stranger, Door, is not a young...

Do Not Adjust Your Set

Do Not Adjust Your Set

Who would have thought that a children's show would bring together the cast of the worldwide sensation that was Monty Python's Flying Circus? With a cast that included Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, Terry Jones, Michael Palin a...

Are You Being Served?

Are You Being Served?

Welcome To Grace Brothers! The staff of this very outdated department store has given people around the world a good belly for almost 35 years! The series was writtein by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who already had a string of successful comedies t...

At Last The 1948 Show

At Last The 1948 Show

JOHN CLEESE and GRAHAM CHAPMAN, along with Tim-Brooke Taylor (the future Goodie, who is also in "How to Irritate People") , Marty Feldman (who probably needs no introduction), and Aimi MacDonald headlined the 13 episodes of this black-and-w...

Speed Racer

Speed Racer

Speed Racer is the story of  an 18 year old racing driver and his adventures on and off the track. On his helmet is printed M, which stands for "Go Mifune", his original Japanese name. Main Characters: Speed's girlfriend,...

McHenry Mansion: Where To Go In Modesto, CA

McHenry Mansion: Where To Go In Modesto, CA

The McHenry Mansion, built in 1883 by Robert McHenry, is on the National Register of Historic places. It is owned and operated by the City of Modesto. In 1923, McHenry Mansion was converted into apartments. Julio and Aileen Gallo bought the old home...

The Wicked Tinkers

The Wicked Tinkers

I first heard the Wicked Tinkers at the 2001 Calaveras Celtic Faire in Angels Camp, CA. I loved their non-traditional musical approach to Celtic music and instruments, always with a WICKED sense of fun. Did I mention that they are REALLY loud, too?...

Golden Phoenix Restaurant : Where To Eat In Modesto, CA

Golden Phoenix Restaurant : Where To Eat In Modesto, CA

2901 E Hatch Road, Modesto, CA 95351 (209) 538-1709 Take out or eat in. Great food, friendly service. Open Tuesday Through Sunday. 11 AM- 9 PM Closed Monday

Jaarsma Bakery- Delicious Dutch Letters

Jaarsma Bakery- Delicious Dutch Letters and Much More!

When I went to Central College in Pella, Iowa back in the 1980's, one of my favorite destinations was Jaarsma's Bakery. It was a wonderland of pastries and other goodies. My friend Mary and I used to try to get to Pamida and back without being seduc...

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