Heather's Lensography

Squidoo Related Lenses 

Handy Tools for Squidoo

Most of the info on this lens is from SquidUtils and their blog - 'the place to find complementary utilities and tools for your Lenses on Squidoo. Here you can see all of your lenses and groups, with shortcuts to some of the most vital functions not...

Lenses Someone Beat Me To :)

I know it's happened to you, too. You get this great idea for a lens then search Squidoo to see if it's been done. In the results you find someone beat you to the punch. Well, this lens is an homage to those lensmasters who have created content that...

RocketMoms Charity Lenses

Squidoo offers a great opportunity for you to promote, support and donate to a favorite charity. You can make lenses with info about specific charities with donations modules that allow viewers to donate directly to the organization (you could use t...

Rocket Moms

Rocket Moms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more). Check out the new RocketMoms HQ. This is a 6 week exclusive program for only about 60 or so women on Squidoo. The main poin...

Photography 

Flickr Traffic Secrets

Tips for getting tons of photostream views, comments, favorited photos and awards. Ultimately, these traffic generating tips will help you get into Flickr Explore. Always remember the basics: 1. Take great photos and upload your best 2. Write a prop...

Digital Photography Guide

Whether you are a novice or more advanced photographer this lens will help you focus on the most effective, free resources online today, from tutorials on taking and editing pictures, programs for editing and enhancing your photos, online communities...

Backyard Bird Photography

Taking a beautiful photograph of your favorite feathered friends can be very rewarding but also challenging. Birds move so fast and rarely sit still. However, there are tricks you can utilize to lure them to a specific spot where you are ready to cap...

Wine Photo Phight

When you look at a wine two judgements are made. One is the color, both the hue and the intensity. The colors of a white wine may be water white, yellow, gold, straw yellow, amber, brown, golden yellow, pale gold or other. Red wines may be pink, ora...

Nikon D700

The new D700 digital SLR camera featuring a 12.1-effective megapixel Nikon FX-format sensor that measures 23.9 x 36mm, which is nearly identical to the size of 35mm film. Benefiting from Nikon's legacy of imaging technology innovation, the D700 offer...

Making a Photo Book

These days, everyone is flocking to the convenience of digital cameras, making picture-taking more popular than ever. And people not only want to take pictures, they want to share them, preserve them, and turn them into something special - all from t...

Vegetarian and Green Lenses 

All cruelty-free :)

Meatless Monday

Or better yet, become a weekday vegetarian. I'm not expecting everyone to give up meat all together. If you enjoy meat, eat it. All I'm asking is that you look into what you're eating, how it effects the planet and it's inhabitants, and to consider m...

Eggnog

Eggnog (sometimes confused as 'egg nog') is a sweetened dairy-based beverage made with milk, cream, sugar, beaten eggs (which gives it a frothy texture), and flavored with ground cinnamon and nutmeg; alcoholic versions also exist with the addition of...

Vegetarian Comfort Food Recipes

Over the years I realized that I didn't have to give up on most comfort foods; I just had to find alternatives. That said, these recipes do not include meat substitutes like soy (tofu) or TVP. They are, however, easy to make, totally satisfying and g...

Vegetarian Weight Loss Plan

Amy's Kitchen is the nation's top-selling brand of natural and organic convenience foods and is celebrating it's 20th anniversary. Many customers have said that they have lost weight eating Amy's, either on their own or with a well-known weight plan...

Vegetarian Meatloaf

Well, OK, technically it's not 'meat'loaf, but anyway you make it it's hearty satisfying, savory and in a loaf. There are even some recipes that are made with all of the same ingredients as traditional meatloaf with just a protein exchange. Some reci...

Healthy Vegetarian Living & Recipes

I used to be a meat eater; no, I mean a LOT of meat - from your standard lunch meats to filet mignon (I loved raw bacon just as much as a good rare steak). Rarely did I think about what I was putting into my body. If it tasted good then I'd eat it....

Vegetarian Chili

Tired of all the vegetarian chili recipes saying things like 'light, low fat, and colorful?' That's not what chili is about; It's about comfort food and having something warm to eat with your freshly baked cornbread on a cold day. This chili is spicy...

World Vegetarian Day

Every year on October 1st, World Vegetarian Day kicks off a month of parties, potluck, presentations, food tasting displays...and lots of friendly discussions. For those new to vegetarianism, it serves as an enticement to give meatless fare a try (e...

Vegetarian BBQ

It's summertime, the official start of grilling season! In addition to providing the smoky flavor that emanates from the coals, grilling caramelizes the natural sugars in the vegetables and makes them taste extra sweet. Just about anything that sprou...

Gardening and Conservation 

The New Victory Garden

You've heard of the Victory Gardens and rationing during WWII and how vegetables grown at home helped families and the war effort. Now, amidst a bleak economy and mechanized, nutrient and soil depleting agribusiness, many people are thinking about gr...

Top 10 Innovative Gardening Solutions

Whether it's trying to maximize the gardening space you have, conserving resources or just trying to grow the best harvest ever, these unique tools and tips will surely help you get the most out of your garden.

(Lil) Green Patch

(Lil) Green Patch is a Facebook application developed by David King that simulates a small garden on a Facebook users profile, by tending their and their friends' gardens the facebook users are able to raise money for Nature Conservancy to save the r...

USDA Zone 5 Gardening

Your garden's success is, in large part, based on planting suitable crops for your climate. Here, we'll focus on Zone 5 plantings. Some major US cities that fall in USDA Zone 5 are Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis, M...

The White House Organic Garden

Michelle Obama dug up a patch of the South Lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt's victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets - the president does not like them - but arugula will make the...

Advocacy 

Too Much TV

Violence, aggression, unsafe sexual attitudes, substance abuse, obesity, and inactivity are some of our most devastating social problems. Studies show that excessive television-watching is a prime culprit behind all of these serious issues. And guess...

Adbusters

Adbusters Media Foundation is a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Their aim is to topple existing power struct...

Family 

Jim Katsoulis

Jim Katsoulis is a Master Hypnotist and Weight Loss Expert. He has conducted over 1,000 weight loss sessions and has helped clients of all ages create the body and lives that they want. He is dedicated to helping people recapture their sense of exci...

Music Together Class

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and the adults who love them. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, develo...

Pit Bull Terrier Dog Training

Pit bull type dogs, including American Pit Bull Terriers (APBTs), American Staffordshire Terriers (AmStaffs), Staffordshire Bull Terriers (SBTs) and mixes of these breeds are great companions. This lens will help you to find info on becoming a respon...

Happy Birthday Mom

Yes, our personalities clash and we bicker often. But I want you to know I love you and totally appreciate the love and support you have given me throughout the years. I truly like the person I've become and it's because I've learned so much from you...

Web and Computer Related Lenses 

Data Backup

I was challenged with the task of coming up with and writing about my most prized possession. My first response was a bit zen, "whatever I have can be replaced." Which is totally true; I thought of what I use most: my computers and camera, and I can...

Social Media Networking for RocketMoms

Rocketmoms is an invite-only gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses and a whole lot more. If you: * are a RocketMoms member, * are active on social media sites, * want to find more friends and followers,...

Ping.fm

Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously. Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once. This allows ind...

Fonts Fonts Fonts

You may or may not know that there are thousands of fonts to choose from. How do you decide which is best? Well, as for web design, or making Squidoo lenses, you want to stick to the most common fonts across all platforms. For a flourish, you can dow...

Lifehacker.com

Lifehacker is, hands down, my favorite blog. It is interesting and totally useful. Lifehacker is published by Gawker Media, a far-flung team of folks also responsible for Gizmodo, Fleshbot, Defamer, Jalopnik, Wonkette, Gridskipper and Gawker. Lifeh...

Fun, Games and Interesting Stuff 

Rick Roll'd

Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song 'Never Gonna Give You Up.' The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand, but the l...

The Best Online Toddler Games Ever

According to researchers in the US, toddlers who use a computer develop better learning skills than other toddlers who do not use a computer. The kids who used a computer three to four times a week got better scores on a test aimed at gauging school...

Everything Men Know About Women

Games That will Super Charge Your Brain

Your brain is like a muscle - use it or lose it. Brain fitness has two basic principles: variety and curiosity. When anything you do becomes second nature, you need to make a change. If you can do the crossword puzzle in your sleep, it's time for yo...

Interesting Visual Statistics

Sometimes complex ideas make so much more sense when you have a visual representation. Sometimes creative charts just look cool. And it is scientifically proven that people learn and retain more information when it is presented in more than one mode....

Collective Nouns - Animals

One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so many different collective nouns that all mean "group" but which are specific to what particular thing there is a group of: a herd of elephants, a crowd of people, a box of cray...

Literal Version Music Videos

Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well, here are a few examples of just that. Some are quite funny. I never realized just how bizarre some of these classic music videos were... :) Enjoy!

Home and Away 

New England and Our Vacation Spots

Black Squirrels

The black squirrel is a melanistic subgroup of the eastern grey squirrel. As a melanistic variety of the Grey Squirrel, individual black squirrels can exist wherever Gray Squirrels live. The black subgroup is particularly abundant in the northern par...

Phish

Phish's Inception (1983) - Trey, majoring in philosophy, Fish, studying chemical engineering, and Mike, with a major in electrical engineering, are freshmen at the University of Vermont; Jeff Holdsworth, also an EE major, is a sophomore there. Trey h...

Rehoboth Beach, DE

The town often bills itself as 'The Nation's Summer Capital' due to the fact that it is a frequent summer vacation destination for Washington, D.C., residents as well as visitors from Maryland, Virginia, and in lesser numbers, Pennsylvania. Vacatione...

Green Street Cafe - Northampton, MA

Green Street Café has been located on the grounds of Smith College for almost 20 years and is a well known Pioneer Valley restaurant and good community neighbor. The restaurant earned not only local but national recognition in Gourmet Magazine...

Westfield, MA 01085

Nestled at the foot of the picturesque Berkshires, Westfield is a city in Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Westfield is bordered...

DIY - Do it Yourself 

Homemade Gifts

With the holidays right around the corner, there is no better time than now to start planning any homemade holiday gifts you would like to make this year. Nothing captures the spirit of the holidays like a unique gift that's been made with care and l...

Digital Scrapbooking

Scrapblog goes beyond sharing your photos and videos online; it's made drag-and-drop-easy so that everyone can tell their stories and create beautiful multimedia scrapbooks. Everyday people are now able to express themselves online in a creative way...

DIY Daily Planners

Are you tired of paying high prices to refill your Day Planner? Do the available selections at the office supply store not fulfill your specific needs? If you're looking to improve your current time management system or are just beginning to put toge...

Greener Products 

healthier for you and the planet

Aubrey Organics

Welcome to the world of handcrafted, all-natural hair, skin and body care! For more than 40 years Aubrey Organics has been creating herbal products with no petrochemicals of any kind. Their premise is a simple one: if it didn't come from nature, you...

Safe Sunscreen

So, it's almost summertime, and you and your family will probably spending some time in the sun. Do you think your sunscreen is protecting you? Interestingly, a 'comprehensive scientific review indicates that 84% of 1,101 sunscreen products offer ina...

Fabric Shower Curtain Liners

A great tip for your pocketbook and the environment is to use fabric shower curtain liners. They may cost a bit more than vinyl ones, but you will replace them less often. And when necessary, you just take them down, wash them and rehang! When they'v...

Art and Artists I Enjoy 

you might, too :)

David James Duncan

David James Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why and The Brothers K and several works of nonfiction. His work has won a Lannan Fellowship, the 2001 Western States Book Award for Nonfiction, a National Book Award nomination, three PNBA Awa...

All Summer in a Day

The story is about a class of schoolchildren on Venus. The thick atmosphere of Venus still exists at this time, and it is constantly raining. The sun is only visible for one hour every seven years. Margot is a little girl who moved to Venus from Ear...

Edie Brickell

Edie Brickell is an American singer/songwriter, born March 10, 1966 in Dallas (Oak Cliff), Texas. In the late 1980s Brickell was the lead singer with the (now renamed) folk-rock group Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, whose 1988 debut album Shooting...

The Qatsi Trilogy

These 3 films are directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Reggio stated that the Qatsi films a...

Holiday Lenses 

Napkin Folding

I love origami and entertaining, so this is a great way to combine the two. You can take your basic napkins and create holiday themed designs with a few simple folds. image credit MarthaStewart.com

Natural Egg Coloring

The tradition of dyeing eggs goes back to medieval times when people made pace eggs to celebrate spring and Pasch, the original name given to Easter or Passover. Your kitchen is full of natural dyes. Common food items such as red cabbage, onion skin...

Simplify the Holidays

It's so easy to get caught up in the hectic shopping season during the holidays, that often the true meanings of Thanksgiving, Christmas and other winter celebrations get lost. Here are a few ideas to help us all slow down, relax and enjoy the spirit...

Reusable Bags - Cloth Wraps

Pronounced something like 'f'-ROHSH-kee,' furoshiki originates from Japanese culture and promotes caring for the environment and reducing waste; Furoshiki is the eco-friendly wrapping cloth. Using techniques similar to origami, it can be used for gif...

Organic Candy

If you are concerned about health issues or are just looking to be unique this holiday, offering a choice of organic, all natural candy or alternatives may be the best way to keep all parties happy. Keep in mind you're not looking to get your house t...

Groups I Run 

Please, join 'em if you've got a related lens.

Comfort Food Headquarters

"Food is the most primitive form of comfort." -Sheilah Graham

Photo Phight Weekly Assignments Headquarters

Photo Phight Assignments Well, we have so many great Photo Phight lenses here, I thought we could encourage others to participate while we improve our photography skills and have some fun! Each month there will be a new Photo Phight chosen as the ass...

Charitable Lenses 

Good News

... that there is plenty of good stuff going on out there; we just don't get to hear about it through the standard channels. I hope you find something that makes you smile. Remember to leave your good news - we'd love to read all about it in the gu...

A Little Help From My Friends

This is just a cute little lens with some feel-good videos of friends helping friends. this lens is under construction, but i wanted to share the current videos... :)

Judi Barrett

Judi Barrett is the author of many well-loved books for children, including Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Pickles to Pittsburgh, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, and Things That Are Most in the World. She teaches art to kindergarten...

One Laptop Per Child

Why give a laptop to a child in the emerging world? If you replace the word 'laptop' with 'education' the answer becomes clear. You don't wait to educate until all other challenges are resolved. You educate at the same time because it's such an impor...

Shriners Hospital

· Fraternity members decide against closing six hospitals · Facing money crunch, system might change make some facilities outpatient-only · Hospitals also to start accepting insurance instead of covering all costs · Hospit...

United We Serve

The President has said that the challenges America faces are unprecedented, and that we need to build a new foundation for economic growth in America. The Administration has begun this work with dramatic new investments in education, health care and...

RocketMoms Charity Lenses

Squidoo offers a great opportunity for you to promote, support and donate to a favorite charity. You can make lenses with info about specific charities with donations modules that allow viewers to donate directly to the organization (you could use t...