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☞ Angel Blessings Bestowed on JollyvilleChick's Lenses

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Keeping track of my lenses which have been blessed by Squid Angels

When I received my first Angel Blessing in the Spring of 2009, I didn't understand its value. People say "bless you" and "have a blessed day" so often that I thought it was another one of those. It wasn't until early 2010 when I realized that Squid Angel Blessings are prized posssessions that has a great deal of significance in the Squidoo community.

Before the recently introduced point system was introduced by Squidoo, the only way I knew I had a blessing was to look in my "comments" section. Now that I've received several blessings I wanted to remember which angel had blessed which lens so I created this lens to do that.

In August, 2011, I discovered a SquidUtils Addon which helps me identify which lenses have been blessed. You can learn about the Lens workshop Addon here.

Here's the summary:
  • April 2009 - one blessing
  • January 2010 - one blessing
  • September 2010 - seven blessings
  • October 2010 - eleven blessings
  • November 2010 - thirteen blessings
  • December 2010 - ten blessings
  • January 2011 - five blessings
  • February 2011 - seven blessings
  • March 2011 - one blessing
  • April 2011 - no blessings
  • May 2011 - four blessings
  • June 2011 - no blessings
  • July 2011 - one blessing
  • August 2011 - six blessings (as of Aug 13)


Image credit: Suz's Coloring Sketches

Have your lenses been blessed?

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THE ANGELS

My First Squid Angel Blessing

First Squid Angel: EverythingMouse

The first angel blessing I ever received was from EverythingMouse. It was for one of my first lenses, Let's Go to Port Aransas!. It was bestowed on April 1, 2009.


My Second Squid Angel Blessing

Second Squid Angel: WhiteOak50

The seccond angel blessing was from WhiteOak50. It was for a very personal lens called Confessions of a Pack Rat. I was just starting to understand the significance of angel blessings but what I remember most is feeling encouraged to work on the struggles I describe in that lens. This blessing, my second, was bestowed on January 29, 2010.


My Third Squid Angel Blessing

Third Squid Angel: GramaBarb

My third angel has blessed two of my lenses: Let's Go to Luling! and Let's Go to Scituate!. GramaBarb blessed those lenses on September 8 and 27, 2010 respectively.


Thanking Angels

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September 2010 Squid Angels

Five Squid Angels Bless Three Different Lenses

Blessings started pouring in during September, 2010. They were directed at three of my lenses:


October 2010 Angels

Eight Angels Bless Seven Different Lenses

Blessings picked up during October, 2010. I had entered one of my lens in the Tier 1 Challenge and I think that helped increase Angel traffic to my lenses.

Blessings were given to six of my lenses:


November 2010 Angels

Nine Squid Angels Bless Nine Different Lenses

Blessings were given to nine of my lenses:


December 2010 Squid Angels

Six Squid Angels Bless Five Lenses

Blessings given to my lenses:


January 2011 Squid Angels

Five Squid Angels Bless Four Lenses

Blessings given to my lenses:


February 2011 Squid Angels

Five Squid Angels Bless Seven Lenses

Blessings given to my lenses:


March 2011 Squid Angel

One Squid Angel Blesses One Lens

The one lens that received a Blessing this month:


April 2011 Squid Angels

Zero Squid Angels Bless Zero Lenses

It wasn't a good month for my lenses as far as receiving Blessings.

I enjoyed seven months in a row of at least one of my lenses receiving a Blessing.
Fortunately, the Angels came back in May.

May 2011 Squid Angels

Three Squid Angels Bless Three Different Lenses

Blessings given to my lenses:


June 2011 Squid Angels

Zero Squid Angels Bless Zero Lenses

Another bad month for Blessings.

I need to get on the ball and ask for some Angel Blessings!

July 2011 Squid Angel

One Squid Angel Blesses One Lens

The one lens that received a Blessing this month:


August 2011 Squid Angels

Six Squid Angels Bless Four Lenses

As of 8-13-11
Blessings given to my lenses:


Tracking Blessings

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THE LENSES

Let's Go to Emerald Isle

Blessed by ShirlW

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Let's Go to Luling!

Blessed by GramaBarb

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Let's Go to Port Aransas

Blessed by EverythingMouse, Shirlw, MomwithAHook, KonaGirl, and Irenemaria

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Let's Go to Scituate!

Blessed by GramaBarb, WeddingZazzle, and hotbrain

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Let's Go to the Beach!

Blessed by Spook, Wednesday_Elf, DeeGator, and HarmonyArtMom

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Confessions of a Pack Rat

Blessed by WhiteOak50, SquidooFanatic, BuckHawk, bruceeisner, LadyJasmine, JJNW, SylviaRolfe, kimmiekins

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Do you ask for blessings?

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40+ Things My Husband Does Right

Blessed by Ashley_Rain, Othercat, DeeGator, Pukeko, michelle89, rasudesign, charlino, Craftyville, mom247, Nightowl_John, monarch13, deyani, Norma_Budden, Vacation-In-My-Head, vanidiana, and terrapin719

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Best Galveston Web Cams

Blessed by EclecticEducation

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SXSW South by Southwest

Blessed by TopMovieSoundtracks

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Follow the Storms on these Web Cams

Blessed by Jack2205, javrsmith, and ShamanicShift

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My Crazy Dog Loves Broccoli

Blessed by Jack2205

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Leon Redbone

Blessed by TopMovieSoundtracks and Not-Pop

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Learning the Best Practices on Squidoo

Blessed by emerald125, MisterJeremy, bruceeisner, and Nightowl_John

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Squidoo Modules Sampler

Blessed by emerald125, Ashly_Rain, Betsi_Goutal, pkmcr, MisterJeremy, Nightowl_John, wordstock, tembrooke, javrsmith, WeddingZazzle, and sukkran

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Thinking About Going Back to College?

Blessed by howtocurecancer, pkmcr, and Christene

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Tweeting Lensmasters

Blessed by pkmcr

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Beach Web Cams at Port Aransas, Texas

Blessed by MomwithAHook

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Best Web Cams

Blessed by ShamanicShift

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Working Part-Time at a Grocery Store

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Interact with me

  • DogWatchColumbus Aug 12, 2011 @ 5:40 pm | delete
    So how do you keep track of Angel Blessings? Does Squidoo do it for you? How do you know for sure you've been blessed?
  • JollyvilleChick Aug 13, 2011 @ 3:45 pm | delete
    Great question, and timely too since I just recently started using Lens Workshop Addon that helps me determine the blessings. I've gotten months behind on recording the blessings received but the Addon should help.

    I thought other Lensmasters might have the same question so I decided to explain it here in this lens. I just finished adding a few modules with screenshots from my Dashboard. I hope this helps.
  • dellgirl Nov 19, 2010 @ 11:27 pm | delete
    OH, I forgot.

    Thumbs up to your beautiful lens, favoriting, lensrolling, and joining your fanclub.
  • dellgirl Nov 19, 2010 @ 11:24 pm | delete
    Wonderful wonderful lens, so full of helpful tips and information. I knew angel blessings were an honor and wondered what to do in response to getting one. I planned to thank each angel personally, I still will.

    BUT, this is just soooo awesome! I want to make a lens just like this one, thanking every angel for the whole world to see.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you for the guidance.
  • Tipi Nov 3, 2010 @ 10:44 am | delete
    What a fun way to keep track of your blessing. This is a great idea!
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Behind the Scenes

How I confirm which lens has been blessed and by whom

I did good keeping up with the angel blessings up until December 2010. I don't remember what happened but for some reason, I let myself get behind on the blessings. Many months have rolled by and the thought of backtracking to document all the many blessings started to overwhelm me. My method used to be to look at all my Points (from my Dashboard) and search for the term "blessing" and "blessed." Since the Points category shows all the points - points for liking a lens, getting a lens liked, someone voting in one of my polls, along with blessings.

What I needed was some kind of filter, something to let me just see the Blessings. I found it in the form of a Lens workshop Addon, a utility developed by thefullfanutta.

Let me try to explain...

Activity Stream - Lens Workshop Addon

Screen shot of my Activity Stream at this particular moment

Note: The extra information on the line starting "SU Summary: " appears when you have the Lens workshop Addon.


When you're looking at your Dashboard and you click on Points, a page displays items which earned you points. Squidoo displays 30 items at a time, so if you have more than 30, you have to click the "See More" button at the bottom.

When I was trying to keep track of the blessings my lenses received, I would look at the points and look for just the ones which were earned from a blessing. It was very tedious work, pulling out just certain points.

The process became much easier after I downloaded and installed the Lens workshop Addon

With the SquidUtils Addon, you get this extra information which is also a filter.
In this screenshot, you see that of the 30 items, there are
13 Likes
5 Blessings
4 Comments
8 Votes
30 Total

To see just your blessings, click Blessings

Activity Stream showing just the Blessings

Screen shot of my Activity Stream with just the Blessings displayed

Activity Stream showing All the points

Screen shot of my Activity Stream showing "All" points




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