Lenses On Lancaster, Pennsylvania 

The Coffee Co

The Coffe Co. cafe is located at 1639 Lititz Pike, in the Lancaster Shopping Center. Directly across the parking lot is A.C. Moore, to one side is Michael's, and on the other side is Giant (the main supermarket in the area) as well as a large Christ...

Stauffer Mansion

Stauffer Mansion has been turned into something of a museum, and the surrounding land is now Stauffer Park. This picture was taking from across the street, just to the side of the Boston Market on Route 501 (Lititz Pike).

$35 Disney Lenses 

Walt Disney World Rollercoasters For Wussies

I am a major wuss when it comes to rollercoasters. I never even liked baby coasters! I actually cried the very first time I road Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (how embarrassing!). Unfortunately, my husband loves coasters. Not the huge ones with insa...

Disney Pixar's Finding Nemo

The 2003 computer animated movie Finding Nemo was made by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Once Disney and Pixar became partners on a more permanent basis, the hugely popular movie was parlayed into even more lucrative ventures- such as...

Disney's Lilo and Stitch

I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I started building this lens. I thought "Gee, a section on the movie, a section on the TV series, and a section on the attraction. How can that be enough?". But look what it's become! All those movie...

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Books From Disney Hollywood Studios Writers Stop

As an aspiring writer, I can't help myself at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World- I absolutely have to stop at Writer's Stop at least once every trip. Sure, it's one of the few places on property that sells fresh ground Columbian coffee...

Disney Lanyards and Other Space Saving Devices

I've had many hits, recently, on a blog post of mine that mentioned things like lanyards, carabiners, etc. I felt so bad for all these searchers who were landing on a page that didn't actually offer any of these things, that I thought I'd build a len...

Walt Disney's Pinocchio

Pinocchio may have started life as a humble tree in 19th century Italy, but it wasn't until Walt Disney gave him German roots... ahem... that he truly began to grow. OK, I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself. I'll try to behave now, really. Walt D...

Books About Walt Disney

If any American deserves to be emulated and admired, it's Walt Disney. True, we've had some incredible heroes in our past. But did any of them spread their own patriotism as far and as well as Walt Disney? We've had some incredible artists, enterta...

Downtown Disney's T-Rex Cafe

On our last trip to Walt Disney World (January '08), my husband and I saw a blocked off area with a big sign saying something like "T-Rex Cafe Coming Soon". I didn't take a picture of the sign, so I can't remember the exact wording, but suffice to sa...

$30 Shopping Lenses 

Hand Crafted Bottle Bags, Lanyards and Straps

I have a serious love on for most hand crafted items. Maybe it's because I'm a crafter and jewelry maker myself, maybe it's just because I start out hating anything "normal" and have to be won over. Etsy is a goldmine for people like me, and there a...

Awesome Hand Crafted Bags and Purses

I have a mad love-on for bags, purses, and anything else that can hold things (I've used thimbles as mini-bowls). I also have a love-on for most hand crafted items. When I first got into Etsy, my main objects of drool were the purses, and I still go...

$25 Health Lenses 

About Whole Grains

I'll admit it. My favorite foods in the world are white rice, potatoes, and pasta. The refined kind. Eventually I came around to the realization that I actually need to eat real food if I want to be healthy. And so, I started experimenting with whol...

Spearmint and PCOS

PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome) is a health issue that plagues many women today, including me. It can cause weight gain, facial and body hair, hair loss, acne, discoloration under the arms on the sides of the neck and between the thighs, as well as...

Healthy Foods Made Easy

Ok, so I ripped that title from my favorite Food Network chef, Alton Brown.  But it fits.  For a long time it was difficult to eat healthy foods without cooking from scratch, and who has time for that? It's not so much that conveni...

Health Benefits of Black Tea

Tea is simply packed with goodness. Delicious, can be served hot or cold, sweetened or not, flavored with fruits, or any other way you can imagine! There have been many studies done proving out many theories on the health benefits of tea, whether it...

$25 Recipe Lenses 

Bisquick Recipe Variations

I've been using Bisquick my whole life, but rarely have I used it according to its traditional recipes. Of course, these recipe variations can be used for other pancake and biscuit mixes, but the measurements may differ (I've tried the Chocolate Haz...

Pumpkin Spice Bran Muffins

About a year ago, I started really getting into healthy foods. Out of nowhere, I was struck with the idea of trying bran muffins. So, I bought some bran, looked up some recipes, and got to baking. The results were good, but nothing that I could eat...

Easy Stovetop Meatloaf (With Fiber!)

My husband loves meatloaf, but guess what? I don't. It's not that it doesn't taste good, I just don't like dealing with the clean up. You've got the mixing bowl, the big, awkward roaster, and the serving platter. So I developed an easier way to make...

Pomegranate Chocolate Chip Bran Muffins

Lately, I've been craving non-sweet, non-fatty foods. I was having some trouble finding things that were healthy and tasty until I stumbled across a bran muffin recipe that actually was good! Good, but not great. So I did what any creative person wo...

Curried Chicken Wraps

This is a great, simple, and oh-so-yummy recipe that I've recently perfected (in my mind). In the writing of this recipe, however, several more dishes developed out of the basic recipe. They are featured below.

$15 Lenses On Writing 

Novel Writing

I've spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars as well as uncountable hours in the pursuit of the ultimate knowledge that would take me from being a wanna be to being a writer. There is no such "ultimate knowledge", but there is great inf...

Learning To Freelance

The web is packed with information to help you learn how to write freelance, landing jobs, and improving your work.  But how do you sift through it all to find the best information available?  I've been reading up on this stu...

Lenses That Teach You To Write

There are so many options and resources available to freelance writers these days.  It's particularly hard to find a niche when you're just starting out, especially if you don't know what niches exist.  This is just a start, but there are s...

Where To Start A Blog

It seems, these days, that there are as many blogging platforms available as there are reasons to start a blog. Some are available for free, some for a nominal fee, some have restrictions on advertising, and others have an anything goes attitude. S...

$20 Books Lenses 

The Best Of Christian Chick-Lit

Otherwise known as "humorous Women's Fiction". I love chick-lit almost as much as I love fantasy. I love the smarmy attitudes, the slightly-more-realistic romances than typical romance novels, the independence... But in most chick-lit there's one el...

The Best Of Christian Fantasy Novels

I have loved fantasy for well over 10 years- probably closer to 15. Some is good, some is bad, but I love it all (except for the painfully bad). One of the perks of being a reviewer is that I get to explore new books that I normally wouldn't have pu...

The Best Of Christian YA

I know that I'm a little outside of the YA target age group, but these days genres cross all boundaries. Good writing is good writing, and the books on this list just blow those boundaries to smithereens. Just so you know, Donita K Paul's DragonKeep...

My Recent Reads

I'm a huge fan of chick-lit, fantasy, and anything humor.  I also can't get enough of "how to write books" books.  Anyway, I'm always talking about what I'm reading on my blogs, and reviewing them for TitleTrakk.com.  So, I t...

$15 Game Lenses 

Games To Play On Break

Being efficient is a wonderful thing on your own time because it allows you to spend more time pursuing your interests. But being efficient at your day job? Not so good, unless you're swamped with work. So what to do with all those extra minutes, o...

The Best Electronic Board Games

My husband grew up in the '70's, and has maintained a great love of the era. When I met him a little over 6 years ago, he wasted no time introducing me to a few of his favorite things- most of which were board games. Some of them stuck: Dark Tower f...

Best VCR Games

My husband is a child of the 70's and an avid board gamer. Every year, it seems, he brings out yet another game from his childhood and convinces me to play it. He prefers the old school VCR games to what is being produced today on DVD. Of course, At...

The Best DVD Games

When I first met my husband, I had never even heard of DVD games (or VHS games, for that matter!). However, being a huge gamer of all kinds, he wasted no time in introducing me to some of his favorites. Some I even liked! Of course, some of his favo...

$15 Miscellaneous Lenses 

Thurl Ravenscroft

Who didn't grow up with the deep growling voice of Tony the Tiger?  Or loving the Haunted Mansion's Grim, Grinning Ghosts?  Or how about this? Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas (the old cartoon version) played host to two amazing vo...

Funny Commercials

I'm not much of a TV watcher since I got my laptop (all internet, all the time), and when I do watch TV I'm usually less than impressed with the commercials. There are a few, however, that make me laugh. And those commercials? I go out of my way to...

What I Learned From James West

The original TV series of the late 1960's Wild Wild West staring Robert Conrad as James West and Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon has withstood the test of time. I never saw the shows when they were first released. In fact, I saw them for the first tim...

Quick Break Tips For Internet Workaholics

The web is such a wonderful thing. Without it so many business owners and freelancers would be stuck working for other people. And the freedom of the 'net allows the rest of us the same opportunity, with little risk. The problem with making money on...

My Favorite Brit-Coms 

SOLD

I've been getting some decent hits on My Favorite Brit-Coms. The reason this lens costs more than the others is because I don't really want to sell it. It has the potential to make some decent cash if updated often and correctly, I just don't know if I'll be able to make the time to do so. Right now it's ranking around 49,000, but I've had it in the teens. Some tender loving care should see that some legal tender is heading your way.

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WordVixen's Lensography

I've recently gone on a bit of a lens building binge.  Since a friend has been talking about building her lensography, I thought now would be a good time to build mine.  So much easier to hand out one link, don't you think? Now, I need to go...

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