About Me

I am an artist. My artwork and photo art can be seen on my lens GypsyOwl Artwork Created with GIMP

Artwork , photography, and photo art designs have been created at the following galleries.
GypsyOwl's Studio & Gifts - CafePress
And GypsyOwl's Gallery - Zazzle

My Photography is also available through 123RF - Royalty Free Photos

I am the founder of a networking community for small business, I manage multiple online forums and I am creating graphic design. Visit my lens GypsyOwl Organization Small Business Network to learn more about the SBN.

My past work is primarily in The Mental Health related field. I worked as a para-professional Therapist Technician Team Leader in a Residential Crisis Stabilization Unit. Funding changes in the industry left me and most of the para-professional direct care providers without jobs.

I have spent my working life in fields that allowed me to learn a lot about a variety of topics.
I have been a house manager in a domestic violence shelter, a second hand shop manager (for charity services that provided shelter to the homeless), and a variety of experiences both for pay and volunteer.

I have worked with children and adults in a variety of settings (educational, recreational, health & wellness, and spiritual growth).

I am enrolled in the BBA degree program - Marketing Management and E-Commerce are my focus. I am an adult student preparing myself for a career change. I have completed over half of the requirements for graduation. Each step of the way I find my interests expanding. It is clear that my new knowledge and skills will benefit any area I set my mind to.
I am a member of The SARK International Creative Dream Team.

My 'real job' is a part time on-call branch office administrative assistant for an investments & financial advisor office. This is a new field for me.

I am a daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, and friend. I enjoy music, gardening and reading. I am enthusiastic about everything that I do and every day is an opportunity to learn.

I mentor women in various transitional living communities. This volunteer activity has been extraordinarily rewarding for me.

But For The Grace Of God There Go I

I believe that one of the most interesting things about me is that I have found myself being a volunteer liaison in every job or volunteer position I have been in throughout my life. Support in life seems to come from so many different areas of interest. People who have similar ideas, talents, professions, families, backgrounds, experiences, challenges and other points of commonality find enrichment in their lives by connecting with one another. Perhaps I am evolving through this kind of work because I find such satisfaction in watching people have those "I am not alone in this" moments. No matter what the challenges in life, there are people who are going through, or have gone through similar things, and connecting them can manifest great sources of growth and insight.

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GypsyOwl's Home Page - Lensmaster Lensography

GypsyOwl's Home Page is a Master List of GypsyOwl's Lens Collection. GypsyOwl's Lenses fall into a variety of topics so, this is the place to find the topic area you are looking for. About GypsyOwl: Artist - Writer - Student - Volunteer - Mentor - M...

How I Became a Giant Squid in 60 Days

Day 59...All Is Well! Over 50 quality lenses ready for inspection by the Giant Squid Angels. Time to put them under a microscope and make some last minute touch ups. This lens is an outline of what I did to meet the qualifications in 60 days and how...

Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow

I was listening to Paula White this morning. She was talking about the book "Caught Between A Dream and A Job"by Delatorro McNeal II I was inspired to write about how to find your passion, to live your dreams, and to discover how to live in your flo...

E3 2008 Expo - July 15, July 16, July 17 - E3 '08 Live on G4

Find things to do in LA, best games made from movies, vote for movies you would like to see made into games. Featured gaming and entertainment lenses, and more. See The E3 Expo LIVE Coverage on G4 TV! See The Feed! Vote for your favorite console, gam...

GypsyOwl's CafePress Showcase - The Most Popular Gift Items @ GypsyOwl's Studio & Gifts

I have gathered together the most popular items from my gift shop. So you have the best of the best from my Studio. All of these designs are Photography, Digital Art, or Photo Art (combination of photography and artwork). ENJOY! Be sure to visit the...

The 'Be In Your Flow' - Exemplar - Featured Guest Archive

Updates, Polls, Special Featured Lensmasters and Award Winners! Visit this lens to nominate, vote, join the award winners group, and more. What is an Exemplar of Be In Your Flow Synergy? Who is an Exemplar of Be In Your Flow Synergy? All of this and...

Tin Man - Modern Day Wizard of Oz - Spiritual Growth Metaphor

Tin Man (a remake of the classic Wizard of Oz) is the source of this spiritual growth metaphor. We are born with gifts, hide them (or have them hidden for us) as children, and spend much of our adult years seeking, uncovering, and rediscovering them....

Flip This Link Award Winners - BEST How To Squidoo Lenses

The Flip This Link Contest Winners are HERE! This group of lenses will show you how to maximize your lenses for improved traffic as well as how to create stellar lenses by using all of the facinating and effective options as you build them. When I fi...

Mindmap - Tools to Organize Your Thoughts - Powerful How-To Tool

There are several mindmapping tools available and I use a free open source program called FreeMind. This lens will show you some very practical and helpful ways to use software of this kind, how to decide if you should purchase, or use the open sourc...

GypsyOwl Artwork Created With GIMP & GO GIMP Workshop Group Information

Creating Art has been a GIMP & GO experience every day. I share my work and how it is used for great product design. Workshop information - How To Use GIMP for more than just artwork. Resources for artists and more. My artwork is a combination of ph...

Top 50 Daily Reading Books - Daily Wisdom - Daily Reflections

This lens will explore the many daily wisdom-thought for the day books available and help you choose the one that best meets your interests and your desires. Started out to be the Top 50 Daily Wisdom books and ended up being over that. Please review...

The O8-O8-O8 @ O8:O8 Project - The Moment The Planet United

One moment in time (repeated around the globe - in every time zone), will mark a vortex in time that will be remembered and talked about for any where between 8 minutes, 8 days, 8 weeks, or 8 months. And if the moment is even more brilliant, we will...

Why I Love Squidoo

In this lens, I tell you my top 25 reasons, why I love squidoo. Please tell me ... Why do you love squidoo?

Fun Designs - More creations using GIMP

Workshop OPEN JULY 23rd. You can peek in if you like and Favorite This Lense so you will receive the Squidcast when it is completed. This is the second GIMP lens to explore the capabilites of the application and to share some tips to using features i...

Squidoo Groups Lensography - My Groups and Yours - Add Your Favorite Groups

Groups are a great way to team up with other lensmasters who have similar lens topics. Groups help visitors find what they are looking for and drive more traffic to your lens. Share your favorite Squidoo Groups (groups you manange and/or are a member...

Daily Motivation - Nurture Yourself - Make The World a Better Place - New Updates Every Day

You can make the world a better place. Motivate your day with a decision to have a great one! Daily Thought -Inspirational Media And People who are transforming our world. Share your favorite world changer - or share how you are changing the world....

Create a Butterfly Garden - Discover How The Human Experience Relates to the Butterfly Lifecycle - Enhance Understanding of Spiritual Growth

How our spiritual growth is similar to the stages of a butterflies lifecycle and how understanding this can enhance our journey. Create a butterfly garden to enhance your outdoor experience, to balance the ecosystem around your home, and for the pur...

The Road of Happy Destiny - My Journey in Recovery

This has been a challenging lens to create. I found myself getting too busy to work on it on purpose. Recently I was reading a fellow lensmaster's story, and realized that the only thing that has been holding me back is fear. So, I have made a decisi...

GypsyOwl Organization Small Business Network - Mission & Vision

I am the founder of the GypsyOwl Commerce Small Business Network. This lens will present an overview of the SBN, mission, community values, membership information, benefits and responsibilities of membership. Reader Favorites-Vote for YOUR favorite r...

GypsyOwl's Squidoo - Quick Reference Guide - Directory

Save time! This is a Quick Reference Guide created for you by GypsyOwl and updated several times a week! Find your favorite topics all on one page! Click on your favorite topic and it will take you right to the lens you are looking for. You can also...

Stargate - Continuum On DVD - July 29, 2008 - PreOrder Your Copy Today

The second (final?) chapter of the Stargate SG1 Saga will be released on July 29, 2008. (UPDATE: I just heard there is going to be a third feature film after this one...more info soon). The PreOrder Frenzy has already started and if you want to ensur...

GIMP By The Yard - More Great GIMP Designs

Ingredients: Nature, camera, pc, GIMP, and lots of imagination! This lens will showcase more great GIMP graphic design and photo art. Some great tips for how to create your own images, and lots of fun.

The Little Prince - To See With The Heart

As I ponder dialog, symbolism, and so much more contained within the classic story "Little Prince", I realize that it is simply the most tender and human story I have ever read. I will share how this story and the quotes from the book have become so...

Nurture Your Creativity

Through a story about discovering enthusiasm as a child, this lens explores self concept as a key to unblocking the ability to self nurture. Nurturing your creativity starts by nurturing your self concept or maybe it is the other way around. When sel...

Predestination - Walk In Your Destiny

Part 1: A very personal walk from survivor to conqueror. Have you ever been called a survivor? Did you know that there is a 'survivor syndrome', I will call it, that keeps us blocked from moving forward after a crisis? This lens is about moving past...

Voluntary Simplicity - Series

This lens will introduce the family oriented voluntary simplicity concepts and show you ways to incorporate better living and instill joyful living values in your family. Practical activities that promote togetherness, create life long memories, and...

Shark vs H2O - The Steam Mop Showdown

There are many brands of steam mops on the market right now. Once you have decided that the 'steam cleaning' system is what you want, how do you decide which one to buy? This lens will compare the Shark , the H2O , the Bissell 1867-7, and the Reliabl...

Comic Con International - July 24-27 2008 - San Diego

This lens will showcase the best, funniest, quirkiest, and most inspiring Comic-Con events, highlights, and personalities. Vote for your favorites, and choose your costumes. By July 15, three of the four days of Comic-Con had already sold out. The 20...

Spiritual Journey Lensography

This Lensography will feature each of the lenses I have created that share insights about my spiritual quest. Everyday references that hold secrets to expressing a journey that often is experienced without words. I will attempt to share the unseen by...

Flip This Link - Transformational Networking - Dynamic Squidoo Innovation

The Flip This Link Transformational Networking Lens is an overview of the vast number of resources that allow the new age of networking to work so well. Concepts and applications are analysed, newest theories explored, and the Squidoo Way remains the...

Money is Spiritual - The Cake or Candles Principle

Rabbi Daniel Lapin, author and scholar, says "Money is Spiritual, not physical." He continues "...making money is like lighting a candle from other candles that are already lit around us..." We do not take away from anyone else. He says "...you do no...

How To Save Money Every Day

SAVE MONEY on food, entertainment, clothing, travel, financial planning, and even WATER. Easy tips, based on Voluntary Simplicity, that will save you money on everyday expenses, making your budget easier to balance. When the ends don't meet, these ti...

July 4TH Celebration - The Best Summer Party Ideas

Celebrate our freedom, thank our troops and their families, honor those we love, and have the best ever July 4TH Party! Calling card drive, military gifts certificates, and 4Th of July Party & entertainment ideas is here! Make this a memorable celebr...

So You Want To Play Guitar - DreamScape Series

If you have always dreamed of playing the guitar, there has never been a better time to make that dream a reality. This lens will show you how to release the innate talents that you have been hiding deep within yourself. In the process, you will rele...

Top Inspirational Authors - Awakening

This lens is going to showcase my favorite authors and the books that I love. I can not imagine a world without books. I hope that you discover some that you love as well.

Graphics Created By GypsyOwl

This lens will be included in the GIMP Workshop Lens Group. The lesson in this lens will focus on graphic design and primarily how to create a gif file (animation), using GIMP. To see all of the art lenses created by GypsyOwl go to the homepage Art...

Virtual Quilt Block Lens One

This lens will showcase my first set of Virtual Quilt Blocks for the Virtual Quilt Block Project. These designs use a dozen or so different techniques in GIMP. I will present another Quilt Block Lens soon that will showcase Quilt Blocks that are cre...

Virtual Quilt Project - Covenant House Charity - Squidoo Group Project

If you have hesitated to join this project for any of the reasons I have recently become aware of... let me put your mind at ease. Look at any lens you have ever created and look at the 'introduction module photo'. THAT could be your quilt block. ...

How To Grab The Award Badges For GypsyOwl's Contests

This lens will show step by step how to grab the award badges for your lens, lensmaster profile, blog, and website. If you have won the 'Be In Your Flow - Exemplar' Award, the 'Flip This Link' Award, or the upcoming Top 50 CafePress Awards, you may...

Motivational People

In this lens you will find my favorite motivational people and links to the lenses about them. Watch for new lenses about Mike Dooley, SARK, Shawn Snyder, Catherine Ponder, Rebbie Straubing, Anastacia Drake, Julie Fleming-Brown, Mary Robinson Reynold...

Finally Some Good News in the Gas Industry - Best Business Practices

Gas Industry News:Valero Raises a Company Record $1.18 Million for Children's Miracle Network Funds will benefit 30 children's hospitals in eight states where Valero does business. Charity Contributions: $8.4 million in 2007 - #1 on the PGA TOUR and...

Three Women Who Changed My Life - How To Heal Your Life

Three Women - SARK - Donna Eden - Catherine Ponder - A Healing Journey of Mind, Body, & Spirit. Three women who have changed my life by teaching me how to think in new ways, take actions that make me feel more confident, to heal the past, and instill...

The Arts & Creativity - Featured Squidoo Creative Lenses - Featured Lensmasters

This lens contains my favorite creativity lenses that I have created in art, photography, and creativity topics. Featured Lensmasters-People who greeted me during my first 2 weeks at squidoo. Featured Lenses created by my friends at Squidoo and much...

Simply Organized - Clearing Away The Clutter

This lens will outline an easy way to move clutter out of your space. Organizational tips, products to simplify your spaces and optimize them. How to live in small spaces that do double or triple duty. Voluntary Simplicity has many aspects. This lens...

New Idea for The Balance Ball - Office Health - How to Stay Fit While You Work

If you spend time in front of a computer, this idea just may be what you have been looking for. I will share some of the research I have found and share my experience to help you choose the right balance ball for you. There are dozens of exercise ro...

So You Want To Play Piano - DreamScape Series

If you have always dreamed of playing the piano, there has never been a better time to make that dream a reality. This lens will show you how to release the innate talents that you have been hiding deep within yourself. In the process, you will relea...

Baby Magic - Nurturing The Genius In Your Child

Before your baby is born, you can begin to introduce him/her to many beautiful aspects of art, creativity, and self nurturing. This lens will show you why, how, and when to introduce each new area of creativity. You can begin now...and practice these...

Easy Designs - Step by Step Instructions From Start to Sale

The following lens will take you step by step as you create your own unique designs using an ordinary scanner. But first, I will show you several of the designs that I have already created. You are welcome to purchase any of them as well. To create y...

Shawn Snyder

- In pursuit of his persistent dreams and his passion for music, Shawn Snyder weaves original folk-rock lyric-driven soulful works of organic sincere simplicity.

So You Want to Sew - DreamScape Series

If you have always dreamed of being able to sew, there has never been a better time to make that dream a reality. This lens will show you how to release the innate talents that you have been hiding deep within yourself. In the process, you will relea...

So You Want To Paint - DreamScape Series

When painting is the activity that you would like to learn so that you will be practicing your passion, this lens will show you how to get started and how to take your passion to greater heights.

DreamScape - How To Find and Implement Your Dreams

DreamScape is a series that will spark your imagination, guide you to your DreamScape, show you how to release the innate talents that you have been hiding deep within yourself. This guide includes several DreamScape paths for you to follow on your r...

GypsyOwl's Recommendations - Great Stuff on Multiple Topics

We interrupt the regularly scheduled programming, to introduce you to our sponsors. Please support GypsyOwl's work. This lens will share how you can contribute and will house multiple topics. This may be the least focused lens I have. * Every day I a...

Elf Adventure - How To Create A Memorable Gift

I was recently a participant in one of the most unique gift ideas I have ever heard of. I hope this lens will give you a great gift idea for someone you love or spark your imagination to come up with your own unique idea. Great lens to be inspired by...

Shopping for Dad - Planning Father's Day Activities

Gifts, activities, and memorable ways to say 'Thanks Dad' this Father's Day. Shopping for Dad can be one of the most important challenges we are faced with. This is the best idea for Dad I've seen yet!

The Joy of Creativity - Art Activity

I couldn't pass up this opportunity to share my passion for the concept of art as a very powerful nurturing activity. Be it coloring or oil painting (or anything in between), sculpting, cooking, and the list goes on; Artistic creativity is a transfor...

Baby Magic - Family Nurturing Circle

Baby is the center of attention in this family nurturing circle activity, yet, everyone will come away with a renewed sense of belonging and new interpersonal skills as well. Our most basic human need for love and nurturing is combined with a healthy...

Floral Graphics

A showcase of my floral graphic designs. Examples of photographs used to create photo art. Discriptions of applications used to create the photo art work. Suggestions for design applications (product suitability), as well as products available for sa...

Feed Your Desktop - My Favorite Feeds - Desktop Delivery of Your Choice

The beauty of feeding your desktop is that you choose what you want to feed it. This in turn becomes your primary source of news and updates about the things you care about. The first news you see when you turn on your computer...could be GOOD NEWS,...

So You Want To Design Greeting Cards - DreamScape Series

Creating Greeting Cards can be a wonderful activity to combine design talents with written word, poetry, or simply tender messages.

Family Nurturing Circle - Reading Activity

Here are great ways to teach family members about the joy of reading while also helping children stay sharp during the summer break from classes. This is for all ages.

Family Nurturing Circle - Game Activity

The possibilities for this activity are endless. The primary goal is to involve everyone in the spirit of 'play', not so much competition, however, this would be a good time to address any values you have to share about competitive atributes with you...

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