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#HackEdu Twitter Conversations

On March 10th Union Square Ventures put on a conference called Hacking Education. The theme of the conference was re-imagining how education should look in a web 2.0 world.

Arguably the best part of the conference was the lively discussion on twitte...

101 Apple Recipes

Apples are so versatile. Not only do they come in various colors and flavors, they can be cooked in more ways than you might think. They can be baked, broiled, or fried. Some are more tart and others more sweet. This makes for a very eclectic variety...

1960's Protest Music

This lens honors the music of the protest movement of the 1960's, a violent time in American History.

The Kent State Protests were the ending of an era and decade of assassinations, war and unrest.

The music lives on in our psyche and gives substan...

2008 Giant Squid Awards Ceremony

And now the moment you've been waiting for! The Giant Squid Organizers are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2008 Giant Squid Awards.

Every single lens that was nominated is outstanding so I'm sure that this was a really tough choice for every...

24websurf: RocketMoms Graduate

Holley was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

365 Holidays, Festivals and Celebrations

How many times have you heard someone say, "If only today were a holiday."....., " I wish there was a holiday every day"......." Why isn't there a holiday for" ?

There are holidays and festivals for every possible cause, religion, country and festiv...

97 Social Bookmarking Sites with Google PageRank

Social bookmarking is a great way to save pages you like and help others find articles, blog posts, lenses and sites you create. But what sites should you use? This list of bookmarking services can help you decide.

A Baby Boomer Childhood

A lot has changed since I grew up in rural Iowa in the 50's and 60's when we had no internet and not much TV. Naturally, we found lots of other ways to entertain ourselves. It sure seemed like a simpler, more innocent time. I'll be sharing some of my...

A Day of One Hundred Squid Angel Blessings

On the occasion of publishing my 250th lens, I've decided to celebrate with a one-day Squid Angel bless-a-thon. Blessing a hundred lenses in one day is probably a lot like 5-minute dating, but I've been an Angel twice and can spot winners pretty quic...

A Few of My Favorite Lenses

I wanted a place to keep my favorite lenses so I could find them easily. While making it I realized it reflects my interests so it's kind of like a lensography of sorts. These are not all my lenses, in fact most are not, but the collections of lenses...

A Grandparent's Possession

Although one cannot own another person, my grandson is a possession of my heart.

Following, you will find some of what I, as his grandparent, try to teach him.

A Hundred Dollar Holiday - How To Create a Memorable Christmas

I am re-challenging myself and challenging others to create A Hundred Dollar Holiday this year...

You want to make a memorable Christmas holiday for your family but you have no idea how to do it! We will explore ways to make a beautiful Christmas me...

A Lasagna Recipe Anyone Can Make

My Lasagna Recipe is easy and can be varied for a change of pace. If you are like me, Lasagna is one of your favorite dishes.

I just love the mixing of flavorful cheeses, sauce, and meat intermingled with pasta and all topped off with cheese! You ca...

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About the limit on "overly promotional lenses"

As part of our recent Squidoo policy update, we're introducing a new limit to the number of links to the same domain that you can have on a lens.

Here's a deeper look at our thinking on this issue and how it affects you.

Thanks for reading.

**Phot...

Add A Tip Jar To Your Lens

Most of us probably came across a "Buy Me A Beer" button or similar somewhere on one of the forums. Even if you're not a beer drinker, it's a nice gesture to leave someone a tip for sharing a valuable piece of information.

Here on Squidoo, many lens...

Adventure Workers

Welcome to the world of adventure work. These are jobs "outside the box", maybe even just OUTSIDE! Every year National Parks, ranches, resort and wilderness lodges (amongst others) hire thousands of employees from around the world to staff...

Alan Wilbar, Poet

Alan Wilbar has been a professional performing artist since childhood starting on stage as an actor, singer and dancer the age of 9. As an adult actor, singer and spoken word artist, his performances inspire, amuse, and captivate his audience.

Shortly...

All About Easter

Happy Easter! Whether you need ideas for Easter crafts, festive foods, gifts or baskets, I've got it all covered on this lens. As it happens, Easter is one of my favorite holidays!

Traditionally Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus t...

All About Frogs: Games, Activities and Unit Studies

Children learn best when engaged in hands-on, creative learning projects that excite and keep them focused. A frog theme lends itself to just that type of experience. Here you will find a collection of lenses leading to games, learning activities and...

All about Life Savers Candy

Invented in 1912 (wow) by Clarence Crane, because he needed to boost candy sales. It seems summer was hard on the chocolate business (the whole heat / melting the chocolate thing).
Who knew the hard candy with the hole in the middle would become an A...

All About Peggy

Hi, My name is Peggy aka Peggy707. I am from a Cleveland area suburb. I am a stay at home grandma and watch my grand daughter while my daughter works on Squidoo. I am BDKZ's mom. I am an LPN and am also an artist. I have a BFA from Lake Erie College....

Alphabet Art, Posters and Prints

Whether you are a teacher looking to spice up your classroom, a parent decorating your child's bedroom, or a friend looking for an educational gift for a child, these whimsical and bright posters, prints and artwork are just what you are looking for....

AlteredKat's Lensography...who is AlteredKat?

I have been selling online for about 7 years now...completely "part-time" inbetween my duties as a stay at home mother; laundry, cooking dinners and raising 2 wee ones that fill my heart.

Many people have asked me how I started, where I started, how...

AlteredKat: RocketMoms Graduate

Kat was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week pr...

Alternative & Helpful Uses for Pantyhoses

Your pantyhose have holes? Don't accumulate heaps and heaps of used pantyhose! Reuse them!

After reading this page, I'm sure you'll wish you had a few more old pairs of pantyhose lying around.

You"ll find tips and ideas for cleaning, storage, garde...

Amazon Gone Viral!

Last spring, a T-shirt took Amazon.com--and the world--by storm. The "Three Wolf Moon" shirt is, let's face it, a showstopper in and of itself. And it sold like sunscreen in Florida, ranking #1 for weeks in Amazon appare...

American Presidents Paper Dolls

Every four years, the United States Presidential elections reinforce every American kid's dream that one day he or she could become President of the United States. Presidents paper dolls are an excellent learning toy to teach children about US histor...

American Sign Language Colors

One reason some hearing people resist learning sign language is because they think they need to become fluent in it. It is not necessary to become fluent in sign language unless your intention is to work with deaf people. Most hearing and deaf people...

Amigurumi (crocheted dolls)

Amigurumi, what is it and how to do it? Amigurumi is the Japanese art of crocheting small animals or toys.  The dolls are done in single crochet in the round.  The rounds are never joined, instead being worked in a spiral.  Amigurumi a...

An Ex-Hippie Remembers: Long-Haired Hippie Music

"Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again." Joseph Gallivan, British journalist.

Yep, I was a commune living hippie back in the 70's. And as time has rolled on, I am finding very little to li...

An industrial revolution started the Bureaucratic Age - an information revolution is ending it.

Winter is ending, spring and its fancies are softly calling.

The Bureaucratic Age was winter for individuals; opportunities were buried under blizzards of paperwork, crippling winds of high taxes, and mountainous drifts of regulations.

With apolo...

annetteghallowell: RocketMoms Graduate

Annette was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-wee...

Annie Oakley

In an era when opportunities for women were limited, Annie Oakley's amazing ability with a gun proved that a woman could do just as well (or even better) than a man, even in traditionally "masculine fields" like shooting. Through talen...

Announce New Lenses On Twitter

The perfect way to Tweet a new lens...

Announce it to Twitter below. The hashtag, #newlens, will automatically Tweet with it, and your new-lens announcement will go directly to a central location where any of us can go to find it whenever we want to k...

Another Day of One Hundred Squid Angel Blessings

For my last 100-lens bless-a-thon I randomly chose members of my Squidoo fan club. This time I searched for lensmasters who appeared in guestbooks all over Squidoo. This is one of my favorite ways to find new lensmasters and new lenses to bless. It's...

Are You a Squidoo Nobody? How to Become a Squidoo Somebody in 6 Easy Lessons

Who is this little orange guy? That's what everyone wants to know! So, why are you leaving us in the dark?

"This is my bio. I can edit it later." Well, little orange guy, later has arrived. The time is now! Come out from behind your orange anonymity...

Are you a Stay at Home Mom (or Dad) Interested in Earning a Monthly Income?

Okay, I am sure you are all thinking, "What's the catch?" Don't worry, there isn't one. I promise. I am a stay at home mom and I will show you how Squidoo is helping me earn a monthly income while still being home to take care of my children.

What i...

Are You An Unconscious Healer?

I am a healer. It took me years to discover this. A lot of weird things happened to me and around me before I figured this out. This lens can help you discover if you are a healer and if so how you can express it in positive ways. Doing so will turn...

Arlo Guthrie - America's Favorite Folksinger

Arlo Guthrie is America's favorite folksinger. Arlo grew up surrounded by music and singer-songwriters from early childhood. His lesson-learned run-in with local police in a small town at the foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts i...

Artist Freebies

Welcome to the Artists Freebies page! This page is dedicated to all things free for the artist! Whether it be free artsy fonts or vintage images!

ArtRage Painting - the real paint of digital art

Heard of ArtRage and wondering about it? Looking for a cheap and fun computer art program? Want to take up serious digital painting? Love the flow of traditional media but want the convenience of digital? Never even heard of ArtRage but easily seduc...

athomemomblog: RocketMoms Graduate

Genesis was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-wee...

a_willow: RocketMoms Graduate

Michelle was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-we...

Baby Boomers and Retirement

Are you one of the "baby boomers" dreaming of the day you will be able to retire? Dreaming of the day you can retire from the drudgery of day-to-day repetitiveness? Dreaming of having enough money to live comfortably and do the things you want to do?...

Baby Clip Art & Pregnancy Graphics

Are you looking everywhere for good baby clip art and finding not many baby graphics for free? I've found lots of cute no-cost or low-cost clip art for baby showers, baby books, birth announcements, scrapbooks, invites and nursery decorations.

Check...

Baby Shower Diaper Cakes, in Pictures

Ah, the diaper cake ... an impressive gift that turns out to be within anyone's capabilities. Oh yes, that means you!
 

You can go cloth or disposable — just ask mamma first — one tier or three tier, 50 diapers or 300 (gulp!) diap...

Baby Showers Group Headquarters

Welcome to my Baby Showers Group which is all about baby showers of course. From the invitations to the decorations to the cake, if your high-quality lens has anything to do with baby showers, it belongs here and I hope that you will consider joining...

Barack Obama's Favorite Chocolates

Mr. Obama wants only the best of the candy world. His favorites? Smoked Sea Salt Caramel in Milk Chocolate, by Seattle-based Fran's Chocolates. Compare your favorites in this "sweet" poll and Holiday Gift Guide. Find shopping tips for Obama's chocola...

Barack Obama's Letter to a 9-Year-Old

Tucked among Lego models, sports memorabilia, and other treasures my 10-year-old guards carefully in his bed's built-in drawers is a letter from Barack Obama he got in July 2008, when he was 9. Long story short, it was in response to some peace-t...

Basic Horse Care and Riding Skills

This page helps you get familiar with some of the more common breeds of horses and helps to give you an idea about the basics of riding & horse care. It also gives you great resources on other breeds and care.

Believe it or not, I've only been ridin...

Basil Garlic Pesto Recipe

Pesto is one of my favorite cooking ingredients. I love to serve fresh basil pesto with crusty bread and extra virgin olive oil for dipping. I make a killer white pizza using home made pesto instead of tomato sauce. And I absolutely love pesto combin...

Bats in the Kitchen for Halloween

The bat is a special animal to many people. Take the City of Austin. Their Mexican free-tail bat immigrants are a source of income and jobs for many in the city. Even when it is not Halloween.

There is a special bat kiosk, river cruise, and Segway r...

Beep, Beep Goes the Bus

One of the most popular themes for preschoolers is transportation. Listen to the sound of a bus going beep, beep, beep. Hear the roar of the bus as it pulls up to the bus stop. Notice the hiss of the air coming from the brakes.

With their bright col...

Best Baked Macaroni and Cheese

To me there is nothing more comforting then making and eating my mom's recipe for baked macaroni and cheese. It has less then 5 ingredients so it is super easy to go from cooking it up to munching it down in under an hour. Add steamed broccoli o...

Best Christmas Directory

From Santa Claus stories to Christmas dinner, Christmas recipes, Christmas gifts for all ages, and decorating ideas -- everything you ever wanted to know about Christmas! Is this the year for a new holiday tradition at your house?

Remember when we u...

Best Coloring Ever-Coloring for Adults and Children

There are hundreds of coloring books, coloring posters and line art drawings to color (many for free) on the Internet - coloring for preschoolers, coloring books for older kids and coloring pages for adults.You can find printable full sheet coloring...

Best Panini Sandwich Recipes

Two slices of of Italian bread stuffed with delicious goodies such as mozzarella, tomatoes, prosciutto, fresh basil, roasted red peppers, or whatever else makes you happy. Brush with extra virigin olive oil, then press between the hot plates of a pan...

Better Homes and Grandmas

Grandparents have the awesome ability to make amazing differences in children's lives by doing what comes naturally. My most precious memories of Childhood are about being at my Grandma's house. It helped shape who I am.

Grandparents are at a time i...

Blame It On Squidoo

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quidoo should come with a disclaimer: Enter at your own risk. We cannot be held responsible for absentmindedness, hyperactivity, insomnia, or repetitive-module stress injury.

Let's face it. Life changes drastically when you discover Squidoo. Things...

Bookmarks and Bookplates

If you love to read and collect books, you probably have a collection of special bookmarks and bookplates for your personal library and book collection. Bookmarks that hold our place between the pages of a book or magazine - gently keep track of wher...

Borders and Dividers for use on Squidoo

I like to use clip art dividers and borders to dress up my lenses. I like them so much that I've accumulated quite a collection! These dividers and borders are derived from public domain sources such as vintage publications, or I've made them...

Boston International Waste Baskets -- Naturally!

When decorating my home, I like home accents which add an artistic touch. Looking for a special waste basket, I am a big fan of the Boston International artsy and nature-inspired waste baskets. Since we have completed our home renovation project, I a...

Breastfeeding for Mothers Who are Undecided

Are you a woman who is thinking about breastfeeding? Are you thinking about not breastfeeding? Breastfeeding is natural! Women since the dawn of time have breastfed. Do not allow your friends and relatives to talk you out of breastfeeding. It is YOUR...

Browser Toolbar for Squidoo

This new browser toolbar from SquidUtils.com puts powerful tools at the finger tips of Lensmasters. Featuring quick links to all your Squidoo accounts, lenses and groups, and easy access to all the social functions, this toolbar will be indispensable...

BUGS Coloring Books & Pages

Who likes bugs coloring books? Kids do! Bugs coloring books are a fun way to keep children creative and learning during summer vacation, Bugs coloring sheets are often used as part of Earth Day and spring lesson plans from preschool through the eleme...

Bullying At Primary School

Bullying at Primary School is about everything that I learned when my daughter was bullied at school and gives tips and strategies to use when dealing with the school.

I hope your children are never bullied, but if they are then perhaps our experien...

Butterflies and Gardening to Attract Them

What is more beautiful than a garden full of colorful flowers with gorgeous butterflies flitting around? It's really not that hard to create a haven like this right in your own yard. All you need to create this sanctuary for you and the butterflies a...

Butterfly Coloring Book Printables

Butterfly coloring book pages are favorites of children and adults who love nature. I adore butterflies; I photograph moths and butterflies that visit the flowers in my garden and I like to draw butterflies. I use butterfly coloring pages, line art p...

C-Joy: RocketMoms Graduate

Candace was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-wee...

Cancer Warrior

I have cancer and I'm gearing up for a fight.

I have become a cancer warrior.  I've decided to share my battle with anal cancer here for a few reasons.  First, I believe prayer is the most powerful weapon there is and I want to give...

Carnival of Squid: July 2009

The Carnival of Squid highlights the best lenses on a specific topic for the day. I'm looking for your best submissions and for you to vote for your favorites. The top vote getters will be featured on the Carnival blog each week, along with a Barker'...

Carnival of Squid: June 2009

The Carnival of Squid highlights the best lenses on a specific topic for the day. I'm looking for your best submissions and for you to vote for your favorites. The top vote getters will be featured on the Carnival blog each week, along with a Barker'...

Cars of our Baby Boomer Youth

These are the cars you had or wish you had during your Baby Boomer youth. It seems that every town had a "cruise spot." You know what I'm talking about! In my small little town we cruised the block. Today they have instituted one way streets so I don...

Castle in the Clouds of New Hampshire

Castle in the Clouds is an historic mountaintop estate overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire. The castle and grounds have been restored and preserved as they were when it was home to its builder, Thomas Plant and his bride, Olive. T...

Cat Tales

Calling all cat lovers. Come share our stories about our cats and help raise funds for animal rescue.We will also review favorite books on Cats and Cat stories. Cats and all pets enrich our lives in so many ways. Let's try to give something back.

Cauliflower Cheese

This is a recipe for Cauliflower Cheese.

This is the first time I have attempted a dedicated recipe lens, so please bear with me, Ok?

I grew up with a Mother who told me what I liked and what I didn't like. So through my entire childhood I believed...

Celebrating the Halloween Holiday in Style!

Are you a big kid at heart? Do you dress up in costume for Halloween? Adult Halloween costumes are just as popular as children's Halloween costumes!

Do you decorate your house inside and out for Halloween? Do you love to yell trick or treat as y...

Celtic Music: Lenses ☺

This lens points to other lenses I've made highlighting Celtic music performers as well as radio shows, both broadcast and Internet, that play the traditional music of the Celtic lands. Celtic music covers a lot of territory and many performers. Each...

Charly Leetham: 25 Things

I'm going to share 25 things about myself that you may or may not know about me!

Normally, I would 'tag' 25 people and ask them to do the same -- but I'm changing that a little...

You Can Tag Yourself!

To tag yourself, all you need to do is to create a...

Cheese Salsa Crustless Quiche

Would you like to simplify things in the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day?  Why not make breakfast the day before while you are making your pies?  Cheese Salsa Crustless Quiche is very simple and can be cut, heated in the microwave and served on...

Cherished Family Favorite Recipes

One of my most cherished possessions is my collection of family favorite recipes. These are the recipes that I use on a daily basis, tried and true recipes that my family loves. My collection isn't huge, but it's big enough to take up a shelf in my p...

Chiclet - How to build small buttons for your Blog

Hey! I want one of those little blog buttons with my website name on it!  How do I make those? Where can I put them? What are they anyway?

The truth is, they are easier than they look because of some great online tools.

 These are Chiclets...

Childhood Abuse Recovery

To understand the journey from darkness into light, you must follow the path from the childhood beginning of the abuse, to the adult behavioral consequences, and finally to the recovery and reclamation of life.

In the beginning: abuse is delivered b...

Childhood Memories - Grade School Years

My family lived in a St. Louis suburb and I went to the same grade school from first through sixth grade. I lived close enough to walk to school; not quite a mile away. Besides our regular studies, we sang songs, made art projects, had gym class, rec...

Children CAN Learn to Love Reading

I am honored that you have stopped by to read this lens. I am passionate about being a wife, a mother and an educator. My husband and I have three wonderful children, ages three, five, and nine and we firmly believe in the effectiveness of introducin...

Children Like To Make Prints

Designing and making prints with children can be fun and very rewarding. Children have no fear over trying something new, making mistakes or choosing the wrong colors. One of the most satisfying aspects of printing is that, children can achieve a ple...

Children: Building Character

Building character in your children is probably the most important aspect of your parental life. Being the parent of a child who grows up with emotional intelligence is entirely in your power. A child whose character is developed will have a markedly...

Chococat

Chococat is just another lovable character from Sanrio, the makers of Hello Kitty and more.

Chocolate Chip Pie

Do you need an extra yummy desert for a special occasion? A chocolate chip pie is a scrumptious, chocolate-y desert that is very rich and yummy to eat.

Chocolate Drinks for Summer

If you like chocolate, what could be better on a hot sunny day, sitting outside, chatting with friends and drinking a long cold chocolate milkshake or smoothie like the one here?

If you are watching your fat intake, skip the piped cream on top, use...

Christmas Clip Art

Here's all you need to know to find the best good quality Christmas clip art and New Year graphics. You'll find hundreds of sources for Christmas craft graphics and holiday clip art borders in this Christmas Clip Art and New Year Graphics len...

Christmas Crafts - Decorations, Gifts, Giftwrap and More

This Christmas crafts lens is filled with free holiday crafts projects, decorating tips and crafty freebies. You'll enjoy the resources we've found for you to make Christmas gifts, ornaments, decorations, greeting cards, stickers an...

Christmas in Portugal

Many of you ask me about Christmas tradition in Portugal.This lens is about the way portuguese celebrate Christmas today.In Portugal the tradition of gift-giving is strong but Christmas is still considered a very religious ocasion and many celebrate...

Christmas Printables

Need some printable Christmas gift tags, stickers or greeting cards?  How about Christmas decorations, paper crafts, printable games or activity sheets with a holiday theme? There's a wide variety of  Christmas printables online. You ca...

Christmas Wrapping Paper and Bows

On this page, you'll see videos showing you how to wrap your gifts and make a bow. There will be lots of wrapping paper and bows for sale, too!

Christopher - The First 2 Years

Christopher is my only biological child. I waited until I was 28 years of age to have a child. I wanted to be a career woman. Children were never in my plan.

I am so glad that life is what happens when you are making other plans!

"There is only one...

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo ("5th of May" in English) is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride. A common misconception in the United States is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's...

Classic Christmas - Celebrate with Retro Style

Most folks like to go "all out" for Christmas, but this year that might not be practical or even affordable. You can enjoy a simple yet festive old fashioned Christmas holiday when money is tight - or when it's not. Keep the spirit of t...

Classic TV Christmas memories

Here are some fun, memorable video clips of classic TV Christmas (mostly) moments for your viewing pleasure. It can seem like some of these characters are old friends.

Holiday TV shows can remind us of where we were, how old we were, who we were with...

Classical Music Lapbook

Music is one of those topics that we homeschool moms know we should teach our children. But whether it's because of our own lack of knowledge, a tight homeschool budget, or just a crowded schedule, music study often gets pushed to the back burner. Th...

Classy Magazine Page Effect Through Easy Photo Art

A glossy magazine page effect is an easy Photo Art effect that can be a quick and simple solution to adding a classy look to any web page header or general image.

This Photoshop tutorial is going to demonstrate a nearly effortless to take a photo an...

Clip Art and Graphics for Crafts, Scrapbooks, Blogs, Web Design

This lens features the best resources we've found for clip art and craft graphics collections online - links that take you to sites with many free or low-cost clip art images in sizes large enough to be useful for crafts and general printed projects....

Clip Art Crafts Ideas and Projects

It's easy and fun to design your own clip art crafts - you can make gifts, cards and crafts for friends and family with graphics, borders and clip art photos or pictures. The projects you design with clip art don't necessarily need to be pri...

Clip Art Lensography - Pastiche's Graphics Lenses

This Squidoo lensography features Pastiche's lenses featuring clip art collections, graphic borders,graphics and downloadable fonts for blogs, web pages, scrapbooking, flyers, school projects or crafts.

Searching for good quality themed clip art can...

Coloring Book Collections

If you love to color or your kids enjoy coloring, there are thousands of web sites with free printable coloring books and coloring sheets to print and color in. You can find a coloring book with a picture of almost anything you wish to color: cartoon...

Coloring Crafts Projects, Patterns, Ideas

Coloring crafts are the easiest crafts for young children, and coloring crafts are often used for therapeutic activities but there's much more to coloring crafts. You can design all sorts of crafts from coloring page pictures. Use the line drawings f...

Coloring Fun for Adults

If you loved coloring pictures as a child, or you want an interesting hobby that results in a work of art, why not start coloring again as an adult? Adult coloring is fun, relaxing and good for your mind. You can stay inside the lines of coloring pa...

Common Newbie Squidoo Mistakes

Making a Squidoo lens is easy. Making a good Squidoo lens, well, that's another story. A lot of Squidoo newbies ask veterans to critique their lenses, and most of these lenses are not nearly as good as they could be. (There are exceptions!)

Hopefull...

Common Sense Ways to Conserve Energy

Everyone is dependent on energy.  We maybe using it as fuel to run our vehicles or heat our homes as well as the electric we use in our home or business.

While there are plenty of huge drastic ways to save energy.  We could trade in our larg...

Complicit Simplicity - hackers end game

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Complicit Simplicty: Hackers End Game is a story crafted for you. I hope that even more than enjoyment, you may find images to help craft a superior life for yourself and others. Our shared future is in your hands. Hackers, fire up your key...

Cooking Thai Fried Noodles, Phad Thai

Thai Fried noodles is a favorite dish for visitors to Thailand. Now you can learn to cook this dish at home using the online video. In the online video you will be taught by Chef Chanrat Karatna, nickname Air, and his staff not only how to cook Thai...

Cooking with Pork Tenderloin

I love to use pork tenderloin for a quick yet impressive company dinner. There are many variations that can be used. Pork tenderloin is easy to make and is nutritious too.

One of my favorite pork tenderloin recipes is with apples and cranberries. It...

Cool Photoshop Tips And Tricks

When it comes to entering the graphic design world, creating interesting pieces for a job or sharing artwork with family and friends, there are plenty of cool Photoshop tips and tricks to consider. Whether you are just experimenting with the tools or...

Cool Recycling and Salvage Crafts

Today's focus on the environment means that more people are getting into recycling. But with a bit of imagination you can make beautiful and unique products out of your waste.

'Upcycle' bits and pieces of garbage into decorative items for your home,...

Coolest Crochet Patterns using Granny Squares

Anyone who has seen my Squidoo Lens:  Coolest Knitting Patterns using just squares and rectangles probably is aware that I have developed a slight obsession for knitting patterns that use only squares and rectangles.  Its amazing to me how...

Covered Bridges in New Hampshire

Lots of beautiful wooden covered bridges dot the New England countryside. Covered bridges protect the bridge from the harsh Northern New England weather.
Here you'll find the covered bridges in New Hampshire, and where you can go see them. There are...

Crafts for Kids - Mardi Gras Crafts

Mardi Gras is a crafters delight, a fun-filled holiday full of masquerade, parades, music, parties and merrymaking just before Lent. What could be more fun for a kid than Mardi Gras? How about a lens filled with Mardi Gras crafts for kids? It's all h...

Crafts for Kids - Valentine's Day Crafts

Kids love to make Valentine crafts and cards. Valentine's Day is a perfect holiday for children to get crafty with Valentine's Day gifts for mom or grandmother, Valentine cards, and Valentine party decorations for home or classroom. Use Valentine sti...

Cranberry Sauce - From Bog to Table

Come along with me to Maine, where my recipe for Cranberry Sauce starts with a stop at a Cranberry Bog where berries are gathered, sorted with an antique Cranberry sorter, taken home to my kitchen, where they were made into delici...

CRAZY CRAYON COLLEGE

Here at Crazy Crayon College, we aim to provide all you creative critters with everything you've always wanted to know about that whole whack of slippery sticks in your filthy little fingers but never...

Cream Puffs And Pastry Swans Recipe

A fancy dessert of profiteroles (cream puffs) is the highlight of any meal. Impress your guests with this easy recipe for cream puffs or pastry swans, and your success is guaranteed! Cream puffs are made from pate a choux, a classic French pastry rec...

Create Stunning CSS Backgrounds with Images

Have you heard of CSS Backgrounds? Do you have a Squidoo lens or two? How about a website? A MySpace profile? Are you bored by all those plain old white backgrounds? Here I'm going to show you how to spice up your lenses and pages and create bea...

Creative Spring Resources

Can you think of better green period of year than spring? Time when nature itself is going green, breaking coldness and darkness of winter!

There are so many ways to celebrate nature's renewal that happens every spring season! Let's contribute to ne...

Crochet a string bag you can stuff in your pocket

I first fell for string bags when I was in Russia in the 1970s. Then, everybody, and I mean everybody, used them. Big ones, small ones, coarse ones, fine ones... they are called "syetki" in Russian. I bought as many as I could find and I still have q...

Crochet Beverage Holders

Crochet pattern online for pop can/beverage holders.
Links to crochet instructions for pop can/beverage
holders and for crocheting water bottle holders.

Pop can and water bottle holder gifts to order

Crochet Christmas Gifts & Decorations

Tis the Season!!! Christmas is coming soon. It's time to start making your ornaments and decorations. This site will be full of patterns for afghans, ornaments, decorations including tree skirts, wreaths, stockings, and table dressings.

I hope you e...

Crunchy Granola Recipe

Granola - it's been around for ages and became a breakfast staple at Woodstock in 1969. I prefer to prepare wholesome, healthy foods for my family so crunchy granola is a favorite recipe in our home. If you compare the taste of this crunchy granola t...

CrypticFragments' Poetry

All of the poetry included in this "online chapbook" was written between 1986 and 1992 by Tammy Winand.

Tammy is an artist, traveler, writer and photographer with a lust for adventure and a wide open heart that sometimes bleeds for all the world to...

Culinary Favorites From A to Z Headquarters, A Food & Recipe Collection

Welcome to Culinary Favorites, a collection of the most amazing food and recipe pages that are devoted to SPECIFIC INGREDIENTS.  On this page, you will find pages dedicated to specific ingredients like asparagus, carrots and ham plus you wi...

Curly Hair

So we've all got something we hate about our appearance... apparently. For me, it's my hair.

Why oh why have I got this stuff growing out of my head? The majority of people have hair that swings and sways gently and oh, let's not forget, it grows DO...

Custom Valentine's Day Postage Stamps & Cards

Are you in the mood for love? Get these awesome custom Valentine's Day Postage Stamps and Cards from Zazzle for your main squeeze!

Day of the Dead Art

This lens is a collection of Day of the Dead art found from across the Web. Celebrate and remember your loved ones and ancestors with some exuberant and irreverent art that laughs in the face of Death!

Image courtesy of Hanoi Mark on Flickr.

Daycare School Nutrition

Babies grow at a pace of 3 inches or so every 3 months. A toddler, in contrast, grows at a much slower rate, only 3-5 inches in an entire year.

Even though toddlers are growing at a slower rate nutrition remains a top priority for their physical dev...

Depressed with your Decorating Choices? Mix it up!

Decorating is always a challenge, a test to see if you can master the art of putting items together that show you have taste and can distinguish your style enough that others will feel it when they come into the room.

This can be an adventure. It ca...

Diagnosis: Peanut & Tree Nut Allergy

We found out she was allergic the hard way. There was much to learn about caring for her. I soon realized that there were not a lot of handy items available to aid us, so I made them myself. I'm sharing my experience and the items I've made to help o...

Discover The 5 Feng Shui Elements

No matter how big or how small your garden area, your ideal Feng Shui Garden incorporates basic Feng Shui principles to either calm or energize the space as needed.



Your Garden Design should allow the movement of Chi (life force energy), throughou...

Do You Think My Mower Is Sexy?

A question was recently posed to me: "What is your most prized possession?" Now, on the surface, I bet you think that's an easy one to answer. So did I. Until I had to answer it. Really. What do I own that I prize more than other things? A helpful ti...

Dobush Farm - Vermont Horse Training & Boarding

Dobush Farm is as close to heaven on earth as a horse and rider can get. Located in Southern Vermont, on the outskirts of Springfield, Dobush Farm lies snuggled up close to Okemo in the Green Mountains. The century-plus farm is surrounded by old past...

DoFollow: Increase Your Backlinks with DoFollow Sites

The DoFollow revolution embraces the sharing of link juice going out to other sites. Learn more about DoFollow, where you can get listed on DoFollow sites, and what it means to you as a webmaster and link builder!

Dollar Bill Origami

Isn't money grand? It can do all sorts of great things for you, like keep you fed, pay for that cell phone bill, and get you that great pair of shoes you've been eyeing up. What's even better is when you can play with your money and have it too.

Hav...

Domain Names FAQ

Welcome! This lens you will find answers to Frequently Asked Questions relating to domain name registration. Here you will find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions on registering a new domain name and Country-code TLDs. Links are a...

Don't go to business school

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. What an amazing group of people applied. Thank you.

Six intense months working with a few other amazing people (and me.)

There are plenty of reasons to get an MBA, especially in a down economy. I'm not sure exactly what...

Dragon Coloring Pages

Free Kids Dragon coloring printables and advanced realistic Dragon coloring pages. Great for children's play time, birthdays and parties. Also featuring dragon books.

Dress Up Your Next Wine Bottle Gift or Party Favor

While writing a lens on wine totes I found an assortment of beaded wine bottle covers, wine bottle fashions, wine bottle ornaments, and figurines. There were so many, I decided to devote a lens to them too.

Dressed up bottles are always fun. They al...

Drifter's Tales

Out from under the murky sludge of his past and into the light of the living, the creature crawls. Using the powers of the Ancients, he smites indifference and the wanton abuse of the human nature that drives some to just slide by.

This is Drifter's...

Earth Day Projects

Earth Day marks the day when our world celebrates Mother Earth's gifts. What a great day to plan an Earth Day project! It can be as elaborate or simple as you'd like. Here are some ideas on planning projects for Earth Day.

Easter Clip Art

Grab your Easter Bonnet and follow this bunny trail to find the best Easter clip art on the web. Peter Rabbit and I searched far and wide across the global Internet to find the best Easter graphics and spring time clip art to gather into this lens....

Easter Coloring Pages

Easter is about coloring eggs, but it's also a time for Easter coloring and crafts fun. There are hundreds of free printable Easter coloring books with printable pages and sheets filled with pictures of bunnies, eggs, lambs, springtime, renewal and t...

Easy Easter Crafts & Gifts

Easy Easter crafts keep kids busy, save your budget and decorate your home for Spring. This lens features easy Easter paper crafts, fabric crafts, crafts from recycled items, crafts from natural objects, even crafts and Easter gifts that come straigh...

Easy Halloween Yarn Crafts Patterns

This Halloween crafts and gifts lens will help you to find many fun and creative Halloween patterns and craft projects to knit or crochet. If you are just learning to knit or crochet you probably look for quick and easy projects and patterns. Many o...

Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes and Fun Party Ideas

Easy homemade Halloween costumes. Photos included. Costumes for couples, kids, and pets. Learn how to make a costume under 5 dollars, how to apply Halloween make up, how to Pimp Your Pumpkin, and make Black Halloween punch with a scary hand. Links to...

Easy Tuna or Salmon Cakes Recipes

When I was growing up, both of my parents made tuna cakes, potato cakes, and corn fritters on a regular basis. Dad's were always best, but don't tell mom I said that.

I'm no great fan of corn fritters, and I can never get my potato cakes to hold tog...

eclecticeducation: RocketMoms Graduate

Lynn was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week p...

Edible Bird Nest Candy Recipe

These are the most adorable little treats to celebrate spring, Easter, and the beauty of nature. They are completely edible and look just like real bird nests. When filled with your favorite candy eggs they make great party favors and table decoratio...

enslavedbyfaeries: RocketMoms Graduate

Briton was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher

My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation.

I believe that each topic s...

Evelyn's Bed and Breakfast

Our home in Vermont is a big old Vermont farmhouse and the land that it sits on has been in the family since the town was founded. This historic 1850's Vermont Farmhouse is surrounded by pastures and hundreds of acres of woods, trails and even a wate...

Ever Project: The Smartest Backlinks Ever

I love the Ever Project. It's a great source of backlinks for Squidoo lenses because Google and other search engines see it as separate domain to Squidoo. A further advantage is that Google will only show one lens from any domain (eg Squidoo) in sear...

Expanding Your Lens Publishing Power -- How-to Squidoo

Hello Lensmasters! I have prepared this special Squidoo how-to lens just for you! This lens gives you step-by-step directions from a squidoo addict who has experienced over three years on Squidoo to become a GIANT Squid 100 Club Member having authore...

Explain Your Name: Share Why You Chose Your Lensmaster Name

A name is all it takes sometimes to peek my interest, and I have noticed that I don't have a clue why many of you chose the lensmaster name you have. Tell us the story behind your name.

Unlike some lensmasters I have come across (cough...gypsypirate...

Exponentially Compound Your Squidoo Earnings With Affiliate Marketing

There are lots of reasons to become a lensmaster, and one of them is to earn money for yourself, your company or a worthy charity. And Squidoo offers lensmasters many ways to earn money.

A lensmaster can earn money directly from the rankings of thei...

Fairies: Fairy Clip Art, Faery Graphics

Fairy clip art collections - Fairies, elves, wood sprites and wee folk are hard to find in the forest, but you can find fairy land clip art and faery graphics easily with the links and info in this fairy graphics and faery art lens.

You can find Mag...

Fall Harvest Festival In Pendleton SC

Pendleton South Carolina's Eleventh Annual Fall Harvest Festival was held on the Village Green in historic Pendleton on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009. The Festival ran from 10 AM to 5 PM and featured quality crafts, entertainment, food vendors, old-fas...

Famous Bottle Houses

Bottle houses are found in many countries around the world. Some bottle houses are inspired by the need to find inexpensive building materials. Other bottle houses are built as whimsical fantasies. Still more bottle houses are created as works of art...

Fantastic Veggie and Fruit Art

How to carve an award winning pumpkin. There are many forms of art, but veggie art and fruit art is a very popular thing to do. It is a beautiful way to decorate a dinner table for special events. Vegetables and fruits are very easy to carve compared...

Find Cool Baby Shower Ideas

If you are reading this you are looking to find cool baby shower ideas. Maybe it's your best friend, your daughter, your sister, your sister-in-law, your daughter-in-law or maybe it's a co-worker who is pregnant. Proper etiquette suggests that the fa...

Finding Love, Peace, and Contentment

Peace, love, and contentment can be personal goals; to these may be added comfort, success, simplicity, adventure, and other ideals.

All such ideals are desired and coveted. Yet seldom do we stop to consider exactly what will give us a life worth l...

Finds From Ebay - Someone Elses Treasure

T

his lens is truly what Ebay is all about; getting rid of that extra stuff that someone else probably could use. If we are not using it, we need to move it on.

I find eBay a excellent source for used books, jewelry and music. Throughout this lens...

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...

Food Coloring Pages

Whether you are looking for food coloring pages for educational purposes or just for fun, you've come to the right place. On this page you'll find a growing list of the best food coloring pages available on the internet sorted into different...

Food That's Easy And Good!

Everybody has to eat. Just like everyone else, I have to cook for my kids. I don't have the kind of money to go out and take my family to restaurants every night. Often, I don't have time to spend a lot of time cooking either, or follow complicated r...

Free Images and How to Use Them

This is a listing free image resources to use on your lens or website.

Also, it includes several detailed How-To sections on how to add the necessary HTML to control and enhance the images in your pages (or lenses). Examples included.




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f you do fi...

Free and Inexpensive Business Cards and Stationery

This lens will discuss the various free offers I have found on the Net and considers the pro's and con's of buying "FREE" business cards, and other stationery, online.

If you like this lens, find it useful or would like to send me feedback -...

Free Art Resources and Sites

<< (Plein Air painting)miniature

So you like to paint, draw or make sculptures but can't afford a website, yet you want people to see your creations? Well, that should not be a problem, there are places on the internet that you can go to for...

Free Christmas Card Templates

The web has made it easy for do-it-yourselfers to find great templates for almost everything, including printable Christmas cards. So why not save some money and make your cards a bit more personal by creating your own this year? If you don't kno...

FREE Digital Photo Editing ★★★

This site shows photo editing tools that are fun and easy to use. Free web based photo editors, fun photo editors, photo tools like Photofunia, Picnik, FotofFlexer and more that will add bling to your photos - they are all here.  A few mention...

Free Fonts & Type Tools

Do you love fonts? I like to play with type and lettering. We go waaay back - my first contact with a computer was actually a CompuGraphic typesetting machine. I miss those days of when you could really work with ligatures, kerns and other font-type...

Free Printable Borders and Bubble Letters

Printable borders and printable bubble letters make it fun and easy to create your own personalized greeting cards, stationary paper, photo frames, and scrapbook pages.

Here are a few llinks for holiday border clipart designs, letters to print for c...

Free Puppet Patterns

This lens attempts to collect all free puppet patterns on the internet.

(So wish us luck)

Free Santa Tea Cosy Knitting Pattern

Free Knitting pattern to knit a Santa Claus Tea Cosy. The Santa Tea Cosy makes a Great Christmas stocking filler for friends and Family or maybe you just want to make a Santa Tea Cosy for yourself to add some Christmas Cheer to your kitchen.

The Sant...

From The Garden Pumpkin Pie

Welcome to my lens. I've entered it into the Squidoo Thanksgiving Cookoff (for Charity). If it gets selected, the charity I support gets $1000.  The charity I chose is Wildlife Forever because I love wildlilfe. Wildlife Forever is America&#3...

Frugal As You Want to Be

Frugal does not mean cheap. Being frugal does not mean being miserable.

Frugal is about being thoughtful about how you save a dime. It means sometimes paying more, because in the long run it will cost you less. It doesn't necessarily mean that you h...

Fun with Paper Toys

Paper toys are popular with children and adults. The simple appeal of taking a flat sheet of paper and turning it into a paper toy with 3 dimensions is a universal past-time enjoyed by all generations. Some paper toys are functional, while other pape...

Funky DIY Fashion

You can look at an item of clothing and immediately decided if it's "you" or not. Fashion is so individual and a visible part of your personality. People portray things about themselves without even realizing. I love to sit on campus and watch people...

Funky Fashions - My Hat Collection

I have always loved hats. My love affair with hats goes back to my childhood. Even though hats went out of fashion when Jackie Kennedy entered the white house, I never lost my passion for head wear. My hat collection has always been and is today a bi...

Funky Junky Decorating - Thrift Shop Feng Shui

Whatever name you give it decorating a room, office cubicle, apartment, flat or home and garden with second hand furnishings, collectibles and accessories is economical, challenging and uniquely satisfying to those who are into eclectic design. You c...

Funny Easter Cards

Show your sense of humor this Easter with outrageously funny greeting cards! Customize to fit your needs, or just bought a pre-done card that suits your personality. Whether you're looking for kids greeting cards, a card for teens and tweens, your gr...

Garden Art Ideas

Exquisite and innovative garden art from Stone and Metal Sculptures, to Beach Glass Wind Chimes, Garden Benches to Fire Bowls! Great Garden Art, Yard Art , Junk Art Ideas and recommended books and Garden Art projects.

Garden Crafts Decorate Outdoor Living Spaces

It's easy and fun to decorate your home's outdoor living spaces with garden crafts - step stones, planters mosaics, wind chimes, and garden decorations you make yourself. You can create beautiful plant stands, garden trellises, shelves, flower pots,...

Garden Wildlife Habitats

Suburban sprawl and development of farmland and wilderness disrupt and sometimes destroy natural wildlife habitats. Development of suburban communities often displaces animals and plants; they strive to survive in areas adjacent to where they once li...

Genetic Bill of Rights

Are you aware of the Genetic Bill of Rights?

DNA testing helps prevent disease, improve law enforcement and make our lives better but there's also a dark side to genetic sciences, research and DNA data collection.

Do you know what's going on in bio-gen...

Get Free Traffic with Forums

Do you have a website or business that you are marketing? Or maybe you have a nice new Squidoo lens you want to promote. How do you get traffic to your site?

I get 80% of my traffic from forums. The secret is to NOT advertise your business. First of...

Get your Giant Squid Masters Degree this summer!

Giant Squid Summer School is in session and going full steam ahead. If you're a Giant Squid and missed out on this mastery course, cross your fingers for another one in the Fall!

Hey Giants...

Are you ready to blast the doors off the status quo? I...

Getting More Out Of Squidcasts

According to the definition of Squidoo a squidcast is a squirted message, sent from a lens.
From the dashboard every lensmaster can send such a squidcast, related to a specific lens, which will be shown within the favorites of anyone in the lensmaste...

Getting Started With Squidoo

Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest--and...

Giant Squid Mentor

It's true. Squidoo is a great place to create web pages for free. But did you know that part of the magic of Squidoo also comes from the membership?

Since Squidoo started in the fall of 2006, our lensmasters have continued to create great lenses and...

Giant Squid Treasure Hunt

The Giant Squid Organizers and Greeters are on the hunt for "Potential Giants" (PG's for short) and we need your help! With over 700,000 lenses and 250,000 lensmasters it's a daunting task to stumble across all the goodness out there. So we thought:...

Giant Summer School Week 8: Turn in your homework here!

Amusement Destination

As part of the Giant Squid Summer School, participating Giants receive a specific weekly lensmaking challenge. They have a week to work on the lens, and then post it below to "turn in" their homework and show that it's done.

T...

Giclee Prints, Affordable Art

What is a Giclee Print? Giclee (to spray, in French) is the process of printing artwork reproductions, one at a time, by means of high quality large format ink jet printers. A giclee print may be created from any high quality digital file: original c...

Gift Coupons to Print for Any Occasion

Printable gift coupons and gift certificates or IOU cards are the perfect gift for anyone. Pressed for time or money and need a show-stopping gift? Want to let a friend, student or loved one know you noticed their achievements? Give a gift certifica...

GIMP Quick Tips: Matching Colors In Images

Adding elements to an image is easy using GIMP, but sometimes you can come across problems simply because a little bit of the background from one image doesn't match the image it is being added to.

The Fuzzy Select Tool can be used with the Color Pi...

Girl Geeks

There are not enough self-proclaimed girl geeks in the world. Maybe we should have a pagent or something. Guys geeks have all the heros, Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Heder, Curtis Armstrong, Will Ferrell, Bill Gates. Well I am here to change that. This&...

Girl Powered Peace

It is now universally agreed in aid organizations worldwide that empowering the women of a community will empower the children and the men as well. Women are caretakers and nurturers, watching over others. They tend to use practical wisdom to make de...

Glorious Hats for Women with Great Taste

Hats say so much about a person. Hats can show one's personal wealth, a group in which one belongs, a favorite sports team and pretty much any other message one hopes to convey.

Or a hat can be a shield from the sun, wind, rain or snow.

Hats can be...

Google Chrome

You read that right, Google has made a web browser designed to simplify the web browsing experience and speed up web applications. They designed it from the ground up using webkit and then redesigned the parts they wanted to improve.

Google is Trying to Take Over the World

Google is trying to take over the world

From humble search engine to information overlord, Google is everywhere! Google is ever-expanding, sucking in human prey with free applications, and gobbling up smaller companies like Blogger, Feedburner, and Y...

Great Gifts for Toddlers and Preschoolers - 2009

Do you need to pick out a age appropriate birthday gift for toddlers? Are you searching for the perfect Christmas present for preschoolers? It is often hard to buy for a young child. As they get older, it's easier to hone into their personality...

Great Ideas for Baby Shower Cakes

Congrats, Mom! A baby shower cake is often the focal point of one of the sweetest little celebrations we get to have in a lifetime. These days, many baby shower cakes rise to the occasion, making a big style statement (and ensuring photos you'll...

GreekGeek's Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found

So, you want to learn how to build successful Squidoo lenses (or any sort of webpage), attract web traffic, and get your Squidoo lens found by Google! This three-part tutorial covers:

• Part I: Ten Steps to Build an Appealing (and Effective) Lens


• Part...

Greekgeek's Top Ten Squidoo Tips

Psst! Want some free Squidoo secrets?

At the risk of losing some footholds in the top ranks on Squidoo, here are my Top Ten Squidoo Tips!

I've already taught you How to Get Your Lens Found using proven techniques such as SEO.

I've given yo...

Green Treats for St. Patrick's Day

Even if you don't normally celebrate St. Patrick's Day by drinking green beer, you can have a little fun by getting green with your food.

Here are a few simple recipes to get you started.  I have included a few side dishes, but most are very tast...

GrowWear: RocketMoms Graduate

MiMi was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week p...

Halloween Coloring Printables & Crafts

This lens is filled with Halloween coloring book pages, Halloween posters and masks to color and Trick or Treat coloring pages for kids of all ages.. You'll love these Halloween Coloring collections featuring traditional pumpkins, skeletons, bla...

Halloween Crafts for Family Fun

Halloween Crafts for Trick or Treat and Fright Night Family Style Fun. There's something fun for every member of your family in this Halloween crafts lens.

Pumpkin Crafts, Halloween Displays, Party Decorations, Paper Crafts, Halloween Party Foo...

Halloween Printables & Paper Crafts

It's fall, and that's the season for Halloween Paper Crafts and Printables. Kids love Halloween crafts and printable activity sheets at home or in the classroom. Halloween printables will get the kids coloring, cutting, pasting and assemblin...

Halloween Prop Making

Be the envy of your neighborhood (and scare some neighborhood children and small dogs in the process) next Halloween with this easy to make, unique prop that is sure to impress!

Halloween Pumpkin Recipes and Treats

Mmmm....Recipes for pumpkin pies, pumpkin spice cupcakes, pumpkin soup, and even a pumpkin spice latte to pick you up at the end of a long day.

Learn how to roast pumpkin seeds, or use them for candied brittle instead. There's no waste after Hal...

Halloween Trunk or Treating

Every Halloween our Church, Pendleton United Methodist Church, sponsors "Trunk or Treating" in Pendleton, SC. The volunteers ask community members to bring their cars on the square or at the church and to have their trunks decorated so the...

Happy Halloween

Halloween or All Hallows Eve, is a night many children anticipate and their adult helpers help them to make creative costumes as they go "trick-or-treating" for candy and other small goodies.This happens on October 31st. So, watch out for little witc...

Healing Art with SARK

SARK creates colorful inspiration and healing arts through creative channels that make hearts sing! Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK) has written and created 15 best-selling books, and created hundreds of products.  She is the founder and...

Hey Kids, Go Play With Your Kool-Aid!!

Awesome, non-edible Kool-Aid recipes that will entertain your kids for hours.

All moms and dads dread these words... "I'm bored". It drives me crazy when my kids complain about being bored when I know they've got a room full of toys and books but I...

Hip Baby Boutique - High Style, Earth Friendly Childrens Clothing

Cool kids fashions and hip baby clothes reflect the latest trends in pop culture as well as tried and true classic designs. Stylish children's clothing makes a statement about individuality and attitudes. Some hip baby boutiques feature scaled d...

Holiday Shopping with the RocketMoms: Week 6

This week the RocketMoms are escaping for the Holidays! Join them for some really cool trips, travel ideas and accessories. They are getting help from our resident RocketMom Travel expert Alison (EverythingMouse). Enjoy!

Hot Rods and Hot Rodding

I have always been a "car guy", growing up during the muscle car era of the 1960's I became a fan of high performance automobiles. Not just muscle cars or race cars but 4WD offroading, motorcycles, custom choppers, dune buggies, tractor and truck pul...

How do I Rate on Squidoo?

I've noticed lately that many lenses either seem to have five star ratings or no ratings at all. Curiously, some of the highly ranked ones are rather poorly built. This leads me to the conclusion that there are people using Squidoo regularly who are...

How Do You Reuse or Recycle Your Old Clothes?

Have you tried reconstructing your clothes into something new? You can turn your old clothes into a fashionable new wardrobe by learning the art of clothes reconstruction. For example, you can turn a pair of old jeans into a cute skirt in just a few...

How Not to Look Old

10 Years Younger


10 Pounds Lighter


10 Times Better


Ladies... are you still wearing oversized blazers, shoulder pads, flannel shirts, or three-piece suits with vests? Does your lingerie drawer include granny undies or stockings with reinforced toes...

How Squidoo Made Me Fat!

Hi, I'm Mulberry and I'm addicted to Squidoo. Unfortunately that also means I sit...a lot. In addition, it means I'm exposed to repeated attacks from fellow Squidoo lensmasters who have conspired against me. These same people who profess to be my onl...

How To Add Amazon Widgets To Your Lens

Have you wished you could add one of those cool carousel widgets on your lens? Or a contextual product cloud? How about a big preview of your Amazon aStore?

Well, now you can. With a little (actually BIG!) help of Clearspring, the widget network, an...

How to backup your lens

Recently, I came across a few posting on SquidU about people accidentally deleting their lens or due to some bug. To avoid future headache, once you have created your lens and are happy with the content, I recommend you take a few extra minutes to ba...

How to Choose Perfect Christmas Party Games

The reason I build this lens for Christmas party games is to help people share their family party experiences during winter holidays.

Imagine when a web savvy Christmas party hostess (or host) searches on the web of the most creative party games an...

How To Create A Beautiful Squidoo Lens For Your Zazzle Gallery

Welcome to "How To Create A Beautiful Squidoo Lens For Your Zazzle Gallery".


Here's how you can create a perfect Lens for your Zazzle Gallery with the new Zazzle Gallery Lens Builder!

How To Create a Real Facebook Presence Without Actually Being There!

If you are using Facebook as a business networking tool and not just a social outlet, you may be disheartened at how much time it seems to take for you to create a real presence there. No one in business for themselves can afford to spend all of thei...

How to create a Squidbook

What is a Squidbook you ask? It is a way of using Squidoo lens to publish a book. I came up with this idea recently and have started creating my first squidbook. You can check it out here
My first Squidbook

My second squidbook...on Squidoo

 ...

How to create symbols on your blog, Web site, or Squidoo lens with HTML numeric codes

Ever wanted some HTML code to create special symbols on your site—like a heart symbol, euro or copyright character? "What you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG, pronounced "wizzywig") interfaces like Squidoo's are great, but som...

How To Do Japanese Gift-Wrapping

Japanese-style gift-wrapping, called tsutsumi, uses paper and cloth to create simple but elegant wrappings for gifts, presents and packages. Furoshiki refers to using a large piece of cloth for the wrapping. These techniques are perfect for birthdays...

How to feature your favorite band on Squidoo.com

Do you have a band that you just love to listen to on those late nights up in your room? Help your favorite band gain more exposure by making them a squidoo lens!

How to Get Portable Digital TV

Sometimes your biggest need for entertainment isn't while you're sitting in your living room. Sometimes it's when you're traveling or sitting out on the porch or deck that you really want to be able to catch a show. It's those times that you realiz...

How To Grow and Use Lavender

Lavender is a fairly easy plant to grow. It's many uses make it one of the most popular herbs to grow in backyard gardens, and containers.

Lavender is the little herb that could. It can do anything. Lavender has anti bacterial properties, so it's gr...

How to Have Thankful Children

With the cooling of the air and the changing colors of the leaves, our thoughts are often drawn to the approaching holidays. Way too often Thanksgiving is called Turkey Day. I like a turkey dinner as much as anyone, but I believe we need to redirect...

How to Make A Collage - The visual poetry of castoffs and keepsakes

When it comes to making a collage, tampering with old photos, maps, stamps, matchbooks and advertisements can turn worn in whimsy and antique into art you may want to frame, so take up your scissors and turn mundane into masterpieces of visual poetry...

How To Make a Diaper Cake

Looking for those simple instructions on making your own Diaper Cake?

Well you've come to the right place. A diaper cake makes an excellent center piece for any baby shower and also makes a great gift that any new mom will find useful for months and...

HOW TO MAKE A SIMPLE HEMP CHOKER $$$

Do you Love Jewelry? Maybe want to start making it, and selling it for a little extra cash?? Or just want to learn a new hobby. Great for gift giving to friends and relatives.
Saving money, and earning more is a goal these day!

Here I will explain a...

How to Make a Wooden Canvas

When it comes to creating art, I often like to start from scratch. Not only is it a way to save money on supplies, but I enjoy the process too. It gives me a chance to experiment from the ground level, and my artwork is all about experimentation.

I&...

How To Make an Edible Gourmet Bouquet Centerpiece

I made this gourmet bouquet for a New Year's Eve party. Edible arrangements are always a hit and they are not hard to make. This is a fairly basic one. If you learn some fancy garnishes you can put those in your gourmet bouquet too. Make this edi...

How To Make Shadow Puppets!

Our homeschool co-op recently put on a shadow puppet play for our end-of-the-school-year program. It was so much fun!



First we selected a story to act out. The story we selected had birds and other animals in it. The birds and other animals were ha...

How To Make Sourdough Bread

With my Alaska lodge recipe, it's easy to make a great loaf of fresh sourdough bread. I'll give you richly-illustrated step-by-step instructions of my proven method, which allows for many variations on a tasty loaf. White, whole wheat, rye, focaccia,...

How to Make Thai Green Curry

Thai Green Curry (Gaeng Kieow Waan) is perhaps the most popular of all Thai dishes with foreigners, certainly after thirteen years living in Thailand it is still one of my favourites. Indeed at various times Thai Green Curry has been voted the number...

How to Make YouTube Videos Look Great

The key for YouTube to display your video the best possible way, is to upload the best possible quality video that meets or exceeds their requirements. That is by encoding videos the right way. 

I'll show you a few ways on how to encod...

How to Monetize Your Website or Blog

The Internet today provides so many opportunities for ordinary people like you and me to make money from websites and blogs. These opportunities range from contextual advertising to affiliate marketing.

How To Promote Your Squidoo Lens

Now that you have a lens, you want to let people know about it. Getting people to read your lens is harder than writing it! But there are many ways to promote your lens, make it more popular in search engines, and make it a success.

In this lens I'l...

How To Raise Money For Charity

Raising money to support your favorite cause is a good work. To assist you in your good work, here are some insights from training and experience, and several good books with charity fund raising ideas. We will cover the needs of both fundraiser and...

How to Run a Successful CafePress Shop (and make lots of money!)

CafePress is THE online place to become your very own entrepreneur quickly and easily.  All you need is a computer, Internet connection, and a graphics program, and you are on your way to making major money! 

Get all the CafePress goodness...

How to Squidoo -- A Step-by-Step Primer

This step-by-step primer gives you plenty of how-to information on how to get started building your Squidoo lens. Get some useful tips about how to build that lens with plenty of helpful pictures of the various templates you can use. You'll see plent...

How to superchill soda

The following lens is to help you super chill your favorite drink in 2 minutes without ice in your glass.

NOTE!: you will need the following...
1. A bowl
2. Water
3. Ice
4. Salt
5. Your favorite Soda or Drink (in a can)

How to Use Ping.fm to Save Time on Use of Social Media Sites

Ping.fm can help you deal with social media updates. Instead of visiting each social media site separately to post updates, you can post one update at Ping.fm and not have to waste any more time.

We all know how valuable social media sites are to us...

How to Write an Article that Powerfully Drives Traffic To Your Website

To People Who Want To Write - But Can't Get Started

Here is a process that is useful in creating articles that are designed to be of quality, high value and will have a higher rate of follow through by the reader.  This process will easily genera...

How To Write Calligraphy

I've always wanted to learn how to write calligraphy. I find the lettering and the flow of the work to be beautiful.

Whether you are looking to make your own invitations, take up a new hobby or become a professional calligrapher, I hope you find thi...

HTML Tips for Color

Color can be applied via HTML tags to fonts, borders and backgrounds.

squidoo.com/basichtml and squidoo.com/advancedhtml show how to implement these colors.

This lens however isn't going to show how the code is applied, but is a repository for the...

I Am Totally In Love With Fat Quarters

I love fabric and since I discovered fat quarters, I love fabric even more.

By buying fat quarters, you can assemble a wide assortment of design and color without breaking the bank.

It's so much easier to do quilts when you don't have to do all th...

I've Been There

I've Been There" is a novel concept for a lens that I thought up a few days ago. I have been thinking of a way to use some lenses about places throughout the world created by other lensmasters, and the idea for this lens gradually took shape.

I thou...

Ideas And Projects For Spare Buttons

When I was a young child and I was visiting at my grandparents home my grandma would give me her jar of buttons to count and play with. I can still remember the fun I had with that jar of buttons. Sorting them into piles according to their color, siz...

Image Factory Graphics

Image Factory Graphics design studio offers custom giclee prints and photographic restoration services plus an online shop where you can buy funky tee shirts, poster prints, cards, bumper stickers and lots more with customizable graphics.

Image Fact...

Imagine Peace Tower - Celebrating Peace

October 9th 2007 on would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday, Yoko Ono unveiled the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island in Reykjavik, Iceland as a way of encouraging global peace. The Imagine Peace Tower is dedicated to her late husband, John Lenn...

Improve Your Skin With Natural Aromatherapy Facial Serums

Walk into any department or beauty store, and you will find yourself barraged with an overwhelming array of expensive beauty products claiming that they will solve your skincare dilemmas. Most have very impressive looking ingredient lists, and price...

In A Flash - Our Burn Injury Story

Poof!...in a flash, that's how long it takes for someones world to come to a crashing halt.

For us it happened at 6:58 pm on August 6th 2002.
For us it started with an argument over lasagna on a very hot day and a dead Robin that did a kamikaze on t...

In Praise of the Squidoo Guestbook

I recently finished reading a long and interesting lens - and was inspired to tell the writer how much I enjoyed her work. But to my dismay, there was no guestbook. No contact link either.

I was so disappointed that I couldn't network with the autho...

Inexpensive Christmas Gifts

Here I'm sharing my secrets for inexpensive Christmas gifts. Most cost only pennies or nothing at all. You'll find ideas such as how to make Personalized Bookmarks, Pasta Angels, Pen Caddies, Envelopes, Puzzles and lo...

Instant Stress Management

Stress is a part of everyday life. From the moment we wake up till we go to sleep we encounter situations that can be very stressful. How we handle that stress depends on what situations we are faced with, how we have faced stress in the past, what w...

Is Squidoo a Scam? An Honest Answer

Is Squidoo a scam? Does anyone really make money or get web traffic from Squidoo?
Short answer: No, yes and yes!

You won't make thousands of dollars on Squidoo in your first week or first month. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to scam y...

It's Raining! It's Pouring!

As the Rain Pours Down the Learning Soars...

Water, rain, puddles, wetness...

This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create water-themed rainy activities for both homeschool families and classrooms.

There are endle...

Jaguar Julie -- Lensography of a WAHWW

Yes, you may think of Jaguar Julie as a WAHW -- a work at home workaholic and a WAHWW -- a work at home wonder woman! In my lensography, I hope to answer the question of who Jaguar Julie is as inquiring minds want to know! First of all, what is a len...

Japanese Teriyaki Sauce | How To Make Teriyaki Sauce | Homemade Teriyaki Sauce

In this lens you will learn how to make teriyaki sauce, homemade teriyaki sauce. Although teriyaki sauce is readily available to buy, homemade teriyaki sauce is very easy to make. Once you learn how to make teriyaki sauce, it can be used to make ter...

Jimmie: RocketMoms Graduate

Jimmie was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

JJNW: RocketMoms Graduate

Janienne was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-we...

Jokes For Baby Boomers

The term BABY BOOMER is used to describe a person that was born between 1946 and 1964. Following World War II, both North America and Europe experienced an unusual spike in birth rates, with troops returning home from the war, changes in lifestyle, b...

Judy's on Cherry: Hearth-fired Euro Cafe

"Gorgeous food served in a warm, inviting atmosphere"

Judy's on Cherry in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania features unique Mediterranean-influenced dishes made with the freshest ingredients, authentic herbs and spices. A variety of meat, seafood and s...

Kab's Fab Squid Squad

Hey there, fellow lensmaster. So, you're trying to become a Giant Squid, eh? Or, what's that, you're shooting for Giant Squid 100 Club? Well, welcome to Kab's Fab Squid Squad, a team of lensmasters just like you in a race for their lives (and when I...

KarateKatGraphics: RocketMoms Graduate

Mary was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week p...

Keyword Tips for Squidoo

It's Time for Keywords!

Keywords are the words that link your content to your visitors. They are the words people type into search engine search bars to come up with the information they need.

Your selection of keywords can make or break your lens....

KeyWords Search / Local Lenses

This is a lensography of local lenses and links to keyword tools and resources that I use. My name is Susie Lehto and I live in Fargo, North Dakota. I'm a webmaster (lensmaster) and I share my discoveries with my neighbors, friends, and anyone el...

Ladybug Garden Birthday Party Ideas!

I love Birthday Parties and everything that comes with them! I am going to start off by saying that I love nothing more than homeade decorations, reusable supplies and cost saving tips. Sure, I now own my own party supply company, but that was not al...

lakeerieartists: RocketMoms Graduate

Paula was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

Lapbooking Versus Notebooking

Lapbooking and notebooking are both popular among homeschoolers now. I will take you through some basic characteristics of each and hopefully answer these questions:

What are these learning methods?
How are they similar?
How are they different?
Whic...

Lee Hansen

Lee Hansen's my name, but no, real estate is NOT my game. I'm a visual artist and e-marketing geek. And I'm not a man. Thank my Dad for confusing the issue about my name. He was a forward-thinker and an engineer, so he named his first born - a daught...

Lens Candy - Free Squidoo Graphics for the Style Conscious Lens Master

Hello and thanks for visiting this lens. I know there are quite a few graphic resource lenses out there but, hey when it comes to style, there can never be too much choice. So here's my contribution :)

So far, I've included three sets of squidoo gra...

Lens of the Day!

What is the Lens of the Day award and how can you win it?

Make an amazing lens, that's how.

Want some examples?

Want to find the Lens of the Day blog? 

Want tips on how to make your lens better?

Lens typography: Beyond bold and italic

We all know bold. We all know italic.

Most of us can probably even use both at once. *

But how can we use other font effects within the body of our favorite modules (Text/Write and others) to emphasize and enhance our message?

Read on to discover the b...

Lensmaster Tools and Utilities

SQUIDUtils.com
Utilities and Tools for the Expert Lensmaster
SquidUtils is 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 func...

Lensography

Thanks to a fellow Lensmaster for coining the term "lensography". The Lensmaster Bio page is good, but with the use of the Featured Lenses module one can highlight and categorise ones favourite lenses.

This lens is a growing collection of le...

Lensography - Summer Fey Foovay (foovay)

I am professional artist and writer, I use Squidoo to promote my professional work - but I also enjoy writing lenses about my hobbies - such as shopping for coloring books!

Lensography: thefluffanutta

thefluffanutta is
a Software Engineer
lives in York (England)
builds websites as a hobby
created a few lenses on Squidoo
often posts on the forum on SquidU
developed some tools for Lensmasters
also some contracting work for Squidoo HQ

More places to find th...

Life As A Creative Freelancer

If you're like me, you've always dreamed of working for yourself in a creative field. Most of us who share this dream find this prospect overwhelming, perhaps even impossible, due to the plethora of challenges, struggles, and perplexities that surely...

Linda's Organic Gardening Journal - 2009

I've got the good fortune of a large yard in which to plant my food. I'm a vegetarian so I'm hoping to be able to grow at least half my food, maybe more. I consider this a matter of extreme importance for health and financial reasons.

I'm also clean...

Links for Digital Scrapbookers

I have a love for digital designs and I know where lots of goodies are to be found. Come along with me as I list some of my all-time favorites for you (in one easy to find place!). You'll fall in love with digitial design, too!

List of Squidoo Blogs

A lot of lensmasters use Squidoo to promote their own blogs, and they achieve great results. Same is also true for the opposite, however: if you blog about your lenses, you'll surely start seeing an increase in your visitors, comments, ratings and sa...

Little Black Cat - Ebony

This is the story of Ebony, my adopted cat daughter. This lens is a memorial tribute - Ebony has passed over the Rainbow Bridge, but she is still with us in spirit.

Ebony was a feisty black cat who lived with my husband when we first met. She was po...

Little known facts about The Netherlands

Learn about working women in The Netherlands, our royalty, or relationship with water, some history and a lot more. Like: isn't your country called 'Holland'? Well sort of, I'll explain below... Isn't half the country below sea l...

Littlest Pet Shop Toys

Hasbro's Littlest Pet Shop Collectible Toys are huge with the kids. There are so many available in all kinds of animals and creatures. There are also play sets and all kinds of accessories available - like coloring books, games, computer games, video...

London Fun for Free or For Less - About Londons Tours Walks Shows And Attractions

Fun things to do in London for free or for less - Da Kids in Da Hood! (the nice neighbourhood of Trafalgar Square that is) - London fun free attractions, london discount hotels and walks we found, plus reasonable accommodation options for a London st...

Love quotes - spiritual, romantic and religious

On LOVE in all its manifestations: romantic love, spiritual love, love as a source of creativity etc. Love quotes and links to more quotes on love.

Love is never as simple, or as complex, as we think it is...

Love This Lens Widget

One of the (many) secrets of getting a good Lensrank is the star ratings that other Lensmasters can give to your lens. Getting them to actually visit your lens is hard enough, yet sometimes they leave without clicking on the stars at the top.

This w...

Make a Fancy Table of Contents

A clickable Table of Contents helps visitors navigate webpages. A table of contents also shows what's on a single webpage, which helps visitors decide whether your page is worth reading! A great table of contents within the first screen is a powe...

Make a Paper Christmas Ornament: The Porcupine Ball

Re-use squares of foil and tissue wrapping paper to make these ornaments. You roll points and then string layers together to make a ball of delicate spires to decorate your Christmas tree with. This lens gives you step by step instructions as how to...

Make Peace Not War- Peace Crafts

Teaching peace helps everyone, and we can use peace arts and crafts to supplement the lessons of peace and peaceful living. Peace crafts and peace with art themes is popular in all cultures throughout the world. Children, youth, adults and seniors al...

Make Your Own Costumes, Masks and Face Paint

It's easy and inexpensive to make your own costumes and home made face paint makeup. Make Halloween and dress up costumes for kids or costumes for adults using materials you probably have on hand in your cupboards and closets, or even stuff from...

Make your own mixes with spices on hand.

Look at the spice rack. Has it been sitting there waiting for you to use up those beautiful aromatic spices? Well, here is your chance to go for the gold and make your own food fabulous with the use of all those spices. Look into them well and see fo...

Making a Shoebox Diorama

The classic shoebox diorama is a childhood rite of passage. Although it can be used for school work, your children may enjoy making them just for fun. Make a diorama alongside your child today with this step by step tutorial.

Making Fun of Sarah Palin - Has Political Humor Crossed the Line?

Making fun of political candidates isn't anything new and with the arrival of Sarah Palin on the scene, the comedians are out in full force. It's expected, but is it right? What about when the families of the candidates are included in the so...

Making Great Holiday Lenses

While I thought September 18th (the date on this photo) was a little early to be setting up Christmas trees in Kmart, there's no denying that the holidays are fast approaching. Even if you're not one to get in the holiday spirit so soon, millions of...

Mamma Cat and her Kittens

My husband and I seem to have this invisible magnet when it comes to cats in need of a home. They just seem to find us in their time of need. Let me share a story with you about Mamma Cat and her kittens.

A few years back, while working on an empty...

Mardi Gras Coloring Fun

Mardi Gras coloring pages are great fun for children and adults. Decorate a Mardi Gras coloring sheet with the official colors of Mardi Gras - gold, purple, green. Color a fantasy mask for your favorite Mardi Gras parade or a masquerade party for Fat...

MARKET YOUR ART

This lens is about fun and profitable ways to get your art seen and purchased.

Whether you are an emerging artist or a well established artist this lens will help you discover new and exciting ways to market your art and get real results.

We'll tal...

Martha's Cookies 101

Though cookies have been around in some form since the 7th century AD (read their long history), they don't last very long on the kitchen counter... or at least the best ones don't. This lens serves up the secrets to creating the disappearing cookie....

Masquerade Costumes and Masks

Halloween, Mardi Gras and New Year Masquerade balls are the perfect time to wear a costume or a mask. Many folks wear fancy dress and historic costume or a mask or face paint for holidays, sporting events or parades. Theme parties, masquerade costum...

Mastering The Office Prank

You spend eight hours a day with these people! Eight hours a day! Eight hours with people you don't even get to pick. Eight hours with the guy who has something to say about EVERYTHING. Eight hours with the sci-fi dork who lives in his parent&#39...

mbgphoto's lensography

Welcome to my lensography. I am Mary Beth Granger, aka mbgphoto or Grandma MaryBeth to three special little girls. I have been married to my best friend, Ray, for 40 years and we have two wonderful children, Linda and John.

I retired three years ago...

Menopause Matters

Your family wears you down, your work suffers, your body won't obey you, your temper is on a short leash and tears are just around the corner. Things seem to just get out of control nowadays and what are you told? It's that dreaded "M&qu...

Menopause: You Need Some Laughter!

It is no fun being a cantankerous hell-on-wheels! Especially if you aren't used to it! Well I knew something was wrong when my usual charming self found it okay to flip the bird to someone that ticked me off on the highway - thank goodness I don...

Metaphysical Mystic Mama

Yes, I admit mobius strips, quarks and mesons turn me on. I love physics!

There I've said it...I am a total science freak and proud of it!

People are usually surprised to find out that someone as Earthy as me, who reads tarot cards, does yoga and i...

Micro Blogging

Micro-Blogging done on a regular basis has the potential to send your business or organization into the the stratosphere of success. Micro-Blogging fits into every conceivable type of SEO Strategy with flexibility and convenience.

It does not matter...

MiMi's Personal Growth and Motivational T-Shirts

Coming from an unfortunate childhood, I didn't know what life was all about. All I knew was that life sucked. Where is the order? What is my reason for being? Why don't I know it? Why am I so sad and angry?

I began looking for answers at age twenty....

Mississippi Delta Blues

Stretching from Memphis South to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and bordered by the Mississippi River to the West and the Yazoo River to the East, the Mississippi Delta has been commonly known as the birthplace of the blues following the civil war. Although...

MomTips: In the Kitchen

You may love cooking or hate it, but the tips and gadgets on this page will make your kitchen time easier! In the kitchen and around the house, all my MomTips are actually used and tested by me and my family and found to be useful or can't-do-without...

More and More Moms are Making Money Online Than ever Before

Many families are struggling financially given the problems in the current economy and are looking for ways to cut back on expenses or looking for ways to bring in some extra income. So they are searching the Internet and realizing it isn't as hard a...

More Module Mentoring

What makes Squidoo so fun are all the different modules. You could try out a new one every day of the year and still not get through all of them (unless you lump all those NBA widgets together as one).

Whether you are creating new lenses or looking...

Mount St. Helens ★

Mount St. Helens, located in Southwest Washington State, blasted its way into the history books on Sunday, May 18, 1980 in a spectacular eruption that claimed 57 lives. In March 1980, it began rumbling, attracting the attention of vulcanologists worl...

Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA

Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is an annual 10-day musical extravaganza that attracts more than one million people from throughout the US and abroad. Musikfest celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008. Musikfest Bethlehem is one of the largest f...

Musikfest Video Showcase

Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania showcases hundreds of bands, ensembles and solo acts representing all musical genres on outdoor stages and indoor venues during its 10-day run every August.

Musikfest celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008, and...

My Cafepress store: The Perfect Gift

Hello, I have teamed up with Cafepress to create a great new online Cafepress store called: The Perfect Gift.  All the products in my store have been created with my original art and designs.  I also have personalized some products with pop...

My Dog's diary

Hello, my name is Sarunas. I'm living in Lithuania's heart Vilnius. This lens will be just about my dog. About his good and BAD jobs :D
A little bit about my dog. My dog is Siberian Husky. His name is Bart as a Bart Simpson. He born in 2008 01 09. Ha...

My Favourite CSS Tricks on Squidoo

The basic tools provided by Squidoo will do pretty much everything you need to get your content out to your audience. But sometimes you want to format it a little differently, and this is where inline CSS comes into play. Here I show some of the tric...

My Flower Garden

I'm Deb the Flowergardener, and I'd like to share my backyard flower garden and flower photos with you!
I've designed and created a 2,000 square foot flower garden in my back yard which is truly unique, matching my personality and life st...

My Life's Lessons

I pause each year in june, the month of my birth, to pull the covers over my head, turn off my phone (eat gallons of ice cream) and reflect, reminisce and ruminate about my life. (sounds like barrels of fun, huh?)

this year is a little different tho...

My Nikon Digital Camera D700FX

This is my first digital SLR camera and it is a Nikon D700FX. Nikon handling agility is fused with Nikon's 12.1-megapixel FX-format CMOS sensor. It assures professional image quality with low-noise, high-ISO performance. Continuous shooting up to 5 f...

My Portraits

Technically, a portrait is a composition based on how one person views another, and no two people see the same person in the same way. The portraits shown here are but a few I have published, finished, sold, or given away.

Primarily my portraits rang...

My Squidoo Fans

Pop stars have them. Film stars have them. Squidoo has them. Lensmasters have them and I'm so pleased that I have them. What are they? They're fans.

This page brings together those Lensmasters who have very kindly decided to become my fans. As I wri...

My Treasure Chest of Websites

Now that you have successfully arrived on this Squidoo Lens, I have only approximately 2.7 seconds to capture your attention and maintain it. Either I could start juggling, shove a sword down my throat, hang 100 lbs. weights from clothespins attached...

mysticmama: RocketMoms Graduate

Bambi was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

National Pet Memorial Day

Words cannot describe the sense of loss we feel when our faithful friend dies. It is often one of life's most heart-wrenching experiences. Recognizing the importance of remembering our cherished pets, the second Sunday of September is the official Na...

Natural Garden Tips and Tricks

Do you get spring fever as soon as the seed catalogs arrive in early January? I do. Gardening is a very therapeutic and relaxing hobby. What a great feeling when you are connected to the earth. It is so calming to watch all the beautiful plants emerg...

NaturalMommys: RocketMoms Graduate

Christina was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-w...

Neil Young

Neil's full name is Neil Percival Young. Neil was born in Toronto on Nov. 12, 1945 to Scott and Edna Young.

Neil's first band was called The Jades which he started while he was in Junior High School. Later, while he was a student at Winnipeg's Kelvi...

New England Foliage

Happy Fall everyone! I am so lucky to be living in the middle of a beautiful painting! This is how I feel every Autumn as I drive or walk along the roads of my little New England town and the surrounding area. The colors begin to show up at the end...

New Year Predictions and Resolutions

From weight loss to world peace, the future is on everyone's minds, especially the near future. Do you have resolutions for the upcoming new year? How about predictions? Where do you see yourself at the end of 2009? Where do you see the state of the...

Newbies Guide To Securing Computer System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping. As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers.
Whi...

Noadi's Lensography

This is a directory lens of all the Squidoo lenses, mostly art and craft related I also have lenses about authors, artists, animals, farm life, and more.

Not Your Usual Zucchini Recipes

You've made every zucchini recipe in your cookbook, but you STILL have bushels of zucchini left. You've given zucchini away to everyone you know, you've left bags of it in the break room at work, but the garden just keeps producing more.

Try some of...

Nurturing Imagination

When my boys turned 7 and 4, a dear friend gave them each one of the best gifts they've ever received.  They were capes, homemade capes made from a silky king-sized bed sheet she had picked up at a yard sale. Perfect props to help them us...

OhMe: RocketMoms Graduate

Nancy was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

Only Good News!

How many times have you turned on the news in a good mood and found your whole world has shifted in a matter of minutes? In this time of economic struggles, home foreclosures and swine flu, we all need something in our lives to let us know there is g...

Optical illusions the Visual Photo Phenomena

Prepare to be amazed. Weird illusions to challenge your mind, an optical illusion also called a visual illusion is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.

The information gathered by the eye is processed in th...

Origami for Christmas

I love to play with origami. A simple square of paper has the possibility of becoming all sorts of three dimensional forms with folds. And you are not limited to paper! Some of the decorations I will show you use wire mesh, or polymer clay. If you ca...

Paper Mache as an Art Medium

Paper Mache requires few tools, simple materials, and recycles old paper into art. Now we associate it with children's school projects but paper mache started out as and remains a medium for fine art. Read on to learn more about this great medium (an...

Party Light Strings

Make a hit with strings of party lights for your next backyard bash or use them to decorate your flat, home or dorm. I love novelty party lights on strings. I have many different sets and designs of party lights: skeleton lights with moving bones, ti...

Pastiche Family Portal - Learning and Play for Parents, Teachers, Kids

Pastiche Family Portal is an award-winning family web site filled with hand-picked home and family lifestyle articles, seasonal crafts, recipes and personally screened quality family links for parents, teachers, day care providers and even special se...

Pastiche's Lensography

This lensography features the most popular lenses on Squidoo by Pastiche - that's me. My newest lenses always appear at the beginning of this lens. Join my fan club - you'll get a Squidcast heads-up when I update one of your favorites.

I&#39...

Pastiche: RocketMoms Graduate

Lee was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week pr...

Patriotic Gardens

There are a variety of ways to show off your patriotism, some more selfless than others. A great way to achieve this from the comfort of home, is to plant a patriotic garden full of reds, whites, and blues.

Pay It Forward - Ideas to Brighten a Stranger's Day

We all complain, but most of us have it pretty easy. Sure, there are rough spots along the way. It happens to all of us. Why not help out someone who's going through a rough spot?

Hopefully, this lens will inspire everyone that visits to do one little...

Peace Clip Art

The peace sign and other symbols for peace are popular subjects for artists, graphic designers and designers. You can find peace symbols as a key element in many works of art, on posters, cards and stickers, peace symbols on clothing, and even peace...

Peace Coloring - The Color of Peace

Children love coloring and themes of peace. Peace coloring book activities and drawing peace pictures teaches children how peace, kindness, conflict resolution and positive behavior can improve their lives and the world around them.

Children enjoy c...

Peace Education

In our schools and universities we study wars and political conflicts, we discuss them, dissect them and promote them, but seldom do we teach how to avoid them.

There seems to be no lack of information on how to wage war, but not in what is required...

Peggy707: RocketMoms Graduate

Peggy was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

Pennsylvania Dutch Country

This lens provides you with regional information and resources to plan a trip to Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania Deitsch) country. Any vacation visit to Southern Pennsylvania simply must include a tour of the farms, valleys and byways where the Amis...

Pet Friendly Hotels

Are you planning to dream vacation with your loved one this winter and don't know where to keep your pet? Do you have to fly abroad for a very important official meeting but worried about the safety of your pet? Then you can leave all your worries at...

Photo Art | Design Your Photos | Photo On Canvas

Hi All! For those of you who do not know Photofiddle.com, it is the internet's leading photo art website.  Photofiddle.com turns ordinary photos, digital pictures, or virtually any digital image and transforms them into over ...

Photo Crafts

So now that you have all sorts of great photos from your Photography Projects, what are you going to do with them? Well, of course, there is sharing them online or printing them for friends and family, but what about something a bit different? Here a...

Photos Into Art

Many of us take photos - only a few of us are artists. However, today anybody can turn a photo into a piece of art on sites like Photowow, BeFunky and Photofiddle.

You can do this yourself and share it via email and the Internet; do it yourself and...

Photoshop brushes by Graphics-Illustrations.Com

We all know how Hi-Quality Photoshop brushes improve every designers productivity and how remarkably they speed up the process of graphic design. Not just the process of typical graphic design, but they also come as a "must have" tool for e...

Photoshop Graphics Editing Tips

Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are powerful graphics editing programs available for PC or Mac computers. Photoshop is an essential tool for digital photographers and graphic artists; its also useful to anyone who wants to create computer art or ma...

Pimp My Lens: Great Lensmastering Tips & Tricks Headquarters

PIMP MY LENS:
Great Lensmastering Tips & Tricks!


The home for lenses & Info & tips on how to maintain or improve any lens on Squidoo! Why have an average lens when you can have a "Splendiferous" Lens? Content, Layout, Design, Resources and more. Grea...

Pine Needle Baskets by Nara White Owl

I began making pine needle baskets with the simple statement "I could never do that".

Hundreds of pine needle baskets later my simple statement has now become "I could never go long without making baskets."

Its true - so much of my every day life h...

Pirate Scrapbook Page Ideas and Supplies

Do you know a little Pirate? If so, are you planning on creating a Pirate scrapbook page, layout or album? You will find all of your pirate scrapbooking supplies right here! I have searched the Internet to find all of the best and most up-to-date scr...

Pirates Coloring & Crafts

Pirate coloring pages are great for relaxing fun, and they make a great basis for designing your own pirate party invites, decorations, pirate crafts and tee shirts. You'll find many collections of pirate coloring pages here, plus pirate maps, pirate...

Platform Storage Beds : Beds with Under Bed Storage

Platform Storage beds for around $200 and Free Shipping on most beds.  All of your choices are right here on one page, so selection is easy. No need to search all over the internet for the right bed. You can compare beds and prices right here to...

Playing With Food

Don't play with your food. You've were told this over and over as a kid. Why? Why not play with your food? Why not make a mashed potato snowman? Why not test your hypothesis that peas will roll down celery sticks faster then carrot sticks. Why not at...

Plum Island

The best of PI.


Eat, sleep, have a great time...and go home with a souvenir.

Never heard of it? You're not the only one.

Plum Island has to be one of Massachusetts' best kept secrets. Less than an hour north of Boston you will find miles of pristi...

Porirua

Since 1973 I have lived in one of New Zealand's younger and smaller cities, Porirua. I don't want to leave.

Nobody else has written more than a couple of words on a Squidoo lens about it, so maybe I should.

The image is looking north towards Plimme...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Survivors

If you haven't read part 1 of this series, you might want to catch up a little first. Life after Fibromyalgia

The last thing I ever wanted to be was one of those people with a bunch of letters defining who they are and what they can do. Though I...

President Barack Obama

Barack Obama - First African American steps into the White House! History has been made and the world is watching with hope in their hearts that America will once again become the leader it once was. This lens is a collection of information from aro...

Pressing Autumn Leaves

Do you remember pressing leaves as a child? I can remember my grandmother and I finding the most beautifully colored leaves to keep as memories of our time together.

My grandmother will have been gone for 20 very long years in October of 2009, but I...

Princess Ava and Prince Kali Illustrated

Princess Ava and Prince Kali is my third published book.
First of all if you have not started to write your book, do that first! That is called self motivation! Once you have your creativity down on paper you will want to see it in print. Before goin...

Printable Greeting Cards

You can find printable greeting cards and note cards online at low and even no cost (yes, free printable greeting cards do exist). There are many lovely printable holiday greeting card designs on the Internet that you can print out as well as birthda...

Printable Awards, Certificates, and Diplomas for Home and School

The Squidoo Guide to Printable Awards and Achievement Certificates for kids and adults will help you find and create school diplomas, achievement awards, certificates, employee awards, special effort citations and recognition documents from your comp...

Printing With Coffee

Cafegrafia, or Coffee Art, the unique process of developing photographs using coffee as a pigment was invented by Saul Bolanos. His photos are of Costa Rican Coffee processing from a century ago.

Learn how coffee is now produced in Costa Rica. Pour...

Project BudBurst: Recording the Signs of Spring

My grandmother was an avid gardener and observer of nature. She kept careful track of when the snow melted, buds emerged in the Spring and when each flower burst into bloom. Records like these are now being sought by Project BudBurst to create a data...

Prosperity66 Goes Adsense Business

Prosperity66 goes Adsense business is a step-by-step how to guide on how to make Google Adsense work for you. 

Google Adsense's Principle:

All you have to do with Adsense, is placing ad on your pages and driving high traffic for high demand...

Pumpkin Ginger Soup

I'm not sure if this would be considered a Halloween or a Thanksgiving recipe, but I do know that it will warm you up on a chilly Fall evening. Pumpkin ginger soup is not only delicious, but is sure to please any guests that may pop by during the...

Purely Pomegranate

Pomegranates not only taste good, but are so good for you. Discover this wonderful fruit's amazing health benefits, recipes, and many uses with me.

Purse Hangers

Protect your purse from dirty floors by hanging it right next to you on the table. These cool purse hangers are functional & most importantly, they "look fabulous". They offer peace of mind and a nice companion accessory to your purses no matter wher...

Queen Anne's Lace

Every summer my grandson and I have fun cutting Queen Anne's Lace and dying the flower different colors with food coloring. We started doing this when he was a toddler and it has become a tradition that we both look forward to.

He is now 9 years old...

Quick and Easy Recipes

I love collecting and sharing recipes with others as well as developing new recipes for my family and friends. As a busy mom, I prefer quick and easy recipes that I can prepare with the children. It's important to involve kids in the cooking proc...

Rachel's Melted Fabrics

My name's Rachel. I'm a textiles artist from the UK.

I make wall hangings, bags, purses and figurines from layered, embroidered and melted textiles.

Rachel's Melted Fabrics is a website I started in 2003 for all my crafty exploits.

Find out more a...

Rain Gardens-Nature's Water Filters

A rain garden is a landscape feature that collects storm water runoff from roofs, driveways and paved surfaces in a bermed garden area. Rain garden designs are simple - they're basically a shallow depression or bowl shape surrounded by planted areas....

Rainbows in Art

Rainbows are one of the most beautiful atmospheric phenomena. Rainbows have come to symbolize so many things - hope, unity, faith, promise, and a bridge to forever - or a guide to treasure! No wonder we love to surround ourselves with their images in...

Randy Pausch Memorial Service & Enduring Legacy of Last Lecture Professor

It's Not About How To Achieve Your Dreams, But About How To Live Your Life

Everytime someone reads Randy Pausch's inspirational book, The Last Lecture and passes along a copy as a gift, organizes book club readings and discussions, Randy Pausch's le...

Real Ice Cream

This recipe is for real ice cream. It has only 3 ingredients: cream, sugar and vanilla (also a dash of salt). Here you'll find the basic vanilla recipe and you can take it from there. Add fruit or other stuff if you like - I'll show you how.

Why do...

Real Life Horror Story: Centralia, PA

A coal fire below Centralia, PA has been burning for 45 years and has enough fuel to burn for another 250 years. It's a real life horror story with no immediate end in sight. The roads are closed, signs are posted about toxic gas emissions, the ceme...

Recently Published Lens List

This lens show you how to add a list of your most recently published lenses to a lens, or to a blog by using a customised newsfeed. It will take you less than 2 minutes in 5 easy steps.

The standard Squidoo lensmaster newsfeed display lenses in lensr...

Recycled Used Jeans - Recycle Your Old Jeans Into Designer Fashion Garments, Accessories And Home Dec Items

Never, ever thow away a pair of old worn out jeans.  It is truly amazing what you can create out of them.  It is so much fun to recycle your favorite jeans into another favorite item.  The ideas are endless.

So why not recycle...

Recycling at Home - Beyond Bottles and Cans

Ok, so you sort out your bottles, cans and newspapers for recycling... but are you aware of the hundreds of ways you can recycle common household products like coffee filters, silica gel packets, haircolor kits, cereal boxes and egg cartons?

And hey...

Recycling sweaters into new accessories

Often a jersey or sweater will wear through at the elbows or develop a hole somewhere just through use.



While smaller holes can be darned and elbows can be patched over, modern jerseys etc don't lend themselves to patching as it rather ruins th...

Red Packets

I was packing one of my drawers and found a big pile of used red packets. Some are too nice to be throw away. I can actually collect them and use them to make some decorative craft works for the next Chinese New Year.

While sorting them out, I reali...

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...

Remembering Music of the 1960's

Isn't it funny how a piece of music or a specific smell can take us back in time? We hear it and instantly in our mind we are transported to a time when life was simple and memories were being made.
I wasn't around until early 70's but all through my...

Ribbons of Awareness

Since their introduction in the United States in 1991, colorful swirling Ribbons have quickly spread.

They have wrapped their tendrils around the world to become a lasting symbolic, cultural icon representing awareness, unity, support and hope to t...

rms: RocketMoms Graduate

Robin was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

RocketMoms

RocketMoms? RocketMoms is a group of like-minded Lensmasters on Squidoo who work together and help each other in lenscrafting, networking and lots more!

RocketMoms have their own template and their own Top 100 and it occurred to me that unless I was...

RocketMoms Images For RocketMoms

These Images are FREE for use for all RocketMoms & on RocketMoms Template Lenses.

If you are not a RocketMom, but would like to use one of these images to make a lens about The RocketMoms or the Rocket Moms Program or about a specific RocketMom. Ple...

RocketMoms Travel First Class

RocketMoms is an exciting group of moms of all shapes and sizes who are sharing their ideas, and learning from each other.

RocketMoms live all over the world and have traveled to many interesting destinations with their own families. This lens is fu...

Royalty Free Clipart For Blogs and Websites

Are you tired of image searching for that perfect clip art picture to use on your website, your blog or your homeschool activities?

I used to spend so much time searching all over the Internet for that one right clip art picture or perfect photo to...

Royalty Free Landscape and Seascape Photos

All of the pictures in this lens are completely royalty free! The only condition is that you link back to us if you use our images and please, no reselling of the images. All of the images here are of high quality and resolution, perfect for your web...

Royalty-free photos

I've been sorting through digital photos that I've been taking since 2001. The only problem being is while I had a good camera for a number of years, it was a film camera. The digital camera I was using was a dinky little one. Just for fun. Had I wan...

Runt Farm Series by Amanda Lorenzo

The Runt Farm Series children's books is the brain child of author, Amanda Lorenzo -- and from the eye-catching book covers, illustrated by Mark Evan Walker, to the subject matter that features non-traditional family life, Lorenzo has penned a se...

Rustic Goth

My original dark art paintings and prints have been described as; sad and surreal, raw and emotional, macabre and brut.

Yet, there is a ray of hope in each one!

Salt Dough Maps

How can a little flour, water, and paint become a fantastic hands-on geography project? With salt dough maps, that's how!

Get messy and make a 3D relief map of a country or state with these directions and pictures.

Santa Claus

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Seed and Garden Supply Catalogs and Product Reviews

Time to order those seed catalogs, so you can start looking through them to order your seeds for your gardens! Or for faster , easier ordering, order right here from their websites! You can also look over the beautiful pictures of flowers and vegetab...

Senior Citizen Ideas and Information

Welcome!

This is the Place for Finding Resources for Seniors, Senior Caregivers, Adult Home Activity Directors, and Friends and Family of Seniors, Grandmas and Grandpas.

Lots of Senior Citizen Articles about all kinds of subjects, Online College I...

Senior Geek Squids Headquarters

 

Senior Geek Squids-Boomer Lensmasters

We are the creative, inquisitive, inventive computer jockeys born before the middle of the last century, the senior somewhat geeky Squids who use technology in a practical or fun way. Join this group of l...

Senior Squids

Are you over age fifty? Are you a Squidoo lensmaster? If the question is YES to both, you're welcome to join a new group, Senior Squids... for those of us born a while back.

I love being an older citizen and I hope you do too. I love networking with...

Shades Of Black And White

This lens is written based on events in my life that led me to the place I am today. The journey was often times painful and collected its fair share of baggage along the way. The end result was worth every painful step.

Please be my guest and read...

Shepard Fairey - Biography, Prints, Books, DVDs and More!

Shepard Fairey's iconic Hope painting helped America to visualize change in 2008, artistically defining Barack Obama's presidential campaign.  The contemporary artist and champion of the street art scene probably never thought that his p...

Shower Enclosures

Shower enclosures were popularized in part of the design boom with bathroom suppliers exhibiting sleek trendy designs. Not before long homeowners were demolishing their existing bathrooms down to the bare walls, thus creating an increase in demand fo...

Silly Animal Photos - Caption This!

Do animals have a sense of humor? Pets get themselves into some pretty silly situations and funny poses. What runs through an animal's mind in situations that humans would find perplexing, annoying or hilarious? I think animals have feelings and a se...

Sinful Chocolate Cake Recipes

Introducing chocolate cake recipes from basic, to mousses, to cheesecakes. Highlighting sinfully, devilish and delicious chocolate cake recipes; some simple, some complex including Robin Hood Cake recipes.

Sixties Art - Op Art, Pop Art, Psychedelic Graphics

This Sixties Art lens pays homage to graphic and fine artists of the 1960s - their work and their legacy with continuing influence on pop culture. If you experienced music in the rain, bell bottoms, neon colors, dizzying patterns, genuine tie dye and...

Small Town Biz

Making a living in Small Town America, way back of the beyond, can be a challenge.  Especially when there is no industry, farming is in decline, and incomes are decreasing. This lens offers ideas for people who want to move to rural parts for a...

Spiritual Quotes and Wisdom Sayings

This lens has links to websites and books with wise quotes from various spiritual traditions to uplift your life and inspire you to kindness, patience, inner strength and a better life in general.

Squid Angel

SquidAngel Blessing | If you have found your way here you have probably been 'Blessed By A Squid Angel!' What just happened? Read on to find out more about Squid Blessings and more about SemperFidelis. Perhaps some randomness, as well!

Squidaholics Anonymous

It's the newest addiction to hit the streets.

It starts with just one.. then you build a second, and a third, and before you know it you have a dozen.

Then two dozen... then 50!  You know what I mean, don't you?  Because you're probably...

Squidconomy - The Economics of Squidoo

Historical Adsense Payouts, Buying and Selling lenses, Affiliate payouts and more make up the mountain of ways you can make a few bucks using squidoo. Here is the history of these things and how they evolve through the life of Squidoo.

SquidDon't!

It's simple: given our pedigree, our point of view and our dyed-in-the-wool, we-will-never-change-our-mind conviction on this issue, spam is not okay at Squidoo.

This page outlines our thinking on the issue. It supplements our terms of service. Don'...

Squidoo Co-Branding

Squidoo Co-Branding is taking an already successful format and marketing it into different brands. Like SquidBids, SquidVids and SquidWho. Here is a list that I compiled for you to wade through the Co-Branding waters!

Squidoo also uses the term "Fro...

Squidoo Lensrank Earnings Reporting Tools

This Lensrank and Earnings reporting spreadsheet template was written to track lensrank, and estimated and actual earnings.

I created this spreadsheet to help me view my Lenses Lensrank trends and Visit stats.  I had seen quite a few references...

Squidoo Step by Step

Squidoo Step by Step is a FREE Squidoo Guidebook. Written by well known Squidoo Lensmasters, the Guidebook is full of Squidoo tips and help to make the process of creating and promoting Squidoo lenses much easier.

The Squidoo Guidebook is full of ea...

Squidoo Tech Stew - Tips for Tasty Lenses

Squidoo Tech Stew is a collection of top notch Squidoo lens building and promotion resources. Remember the fable about Stone Soup, where each member of the group added a single ingredient to a humble pot of soup and the result was a big and delicious...

Squidoo Tips & Tricks Headquarters

Squidoo Tips & Tricks Lenses | All lenses accepted that have anything to do about Squidoo how-to, to include Squid Angel, SquidU, Giant Squid, etc., lenses. Family friendly only please!

Squidoo Tips And Tutorials

This lens presents my archive of Squidoo resources: tips for beginners, how-to lenses, articles about Squidoo.com, Squidoo books, Squidoo tricks, insights, trials and errors to learn from, Squidoo tools, Squidoo help, outstanding lenses by top Squido...

Squidoo Tips: Building Web Traffic

Welcome to Part II of Greekgeek's Squidoo Tips: How To Get Your Lens Found! 

This tutorial focuses on building web traffic with social networking. I'll also recommend some simple tools to improve your lens, so that visitors stick around...

Squidoo Tools, Resources, and Guides

Squidoo Tools, Guides, Lens addons, Linkbuilding tips, and news

This is a collection of free Squidoo tools, guides, and other resources to help you build and market your Squidoo Lenses.

I will also continue to gather various addons that you can ad...

Squidoo Traffic Tricks: (how to get more visitors and a better search engine ranking for your Squidoo lens)

Do you have some lenses that don't get as many visitors as they deserve?

Would you like to learn how to get more people reading your lenses?

Wanna know how to make people come back to your lenses again and again?

Would you like to rank higher in G...

Squidoo's Stylish Lens Themes

Squidoo has launched a new tool that allows you to change the theme of your lenses. It's as quick and easy as editing your lens, selecting your theme, and publishing.

Get a taste of the new themes below, and decide which ones are best for your lens!

St. Patrick's Day Fun for Everyone

Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day - at least it seems like that in the USA. Join the festivities for St. Patrick's day - enjoy a St. Patrick's Day party, decorate the office, classroom and home with shamrocks, leprechauns and St. Patrick's Day h...

Star Charts: Reward Charts for Kids

We all crave a gold star or reward badge that says "I'm special!" or "I did it!". Kids really respond to praise and encouragement-that's why star charts or chore charts are an excellent tool for building positive behaviors and self esteem, or for hel...

Steampunk Fashion 101

A starting point for getting into Steampunk Fashion, this lens is just the tip of the iceberg that includes the basic information you need as well as a virtual boutique for getting your wardrobe started.

Once you get an eye for steampunk you'll reco...

Submit URL: Squidoo Lens Promotion

On this page, you'll find some links to places you can submit your Squidoo lenses to so that you can get more web traffic to your lens.

Google is usually the main source of traffic to my lenses, but to rank well in Google takes other websites linkin...

Summer in a Blender

I am a food person, with many loves: chocolate, olives, seafood. I'm happy to enjoy a complicated meal, if someone else cooks it ;) But I'm especially drawn to recipes with very few ingredients, not only because they're easy to prepare but because th...

Super Advanced HTML Tips and Tricks to use on Squidoo

These html tricks for Squidoo are not really that super advanced. But they are super cool! Anyone can do this, Yes, you too!

This lens would not be possible if it were not for the groundwork of other lenmasters: specifically, Magicality and N376 so t...

SusanVillasLewis

Well, probably for my mom and my husband. But I guess the rest of you won't love me just for existing. So here's more about me, links to my various lenses, thoughts on future lenses and just the general randomness that is Susan.

This will forever be...

Sweet Bouquets - Candy Crafts - Edible Arrangements

Anyone can give a bouquet of flowers or a box of candy as a gift. Why not give an incredible edible candy craft bouquet or an arrangement made from sweet treats (candy, cookies, fruit)? Every holiday features special sweet treats - why not make a de...

Tagfoot Mentors: Your Guides in the Clouds

Tagfoot is a social bookmarking site with the emphasis on social. When you join the Tagfoot community, you'll learn to tag yourself so others who have the same interests you do can find you. You'll also learn how to find others who have tagged themse...

Tasty Apple Desserts to Satisfy Any Sweet Tooth

Ah, the apple. Crispy, crunchy, tasty. There's a variety for any taste, from sweet to tart, crisp to soft, and everything in between.

The smell and taste of apples cooking conjure up visions of that idealised home and childhood everyone wishes he ha...

Tea Bag Folding and Pattern Instructions

Tea bag folding is a paper folding craft developed in Europe. It is similar to origami folding. You use all the basic origami folds such as the boat, the water bomb or the square base. It is as absorbing as origami because your output can be endless....

Teach a kid to sew

I am a mentor to a Latina who is just entering ninth grade. Her family generally shops at big box stores, but I thought it would be fun to show her you can be more involved in the look of your clothes and you can make them just the way you like.

Sew...

Teach Peace

I truly believe that kindness matters and if we can strengthen the trait of compassion that humans show to one another, animals, and their environment it would rule out many of the problems and challenges we face in the world today and for our childr...

Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids

Celebrate the bounty of harvest season making Thanksgiving crafts with your family. This lens features harvest season Thanksgiving crafts: Thanksgiving paper crafts, Thanksgiving food crafts, harvest nature crafts and recycled materials crafts with a...

Thanksgiving Treat Dog Food Recipe

Share the holiday spirit with your furry family by making this delicious and nutritious dish with turkey, cranberries, carrots, green beans and sweet potato!  They will love it!

Making your own dog food is a way of guaranteeing the quality of th...

The 9 Free Things Every Site (or Lens!) Should Do

Rule #1: If you have a site or Squidoo lens, you want more traffic.

Rule #2: You don't have enough money to buy as much traffic as you need.

Rule #3: You've already made your site/lens as compelling as you know how to.

So, what now? Read on for the (...

The ABC's With Monarch13

Hello, my name is Michelle, aka Monarch13.
I first joined Squidoo in December of 2007, initially writing about health related subjects. I have since expanded my horizons to include other topics that fascinate me such as symbolism and legends as well...

The ABCs of Dr. Seuss and Me

With millions of books in print, and nearly all of his 50-plus titles still available for sale, Dr. Seuss was, up until his death in 1991, by far one of the most prolific living writers in the world. In fact, his GREEN EGGS AND HAM is the third large...

The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe Ever

There are no 2 treats that I love more than cake and chocolate. And, when the two are combined, it's pure heaven!! Here you will find a chocolate cake to satisfy the devil and the angel within you! I hope you love these recipes as much as I do!!

Flo...

The Best FREE BlackBerry Apps

Your BlackBerry is a mighty fine piece of machinery.

It does everything you want it to and more, right? Not quite! You can install 'BlackBerry Apps' onto your handset and make your BlackBerry do even more!

Here is a collection of some of the free B...

The Best HDTVs for 2009

The ultimate one-page guide to LCD HDTVs: all of the "need to know" information about LCD and HDTV technology you'll need before making that final decision!

See the current top 5 best HDTVs, too: a current list is added every single...

The Best Jobs For The Future

The future is cloudy, a likely economic depression makes all projections a bit chancy. How then can we decide on the top jobs for the future?



We can see large trends and act on them, such as the emergence of self as the largest employer category....

The Best Site for Finding a Retirement Community Ever

Retirement living can be a plus. Some seniors choose life in a community based on a Golf Course; others prefer the economy of a retirement building with no frills. Some seniors opt for a smaller luxurious home in a Senior Gated Community with a vibra...

The Best-Ever Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrot Cake. WOW. Why should you eat carrot cake? How about because they are a great source of fiber, vitamins, nuts and other nutrients? How about just because they are delicious!!!

I didn't know I loved carrot cake until I made this delicious re...

The Best-Ever Hawaiian Punch Recipe

The best-ever Hawaiian punch recipe you will ever find is available right here on this page! A homemade recipe, it is simple to put together, it is nutritious and it is definitely delicious!

I actually have THREE delicious punch recipes but, after a b...

The Coolest Blogs Featuring Squidoo Ever

Blogging is good...and the some of the best Lensmaters on Squidoo have started one! I have complied the a Directory of The Coolest Blogs Featuring Squidoo Ever. Lensmasters really know how to promote a good thing, check out these super cool blogs!

I...

The Cycle of the Seasons: A Calendar for Kids

As soon as one birthday is gone, the questions start: When is my birthday? How long is that? When is Christmas? How long is that? A countdown calendar is good to see how many days are left, but it doesn't help with the concept of one season following...

The Forever 27 Club

Have you ever noticed that some of the most talented musical performers have died at age 27 either by suicide, drug abuse or tragic sudden death? Why 27? Enough people have noticed this trend and coined the term The 27 Club or The Forever 27 Club. Yo...

The Gift of Kindness

The gift of kindness doesn't always come naturally. Sometimes it's "caught" by observing someone whose quiet, gentle spirit makes a lasting impression--a parent, teacher, or special friend. Sometimes it's learned through the school of hard knocks, wh...

The Hitchhikers Guide to The Squidoo Lens Creation Universe!

Hi Folks as a volunteer forum moderator of the Squidoo Forum, and Squidoo Angel, over time I have collected a vast knowledge base of lenses and articles pertaining to building great Squidoo lenses. I use this extensive collection of resources to hel...

The I Wish Game

Have you ever played The I wish game? You know the one I'm talking about. I wish I would have spent more time with the family, I wish I wouldn't have made this decision or that decision. We've all played this game and playing this game doesn't get us...

The Non-Electric Life

Electricity is clean energy right? One of the greatest things ever invented, and the power behind all sorts of modern conveniences.

The Pink Floyd World

True fascination of the band Pink Floyd is the reason why I bring this lens to you. Get the latest news and rumours.

You'll find news, special breaking news, feeds articles, links to tons of Pink Floyd fan sites, the official...

The Pink Halloween Fairy

This is the story of a pink tutu Halloween costume. For a long time my husband, Don and I had this idea to make a pink tutu costume for HIM! We just thought it was a funny idea but we never really had a reason to make it. Then one year his place of w...

The Psychedelic Furs

The Psychedelic Furs were a British post-punk, new wave band formed in 1977 by brothers Richard and Tim Butler. Their 1980 self-titled debut album was produced by Steve Lillywhite. The LP quickly established the band on radio and was a top 20 hit in...

The Purple Star Program!

Some things are worth the wait.

That includes the new Purple Star program.

Giant Squids, please meet your newest perk.

Anyone who hopes to be a Giant one day soon, meet your latest reason to roll up your sleeves and keep trying.

The Road to Giant Squidhood

For Giant Squid status that is. This is my lensography (Google loves that word...it thinks it's about eye glasses) for how I achieved that.

When I first decided I wanted to be a Giant Squid was in May of '08. The obsessive part of me wanted...

The State of Massachusetts

I live here & I love it! It can be cold, winter is too long, it's very liberal, but we have GREAT colleges, terrific sports teams, mountains, ocean, city living, lakes, lots of trees & great hospitals. Come visit!

The thanks giving project

This is a 20 second challenge.

Here's what you have to do: thank someone.

That's it.

In honor of thanks-giving, not just the American holiday but a universal spirit of gratitude, I'm inviting you to post a public acknowledgement of someone who mat...

The Tooth Fairy Legend - Child's Favorite Fairy

The Tooth Fairy is a wonderful night stealth creature who leaves little gifts and even money for children in exchange for their lost baby teeth. Tooth fairy legends abound in many different cultures, each with its own special tooth fairy customs and...

Tiffany: RocketMoms Graduate

Tiffany was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-wee...

Time for a Coffee Break

Ahhhhh the wonderful aroma of fresh coffee brewing, this is my favorite way to start the day.

Grab a cup of your favorite brew and join me for a coffee break.

Let's just see what it takes to make that perfect cup of coffee. I have some brewing now,...

Tips For Choosing A Dog

Pets and Kids. Kids and Pets. A lot alike aren't they? Hearing "Can we get a dog?" often are you? Or perhaps you are all by yourself looking for a companion to complete your family. Whatever your reason, you'll be asking "What kind of dog should I ge...

Tips for collecting vintage and antique signs

Just how hot is the vintage sign market? Click on ebay, and you'll see old signs, especially porcelain signs, going for prices from $200. and up.

The interest in vintage signs and advertising graphics has exploded in the last decade. Collectors are...

Tips for Quick and Easy Backlinks

Building back links for your web site (especially a brand new web site) can often be difficult. In this lens I will explain a few tips and tricks you can use to create instant back links to your web site to help kick start your link profile.

Image...

Too Young For Scissors? Punch Outs Are the Answer!

Students come into my Montessori classroom at age 3. A few have the fine motor skills to use scissors or hold a pencil correctly, but most are not yet ready. What they can do are paper punch outs! Using a simple push pin and a basic outline, you can...

Toothpaste Putty

Have fun at home with your children by using this simple putty recipe. Play with your putty and create whatever you would like. Try using cookie cutters and kitchen utensils to shape and mold your putty into whatever you imagine it to be.

The only l...

Top 10 Best Christmas Gift Ideas 2010

Welcome to the Top Christmas Gift Guide featuring 100's of the best Christmas gift ideas of the year. Below you'll find a wonderful, quick-shop gift guide spotlighting both popular & unique Christmas gift ideas they'll love, at prices you'll adore. P...

Top 10 Blu-ray Movies For Best Picture & Sound Quality

Are you wondering what are the top 10 blu-ray movies and discs? Look no further! This page includes the best blu-ray movies or discs as defined by Sound & Vision magazine in the July/August 2008 edition. Remember this movie list is from a magazin...

Top 10 Internet Memes

An internet phenomenon or a meme is an image, video, phrase or simply an idea that spreads from one person to another seemingly for no logical reason at all. When people see a meme, no matter how silly it usually is, they find it amusing for one reas...

Top 100 Rated Lensmasters

Here are the Top Rated Lensmasters, based on how many stars their lenses have received from fellow Lensmasters, across all of their lenses.

This is calculated from the data collected by SQUIDUtils.com. 
(see Lensmaster Tools for more inform...

Toys of our Baby Boomer Childhood

People who grew up in the fifties and sixties have become the biggest collectors of toys from that era. Toys of our baby boomer childhood represent a much simpler time and bring back pleasant memories of childhood. These were the days before computer...

Traffic From Image Searches

Google Images | Traffic and hits to your lens or web-page. Yahoo, MSN, and Google image searches are the best kept secret among experienced webmasters and SEO consultants for acquiring readers to internet locations around the web. Read on to find out...

Trailer Trash Toffee

I am all about the easy when it comes to baking. This is one of those super addictive, can't just eat one treat that always goes over well. I love to have people take a guess at the ingredients. Rarely can anyone pinpoint that the tasty, krispy crust...

Tuba Christmas

Tuba Christmas-have you ever heard of this holiday concert tradition? I first learned about Tuba Christmas in New York from my son-in-law who grew up on Long Island. Each Christmas he would travel into the city with his tuba to participate in the all...

Tuula_Olin: RocketMoms Graduate

Tuula was one of the very first people to participate in the maiden voyage of our Rocketmoms academy.

Rocketmoms is a gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses (and a whole lot more).

As part of the 6-week...

Twilight Costumes - Edward Cullen, Bella, Alice & More!

The new Cullen, Quileute & Volturi Crest jewelry are all now available just in time to wear to the New Moon movie premiere!


So you've been bitten by Twilight and need the perfect costume before you move to Forks to live with the Cullen cove...

U2 the Irish Band ~ Featuring U2 Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews

U2 isn't just about these four guys. U2, is about you too baby! They put the music together and play it and sing it better than any other group on the planet, because it's not just about them, it's about us baby.

You don't hear other groups playing...

Unique Hanukkah Menorahs

Traditional or Modern, the collection of unique Hanukkah menorahs you will find here is spectacular.  There is a Hanukkah menorah for every member of your family, even some really fun children's menorahs. 

Here you can also find the da...

Valentine Cards and Gifts

Valentine's Day gifts include lots more than greeting cards. Candy, flowers, perfume, apparel and jewelry are popular gifts for Valentine's Day - in fact, for many folks a Valentine card is only a small part of how they express and share their love o...

Valentine Clip Art

Where can you find Valentine clip art and romantic graphics collections? I found hundreds of heart graphics and Valentine clipart collections filled with romantic clip art. I love to draw heart graphics and love theme graphics to use for designing gr...

Valentine Coloring Pages

This lens is filled with Valentine coloring pages - Valentine's Day coloring pictures, Valentine coloring crafts and romantic coloring pictures with hearts, flowers and love themes. Make Valentine cards and decorations from coloring pages.

Design an...

Valentine Crafts and Gifts You Can Make

Show your feelings and express your sentiments for Valentine's Day with a hand made card or crafty Valentine gift. If you love Valentine's Day, decorate up the house or office, make a thoughtful card, whip up sweet treats and special gifts, or just...

Valentines Day Gift Ideas For Everyone

What should I buy for Valentines day is a question that plagues some people year after year. If you are fortunate enough to have someone in your life that you love, whether it be a mom, dad, wife, girlfriend,husband, or boyfriend, here are some valen...

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...

Vegetarians Headquarters

Vegetarian resources on Squidoo

Vegetarians HQ is our Squidoo group for lenses relating to vegetarian and vegan food, the vegetarian lifesyle, shopping, recipes, and other information.

My entire family are vegetarians and I am passionate about vegetar...

Vintage Graphics & Antique Clip Art

The vintage graphics on old-time photos, retro greeting cards, sheet music, antique advertising, and other paper items add a warm and nostalgic feeling to crafts and hand made gifts.The vintage clip art, photos and drawings you find in old magazines...

Vintage Magazine Ads - The Nostalgic Factor

Come stroll with me on a journey into the past using vintage magazine ads to bring back memories of your youth.

Old advertising from magazines reminds people of their youth and silly jingles that went along with the products. A simpler time and happ...

Vintage Valentine's Day Cards

Vintage Valentine's Day cards carry us back to another era, when life was slower and sentiments didn't have to be hilarious, witty, or edgy. Greeting cards spoke about relationships as if they were made of glass.

I kind of like that.

This lens will...

Vladimir the Cultured Cat

Please allow me the honour of introducing myself to you. In brief, I am a domestic short hair, fully black with no hint of grey, 18 years old and in prime condition although prone to recurring bouts of yech breath.

Recently, due to circumstances bey...

Wait, Squidoo has Dark Angels too?

You've heard of the Squid Angels, sweet and kind, who flit about Squidoo bearing tidings of joy and happiness and sunshine whilst bestowing Angel Blessings on deserving lenses.

But have you heard of the dark side of being an Angel?

Web Site Apps & Graphics

Find the best free web publishing templates, comment codes, fonts, blog widgets and free graphic images for use on your lens, blog, web site, personal page, MySpace site, eBay store or any other online community page.

Check out the tips for designin...

Wedding Clip Art & Bridal Shower Graphics

This lens will show you how to find hundreds of lovely wedding clip art collections, bridal graphics, border clip art and wedding anniversary printables. You can use wedding graphics and bridal shower clip art to design your own wedding invites, brid...

Wedding Coloring Books

What to do with kids at a wedding? Give them wedding coloring books - romantic coloring pages of brides, weddings, hearts, flowers, love birds, butterflies and marriage themes are perfect favors to hand out to children at Weddings. Add a packet of co...

Wendy Krick's Lensography

Since this is my first Lensography I guess I should start by telling you a little bit about me and how I found Squidoo. And to do that I need to go back even further and explain how I found the Internet.

Back in 2002 we lost our home due to toxic mo...

What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Congratulations! You are the newest member of Squidoo. You have edited your profile, uploaded your picture and now you are faced with the task of creating your first lens. Or maybe you've already made a couple of lenses and now you can't think of any...

What is your Color?

Ever wonder why some people are so easy for you to connect with while others seem to be so difficult? We all are very different but we are usually one of 4 basic personality types. Wouldn't it be cool if you could learn how to figure out someones per...

What's In My Closet - Pastiche's Funky Fashions

I don't know when I fell in love with wearing clothing that was a little off-beat or ahead of the pack. I remember going to a wedding with my grandmother when I was about 4 years old and being fascinated with the taffeta dresses and elbow length fing...

Where Creativity & Intuition Meet

Have you ever just known exactly what to do? Has the paint just flowed from your brush without thought? Have the words just written themselves? Have you just danced with joy to a piece of music you have never heard before? These bursts of creativity...

Where to Find Eco-Friendly Bags

Do you want to help out the environment but are so tired of providing free advertising for your grocery or department store? Then you've come to the right place.

Here is a selection of retailers that offer chic, clever or simply pretty alternatives...

Why Do I Love Squidoo With All My Heart?

This goes far beyond addiction. 

Far beyond fondness. 

Far beyond even longing.

This is love.

True love!

Squidoo. This lens is for you.

Don't feel embarrassed.  I know how you must be feeling.

Curious, confused, ignited...

Why I make Origami Cranes

I watched a boy in my class fold a piece of paper into a crane. He was intensely focused on the task, and it was not clear what he was doing, until he was done. He held up the crane he had fold, and then made the wings flap has he moved the tail back...

Why Ocicats Make Great Pets

There are many reasons that Ocicats make great pets, and many of my own reasons come from personal experience. I first discovered the Ocicat breed when my husband and I were trying to decide between getting a dog and getting a cat. I'm a dog person....

Wild and Majestic Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey or Raptors are birds that usually hunt on the wing. They use their keen sense of sight to spot prey, swoop down, and capture it. They usually have large, powerful beaks and talons for tearing and piercing the flesh of their prey.



I lo...

Women's Hand Tools

If you want to get started on your own set of tools for your DIY jobs, this lens offers my suggestions for filling up your tool box and tool shed with the essentials.

At my house, I fix everything that I can. I absolutely hate working with electricity...

Words and Phrases that Should Exist but Probably Don't

Ever suffered from aerosomnambulism? Would you know if you had..?

Ever been tempted to call someone a scritoon but had no idea why?


Ever felt slightly schadengrint?

If you answered YES (or JA or OUI!) to any of the above, congrafumigations! You'r...

Wrapsacks Hand-Dyed Batik Cloth Gift Bags: Reusable, Regiftable, Recyclable!

Tossing $5 billion worth of gift wrap in the trash each year is a poor way of celebrating anything. Instead choose to "precycle" by giving your gifts in beautiful Wrapsacks reusable cloth gift bags - a double gift to your friend, and a doub...

XXX - Means Hot HOt HOT SAUCE!

XXX hot sauces, or any hot sauce for that matter, were not what I would have considered as condiments back in high school. I remember being a college freshman at Georgia Tech, and having a contest with my fraternity brothers to see who could eat the...

You will learn to crochet

If you need help learning to crochet, then this is the place for you. You will find free step-by-step instructions of different crochet stitches, learn basic crochet abbreviations, about gauging your crochet stitches, and find free crochet patterns....

Your Life Sentence ~~ Six-Word Memoirs or Quotations

In the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, famous and not-so-famous writers were asked to provide their life stories in six word sentences. They responded with funny, sad and often poignant quotes that...

Yummiest Chocolate Cake Ever

Hattie's Chocolate Cake is the best home made chocolate layer cake in the world. Rich, dark, moist and toothy chocolate cake, made from scratch with a secret ingredient - just a hint of coffee ... mmmmm. This is my family's favorite chocolate cake. T...

Zazzle 101 ... How to make a profit on Zazzle

Zazzle is one of the Print-on-demand companies out there that allows people to design & sell their own creations. I love Zazzle's ease of use, friendly staff, and the fact that I can make money on my art.

I've put together this comprehe...

Zazzle Design Site ~ Make money by being creative!

I'm so happy I've discovered Zazzle!! I LOVE this site.

For me, it's a creative outlet to make unique products (& try to sell them). It's so simple to use & add more products. You can also look through the site for gifts you'd like to buy for birthd...