A collection of lenses you love. How do I add a favorite lens?

49 Ideas For Awesome Lenses

...or 10 or 100!

It's pretty easy, non-techy, and of course, free. Right? Right.

Sure, to make your lens a real knockout it takes some time, but chances are you've already learned the basics and are looking to do more.

Congrats. That's the best pl...

500 Hats On Squidoo

The downturn in the economy has been rough on everyone. I work in many facets of the retail industry, so I've had a loss of work and income.

My husband and I have been keeping the plates spinning for a long time, but as you know, if one plate gets o...

6 ways to improve your lens, right now!

You've already done the hard part. You've had a big idea, something you want to talk about or share on your lens, and you got started. Way to go.

So, this lens is about what comes next. It's a quick, 30 second overview of just a handful of easy thin...

A Downunder Christmas Lunch

Allow me to show you how we celebrate Christmas downunder. The early Australian from which I am descended derives largely from British stock with little or no inter-cultural mixing for much of our first 200 years. Up until only fairly recently, say t...

A Lens A Day

I want to make a lot of lenses, but I don't want to take forever to do it. And I want it to be fun. How can I make it interesting?

How about by trying to make one lens per day? That sounds like a lot, doesn't it? I think it's worth a shot. I've got...

Add Borders to Your Lens Photos on Squidoo

Would you like to jazz up the photos on your lenses? You can use borders on your images to give them much more impact and to help them "pop." You just need to use a little bit of simple HTML magic.

I have included easy instructions for a variety of...

Add Your Profile - Make New Friends

Social Bookmarking; Web 2.0; Squidoo - All great new ways to promote your content. Squidoo Lensmasters love to promote their lenses with these sites. Use this site to Add Your Profile address and find other lensmasters profiles on the respective book...

Adding Links to your Images on Squidoo - An iframe alternative

In order to combat those nasty spammers, iframes were disabled on squidoo on July 12, 2007. However, all hope is not lost! If you were using iframes for affiliates, pictures, or other static-type content, here is a work around for you!

Advanced css for squidoo - spice up your lens MORE

My lens about css for squidoo often gets the question: how do I combine the code?

This lens is an answer to that question.

Apex Australia Headquarters

Apex Australia

Lenses that have anything to do with the Association of Apex Clubs of Australia, Phillipeans, India - anywhere there's an Apex Club!

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...

Art Dolls | Cloth Dolls | Making Cloth Dolls| Art Doll Ideas and More

This lens will help you if you are new doll maker, a learner or a bit more advanced at making cloth dolls.

I am going to help you here with tips on the best books to buy, the best places to find information and shortcuts so you will become a better...

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!

Australian Bookshops and Bookstores

Getting hold of  books Down Under is often difficult, with so few online retailers providing services to Austrailia and  those that do charging laughable shipping and even longer delivery times we  thought it was time to highlight all...

Beverley Harper

It took a very long time for me to pluck up the courage to read a Beverly Harper novel. I have long been a fan of stories set in Africa, reading books like "Skin Deep" as an early teen and developing a love affair with "The Power of One" in my twenti...

Billionaire Businessmen | billionaire boys club | billionaire homes | Bill Gates | Alwaleed of Bruinei

A Billionaire is one who has a net worth of over 1,000,000,000 US Dollars, Euros or a comparably valued currency. One billionaire has over 1,000 times the net worth of a millionaire.

MEET THE MASTERS OF MARKETING - Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Jay...

Blogging Is Serious Business

Business blogs are 'in'

The next big thing is 'B-Blogging' - yes, start building your business blog today!

"Two years out, you'll wonder how you lived without them," writes consultant Jim Carroll in Successful Meetings.

But this doesn't mean...

Blogging Starter Checklist

Many of my close friends are entering the blogging world. I am so happy for them. I started blogging in Feb 2005 and I have learnt that we need to do a few basic things when we start a blog. I learnt it the hard way but you don't have to. I have put...

Books to Read and Read and Read and Read.......

Well like a lot of people I love to read. Like most of them I have my "old favourites" (some of which are not so old) that are tattered and torn yet have to be read over and over. This lens could quite easily be favourite authors or favouri...

Books to Read to Kids

I was about to add some more to my other lens when I realised that they were all children's books so I figured that such a wonderful category deserved a lense of it's own.  This is more than just the ones that I enjoy reading (although that help...

BUCKET LIST - MY THINGS LEFT UNDONE

Before the sunsets on my final horizon, there are things I want to experience. There are things I want do and see. There are things that I have not said that I need to say. This is my Bucket List - A list of things that I do not want to leave undone....

Bulleted and Ordered Lists

You can easily make bulleted or numbered lists in the Text List module. Too easy!

But if you want more control and more of a say on how the information is presented you'll need to learn to use three HTML tags.

Lets say you want to display a list in...

Bust that Debt!

My husband and I have been on a journey to become debt free. It has been very educational and I want to share what I have learned with others so they can either avoid debt in the first place, or can become debt free quickly. It's not just about money...

Choosing the best mind-mapping software for YOU

Mind maps are powerful visual tools for brainstorming and are invaluable aids in problem solving and decision making.

If you need some more on the basics: What is mind mapping and mind mapping software.

That said, this lens is going to focus (sorry...

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...

Creating and Using Your Writer's Notebook

Writers need notebooks. That's where they record all the flash inspirations the Muse sends them.

Thoughts are fleeting.

If you have a good idea for a writing project, you need a place to write it down. The logical place, the place thousands of writ...

Editing suggestions for your lenses - to give your lens a lensrank boost

Lenses get payed out based on average lensrank of each lens over the whole month.

Since lensrank is based, at least partly, on how often lenses get edited - this lens is here to give you some ideas about what to do when you go over your least edited...

fashion templates

Draw your own fashion illustration using fashion templates:

Learn how to draw figure for fashion illustration or costume drawing using fashion templates designed by fashion illustrator, visual artist and educator Irina Ivanova. www.figuredrawingtempla...

Free Printables Headquarters

Free Printables

Here's where you can share your creative talent for designing whimsical, fun, original and unique free printables, such as stationery, coupons, charts, gift coupons, kids practice writing paper, bookmarks, note cards, scrap booking...

Generate Article Ideas, Find a niche, and Get Cross Traffic!

This lens is going to go in-depth on creating articles suited to your tastes, passions, and interests, as well as help you use those articles to promote cross traffic throughout your lenses, blogs, and websites.

Further more, this lens will help aid...

Get Kids Reading. Headquarters

Get Kids Reading.

There are many lenses out there that are focused on getting kids to read. This group aims to pull them together in one location. From a lens about your favourite children's book or author to one with tips for parents, this is the g...

Getting started with GTD

Getting Things Done, or GTD for short, is an organization methodology developed by David Allen. GTD proposes getting all of the pending "stuff" you have in your head into a trusted system, with defined rules, and breaking them into a set of...

Gifts For Toddlers

Finding gifts for toddlers isn't much stress as there are thousands of online stores and shops that offer such gifts, but finding the right gifts is what really counts.For the 1-3 year old child there are a variety of gifts to choose form.

This stag...

Gluebooks

Gluebooks are sort of a cross between magazine collage, art journals, and daily diaries. They incorporate elements of each of these creative disciplines, and yet are a unique art form.

How to Keep a Gratitude Journal

Keeping a Journal is a great way to remind yourself of your sincere intentions and to keep track of your progress or your slip ups. Without a place to report to, it is simply too easy to forget you ever had any inspiration for change . Writing down y...

How To Make An Apron

This page is packed with resources for anyone making an apron. Whether you want to make an apron for yourself or for someone else, you've come to the right spot. It will give you lots of ideas and inspirations as well as great links to some of th...

How To Make Homemade Recyled Paper

Not many people has ever recycled any paper. After all, paper is the number 100 pounds of rubbish we throw, 35 pounds are papers. Papers consist of 14% of the landfill spaces, not including those used for packaging, of which consist an additional 15%...

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 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...

If The World Were A Village of 1000 People...

In 1990 a professor at Dartmouth College wrote an article that began with the words: "If the world were a village of 1000 people..."

Professor Donella Meadows then proceeded to list statistics about the make-up of the world's population...

Journaling -- The Benefits and Joys

If you haven't tried journaling, there are benefits you might find surprising, not to mention it can be therapeutic and fun. There are probably hundreds of ways to do it and as many subjects on which you can journal. I've been keeping various types o...

Journaling for Children

When my daughter was 5, I noticed that she wasn't enjoying writing anymore. All the writing she was doing at school were on topics that she wasn't interested in. Because of that, she barely wrote, and her handwriting didn't improve like her peers did...

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...

Leo Babauta - Zen Habits

Leo Babauta is the blogger, runner, father of six, and now published author from Guam, best known for his blog "Zen Habits", a Top 100 blog with over 120,000 subscribers. He's a former journalist and freelance writer of 18 years.

"Zen Habits" covers...

Limoncello di Capri

Limoncello is an Italian lemon liqueur that originated in Southern Italy. The liqueur derives its flavor from the peels, rather than the juice of the fruit, resulting in a pleasant, sweet, lemony taste.

Limoncello gained popularity more than a centu...

Making Your Own Envelopes

Among paper crafters, making cards is very popular, but how often do we make our own envelopes to go with them?  Not only is making envelopes easy to do, but it's inexpensive as well, requiring only a few basic supplies.  Here are some reso...

Metacognition: Thinking About Your Own Thinking

Metacognition, or thinking about your own thinking, is one of the most important skills that a person can cultivate. When you can learn from your own behaviors and actions, you can become more strategic, self-reliant, flexible, and productive.

Moleskine Resources

Moleskines are a notebook produced by the Italian company Modo & Modo, distributed around the world.

Based on the original "mole skin" wrapped notebooks originally created by a Tours, France stationer, possibly used by famous people such...

Moleskinerie

Welcome to Moleskine talk on Squidoo. This is the companion site to Moleskinerie.com - a summary of the most requested information about our favorite black notebooks, and the best articles and posts.

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 The domain m...

Motivating Reluctant Readers

In a time when children are becoming increasingly savy about how they spend their time it can be really hard to get children to pick up a book. The long term implications of this are not to be underestimated, reading is a life long skill that we use...

MSG is Evil! - Monosodium Glutamate Hiding in Our Food

Whether or not you agree with me that MSG is evil, ya gotta admit it seems a little fishy when you find it in so many of our favorite foods. While there's no hard evidence yet that MSG actually causes obesity or neurological disorders in humans (just...

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...

Nature Journaling

Creating a Nature Journal is an exciting way to record the changes in the world around you.  It's inexpensive and can be both educational and recreational for children and adults.

Neat & Simple Living!

Welcome to the Neat & Simple Living Lens! 

NEAT & SIMPLE LIVING is about finding the balance between "NEAT" and "SIMPLE" that is good enough and works for you! It's about neat ideas to keep things simple,&nbs...

New Baby Essentials

If you are expecting a new baby then you are going to need to get some new gear. These essentials are not all essential but the more baby stuff the better.

So check out my baby gear lists below. Things with an asterisk beside them are my personal fa...

Papercraft Headquarters

Papercraft

Origami. Kirigami. Paper airplanes. Papier mache. Papermaking. Scrapbooking. Making paper, and making things out of paper; that's what this group is about. I finally created my own lens on this topic; perhaps you have one of your own you wo...

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...

Romantic Camping

Are you interested in taking a romantic getaway with your partner?

If you are, have you already decided where you would like to go and what you would like to do? 

If you have yet to choose your romantic getaway destination and your romantic geta...

SEO Facts

SEO: it stands for Search Engine Optimization. I know most of you know that, but I want this resource to be useful to everyone, even complete beginners.

Search engine optimization, as you are also probably aware, is a preoccupation for just about eve...

Snail mail = smiles

This lens was inspired by my Grandma, who at 79 treks down to her mailbox each day hoping for something good! 

I love to send Grandma letters in a handmade envelope and hear her exclaim over the treasure of snail mail among the junk mail. ...

Soul Food Cafe - Advent Calendars

There is a tradition at the Soul Food Cafe. Each December, for the past five years, Heather Blakey has launched an Advent Calendar on the first day of December. Advent calendars have long helped build excitement and anticipation on the countdown to C...

Speechwriting: Writing to be heard

Speechwriting is a highly specialized craft, with a unique set of demands and quirks. Fortunately, it's also tremendously rewarding - monetarily, sure, but also through the potential for changing people's minds and moving them to action.

There's...

Spice Tea Recipe

The holidays are often hectic and tiring, but in the end they are always filled with wonderful memories.  Each year my family gathers together for the festivities.  Since my siblings and their families live in different states of the US, th...

Squidoo CSS - my favorite code to spice up a lens

I've gathered my favorite Squidoo-code for later reference. I'm tired of trying to find that specific lens I used a css effect on and then having to go to edit-mode, copy paste, and then go back to the lens I was working on. This lens will he...

Squidoo Guide: Linking Tips

There are many ways that you can add links to your Lens, improving the experience of your readers. How you add those links often depends on what those links are for. This Lens explains the different types of links, and the techniques available to you...

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...

Stardust the Movie

I knew nothing about this film before being made to watch it. And to be honest, if I had something better to do, or had a half decent excuse, I wouldn't have seen this movie.

But I did.

And I not only enjoyed it, I LOVED it.

My wife and kids did t...

Tea House

I love to visit Tea Houses. I'll write about the Tea Houses I have visited, the ones I want to visit and share my photos. I hope you'll tell me about your experiences.

Ten Must-Have Books On Writing

It seems like every day someone recommends a new book on the craft of writing to me.  If I tried to read them all, I'd never have the time to sit down and write!  So I'm here to share with you my list of the books on writing that I love.&nb...

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 Art of Becoming an Information Entrepreneur

Update: Launched Mastering FriendFeed, via my Social Marketing Junkie brand. All information entrepreneurs need to do two things: 1.) keep an eye on the competition and 2.) maintain the momentum of your brand. FriendFeed lets you do both in one conve...

The Association of Apex Clubs of Australia

So, you've heard about Apex - that's GREAT! But perhaps you're wondering what Apex is about, and if it's something you would be interested in joining? No problems! There are many websites out there about Apex, and the aim of this lens is to bring som...

The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 filem written and directed by John Hughes.  Widely considered the quintessential 1980's coming of age teen film, The Breakfast Club follows five teenagers (each representing a different clique in high school) as they...

THE GIANT SQUIDS (and how you can become one)

No, it's not a rock group (but it might as well be). It's the core group of movers and shakers at Squidoo. It's a gathering of influentials, the most dedicated lensmakers on Squidoo.

Here's how this whole thing started. One day at Sq...

TheHalfCenturyGrrl

Thoughts on what turning 50 means to me and probably to some of you other idealists, creatives, and iconoclasts out there.  Maybe, I will offer a few points of inspiration along the way.

Turning 50 is no joke.  It's very real.&nbsp...

Tips for Choosing a Writing Journal

Anyone can benefit from writing in a journal or notebook. Writing down your thoughts and emotions can be most beneficial: It helps you clarify your thoughts, organize your ideas, and relieve stress. It's also a good way to help you remember things.

Wr...

Tips For Writing Middle Grade Novels

If you have any writing skills at all, you are able to write a middle grade novel. It is easy to do and I'll show you how.

A middle grade novel is intended to appeal to children ages 8 to 12. If you want to write a middle grade novel, the best way t...

Toddler Workbox Ideas

As I mentioned in my Working the Workboxes article, I am a mom of 5 kids ranging from 11yrs. old to 1yr. old. I originally implemented the workbox system for my older kids, but my two-year old kept asking for hers. When I thought about it, I knew it...

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...

Tracing Your British House History

How do you find out about your homes past?  This fascinating subject is becoming more and more popular.  Various archives are becoming ever more accessible on the internet, however a full house history still needs personal trips to the Coun...

Tuscan Gardens

Dreaming of having your own romantic Tuscan Gardens? 

The gardens of Tuscany are a sight to behold, casual yet elegant, comfortable, inviting and extremely romantic. Tuscan Gardens, is dedicated to helping you create a b...

Using Web Content to Get More Traffic To Your Website

This lens focuses on content on the web, all kinds of web content, and how it can benefit your business and Internet presence.  It talks about writing and creating articles, web sales copy, content driven web sites, copywriting, blogging, rss fe...

Visual Journal Ideas| Artist Journals| and More!

Do you think you are creative enough to make a Visual Journal?

It's amazing how many people say they dont have a creative bone in their body. Cracks me up really, its just not true.
Fantastic Visual Journals

Everyone is born creative.
If would like t...

What to do in Ipswich?

I moved to Ipswich about 2 years ago and still there are probably some things i haven't heard of, but every now & then someone comes to visit and I'm trying to find where to go and what to do to make this look a bit more then my usual home.

This t...

What's so strange about an orange nursery?

Why is orange so overlooked when considering how to decorate a baby's nursery? It is a color too. In fact, it is a beautiful vibrant color that is fresh and fun. It goes well with many different accent colors.

Give your child a room like none other...

Wreck This Journal

I came across this book by accident while searching for a Christmas gift and being the mother of two free-spirited, exuberant girls, I immediately loved it. "Wreck This Journal" is not your ordinary journal at all. In fact, the pages prompt you to do...