Paperfacet's Squidoo Lensography

A is for Animals 

For the creatures that catch my eye.

What is Your Bird Sighting of the Day?

Young or old the color and flash of a bird sighting interests many people. In the city, suburbs or the wilder outdoors what have you seen today and where? Include your City, State or Country and the bird you saw today. Enjoy the outdoors.

Charlie and Barkley: Dogs of Suburbia

The end of 1995 was the year we decided to get two puppies. We had lost our cocker spaniel "Topper" earlier in the year. The kids were 14 and 13 and it was time for new pets. We love dogs. Within two days we found the puppies we wanted. A beagle we...

B is for Books 

When growing up, as I finished a book I would write it in red in my childhood diaries.

James M Cain Steamy Fiction Writer

Double Indemnity I read before viewing the movie and I immediately desired the movie and a list of all his writings. There is a pretty good collection of his writings in the house now. James M. Cain became famous with his first book "The Postman Alw...

John Adams Second President of the U.S.

David McCullough's biography John Adams is entertaining and an education to the patriot of today. All the foibles of human nature and political nastiness were as real and active then as now. The portraits McCullough develops in his book about the Se...

C is for Collecting 

One Can Resist Only So Long

Artisan Gonder Pottery Made in the Forties

A cheap entertainment for our family when the kids were young was going to antique fairs in Pomona, CA. Antique pottery had a very big presence there, but Gonder pottery never became familiar to me. I found this wonderful ceramic pottery when I decid...

An Alarm Clock Collection

My alarm clocks caused alarm in the family. Some members wondered when it would stop. The clocks kept marching in. Visitors to the house were quite alarmed and thought the clocks were creepy all lined up of the shelf. They all were dead to time and f...

D is for Depp and Other DVD's 

Jack Bull The Movie

Not everyone knows a steadfast idealist that will go to extremes, or who will drudge through a situation to the very end. Some people would think, "I can't be worried about that." "Forget it, let it go," some might say. That i...

Dead Man The Movie

One time I loaned the DVD of Dead Man to a friend at work and he didn't like it. Total thumbs down. He could not even get into Neil Young's music score. A young man who watched it at our house said, "All he does is sleep". That I...

E for Eclectic Squidoo 

HTML I Use for Squidoo Lenses

Working in the telephone industry for almost 40 years I became familiar with computers and digital technology. I worked for 9 years in a room sized mechanical computer that processed telephone calls. Later the phone company used digital call processi...

F is for Food & Drink 

I don't like to cook cause there's dishes afterwards.

Satisfying Black Bean Soup

What to eat? One night my daughter browsed the pantry for a late night dinner. Finally home from work and school, something to eat was required and it had to be easy. Glancing at a can of Bush's black beans gave her just what she needed. A quick bla...

Make Shredded Beef Tacos

Every time I make shredded beef tacos my husband says "This is good". Not very descriptive, but if there is a compliment that's good. This was a favorite that his mother would make. The rice and beans are always included. Shredded chee...

How To Make Refried Pinto Beans

Nothing goes better with a Mexican dish than refried beans on the side. It is true, at one time in my life I only knew the kind you get in the can. Canned mashed pinto beans were okay at home. Or you can get whole pinto beans in a can and mash those....

How To Make Red Rice

This is my next page in a short series about cooking Mexican, as learned by hmmm a gringa. This is all about the rice that goes with beans and rice. It is so basic. You have the American Mexican entree burritos, tacos, quesadillas, chimichangas, or e...

Sherry's Lemonade Recipe

The lemonade I make starts with lemons from the backyard trees. What can be simpler than that? One tree is a Meyer's lemon and one is a lime. The Meyer's is small because I keep it that way. It was placed in an area on the slope that is not...

......More of My Food Lenses 

Do not forget the Dichos

Hibiscus Tea or Agua de Jamaica

The ingenuity of the cook south of the American border has always caught my imagination. Take drinks for an example. Many different ingredients are taken and used for inexpensive refreshers, hibiscus tea for one. Ground corn is cooked with a variety...

Test Kitchen Recipes

I get bored with the same dinner dishes very easily. I have lost a keen sense of smell and I think that has affected the taste of food for me. Squidoo has a long list of recipes and I am testing and trying them out for new variety and to partly fill...

G is for the Garden 

G is also for green, my favorite color.

Garden Party Fine Art Show

The first time I was able to participate in the Garden Party Fine Art Show was 2005. A chance encounter at a senior-citizen-center craft show afforded me an invitation by Linda Callaway. My first reaction was I did not fit into the level of talent th...

Favorite Plant**A Senior Squid Challenge

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk, Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do wors...

Foxtail Fern Bright Green Accent Plant

I do not see this plant used very often for landscaping, however, I love the three I have in the backyard. The foxtail fern is a hardy drought resistant fern that doesn't need much care to look bright green all year long. It is also known as Myer...

Get Started with a Home Compost Bin

C omposting is easier than ever with the black plastic compost bin available now. No worms, no unsightly big contraption and mostly odorless, depending on your olfactories. Composting is a good landfill sensitive idea that can be in every backyard. ...

To Compost or Not to Compost Headquarters

To Compost Or Not To Compost?   That is the question every householder should think about. How can you be more responsible about the materials that go to the landfill from your residence?   This is the place to find methods, facts and how t...

....more on Gardening 

DIY Compost *7 Very Good Squidoo Lenses about Composting

The three types of composting available to the home gardener or apartment dweller is worm composting, the compost heap and the compost bin. Three easy methods for DIY compost. The bin I use is written about in How To Get Started with Home Composting...

H is for Crafting Hobbies and Art Pursuits 

I love to fold paper and other things.

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....

Free Tea Bag Folding Pattern Instructions*Part Two

New Holiday Tree Pattern added for the Winter Season. My lens titled Tea Bag Folding and Pattern Instructions is the first part to my series of lens on the craft of tea bag folding. I covered history, facts and four lessons on getting started with pa...

Websites for the Craft of Tea Bag Folding

Here is the place to explore tea bag folding websites and get the additional information and links you want on the craft of tea bag folding. I have combed the web about this craft for about six years and all my learning and knowledge for tea bag fold...

ACEO Cordelette Hanger for Card Display

A new and easy way to display your ACEO's. Do you have some beautiful ACEO cards in a drawer or no album to put them in? Consider hanging them up the simple way. The cordelette is handy enough to put anywhere and you have instant display and enjo...

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...

......more arts and hobbies 

Monoprinting Is A Printing Art Form

Monoprinting is a printing technique that employs a press and features a one to three time print that has the subtleties of spontaneity and pleasant surprise. There are two methods. One is hand rubbed transfer and the other is the roller press metho...

Make Cards on a Budget

Card making can be a budget enhancing pursuit, or the  even bigger rewards could be little art pieces to give away. After six and half years experiencing many levels of the home card making activity I decided I may have a few ideas to share with...

K is for Keywords 

The first thing to do before starting a lens.

Keyword for Beginners on Squidoo and the Internet

Are you about to write a lens or have written a few and are still wondering what keywords do for your writing on the internet? For me, having written 42 lenses and skirting the importance of the keyword for about 35 of them, many visits from readers...

L is for My Maiden Name 

Lutz

Egg Decoration for Winter Holidays

My mother, Lorinda's hobby has produced a collection of decorated eggs that is entertainment to see. She displays her eggs in four curio cabinets that at 87 she still arranges and meticulously cleans to show off the intricacies of each perfect work o...

Lorinda's Egg Creations

This story is about Lorinda Lutz, my mother, and craft enthusiast. Her creations are modern day egg designs that do not have the precious jewels of the famous Faberge eggs, but certainly the care to detail and love of craft that the famous ones have....

M is for Music 

The beautiful sounds.

Joan Armatrading Blues Musician

Very early in my adult life I was attracted to the blues. That head bobbing beat suits me fine. If you have good guitar, a mellow voice and maybe harmonica I will listen. In the seventies Joan Armatrading had playing time on LA rock radio. KROQ for...

The Beatles at Hollywood Bowl 1965

There is an unfinished Beatles scrapbook that is stored in a cabinet out of sight and out of mind. It was brought out about 15 years ago and I was reminded of a story I wrote. I had forgotten about it and I found it quite entertaining and have rememb...

N for Notes about Squidoo 

My lenses about Squidoo are here.

Keyword for Beginners on Squidoo and the Internet

Are you about to write a lens or have written a few and are still wondering what keywords do for your writing on the internet? For me, having written 42 lenses and skirting the importance of the keyword for about 35 of them, many visits from readers...

HTML I Use for Squidoo Lenses

Working in the telephone industry for almost 40 years I became familiar with computers and digital technology. I worked for 9 years in a room sized mechanical computer that processed telephone calls. Later the phone company used digital call processi...

News 

U.S or World News

Southern California's Station Fire in Los Angeles County

With the Station Fire being big news in L.A. County the Los Angeles Times has had very good coverage in their daily newspaper. The whole width of the mountain range from Pasadena to Acton in the high desert has been consumed by fire. That is a swatc...

Is Obama a Good Nobel Peace Prize Candidate?

President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. What was your first reaction? Why? According to the LA Times that was his first reaction, as well. It took me a couple of hours, but I decided, Okay this is the world speaking. Other countries look at the St...

Outstanding People 

Some people are outstanding in more ways than one

Ernst Haeckel and Art Forms in Nature

The first time I heard of Haeckel was last year at the Farmer's Market. An artist friend showed me the book she had just acquired of his Art Forms in Nature. My first impression was Wow! I started to think how awesome these illustrations would lo...

Belle Starr Famous Woman of the West

There is myth that has to be sorted out if you explore the story of Belle Starr. Think about the path a young lady may go down if guys like the Jesse James brothers and also another set of brothers called the Youngers rode in on horses with fancy sad...

P is for Pictolens and other Picture lenses 

Best Photos Of Convict Lake

Now many views can you stand of Convict Lake? A couple and that is enough? Well, I found out I can look a long time. It does seem like a painted backdrop after awhile. I don't care. I will always have an appreciation for the likes of Mt. Morri...

First Ever Pictolens

If this is not the first ever of this format let me know. I believe it is the first "pic to lens". These photos are taken by me and are used in my lenses on Squidoo. I came up with the pictolens the day I made Paperfacet's Squidoo Lensography. The i...

Astronomy Picture of the Day

This is an introduction for those that are not aware of this fascinating picture website called Astronomy Picture of the Day. I have to admit that the current Senior Squid challenge had me drawing a blank for about three days. Looked on YouTube for...

River Rock Series 

Russian Village, Claremont, CA

It has been my occupation for a few weeks to take pictures of one type of home in the Inland Empire. For many years I have been interested in the fieldstone house. With digital camera I can take pictures of everything I like. At first I was crazy fo...

The River Rock Bungalow

The bungalow belongs to Southern California. Add the arts and craft look to it and it was invented in Southern California. The arts and crafts ideals were based on a natural blend with the landscape. Bungalow, plus arts and crafts, plus the landscape...

Dilapidated Rock Structures

In the twenties and thirties of the 20th century the river rock building was popular along the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California. At some time in the millennium the water ran down the canyons in torrents, depositing rocks by the millions i...

S is for Shopping 

Shopping in my shops. Check them out.

AllPosters.com and Halloween

When a holiday comes around my Mom always had holiday decorations up. When I was older and had kids at home I put up holiday decorations, as well. Something to break up the school year or give the house a little extra cheer. Nothing elaborate. Hallow...

Paperfacets's Handmade Cards and eBay Store

Have you ever thought of buying your cards on the internet from the little guy? Not Hallmark or Crane, but from the home crafter that has a desire to design and produce with their own hands? Browse ebay or Etsy and you will be surprised at the talen...

Shop On Etsy for Handmade Cards

Now is the time to visit Etsy. The Holidays are coming and everything imaginable is offered by artisans all over the world. On this page you will see a gallery of items I have made and offered in my Etsy shop. My main interest is greeting cards with...

Claremont Farmers Market in Southern California

Once a month I have a spot reserved at the Artisans section of the Claremont Farmer's and Artisans Market. Claremont is the city just east of La Verne, CA where I live. The market is Sunday morning from 8am to 1pm, rain or shine. If it rains the arti...

Shop for the Orchid Pot

Orchids are beautiful and I buy them instead of cut flowers because the blooms last longer. At the Claremont Farmer's Market they can be purchased with big gorgeous blooms for as little as $10, but the good buys don't come in an orchid pot. I...

....Shopping continued. 

True Blue Dodger Shopping

During the summer our house is sidelined with the baseball season. The Dodger game is on everyday if I am home. Watching the game is relaxing and I pursue hobby work while I watch the action. Dinner needs to be prepared before the game. During the lo...

T is for Travel 

Class of '66

I Worked At the Steps of Route 66

Route 66 is an American icon. It is a wandering road of legends, stories and myths. It is a concrete system that can be stood upon and a liberation that can be lost in a few missteps. No other road in the United States has the popularity or recognit...

Route 66 in La Verne, California

For the traveler of the Mother Road you are on the last leg when you descend the San Bernardino mountains into the Inland Empire of Southern California. The drive is easy now, level and in another 35 miles you will start to feel the cooler weather o...

Live, Work and Travel on Route 66 Headquarters

  Live, Work and Travel on Route 66 When was the last time you were on Route 66? If not lately, stop right here and travel the Mother Road with those that have been there. This is a group for writers that live, work or travel on Route 66. Tell...

Our Go Back Vacation Place at Convict Lake, CA

There is a locale that has a special place in our family's hearts. A tucked away blue lake surrounded by high, very high stone mountains, not many trees. Twice a day you witness a line of horseback riders going up one side of the lake. That is a hint...

V is for My Married Name 

Venegas since 1981

One Baby Boomer's Life in the Work Force

How is a baby boomer defined? First, they lived and grew up in the United States, with influencing trends from westernized nations of the world. Second, time frame in essential. 1946-1964 is the baby boom with 4 million births in the U.S. each year....