Sojourn Lensography

I work full time and am a mother of three, beautiful boys ages 15, 11, and 6. I Squidoo after work every night, driving my husband absolutely crazy. I enjoy the ability to be creative and write and to do them all on one, cool website.

I travel for work but prefer being at home. I live just outside of Phoenix, AZ, and love the heat, the sun, and the palm trees. Although I never expected to write about myself online, I did end up doing several "About Me" lenses.

My favorite lens is my HTML Backgrounds lens. While not my first lens on Squidoo, it was the first lens to attract any real attention and my favorite lens to create.

It gave me a taste for the possibilities of Squidoo. I continue to update it, especially if I receive an email question asking for HTML help. I'll often use the question to create a new module on the lens. I went on to write a few more how-to lenses specifically for Squidoo lensmasters. Mostly, these were notes to myself about things I'd learned from other lensmasters or along the way as I began to increase the number of lenses I had made.

Photo by: sfslim / CC BY 2.0

I go on a pillow war path and create a number of pillow lenses. Maybe I took it too far but I enjoy pillows. Whether they're from a store or hand made, I just think they can be so creative and I have them all over my house. My first sewing project in high school was a pillow I made for my mother. Maybe that's why they're special to me.

Even my dog gets in on the act. My Goldendoodle, Apollo, just turned one year old last month and is a giant horse! He's funny, though, and smart, loving, and sweet as can be.

The most fun series of lenses, however, has certainly been those having to do with the Disney Pixar Movie, Cars.

My son and I both love Lightning McQueen, although I think he secretly loves Tow Mater more. He's fascinated with the little Tow Mater extra videos and for a long time he wouldn't sleep well at night if he didn't have his little Tow Mater car in his hand.

We play Lightning McQueen games online which led to my first lens. The rest of the lenses just fell nicely into place.

I have loved to write since I was a little girl. I think my first story had to do with a duck who played tennis, but I don't remember why. I didn't have a thing for ducks and I've never really played much tennis but at five and six years old there's no accounting for logic.

Thanks to Squidoo, I've started writing much more and for fun, more than anything else. I started a blog, Desert Pond about getting back into writing, I write fiction for Drifter's blog, Extreme Writing under the section Stone's Throw when I can squeeze it in, and I write lenses. I even wrote a few lenses about writing.

As I learn something new, I like to share. I'm a pretty big numbers geek, too, so anything I can study that involves math calculations (not calculus...I'm not crazy!), intrigues me and will keep my attention for endless amounts of time. I did a number of lenses on how to compare electricity bills and reduce energy costs.