Spirit of the Season Challenge Incentives

The Spirit of the Season Challenge is all about sharing that special holiday spirit that comes around once a year. This Holiday challenge gives lensmasters a chance to share what the holiday spirit means to them, share what they plan to do to spread...

Recipes and information on Agasweet flavored agave nectar, which due to its extremely low glycemic index rating is a perfect alternative sweetener, suitable even for most diabetics! Agave syrup is a 100 percent organic and natural sweetener for every...

Oh, Great Squidoo Lensmasters, Harken to the call of the Magnificent Squid: "squid bags...squid bags...SQUID bags...SQUID BAGS!" With encouragement and pointers from some favorite Lensmasters, "The Squid Bag" was created. To quote Mama Crump on the...

Someone I admire (JaguarJulie) has encouraged me to start a shop on Etsy to sell my Earth Friendly Shopping Bags. I gave the idea some careful consideration. After all, I do have my "Hats For Homeless" project to consider. The concept of having my o...

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...

Meet Bob, the Cutting Board King. Bob is his name, Butcher Block Boards are his Game. It started out innocently enough; my husband found himself with too much time on his hands after medical retirement, so I encouraged him to finally pursue his dream...

We raised five children during the tough economic time of the 1920s and 1930s when jobs were scarce and money hard to come by. Our family could not have survived economically without fresh garden veggies in season and the things I canned for winter....

Beck's Love Lessons began as an experimental lens, an exercise in creativity. My mother always dreamed of visiting Paris. She dreamed of being loved unconditionally by her husband, and of sharing a sweet, nurturing marriage. Those dreams did not com...

One of my great finds for the year, Freeset Bags. Not only are these bags stylish, well-made, practical and eco-friendly, but in purchasing one of these bags you help a woman on her journey to freedom. How great is that? Freeset Bags are made by wom...

This collection of squids has been carefully selected for you to choose a squid Holiday gift for your favorite Squidoo Lensmaster or Squid Lover. Perhaps he might want a PowerSquid Power Multiplier, a Squidoo Orange Flip Video Camcorder or Squid Ora...

One way of going greener this year for Christmas is wrap presents and gifts with bags, towels, scarves and other items can be used long after the gift has been opened. Using resuable items for gift wrap is good for the environment and is another way...

True chocoholics rarely need an excuse to buy delicious chocolates. This holiday season the Ferrero Company, producers of the delectable Ferrero Rocher chocolates has made buying chocolates a bit sweeter. Your purchase of Ferrero chocolates benefit...

Imagine - asking Seth Godin and Megan Casey directly and personally what you always wanted to know about Squidoo, marketing, life, charity, your brother-in-law's strange eating habits, whatever! (You might not want to waste this fabulous opportunity...

With a Squid Angel Blessing your lenses will get a boost for your lens rank, which might improve your earnings and lead to more traffic and recognition. Not bad, huh? But what does it take to receive a Squid Angel Blessing? In general, our group of...

In March 2008, Squidoo HQ announced a new group of Squid Angels. I was editing a bunch of lenses, and upon refreshing a page, the lovely yellow Angel badge popped up on my title bar. That's how I learned of my Squid Angel status. It wasn't hard to fi...

After I wrote my lens entitled Squidoo for fun and non-profit, I decided that I had so much fun creating some of the Squidoodles and other graphics, that I would start a collection of them. I'll add to them as I go, but feel free to offer suggestions...

It seems as though the SquidArt has grown so much, that another lens was needed! In keeping with the SquidArt spirit, I hope you enjoy some of the characters below. To use these images, please see the fine print at the end. In addition to the origin...

The idea for the Squidoodle* lens came from a posting on the Squidu Forum. One post lead to another...one became SquidYule Carols, another, the Squidoodle page. Here is a collection of the Happythanksmasaween* Holiday inspired Squidoodles (a.k.a Squi...

A collection of more Squidoodles* created for other causes, most importantly for SquidAid and the Squidoo Fire Aid Challenge. Also included are Squidoodles that I have created for the two groups that I manage, the Imagine Peace Group and the Grief &a...