Who is Trekkiemelissa?

My Journey To Giant Squid 

Being a Giant Squid

I was thinking about this and realized I had not made an official lens on being a Giant Squid here at Squidoo. I know quite a few Giant Squids whom have made one, but I thought why not me? I can make one to show you what it means to be a giant squid...

My Purple Star Lens 

On May 8th 2009, I did get my first and only purple star lens.

Star Trek

Star Trek has been around since the mid-1960s. That was before my time as I was born in the late 1970s. I started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 1990s when I was in high School. At first I did not like it, but it grew on me and I was...

I am a Mentor 

HTML And CSS Mentor

Many of you start writing your lenses without any HTML and CSS, but as you start understanding Squidoo, you want to learn how to spice your lenses up. HTML and CSS is just the ticket that you may be looking for. Here, on this lens, you will learn fr...

I Am A Honorary Angel 

Honorary Angels

You may be asking what are honorary angels? These are angels whom are not full fledged angels, but they do have the abilities to bless or ding lenses. The only difference between a regular angel and an honorary is that the honorary ones are not assi...

My Latest Lenses!! 

Melissa's Latest Lenses

I thought that it may be a great idea to have a lens that features some of my latest lenses. I think that it may be a great idea to keep track of what is recent as I do create new lenses quite often. I'll keep on trying to update this as often as I a...

My Contests 

Challenge Contest

I originally calling this a group challenge, and now I am calling it challenge contest. Everyone whom participates will get something out of this. Everyone will get a participation Plaque, and the first three winners in each category will be getting...

Amusement Parks 

6 Flags, Great America

Great America is an amusement that I always loved going to in the summer time. The thing is, I didn't go there to often. Its a bit of a ride there. I think it takes about an hour to get there. The last time I went there was last October for the frigh...

Animal Lenses 

Border Collies

I have a dog that is border collie mix so, I've decided to create this lens. The main thing you need to know is that Border collies are in fact a herding breed. Their origin is somewhere between England and Scotland. They are also very intelligent an...

Mix Dog Breeds

I have grown up with dogs all of my life. My first mixed breed dog went by the name of Candy. I was only five at the time when she was brought her home, but I still remember that day like it was tomorrow. Candy was a German Shepard and collie mix. Sh...

Halloween Costumes for Dogs

Have you ever thought of dressing your dog up for Halloween? I think it is hilarious, but there is no way I will be able to do that for my two dogs. Mindy, my shepherd mix could handle it a bit better than my border mix Lucky. Its just impossible to...

Books and Writing 

Books and Writing

Here is another one of my lensographies. This time it has to do with reading and writing. Why putting them together? Because they really do fit with each other. You can't write without being a person whom loves to read. As a kid, I had enjoyed readin...

Caption Contest 

Disney Captions

Idecided to write another caption contest, but this time it is for disney. I love disney, so I figured why not create a caption contest for this? When it comes to disney though, I love Mickey Mouse. In case you are not sure what to do for the caption...

Star Trek Captions

By now, most people know how much I love star trek. Here is something fun we can do with Star Trek. What I am doing here, is put up a screenshot of a star trek scene and what I want you to do is to add a response to the scene. I want you to make it...

Card Games 

Killer Bunnies: The Quest for the Magic Carrot

Killer Bunnies is a game I came across in my college years. The game was confusing at first until I figured it out. In one or two setting anyone can get the gist of the game. This game is for ages 12 and up. The game calls for 2-8 player, but with th...

College 

Reasons Taking A Break From College Is A Great Idea

Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is take some time off from school. Yes, you may want to finish as quickly as possible, but not everyone can. This is what this lens is all about.

Best Laptops For College Students

Most college students need a computer to do their homework on. When finding the right laptop for them, you want one to do that plus much more. No college student is only going to use it just for writing papers. Most kids or young adults love to play...

Crafts 

Design Your Own Jewelry

I'll admit that my jewelry making skills are rather limited. They are okay. I can bead bracelets, but sometimes trying to push yourself to do more is good. I can learn and so can you to do more than bead bracelets with small beads and elastic string....

Family Lenses 

Are Only Children Spoiled?

I confess, I am an only child. I have this little thing I like say. "I am the oldest and youngest." People may say that I am spoiled but I don't think so. It has always been the misconception that only children are spoiled. Some may be and some may n...

Food and Drinks 

Food and Drinks

Well it seems that I have added quite a few food and drink lenses now. I thought that maybe it would be a great idea to make a lensography of them. In fact, it is a lot easier to organize my lenses into smaller section then keeping all together. I re...

Graphics 

Graphics for Squidoo

I have created numerous graphics over the years. Some of my work is out of this world and some are just okay but nothing to write home about. I figured that this lens will be another great resource that you can use as an outstretch of my HTML and CSS...

New Horizon Designs Zazzle Gallery

I specialize in abstract art. When something spurs my interests, I just add a design to my zazzle Gallery.

Giant Squid Lenses 

Giant Summer School

In the course of the 8 weeks of Giant summer school, we had created 8 lenses. We had a new lens that we had to create each week. They gave us a challenge and then we did our assignment on that. Below is what I had done for the assignments.

Giant Squid Back To School

These are the lenses that I created for the giant back to school assignment. If you don't know me by now, I am one of those people whom is usually up for a challenge.

Health 

Cataracts In Kids

When people think of cataracts, most people think of adults when it comes to this problem. Children can have it too and I was one of them. In children it is called Congenital Cataracts. My cataracts was not found out until I was about three years old...

Living With A lazy Eye

Do you ever wonder what it is like to live with a Lazy eye and especially one that causes blindness in one eye? I am legally blind in my right eye because of this condition. My goal here is to explain to you, what it is like to live with one good eye...

Holiday 

Valentines

Regardless of being with someone or not, I like valentine's day. Every year, valentine's day comes around on Febuary 14th. The meaning of Valentine's Day is important to everyone in different ways. For some people its all about the romance of Valenti...

Halloween Costumes for Dogs

Have you ever thought of dressing your dog up for Halloween? I think it is hilarious, but there is no way I will be able to do that for my two dogs. Mindy, my shepherd mix could handle it a bit better than my border mix Lucky. Its just impossible to...

Star Trek Halloween Costumes

Did you ever want to dress up like your favorite Star Trek character like Spock or Captain Picard? Here is your chance to do that. Below, I have listed costumes and accessories that are worth looking at. There are both costumes available for adults...

Disney Halloween Costume for the Family

Do you ever want to dress up as one of your favorite Disney characters? Here is your chance to dress up as Mickey, Jasmine and much more. As a kid, I used to dress up as Micky mouse because I liked Mickey mouse. Below, I have listed what I had found...

Star Wars Halloween Costumes

Did you ever want to dress up as your favorite Star Wars Character? Here is your chance. Below, I have listed some of the possibilities. I had found more for kids than I have found for adults, but I did find some adult costumes for you adults whom wa...

Halloweentown

I had come across these movies when I was younger. More specifically, the first and second movie. These are great to watch around Halloween time. This is the reason why, the Disney channel plays them each and every year. These are specifically made f...

Home 

It Is All About The Space

I was thinking, what could I write this lens on? I thought about my home and how I live in a very small place. It is what you call a cottage. I spend a lot of time in my room. Honestly I really am not to comfortable being in the living room. I think...

HTML and CSS Lenses 

HTML and CSS Lenses

Since 1998, I have known HTML when I had taken an internet class. The first half of the class was all about the internet, but the second half was all about learning HTML At first it was a bit hard, but as I started learning, I understood what I was d...

Kindle 

Kindle Skins

If you have one of the Amazon Kindle's you more than likely you are looking for ways to make your kindle pop or just for a way to protect it. Buying skins are one way to do that. I now have a skin on my kindle 2 and I love it alot. It does take some...

Kindle Covers and Accessories For Your Kindle 2

You really cannot forget the extras can you? I would like to suggest a cover at minimum, but if you like to have some of the items, its even better. I have the black one for my kindle and I would hate to not have that as it does protect it more than...

Amazon Kindle DX: The Big Screen Version

On May 6, 2009 Amazon had announced that there were coming out with a Kindle DX which is a bigger ereader than the previous Kindles out on the market. The release date was in june 2009. I have been reading in their forums and some people are upset th...

Amazon Kindle

Since the release of Kindle, I have been wanting a kindle so that I can read books on it. On April 11th 2009, I had received my kindle and love it so now I can give you my own perspective of this product. Before, this lens was my own research into t...

People 

Neil Diamond

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had enjoyed listening to Neil Diamond. Normally people my age didn't listen to him, but I did. I don't know if its because I grew up being an only child or what. My first taste of Neil was in fact from the Movie "The...

Gene Roddenberry

Anyone whom love Star Trek, knows who Gene Roddenberry. Gene Roddenberry is the creator of Star Trek and us Trek Trek fans owe him for that. If it were not for him, there would be no Star Trek. If we didn't have star trek, we would not have star wars...

First Lady of Trek

Anyone whom knows Star Trek would know who Majel Barrett-Roddenberry is. In addition to being the widow of Gene Roddenberry, she was the only person who played a part in each and every Star Trek series in some way or another. In addition, she played...

Squidoo 

Co Branding in Squidoo

Its a fact of life, almost every company has a co brand. Why did I decide to write a lense on co branding? Its my selfish reason of wanting all the cobrands in one list so I created this lense even though BDKZ has one also and that she did create it...

Being a Giant Squid

I was thinking about this and realized I had not made an official lens on being a Giant Squid here at Squidoo. I know quite a few Giant Squids whom have made one, but I thought why not me? I can make one to show you what it means to be a giant squid...

Sports 

Bowling

Bowling is a sport that the object of the game is to knock down the pins on the other end of the alley. As long as I could remember, I have always known how to bowl. I even have memories of times when I was not able to wear the bowling shoes that wer...

Technology Lenses 

Trekkie's Technology Lenses

Most people by now know how much I love technology and I will admit that I am a computer geek. Yes I am and I know it. I have always been like that as long as I can remember. Outside of the Texas Instrument computers, I didn't have a computer until c...

Website Lenses 

New Horizon Spaces

New Horizon Spaces or NHS for short was a site I personally created. Over the years, it has been my steady website and has evolved with my interests. Before New Horizon Spaces, there was New Horizon Skins which has been used for the skins I have crea...

Check Out My Other Lensographies!!! 

Trekkie's Television and Movie Lenses

For most americans, one of our favorite pastimes is in fact watching tv and movies. i have created quite a few lenses on that topic and I don't see myself slowing down on it. I could have divided this up into a lens on movies and a lens on television...

HTML and CSS Lenses

Since 1998, I have known HTML when I had taken an internet class. The first half of the class was all about the internet, but the second half was all about learning HTML At first it was a bit hard, but as I started learning, I understood what I was d...