We are a couple of retired folks that have reached the point in our lives, where we have some extra time to learn new things! http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/sellingnicestuff Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:13:43 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.squidoo.com/bonanzagala We love to recommend! Rapidly growing, with over 30,000 items listed, Bonanzle offers great variety! Not only a great selling place, but a BUYER's mecca with quality items, great values and friendly sellers! Let us introduce you to Bonanzle, by just showing you a sampling of the delicious items that you will find at this marketplace. A site with SIMPLICITY in mind! If you are a seller. Want efficiency? This was our experience: Setting up a booth, a profile page took an hour. Started listing in the next! How easy is that? Bonanzle is the buying and selling place for Real People, Real Deals and Real Time! shopping Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:22:52 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/shopPamperedMaiden We highly recommend Blujay Stores for shopping and selling! A one stop marketplace! Easy to shop for thousands of items. Blujay has over 400,000 unique items! The item count grows daily. Pictured is a great reverse-painted-frame from the 40s or early 50s! Great Victorian cloth picture! Great deals! Antiques, collectibles, books, electronics, games, clothing, vintage clothing, hand crafted items, shells, and much more. See what we have for sale in our Blujay store below. Also listed are other steller sellers with years of online selling experience! Shop and buy with confidence at Blujay!Our favorite store http://Gr82behold.blujay.com This lens is not only recommended for buyers looking for that special item, but for online sellers that are looking for a venue to sell. shopping Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:22:07 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/blujaysneverstop Blujay is a shopping marketplace where 400,000 great items are listed for sale. Sellers list free, buyers get great deals! The far reaching tentacles of Squidoo help us to recommend the Blujay marketplace. We never heard of Blujay until March. While searching for an item we wanted, we stumbled upon Blujay. This is a great marketplace with riches and treasures! Compare prices on other venues and we know you will find it for less on Blujay! Blujay has friendly and enthusiastic sellers. Recommended for classic and wonderful antiques and collectibles, new items and beautifully hand crafted items. Find just about anything that you collect or need. Glass, pottery, books, games, toys, clothing, shoes, crafts, birdhouses, mailboxes, fragrances, candles, shells, electronics, classic games, home decor, clocks, kitchen, textiles, crochet, knitting, quilts, computer software, graphics, art and much more are as easy to find as your search. Stellar sellers with years of online selling on Ebay and other venues, also have Blujay stores. Sellers pay no fees on Blujay, so they can bring great prices to you. We know you will find quality items and great deals at Blujay. The MOO MOO Creamer shown above was quite popular many years ago. Collectors covet items that we all found and purchased in "dime stores" as variety stores were called in the 40s, 50s and 60s. This creamer is listed in our Blujay store! shopping Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:26:24 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/luvcoffee Coffee was discovered in the ninth century! Tea was discovered much earlier. Does not matter which came first, but which one is more important? It all depends on your palate. What each beverage does for each is what matters. But our choice is coffee. We do not think that crashing the Mad Hatters Tea party would be wise, but the Cheshire cat might be quite energetic if he switched to coffee! We experiment with mixing different coffee beans and blends for the best flavors! Twenty coffee makers in 30 years confirms our coffee palate. After learning about the coffee growing process, we can now appreciate coffee even more. The process is lengthy and explains why coffee is relatively expensive. When coffee blends are premixed your cost goes higher. We have learned to buy at value prices different blends and flavors of coffees to arrive at the best flavors. What we would like to hear from you is where do you find the best coffee? What coffee blends you use, and what tips you have to make the best coffee. A blend that would make Starbucks turn over your recipe for their featured coffee? We frequent restaurants and fast food establishments that offer good coffee. There is nothing like a great cup of coffee after an appetizing meal. If we find a place that serves bitter coffee or one that does not satisfy the palate, there is a very good chance we do not return. Have a seat, get a cup of coffee and join us! Describing coffee flavors is like all the terrible things we are told we should not eat. While we all have different palates, describing coffee tastes is very difficult! When familiar flavor is added to coffee blends, it makes it easier to say...has a vanilla flavor! The question is...vanilla flavor, how do we know that vanilla flavor is the same to all taste buds? Only living in someone else's taste buds would we know, but that is another lens. We have chosen some products that we have used below and recommend them to anyone that makes and drinks coffee. When our morning starts with coffee, it's uphill, but with several cups it's like this hat I wear! food Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:12:37 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/hopscotchnmore Recall an interview with Spielberg many years ago that was the motivation for this lens. Spielberg, famous for great movies brings huge imagination to the viewer. This interview revealed what imagination can do for a child. Spielberg's wild and fun imagination were what helped to make him what he is today. He recalled imagining creatures crawling out from underneath his bed before falling asleep. He talked about how this imagination brought him to what his life's venture would become. The Ad Council has developed great television commercials to focus on child development, imagination, health and other family issues. Their collective efforts to bring worldwide and national attention to issues of public concern goes a long way. After attending a conference in the 1980s which featured how this powerful organization brokered partnerships with public issues, we were impressed with their commitment! Large corporations have joined their effort to increase awareness of family, health and safety. We believe imagination is a wonderful tool for children, when kept in perspective. Today's play appears to remove the aspect of creative imagination. When gadgets do all the imagining, what are children left with? Growing up in the 50s was simpler and we believe more fun! Play was left to imagination, not to mention the exercise we got when we engaged in outside activities. Jump rope, hopscotch, baseball, climbing trees, running, and much more. Indoor play included creating an imaginary store we could set up with washed discarded food containers. Mom did not wash the containers for us, we did. Outdoor games were unlimited, from baseball, tennis, to running our own track competition with our friends. Our play restaurant served mud pies with apricot pits dotted on top or a pinch of dry dirt that made the topping. Never did our folks worry about how dirty we would get, it was child play and acceptable. After all a bath with Ivory soap that floated would leave us wondering why it floated? Walking on wooden stilts was always fun, and no one seemed to worry if we would fall off. My father could make some that lasted a lifetime. With my father's guidance, a home made kite that could fly as high as any today, were a half a day's process. With two sticks made into a T, brown paper bags, some glue, string, rags for a tail, the kite was ready for flight that afternoon. Much of the fun was painting the brown paper with a design that everyone could see. Cut rags tied together was must for any kite. Hand made puppets developed dexterity and imagination. The faces were sculpted in clay, covered with paper mache (newspaper, flour and water), dried, painted readied for costumes. Puppet stages were made from boxes with old sheets for draped curtains. It taught discipline to finish the project and developed imagination to create the stage that was to be set for a "show". The kids in the neighborhood loved to attend the shows! Crayons and watercolors with scraps of paper entertained us for hours. Primitive origami, cutting paper dolls, or designs that could be stretched. Our art creations were proudly displayed on bedroom walls, and refrigerators. We climbed trees and created methods to communicate tree to tree without talking. Using string we tied it around two trees and sent written messages to each other on paper held with a clothespin (clothespins are a whole different lens). Messages back and forth had to have a theme. If it was nature related we had to write a message as to what we saw from a bird's view. Pretending to be on a Hawaiian island was great fun. A sheet of newspaper was long enough to cut strips nearly to the waist. With a safety pin or masking tape, we swiveled our hips with the daily news blowing in the wind. Fresh flower petals from the rose bushes were strung to create leis and to put into our hair. Once it was all over, the biodegradable paper went into the trash, the rose petals were place in a bowl and the house was fragrant for days. Cannot count the hours playing baseball. All that was needed was a baseball, mitt, and bat. Grew up with dozens of cousins that made up a team mixed with kids of all ages. The only electronic device was a phone to call friends to come over to play. While all the technological devices created in the last three decades have made it fun.... we have to ask fun for whom? What happens when the novelty wears off? It goes into the pile with the other stuff to sell at a yard sale. We have been known to entertain ourselves with all the high tech games, computer and phones gadgets that do everything but cook. Who knows what would happen if someone snapped away my computer, but we know the enormous sedentary time spent on these devices is astounding. This lens is for those that would like to reflect back or perhaps revert back to simpler times. kids Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:21:10 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/zazzleCleo Designing custom products can be fun! If you are you a stay at home Mom, retired, or student and have a creative side check out Cafe Press and Zazzle. Create your designs and place them on Cafe Press or Zazzle products. Custom design totes, hats, postage, greeting cards and much more. You can show the world your own personally designs on everyday products and earn royalties on the items that sell with your designs. Squidoo is the best! It allows us to tell the world about our love of art and what we are doing to turn our graphic designs into unique products. We do it for enjoyment! Quite a pleasant surprise when you see a design applied to different products. Signing up is FREE and you do not have to purchase anything to get started! Both Cafe Press and Zazzle are a gallery of millions of graphic designers, doodlers, fine artists, professionals and amateurs that produce designs for products Have a seat, grab a cup of coffee and read on! We welcome any feedback in our guestbook below! The evolution of art and the means to bring it into the world is what this technology has meant. Cafe Press and Zazzle offers anyone that enjoys drawing, painting or taking photos to place those designs on products that the world can see! make custom gifts at Zazzle education Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:50:30 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/dothetwist I accept your invitation to dance! Love to dance, but the gene that links the feet to the brain got trapped somewhere in between. Not a dance expert, but an expert "observer" of dancers! A self imposed "wallflower" after stepping on too many toes with rythym that does not beat or sync with the music. Watching dancers, would say "I can do that"! Would try, but never looked like Julianne Hough on Dancing with Stars. Not only does the gorgeous Julianne dance, but is a hot recording star! Was handed ballet shoes at 14, lessons. Intructors that had to wonder why my folks spent the money. The decision to try dance to become a ballet dancer, was short lived! The swanlike moves just never happened! It was a done deal...dance was not in my future. Grew up with the jitterbut, Wahtoosi, limbo, chicken dance, two steppin, tap, samba, mambo, tango, pony, twist, disco, clogging, belly, ballroom....everyone made it look so easy! The Riverdance Group led by Flatley swept the world. Intricate and quick steps in perfect timing and beat. Would gaze down at my feet and wonder "why"? After centuries of dance we have to wonder how many reasons were created for gyrations that have developed into dance as long as Adam and Eve. Some folks simply have rythym, coordination, stamina and were born with a dance gene. Look at Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers! Some of you may ask, "who"? Watched a group of senior citizens in their 60s and 70s belly dancing. The veil dance blew me away. The nimble coordinated feet and arms that swayed their veil was perfectly synchronized. Today, the two left feet dance, and the mind fantasizes. Am the star in Riverdance? What matters is the fun, so YES, I love to dance! entertainment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:27:01 -0600