Oh my! It's been a long time since I posted!

I can't believe it was nearly a whole year ago that I last published a new lens! But I have finally gotten back into the swing of Squidoo! All those silly monsters motivated me to get started again, and I am now going to start publishing more and more lenses! Let's see if we can make it to 100 and join the 100 Club? My lens count is sitting at 60 right now, but I feel motivated to get rid of my entire WIP list before the end of the year, so I better get cracking.

Yesterday I published two new lenses! The first is Raising An Orphaned Kitten: River's Story. It's the story of how I spent my summer raising a newborn orphaned kitten, who was left in the streets to die at only 3 days old. If you're looking for a heartwarming tale, you don't have to look further than here!

The second lens I published was a local lens about my fire performing troupe! Funk House Entertainment is a great lens with all our information on it, and a photo gallery with all of our awesome pictures on it!

So, getting back in the swing of making lenses, hopefully I will be making even more soon! I'll keep this updated with new lenses and tips for Squidoo!

Finally! A new lens!

It's been forever since I've posted on here (or updated a lens on Squidoo), but I've finally gotten myself in the right moodset again, and I'm working on my lenses! I published a new lens yesterday on a new hobby (sport? art form? I still don't know) of mine, fire hooping. If you haven't heard about it, or aren't sure exactly what it is, and you want to learn more (or maybe even try it yourself!), check out my lens here!

I've got a few tricks and lots of videos on the lens, so if you're looking to learn, hopefully the lens will be helpful with that! Leave me a comment on the lens and tell me your thoughts!

Also, it's November again, which means NaNoWriMo time! I'm behind on my word count (again), but hopefully I can catch up. I'm also back to working on my NaNoWriMo experience lens, and hopefully I will actually have a full novel by the end of this month!

That's really all I have to write on for now, but I'll try to update tomorrow and continuously this month!

Squidoo introduces the new Caption Module

As part of the new Giant Summer School challenge, Squidoo has introduced a Caption Contest module to go along with the first challenge of the summer: a caption contest lens! If you've ever felt the need to add a picture with captions, then this module is perfect for you. I'm working on my lens at the moment, but check out a few of these lenses that make great use of the module!

You Got That On Film? by GypsyPirate
Look what I got! by bdkz

And find even more lenses here from the Giant Squid summer school!

It's time for Squidoo summer school!

If you're a Giant, then you've got an awesome opportunity for learning coming up this summer...Squidoo has announced a Giant Squid summer school for Giants to learn more about lensmaking and a bunch of other fun stuff! They've announced that there will be challenges, prizes, daily tips, secret Giant forums, and more! How exciting is that?! If you're a Giant, you can register at the Giant Squid School lens. School starts tomorrow, but you can late register until June 19th, so hurry up!

In other news, Squidoo has announced it's release of SquidThemes, coming TOMORROW! I was one of the fortunate few to be able to test them, and I can't tell you much yet (of course), but they are pretty amazing. I'm excited for more themes to come, and I can't wait to make my lens prettier with these new themes! I've been looking at all my lenses today trying to figure out which themes to use on which lens. :) So yes, be excited...be very excited! Til tomorrow's epic Squidoo day!

Spotlight...on me!

The Giant Squid Showcase has put out another spotlight on a Giant Squid....me! :) But not to make this entire post all about myself, you really should check out all the other spotlights on the other Giants! They've got a lot of great tips to offer to every lensmaster, whether or not you're a Giant Squid! Check out my own spotlight (*cough*) and everyone else's as well! After all, Squidoo is the place where we can all shine!

In other news...I've been slacking a bit, not only on my blog and Squidoo, but on just about everything else as well. I'm feeling kind of worn out since I've been sick these last few weeks, and I just can't find any inspiration for my lenses. So how do you guys deal with this problem? How do you find inspiration for your Squidoo lenses when you're feeling run down? Once I figure it out, I think I'll make a blog post...haha!

That's all I can think of for now, but I'll be trying to write more this week! Maybe tomorrow! So share your tips with me on finding inspiration!

Yay purple stars!

It's been a while since I updated, since life has been a bit busy lately, but here I am, back again with the posting! Happy May!

So Squidoo has been awesome with the handing out of purple stars, and guess who got a lovely purple star yesterday...me! My lens, 9 Reasons to Adopt a Dog, got a purple star and my lensrank has gone up, yay! :D

I've been slacking on my lenses lately...hopefully the summer will bring me more time and some inspiration for my lenses! Also, my Recipe for Double Chocolate Chip Cookies lens was featured in a blog! The Culinary Favorites from A to Z blog on SquidTop! Check it out and the other featured lenses that rock!

How are the rest of you doing with purple stars? Anyone else gotten any yet? :)

Hot Topics and Purple Stars...don't forget!

Don't forget fellow Giants, the 15 hot topics were posted at the secret Giant Squid blog on Monday, and lenses are being nominated for purple stars tomorrow! So if you're not done yet, get to working on those lenses!

I'm still currently working on my lens...for which topic, I won't say ;) Just reminding all you awesome Giant Squids out there to go go go!

Also, if you're not a Giant Squid yet, and are looking to become one for the June 31st deadline, check out the Giant Squid Challenge June 2009! Join a team and have fun! I think I'm going to try out for the 100 club in September or December as I'm nowhere near 100 lenses, haha.

Good luck with the purple stars! :D

New Lens: Hannah Montana the Movie

I've been working like a busy little bee on my new Hannah Montana lens today! I'm not a big Hannah Montana fan (in fact, that's the first statement I make in the intro, and I'm thinking of changing that, haha), but I did like the movie. So the lens is a nice little review of the movie, showing the good and the bad sides of it! If you want, stop by and tell me what you think--I think I did a pretty good job, if I may say so myself, but I still have a lot more I want to add to it!

So here it is, Hannah Montana: The Movie Lens, for all the world to see. And I know there are tons of Hannah fans out there, so I hope it's good enough for the world. :) Leave a comment if you'd like!

Also, good luck to all of you trying for the 100 Club and for Giant Squid in June! I was reading the threads on SquidU, but was just too lazy to post. ;)

6 Reasons to Create a Lensography

What is a lensography, you might ask? A lensography is the Squidoo form of a biography: a little way for people to get to know you better both online and off! thefluffanutta coined the phrase of "lensography", and ever since, Squidoo lensmasters have been creating lensographies so that the world can get to know them better! So here are 6 reasons to create a lensography on Squidoo...

1. It's a way to collect all your best lenses on one page...in a great display and with a system of organization.
2. When people Google your name, they'll come up with your lensography! (Unless you have a really popular name...haha)
3. Lensography is just a fun word. Say it. Really, it's fun, right?
4. You can make a lensography for different niches!
5. It's a great way to explain why you love making lenses. People will be more interested in what you're doing if they know why you're doing it.
6. It's a good way to get your website even MORE promoted. More links, yay!

So keep those things in mind and go make your lensography! If you already have one, try and integrate these things into it. And if you already have done that too, well then, good job! *high fives*

The New Purple Star!

Giants now have another amazing new perk...purple stars!

The first group of purple star recipients was chosen yesterday, and you can see all the lenses on the SquidU forum topic.

So who earns these purple stars? Only Giant Squids can earn them, and only by being nominated. Every week, Squidoo will pick 15 hot topics and Giants can nominate their lenses or someone elses to earn purple stars! Up to 6 amazing lenses will be chosen...you can either create a new lens for the topic or choose one of your older ones, "classic" ones as Squidoo is calling them now. New lenses will have greater chances of being chosen, however, over older lenses for purple stars.

Purple stars give your lens a HUGE boost in lensrank, so if you haven't thought about going for Giant before, you should give it some thought now with this huge benefit.

If you're looking to learn more about purple stars, check out the Squidoo lens for it! Congrats to all those Giants who got purple stars for their lenses already! :)