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

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! :)