Friday 27 January 2012

135 Squidoo Lenses To Date

Just 2 days ago I made my 135th lens for the upcoming Easter holidays called Easter Decorations For The Home. It is a lens with home decor ideas as well as decor accessories to buy from Amazon. Quite a fun one that took me a few hours to create.

I'm talking about Easter wreaths, Easter lights, table top decor elements, Easter candles, door and window decorations as well as tips and links to resources on making some of these decorations on your own. Great stuff for crafts with kids at home for the holidays.

Also yesterday I've been busy updating some of my lenses, bringing them up to date with information, layout, and replacing "free" images that I found ages ago in Google with images that I could properly credit. One of the revamped lenses is called Wine Tasting Tips. I first created this lens over a year ago when I didn't know any better and used images from all over the place.

Currently the lens has a lensrank of 179, 615, so let's see if the revamping will help it get to tier 3 to start earning.

There is a big issue these days at Squidoo with copyrights, credits and images, and if you ask for a critique in the Squidu forum about your lens, be prepared for some harsh words if your used images are not properly credited or if you're using images that are copyrighted and you should not be using them.

Wednesday 11 January 2012

I Became A SquidAngel

After applying about a week ago at Squidoo, finally I became today a Squidangel. I got the email in my Inbox when I woke up this morning.

Some of my lenses have been blessed over and over again by Squidangels who considered these lenses high quality and good enough to be blessed (see my lens called Who Is MarciaG for the lenses that have been blessed so far in 2011-2012), so I wanted to give back to the community and help others who make outstanding lenses and can use a blessing or two.

Here is the funny trophy I got for this occasion:

Tuesday 10 January 2012

Lenses For Upcoming Holidays

With Christmas sales over, earnings overall on Squidoo are much less (we all feel it). So now we have to focus on other holidays that are shortly here where people like to indulge in shopping.

Here are some lenses I made for the Valentine's Day:

Gifts for Valentine's Day for Boyfriend - a salesy lens on giving gifts for a boyfriend for Valentine's Day
Rose Colors and Meanings, a fun lens that explains the meanings of the various colors for roses.





Lenses made for St. Patrick's Day:

Celtic Cross Necklace for Men - a salesy lens on celtic cross necklaces that men love to wear

and just finished today a lens on Shamrock Stencil, a lens that is not really selling, but pointing towards mostly free resources on making your own shamrock stencils and templates and using them in crafts for kids.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

Funny Squidoo Monster Messages

Now and then Squidoo gives us points (with 'monsters falling down') based on various things we do. Some are just mentions of points, but other are actually funny as hell.

As an example, I've received today a very funny Squidoo monster message after I've liked my 1313th lens. It really left me giggling, especially since I actually have a lens on Triskaidekaphobia.

So with this I've decided to save a screenshot of all funny monster messages and add them to this post. Will start with the one I got just now.


And here is the one I got today (Jan. 16th) after having liked a new lens. Totally funny!


Not that funny, but it did give me 100 points just now... (Jan 23)


January 27 got this one:

February 12 got this - it made me a chatterbox!


February 13 for making 150 lenses


Feburary 16 - lots of Squidlikes


March 8 - A fun one about lenslikes


And here is the answer


A fun one I got on March 9 for starting a new lens

March 19 I got this new monster dropping from Squidoo:

March 24 I got a new one, woohoo!