Made 250 Lenses

It took me a while, pretty much the entire year, but I've finally got to another milestone at Squidoo yesterday: made 250 lenses from scratch. And of course I got a fun monster for it and 500 points, lol.

My next goal: make another 20 or so lenses and then apply for the next Giant level 250. And then next? Well 500 lenses of course!

Oh and speaking of 'monsters falling', not sure if I've already showed this one from a few days ago...

New Halloween Lens On Front Page

I took part in a new quest at Squidoo in listing an already existing (or new) lens as 'best that we made' for Halloween, and I added one that I made towards end of August on Halloween candelabra. It was accepted and the next day I saw it on the homepage. Yeppee! And here it is in action...

Halloween Costumes Lens On Front Page

Remember the lens I posted about just yesterday on the Grandma Halloween Costumes? Well I've sent it in to Squidoo HQ as a completed quest, got 200 points and just now spotted it on the front page. Noticed a post in the Facebook forum that others have seen theirs too, so I refreshed the Squidoo homepage and there was mine too!

Here is the screenshot, my lens is the green one right in the middle with the red arrow above it. Feels great to see it there.

Last Halloween Lens This Year And Sad News

I've just received some sad news from my mom this morning, my grandma died in her sleep last night at the age of 86. Sadly I can't go to the funeral as I'm living in another country and across the sea, so it's not so easy. My parents are going, however.

This morning I started on a Halloween lens for a Giant Halloween Quest, but as I found the news about my grandmother, I scraped that lens and started a new one. It's a fun one about Grandma Halloween costumes, and I dedicated this lens to my granny.

So strange, today I've seen and heard several mentions of 'grandmas' during the day, at some point the church bells went off without any real reason (there was no wedding, or funeral or christening around here), then I saw an ad in the TV about food that grandma used to do, then I also so another Squidoo lens by another lensmaster with something related to grandmas. Most probably it's nothing, maybe I was just more sensitive to the whole 'grandparent' idea and I took more notice on things that usually I wouldn't.

Anyway I don't think this lens will have time to do anything this year since it won't get any tier payment the first month of creation, and unless it gets picked up by Google and visited by searchers on the net, it won't make sales. But it's ok, it will do next year. In the meantime I just felt that I had to do something while mourning my grandma today. While the costumes are rather silly and some ugly and scary, I know my grandma would have smiled (or made a cross) when looking at them. Rest in peace grandma.

Is It Too Late To Make Chrismas Lenses?

I've been wondering when is the best time to start making Christmas lenses, and while I could have started a bit earlier (I do prefer to make more evergreen lenses rather than seasonal ones), I figure I still have 2 months before the Christmas season is in full swing. Although I did start to have some sales on my Christmas tree toppers stars lens on my own Amazon account - which brought me to make a new lens, one that I worked on several hours in fact.

It's called Fiber Optic Christmas Decorations, and some of the decor items here are truly gorgeous, especially the Christmas villages. Perfect for a Christmas gift to a family member, loved one or friend.

Just check out this gorgeous village right here - isn't it awesome?

And a bit of a fun trivia...I've just received this little squid monster...did I really like 4000 lenses? *gulp*

October Earning Stats Are In

The October earning stats for August have just come in to our Dashboard, there is even a discussion about it at the Squidoo forum. There is a nice upwards trend which I like, for all 3 tiers, but especially for tier 1.

For example when comparing with the same month last year, this is what it looks like?

October 2012 earnings:

Tier 1 Earnings
Adpool: $45.28 Text link: $14.55 Total: $59.83

Tier 2 Earnings
Adpool: $7.70 Text link: $2.47 Total: $10.17

Tier 3 Earnings
Adpool: $0.39 Text Link: $0.12 Total: $0.51

October 2011 earnings:

Tier 1 Earnings
Adpool: $36.28 Text link: $11.41 Total: $47.69

Tier 2 Earnings
Adpool: $6.17 Text link: $1.94 Total: $8.11

Tier 3 Earnings
Adpool: $0.31 Text Link: $0.9 Total: $0.40

A nice change compared to last year, particularly for tier 1 with over $10 increase for that tier. It's worth fighting for keeping as many lenses in tier 1, that's true. However with these nice increases, it's also true that the fight for this coveted tier is stronger and stronger every month.