Lens Selected For Valentine's Day Recipes Monsterboard

This one is new to me too: one of my lenses I submitted for a quest on Valentine's Day got featured on the 80 Valentine's Day Recipes monsterboard. In the image below is the one pointed to by the orange arrow. It's a lens on Valentine Cake Balls (which are yum-yum!)

80 Valentine's Day Recipes

None of my lenses were previously featured on any monsterboard or on the homepage (one of my 'wet dreams' which hopefully will also happen), so this was an interesting event for me.

150 Lenses Done So Far

I took a 4 day break from last Thursday until Sunday to play an online game I've discovered recently, called Entropia Universe. It's awesome and quite addictive. As I know myself when it comes to games, I spent these days to play fully and get it out of my system (else I'd be dreaming about the game instead of working every day). Now I'm back on track with my 150th lens today on palm tree wall decals.

I can't believe how far I've come since I've started more seriously with Squidoo back in September last year. I truly enjoy writing for Squidoo because it allows me to write on any topic that I fancy for the moment. Also the great modules allow me to easier express my creativity. Squidoo is definitely not an article writing site!

Now let's see when I'll have ready my 200th lens. I know some lensmasters with 700+ lenses. I guess I still have a looong way to go till there...

Finished January With 145 Lenses Total

Wow, I can't believe I already have 145 lenses with my latest lens about bronze horse sculptures that I've just finished this morning. Just in December I made my 100th lens on Kindle DX covers and cases, which made me a few nice sales over Christmas.

Well technically it is first of February this morning, but I'm hoping that this lens is still included for January since I've made it before the actual lensrank update, so that I get tier payments for February (if the lens gets to a tier, of course).

Just a year ago I was struggling with 5-10 measly ones for backlinking purposes. Since I've started seriously adding higher quality lenses (for people, not for search engines and backlinks) in September, I really pushed myself hard.

And it shows, as sales are up especially for December. While the sales for January are about half as those for December, they're still much higher than I'd ever had at Squidoo before.

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.

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:

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.

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!