Archive for August, 2008

OK I am trying this again. I was so proud of myself when I finally finished my new lens: http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvivalchecklist that I thought I had posted it but it is not showing up in the next posting. I am trying again. If it finally shows up, chalk it up to enthusiasm! Please visit and leave [...]

A busy week

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Well I had to put myself right in the middle of my lens-http://www.squidoo.com/dormroomdecorating. Last Sunday was packing day. Monday we went down to the school and spent the night to help with the stress of move in day. Tuesday was move in at school. Everything fit and having a plan made it much easier. I [...]

I am learning a lot more lessons from making my lens: http://www.squidoo.com/30minuteslens  than I expected.

In terms of what people are interested in, I have had 3 times the visitors to this lens than my first two lenses.
In terms of what it takes to make a great lens, I learned that quality is related to [...]

I made a 30 minute lens!

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

OK- Today I decided to try my hand at a 30 minute lens. Frankly I didn’t think it was possible for me, but somehow I managed! I found that I was holding my breath a lot and probably wasted a lot of time looking at the clock as I really wanted to be at exactly [...]

First of all, thanks for the advice not to unmax my lens! I think it has a lot to do with the fact that as of this morning, http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival is #38 in Family and #800 overall! Wow!  My second lens is now at #434 overall but only #11732 overall.
So what it shows me, is that [...]