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Michelle Obama’s Style

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Well after a break of a month, I found that I needed to do something positive while I sat feeling sick to my stomach waiting for election night results. My newest lenses is: http://www.squidoo.com/michelleobamasstyle
Fashion watchers are always dissecting the clothing choices of our First Lady. I know this lens will have a lot of updates!

I have a lens in the top 100 in news!

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

My lens: http://www.squidoo.com/womenagainstsarahpalin is in the top 100 in the news category and at 2845 overall!
Now if I could figure out a way to get my other lens: http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvivalchecklist noticed! It is a bit of frustration for me as I have joined groups, announced it on SquidU, tried hard with my keywords. There is obviously [...]

My 5th lens is published

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Well, I just published my 5th lens. It will either resonate with women or not depending on their views. The lens was born of a letter I received a week ago asking women who are not for Sarah Palin to write and tell their story. A week later, 100,000 women have added their voice. I [...]

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 [...]

My first lens:  http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival  has left its formerly great rank and is rapidly slipping backward. Just in time for me to announce my newest lens: http://www.squidoo.com/dormroomdecorating.
Any help, input, additional ideas for promoting this would be great since it will be current only for the next month as kids get ready to leave for college.
Time to [...]

So I unmaxed my lens…..

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

I was just visiting SquidU and found a topic about changing the look of your lens. I found out how to UnMax a lens so I have done it. If anyone would be so kind as to take a look and let me know if they like the look, it would be most appreciated!
http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival