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I’ve reviewed young adults books in the past and some of my own favorite childhood books but this is my first requested children’s book review.

Going Home is a simple creative non-fiction book about the migration of ten interesting and varied animals for children aged 4 to 8. You can read the full review at The Homeschool Club.

My latest review for BellaOnline is the Period Undies. Grace SooHoo is the designer/creator of Period Undies for Simple Necessit-Ease Inc. It officially launched in 2006 with a small but successful test group. Period Undies are designed for women with the goal of protecting clothing from those accidental moments while menstruating.

Read the Period Undies Review.

This last week has been really busy as I started a new venture with Squidoo — a club for plus size fashion bloggers called The Fatgirl’s Closet. My immediate goal is to build a top 100 directory of fashion bloggers. My long term goal is to create a club where these bloggers can network with one another to promote their blogs and of course plus size fashion.

One of the cool things about working with Squidoo is they designed the headquarters where the club will reside and where bloggers can make pages about their blogs or plus size fashion in general with The Fatgirl’s Closet logo. Bloggers get all the same features that Squidoo offers except we have our own place to do it. To round off the club I created a facebook page and a twitter account to keep everyone in touch.

My official role is “club leader”. I’m featured on the main headquarter page and my role is to market the club and provide support to bloggers as they create lenses. I’m very excited about this project as I’ve wanted to create a home for plus size fashion bloggers for some time and now it’s happening; one fashion blog at a time.

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* The Fatgirl’s Closet on Twitter
* The Fatgirl’s Closet on Facebook

I’ve always wanted to be an angel. A SquidAngel that is. Today I started my position as a SquidAngel at Squidoo. It’s a volunteer position where I travel through the guts of Squidoo rewarding worth seeing with a love “bump”.

In true Giant Squid fashion I have created a lens that will document my angel journey by highlighting all the lenses I visit and give a thumbs up. I call this lens — My Squid Angel Journey — I know original, right.

It’s also a great way for lensmasters to connect with me and let me know if they have a special lens they want me to look at.

In blessing others I bless myself (I don’t mean literally).

The people at Purina Maxx Scoop sent me a kitty litter kit for review (by my kitties, not me) and I’ve been posting the progress over at my personal blog. You can read the review complete with candid photographs — don’t worry they are PG.

Today I received an email announcing that The Write Prompts lens received a purple star. Of all the 200+ lenses this is probably one that I am most proud of.

The Write Prompts is my first lens, originally developed by another writer who turned it over to me. From the day it became mine over two years ago I have been updating it religiously every Sunday.

It has a large following and its popularity eventually led to me developing its sister The Write Prompts Blog which I also update every Sunday. I’m feeling very proud of myself today.

Ever since the Purple Star was instituted at Squidoo I’ve been hoping that my Curvy Chics lens would get picked. Today the wish came true!

The Curvy Chics lens is kind of an index for other lenses. It gives brief intros on some of my favorite curvy chics and then leads readers to larger lenses on each curvy lady. This is one of my favorite lenses and I’m glad it received this acknowledgment.

While I’m reading I am always using pens and post-it notes. If I have to take my book somewhere I always end up losing the post-its and pen in my purse (or end up forgeting to take them with me in the first place). So when Everyday Innovations asked me to review their Bookmarker Flag Pen I happily agreed.

It fits well in my hand and has a nice ink flow. The mini sheets are good for flagging and for making a short comment but I would like to see a larger note in the refill option instead of the duo colored one so it is easier to write a full thought. The pen is thin enough to mark a page without doing damage to the binding and the little red tab slides down to keep the ink of the pen from marking the page.

Read my full review for the Bookmarker Flag Pen at the Book-in-a-week blog.

After just over three years I’m retiring from the Literary Fiction site at BellaOnline. I will continue to maintain my contacts and review books through my official website, SquidLit, and Amazon. It has been an interesting experience and I have learned many things from it. I do not regret my time working on this site.

I have followed Kathryn Finney’s blog, The Budget Fashionista for a few years. I even recommend her book on my blog for the last year. At the end of December I applied to be a contributing fashion poster on her updated website. Much to my own surprised they were “very interested” and offered me a position which requires me to turn in one assignment per week on plus size fashion. Here are the last six weeks of postings. Please stop by and leave me a lovely comment regarding the post:

• Five Great Places to Purchase Plus Size Tights
• The Best Wide Calf Boots
• Five Great Plus Size Work Dresses
• Five Pieces You Need For the New Year
• Six Pieces For New Year Workouts

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