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.

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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Topic Links
* The Fatgirl’s Closet Headquarters
* The Fatgirl’s Closet on Twitter
* The Fatgirl’s Closet on Facebook

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 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.

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.

The other lens I made about this time last year. It highlights the major/favorite places online to find Plus Size Halloween Costumes. As you can imagine it is one of those lenses that is more popular at certain times of the year than at others. It is one of my personal favorite lenses.

The Eating in Thunder Bay lens was an assignment about highlighting local establishments via a lens. It’s not surprising that I choose food over say, the museum. This lens highlights the hot spots my husband and I like to make a point of eating at when we visit our place of birth. I’ve opened it up so visitors can include their favorite restaurants from the area too.

When I was done I decided to make a Squidoo lens reviewing each book followed by polls for visitors to add their ratings.

This past week the Squidoo crew awarded it the purple star of goodness. I’m quite thrilled that they have chosen another one of my lenses for purple star status.

I put a lot of work into my lenses, especially my review lenses; it’s nice to have that recognized.

I’m so glad I decided to start this lens before I even went under the laser. Reading over it now, I wrote things I never would have remembered over a year later.

If you are considering laser eye surgery I highly recommend reading my lens to get another person’s perspective from start to finish.

Being awarded a purple star increases the rank of the lens as well as the visitors. But of course the best part is the lovely power purple star that shows up in the lensmaster main bio and chosen lens bio.

My Blended Matcha lens was one of the first to be inducted into the purple hall of fame. This lens gives a play by play on how to make a green tea smoothie using matcha.