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Celebrating Canada Day with LOTD

Celebrating Canada Day with LOTD

Squidoo helped me celebrate Canada Day by featuring my Seven Places to See in Canada Before You Die lens as the Lens of the Day (LOTD). A LOTD lens gets prominently featured on the main page of Squidoo for 24 hours as well as getting mentioned in the main newsletter and blog. I knew...
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Bleasdell in the Spring

Bleasdell in the Spring

A year ago I decided I was going to document the seasons at the Bleasdell Boulder, a “glacial erratic” or in layman’s terms a very big rock. Last night after resizing and uploading over forty pictures for spring I was officially completed. One of the things you will learn while visiting my boulder lens...
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The Write Prompts Gets a Face Lift

The Write Prompts Gets a Face Lift

It has been four years since the Write Prompts Lens had a new look and almost three years since the sister blog had a theme lift. It seemed like it was about time. At first I planned to get the woman who has done most of my headers to create one for the Write...
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New Direction

Over the next couple weeks I will be tidying up this blog as well as transferring content over from a Blogger blog that I want to close. My goal is to finish up some blogging challenges as well as get back to regular blogging on what is really my primary “me” blog. Thanks for...
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Retiring from Literary Fiction

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...
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The Budget Fashionista

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...
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Five Years with BellaOnline

Five Years with BellaOnline

It’s hard to believe that I have been an editor at BellaOnline for five years. I’ve had a few topics over the years but my concentration has always been with the Large and Lovely site. I have seen it grow from a few articles to hundreds. And watched the hits climb from 10,000 a...
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Giant Squid Top 100 Club

Giant Squid Top 100 Club

As of October 6, 2008 I joined the I joined the Giant Squid Top 100 Club. I remember back in the day (a few months before this) that I was working hard on my 50 lenses to become a Giant Squid. I never thought I’d make it this far but I did. Next goal....
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New Look for Shopping Blog

My plus size shopping blog has moved and has a new look. It is not completely moved yet but you can find it over at http://www.plusshe.com I decided to stick with the same blog name even though it is different from the url. The url is Plus She… say it fast. I thought it...
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I’m a Giant Squid

I’m a Giant Squid

This month: I became a Giant Squid.
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