Jun 30, 2010 
Yesterday evening the gremlins were partying on Squidoo.
When I was updating a couple of lenses yesterday afternoon (UK time about 4 hours ahead of EST), it seemed that Squidoo was barely crawling and so I gave up. I don’t have the patience to wait several minutes for a page to load.
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Squidoo user names, the ones that appear on every lens as well as the lensmaster’s page, can tell us something about the person behind the name.
Many people, myself included, use a nom de plume and there can be many reasons for this. When I joined Squidoo, I predominantly wrote elsewhere and I wanted to keep the two activities totally separate so I chose the name ‘Stazjia’ for my writing on Squidoo. I did, however, put my real name in my information. I didn’t feel it was absolutely imperative to conceal my identity.
I hope none of you are working on new Valentine’s Day lenses or web pages right now. You’ve almost certainly left it too late to get much profitable traffic this year, if you are.
Easter, though, is nine weeks away. This gives you time to get a lens or two online. You’ll have time to choose a good subject, hopefully one that puts a slightly different spin on the usual Easter eggs and little bunny rabbits. You don’t want to compete head-on with the top Easter pages, do you? Maybe you know about some Easter customs unique to your area, or your family has its own traditions or recipes for the festival.
Nov 15, 2009 
Default logo and text on Squidoo Lens
I see many lenses by newcomers to Squidoo that are spoilt because they haven’t bothered to fill in their biography or put in a picture to represent themselves.
On the right you can see the orange blob and “Hello world. This is my bio. I can edit it later.”
I’ve been putting suggestions in the Stazjia’s Stars forum for ideas to make into new lenses. My latest suggestions have been inspired by the weekly Senior Squids Challenge. Last week, the subject was ‘The Moon’ so I wrote about Moonflowers – Night Blooming Plants, this week it’s about ‘Time’ so I’ve done one on Local Time and Railway Time.
The point is to take an idea that is very wide ranging and think of your own slant on it. There is no way that anybody could write a comprehensive lens or web page about the moon or time. Both subjects are too big.
If you’ve read this blog before, you will know that I am addicted to writing on Squidoo and for the past couple of months I’ve been trying to get my total of lenses (web pages) there over the 100 mark.
I did it. I finished up with 108 lenses and I was notified on Thursday that I had made it into the Giant 100 Club.
I really didn’t expect to qualify. I wasn’t convinced that I’d really got 100 high quality lenses. I wanted to do at least another five or six to give myself a better chance. I always do my best when I write but we aren’t always the best judges of our own work.
Jun 29, 2009 
It’s felt like a feverish 6 or 7 weeks ever since I decided to try for the Giant 100 Club halfway through May with the deadline June 30. Since then I’ve made about 30 new lenses. When I still needed to do at least 12 more to get to the 100, it felt like an impossible task but somehow I made the 100 and then more to reach 107 lenses in all.
The Dark is Rising Sequence
I now have a total of 92 lens on Squidoo and I need well over 100 to give myself a chance of making the Giant 100 Club because the definition is 100 outstanding lenses and not all of mine might qualify as outstanding.
I’m going to do the best I can in the time I have left – just 30 days as the final date is June 30th. If I don’t have the required number of the right standard by then, I will have to wait till the end of September to apply again. I have decided that I won’t beat myself up if I don’t do it this time, though. That way I won’t be so prone to the ‘headless chicken’ syndrome – going crazy doing nothing because I have so much to do that I can’t make up my mind what to concentrate on!
I’m feeling guilty because I haven’t updated my blog for nine days. I try to do it once or twice a week. About a week ago I decided to go for membership of Squidoo’s Giant 100 Club, next deadline for which is June 30th. That means I have to have at least 100 good quality lenses. Then I had just 77, leaving me at least 23 left to do and it’s a good idea to have a few more.
Since I made Giant with fifty lenses at the beginning of last October, I needed a break and was fresh out of ideas for new subjects for lenses. The incentive was one of my Squidoo friends, Willow, was one of the Angels who had started one of the teams for aspiring Giants or Giant 100s. It is a competition between teams so I joined hers – Willow’s Wonder Squids. Now I have a responsibility to the team to reach the 100 lens target.
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I’m not an artist or designer but I’ve worked on specialist antiques-related newspapers and magazines and known some excellent graphic designers. As I’ve visited many antiques fairs (shows), exhibitions and galleries, I have been exposed to good and bad art and think I know the difference – maybe!
On Squidoo, I’ve written about some great artists and designers like Charles Rennie Macintosh, William Morris, and Susie Cooper and I couldn’t find a group for designers and design. This is why I decided to start the Squidoo Art and Design Group.
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