Be sure to take a look at all of today’s Purple Star Lenses.  You’ll be glad you did!

Keep sending your Giant Squid Purple Star lens nominations to purplestar@squidoo.com.  We can’t do this without you!

Morton’s Neuroma A Pain in the Foot 

by JaguarJulie

Morton’s Neuroma — A Pain in the Foot

A Morton’s Neuroma is such a pain in the foot let me tell you! I now have a “foot to stand on” so to speak thanks to my foot surgery to excise that painful Morton’s Neuroma! It took me nearly two years, from when I was first diagnosed with the Morto…

The Journal of the Traveling Squid project consists of a Journal and a Giant Squid T-shirt. As each Squidoo lensmaster receives the forwarded package containing the journal and shirt, they make their contribution to the journal with a journal entry. And, they sign the shirt with their lensmaster name, location and date.

JaguarJulie’s famous Traveling Squid Journal and T-shirt have been on the road for 6 months now and have visited lensmasters far and wide.

In recognition of the journey thus far, lensmaster and unofficial Squidoo poet laureate Gordon Hamilton has written a wonderful poem, here’s a little piece of it:

Jaguar Julie’s traveling Squid, across the ocean went,
To start his world tour in style, to Scotland he was sent;
Auld Reekie’s winds blow cold and fierce, Squid shivered like a lamb,
So Gordon took him to the pub and warmed him with a dram.

The next stop for the traveling Squid was foggy London town,
Where AJ was the lady, who would show him around;
She showed him all the city sights, he saw the London Eye,
Then all too soon she packed him up and waved to him good-bye.

So far and wide the Squid did roam, the green and fertile land,
The people they were many, who deemed to lend a hand;
The Squid he took in Nottingham and Sherwood Forest, too,
He took in many places, each one fresh and new.

You’ll find the rest of the poem and learn more about the awesome  Traveling Squid project and learn how you can be a part of it at the lens: The Journal of the Traveling Squid

Don’t miss this!

JaguarJulie’s Most Beloved Lenses

Reprinted from the Our Favorite Lenses Group

JaguarJulie says: My dear, much like eating just one potato chip, you can well imagine my perplexation at picking just THREE of my favorite lenses!

Jaguar Julie Lensography: Because it is a compilation of my somewhat varied and eclectic lenses; plus the terrific honor of LOTD. If you aren’t featuring ‘lensographies,’ I can nominate another one of my lenses.

Made in Hungary: A lens created with much love to celebrate our trip to Hungary/old Hungary to trace my grandfather’s roots and to celebrate all that is ‘made in Hungary’ … something that continues to amaze me everytime I update that lens.

A Spotted Trend: Polka Dots — Another lens that was one of my original lenses, celebrating a trend that I dearly LOVE … polka dots. Since I first created this lens 2 years ago, I’ve loved the proliferation of polka dots in more than just clothing and accessories.”>

A Spotted Trend — Polka Dots

This lens is a spot-light on polka dots!   Hopefully, you’ll spot something you like!  Polka dots have been a hot trend that is continuing into the next season.  They’re not something that’s new, but have also been a HOT trend for t…

 

Jaguar Julie Lensography

JaguarJulie’s lens is designed to help lensmaster’s who are new to Squidoo.com get aquainted with the site and includes snapshots of all the special Squidoo templates, co-brands, step-by step lensbuilding pages, (including the new magic builder pages) an introduction to all of the most popular lensbuilding modules and so much more. 

 A Primer on How-To Squidoo with Tips from a Giant Squid  is a great place to send anyone who has questions about getting started on Squidoo! 

And speaking of our Livliest Lensographer, have you gotten in on the JaguarJulie Contest yet?

Additional Help for New Lensmasters:

Have You Met Our Newest Giant Squid Greeters Yet?

Awelldressedbullet, Beeobrien, Caseyfern, Clouda9, Everythingmouse, kab, and KimGiancaterino will be joining Christene, Noadi, and ThomasC as our newest powerhouse group of Giant Squid Greeters.

The Greeters are our champions here to help the newest lensmasters at Squidoo.  We heartily welcome them to the program and congratulate them on their winning applications! 

I really like that Jaguarjulie has included snapshot photos of the actual pages newcomers to Squidoo.com will find when they make their first lens.  We Giants have seen those pages so many times we forget how intimidating they might look to a newbie.  She’s also included snapshot photos of all the co-brand pages, groups pages, the categories list, and basically every other page we experienced lensmasters see everyday, allowing newbies the chance to get comfortable before they get addicted, I mean . . . before they start, so they’ll know exactly what to expect.

Squidoo for Dummies – A How-To Squidoo with Tips from Giant Squids, Squid Angels and Squidoo Lensmasters!  offers remarkable help for the new-to-Squidoo user.  Be sure to pass it along to all the new lensmasters you meet at Squidu and to anyone you know who might be thinking about joining Squidoo.

P.S. Are you a member of Jaguarjulie’s amazing 500 strong fan club?  Have you seen her tribute to YOU! 

When you’ve got more than 50 quality Squidoo lenses, keeping track of them all can become a bit daunting.  The best (and easiest) way of sorting through them is to create a lensography lens (a lens about your lenses) where you can separate your many lenses into topic groupings of your choice.

In my opinion, one of the finest examples of a lensography lens was made by mega giant JaguarJulie.   In fact the JaguarJulie Lensography is so good that it was honored with Lens of the Day on March 7, 2008.

JaguarJulie has been a Squidoo lensmaster for over two years now and has created close to 350 lenses and 6 groups.  She’s a member of the The Giant Squid 100 Club and also a Squidoo Angel. 

 JaguarJulie has neatly organized her cavalcade of lenses on her lensography by arranging her many lenses into niche groups including Fashion, Jewelry, Health, Romania, Hungary, Topicability, Hunky Men, Girl Power, Spices, Her Squidoo groups, Lenses about her Blogs, Lenses about herself, (Don’t you love learning about your fellow Squidooers?) and her lenses utilizing Squidoo’s co-brands; Hey Monkeybrains, and The Ever Project.

What makes her lensography different than just a boring grocery-store type list of lenses is that she shares her Squidoo story throughout the lens, making this lensography a completely enjoyable read.

Take a look at the Jaguar Julie Lensography to get ideas for building (or improving) your own lensography.

 All the Cool Squids are doing it!