Fresh Squid News

Today we have added 20 great looking lenses to Fresh Squid Contest! These people are maybe new to Squidoo but they know how to make a great lens! Please show your support to these people – they have put a lot of effort into their lenses – stop by Fresh Squid Contest for February 2010, browse lenses and vote for your favorites! We want the best to win!

For all of you who haven’t been up to date with the news about Fresh Squids, group and Contest are back online and today one Fresh Squid contest ended and another began!

Winners of December 2009 Fresh Squid Contest:
1st place – jgelien with The Art of Aging Ungracefully
2nd place – spunkyduckling for Ten Funny Reasons God Made Pets
3rd place – Wednesday_Elf with Potholder Soup

These 3 ladies really have done excellent work on their lenses and they deserve winning for work they have put into them! Well done ladies and congratulations!

Another Spotlight interview has been up today as well. This time, interview took me to Scotland where I’ve visited one hard working gal – made 50 lenses in 3 months! Wow! This lady also won last of the weekly contests: Module Contest! You can check who’s in question if you visit and read interview for Squidoo Spotlight!

It’s now more than 9 months since Fresh Squid group was first created and in this period it featured 380 new lensmasters with their lenses.

Yesterday, I’ve published sort of lensography for all Fresh Squid graduation lenses and all of support lenses – their number raised to 14 so I thought it would be easier to follow up what’s going on with all of them.

What’s a bit different with this lensography is, many Fresh Squids are included with their quotes about Squidoo, lenscrafting and other tips. It was only fair to say that you can now Learn From Fresh Squids! as they learned hard to get where they are today!

Keeping a journal is an important part in the lives of some people . Lensmaster Paris17 reminds us that keeping one with entries of gratitude will increase our happiness in her lens How To Keep A Gratitude Journal.

Australian contemporary impressionistic artist Whittakerart showcases her talent in the beautiful lens Impressionist Art Of Nicole Whittaker. If you have a need to visit a gallery, make this your first stop.

Learn from the tragic lesson taught by English mother Sarah Kip why we should use natural hourhold cleaners. Her lens, The Damage Caused By Common Household Cleaners explains the advantages of going au naturale when cleaning.

French girl indiefrog was handed a wonderful opportunity to travel to a beautiful oasis. Step inside her trip to Algeria and read about her trip to the Algerian Desert.

How much do you really know about recycling? Did you know that all kinds of stuff From Poop To Condoms get recycled? Lensmaster Beautiful_GreenBeans explores the top five wierd things that get recycled for us. Just so we don’t have to.

A simple breakfast including green tea will do wonders for our increase in metabolism and weight loss attempts. See how this works as explained by BamBusiness in his lens Breakfast For Diet Health, Enery, And Weight Loss.

Learning how to Squidoo can either be painful or a real joy. It all depends on your mindset and how you go about it. Sittonbull shares his experience and tips in his highly entertaining lens Learning To Squidoo.

One of the brightest new lensmasters, luvmyludwig gives us all a big ol’ “Howdee Do!” in her welcome mat Southern Hospitality, Hey Y’all lens. Stop in and sit a spell. Take a load off and enjoy the company.

Avid reader jp1978 writes about his favorite books from his childhood and explores the benefits of good reading for children in his offering My Favorite Books For Children.

Sprete gives an engaing book review of Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story Of Success. Gladwell explains that by thinking outside of the box and considering previously overlooked factors, people or groups of people have gained success in their endevours.

Today here will be presented last 7 lensmasters that joined Fresh Squid group in September. And that are now currently being featured in Fresh Squid Contest! This contest will end tomorrow evening and winners will be pronounced day after tomorrow! So you still can make it to vote for your favorite!

ChristinaK starts her lens Freedom To Soar with very intriguing sentence: “The Only Investment You Can Trust Is The One You Make In Yourself!” Do you agree with her? Check her lens to know more about why she means what she said!

AurumMaximus in his lens shows off The many paths you must take to achieve financial independence. Interesting reading for anyone who thinks about quitting daily job!

RuralRoute2 shares with us some great recipes and tips from her cookbook
Rural Route 2 Recipes, Cooking, Food and The Cookbook! If you are up for some Fresh recipes, check it out! Yummy!

SingerArtistLover loves music! Couldn’t tell from the name??? LOL Take a look at Youtube Singing Sensation – Famous Female Singer After Internet Video Popularity! It will be time greatly spent!

Crichtonslover shows off Halloween Spirit! Costume Mall T-Shirts to eBay! Boo! =o! Just appropriate one day before Halloween!

Noridah in her lens talks about book The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Heard of him but would love to learn more? You are only one click away from finding out more!

Seattletaxaccountant gives some tips about Saving Taxes! And who wouldn’t want to know more about that?!? I know I do!

CCGAL was second (by date first ) Fresh Squid to receive Lens of the Day! She tells a story about her husband’s job in her lens Heritage Heirloom Cutting Boards that is the most inspiring! And she has 29 lenses published by today! So I’m guessing she’s trying to make 50 lenses for next Giant Squid deadline! I’m cheering for ya!

Next Fresh Squid I’ll like to introduce made a Tutorial On Creating A Hydrogen Generator! Wow! Also, he goes by very interesting name: Runningbandit!

HealthyAsh shares some tips and guides How To Lose Baby Weight so if you had baby recently or have issue with few pounds extra take a look at what he recommends!

PartialTee writes about Selective Conservativity in her article presenting new fashion trend! You may find it handy so go and take a look what she has on her mind!

Amkatee gives some input and tips to parents about Potty Training Strong Willed Children. Parents take a look to this and other parenting related lenses! You may learn something new!

For Portable_eBay anybody can tell from first look that although he is Fresh Squid, he isn’t new in web design! Take a look at his eBay Philippines – DEFENSIVE eBAY | Protect Yourself and you’ll find out what I’m talking about! He also started group under the name LENSMASTER OF THE DAY which features some really cool lensmasters and their lenses! Way to go!

imlj aka Linda Jew is woman that makes us wish to visit places like Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her lenses are really good researched and presented! She haven’t made many but she makes quality!

packetlog shares with us his passion for photography and makes wonderful tutorials like Learning Macro Photography with Butterflies as Subjects. His pictures are wonderful and I’m thanking him for trying to pass his knowledge!

garywgoldstein is an attorney, literary manager, film producer and author who provides Personal Development Programs, Entrepreneur/Business Coaching, Screenwriter/Filmmaker Coaching and Corporate Training. More about him you may find out in his Introduction article.

marketmasteryblog gives us review on a program with question asked: Market Mastery Protege Program Review – Is It A Scam?. You should check it out and find out for yourselves!

What to say about Ges? Ever thought it is possible to have a single lens and win Lens of the Day??? Guess it is! Ges won on October 5th 2008 for his lens about Honey Badgers! Great lens and well deserved!

Teachmemore gives some insight in how to trade the stock market. From his knowledge we could all learn a bit more and put some more money in our pockets!

Today is exactly one month from the day Fresh Squid group was created! This group was created as my attempt to make newcomers welcomed to Squidoo.com as well as to give them some resources that will make their start in lenscrafting easier. For this reason some rules were laid out in Fresh Squid FAQ but also given list of recommended reading (about modules, html, css, promotion, etc.).

Since I didn’t have time to start blog at same time as group like I planned, I’m starting it exactly one month later! Why? There is a rule in Fresh Squid group: “new lensmaster and newcomer to Squidoo gets one month to be featured lensmaster and have one of your lenses in featured lenses!”…. And today is the last day of featuring lensmasters who joined this group on first day it was created!

Let me introduce them once more (they deserve it!):

OldGrampa joined Squidoo.com on September 5 2008 and in this short time he managed to publish 31 lenses! And all of them are completed and quality lenses! Don’t believe me? This was one of his first: Halloween History Trivia And Fun and it’s really fantastic! Seams like this Fresh Squid could apply for Giant Squid for December, 31st deadline!

JudyDunn is one great lady with big heart! Her lenses have that ’something’ that compel you to read it from beginning to end. Proof of this what I just said is best shown in her article “Oh Say Can We See”,…The Crane Project. If you haven’t yet, better visit it! Her idea that was elaborated in this lens is grand!

CosmeticSurgeryIreland introduced to us to Rhinoplasty and not only in promotional and commercial way but also gives some real questions and answers anybody who think about taking this procedure should consider!

danskapia as someone who runs free job board shares with us his expertise in resolving dilemma: Where should I post my resume?. He also links with numerous job hunting sites! So if you plan to change your job, drop by and see his recommendations!

sheryll is person you want to have beside you when you make a decision on visiting London! Why? Because she knows all about London Cheap Deals and Bargains! And who of us is that rich to give away money when we can save it!

kristensup is really Fresh Squid! Why? Because she is only eighteen-year-old! And you would never guess that reading her lenses! She writes about thing she know about and from her experience. That’s how one of her first lenses was created: Dorm Life: The Good, The Bad, The Horribly Ugly – this is great lens for anybody that stayed in dorm (brings back memories) but also for ones that have daughters or sons heading to collage!

ParentCoachGTD teach us (parents) some very valuable facts and ways how to Help Kids Cooperate When We Need Them To! And since he is parent coach and therapist with a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, he really know what he is talking about! Check out his lens and learn some new techniques to get your kids cooperate!