Time For Homemade Soup

The cooler weather is a great time to enjoy delicious homemade soup and what is nicer than a warming cup of Pumpkin soup made from scratch.

I enjoy many different soups in the winter months but I think my favorite is pumpkin. It's quick and easy to make as well as looking and smelling delicious.

Although it can be easily cooked on the stove top I like to make it in my slow cooker. Nothing's easier and it's great to have a meal already cooked when you get home from work. Anything that makes life easier in the kitchen suits me just fine which is why I love using the slow cooker.

What's your favorite soup?

Martha Stewart Halloween Punches

If you love crafts and enjoy making your own cards for Halloween you'll love the Martha Stewart Halloween punches. They're perfect for Halloween scrapbooking to preserve all those fun memories. You can also use them for other crafts like decorating Halloween candles, place mats, invitation cards and many other items. It's a fun way to create the perfect fun of Halloween.

Airblown Inflatables For Halloween

I really enjoy the idea of decorating for Halloween. There are just so many options and one of the increasingly popular ones is using airblown inflatables for your outside yard decorations.

What's so great about them I hear you say. Well they are so quick and easy to erect. Just plug them in and they're inflated in minutes. All you need do is stake them in place and you have an instant display. They deflate quickly too and can be stored away fairly easily for next year.

Many of them are quite large so they can make quite a feature on their own and the kids love them. If you really like the idea of outdoor decorating it is certainly a good option with so many fun designs to choose from. Happy ghosts, pumpkins, Disney characters and much more.

Do you use them or have you ever considered them?

Squidoo Page Break Module

I've created a few new Squidoo lenses since last time I posted. I'm still spending a lot of time learning new things especially about promoting. Finding places to promote can be such a time consuming chore but it needs to be done.

Anyway I decided to try out the page break module on one of my new lenses Decorative Garden Flags. I have to say it took me a while to figure it out properly but I think the result was worth it. The main difficulty was creating links to the other pages since the tabs at the top of the page don't stand out very well. Thanks to Flynn the Cat's lens Page Break Module I was able to figure it out(I'm such a dummy with all this stuff). It's still a lens that needs some work but I'm getting a couple of visits from Google, so I hope that's a good start.

The page break module certainly makes for quicker loading of bigger pages which is obviously a good thing. If you're a Squidooer , why not check it out.

How About A Mocktail - Or Two!

This weeks feature Aussie is Louanne better known as lou16 on Squidoo. Louanne has over 360 lenses to her name as well as several blogs, including to upkeep.

Her blogs include Swimming With Giant Squids. This is an interesting blog where Louanne shares her experiences writing for Squidoo and shares many tips and advice for those of us still learning.

Another interesting blog is Lou's Cocktail Blog where she shares all kinds of amazing advice about making cocktails and cocktail recipes.

On Squidoo you'll also find a wonderful collection of cocktail lenses including this popular one on Mocktails that I really like. This is a great selection of non-alcoholic recipes for anyone who doesn't, or can't drink. Of course there are plenty of links to the alcohol recipe lenses as well, and I can tell you they sound great. So if cocktails are your thing then Louanne's lenses are the ones to check out.

Happy mixing to you all.

Promoting Can Be A Bit Tedious

Just after I had published my very first lens on Squidoo, I was invited to join Rocketmoms. For me this was a great thing and I was thrilled to join and participate. I have certainly learned a lot from being a member of this fantastic group and certainly would not have made Giant Squid without it.

How ever there was a bit of a downside. Well it's not Rocketmoms fault but this group became my little world and I really didn't venture much outside it. Consequently I'm now trying to do things that I should have been doing all along. This includes trying to get backlinks to my lenses, improving tags and making sure that pictures are also tagged correctly. A big task now that I have 50 lenses.

I'm afraid I was guilty of only listing new lenses at the Rocketmoms site which doesn't provide backlinks. So now I'm busy listing all my lenses at various Squidoo directories and trying to find other places to promote them. Quite a big task that is not very exciting either. Oh well, I only have myself to blame. But it means I don't have much time for the fun stuff of creating new lenses at the moment.

T Shirt Gifts For Frog Lovers

Fashions change over the years - always have and always will, I guess. So what is it about the good ol' t shirt that seem to keep them ever popular and fashionable.

For me I think they're just so comfortable and can be worn just about anywhere. You can dress them up or be totally casual in a t shirt and they are made for all members of the family, which is one reason they make such a great gift idea.

T shirts come in many fantastic designs but today we're looking at frog design t-shirts, the perfect gift for frog lovers. There are so many frog designs to choose from, so I created a Squidoo page with a selection of my favorites. From cute to funny or realistic life-like frogs, there is something to please everyone.


The Washing Frog T-Shirt
I love this. Frogs obviously like to be clean.

These designs are all available from Zazzle a print on demand company. If you can't find something you like you can even design your own special t shirts and other products.