Virginia Allain - Writer, Photographer, Book Designer

I was hopeful that I might squeeze in some visits to Kansas lensmasters while I was there all of April. Unfortunately it didn’t work out, but I’m keeping it in mind for my next trip to my native state, probably in October. The month started with a sad event, the hospitalization and loss of my [...]

I don’t know if I’m getting more comments these days or just getting more disorganized. In the past, I kept up pretty well visiting other lensmasters and approving the comments they left on my lenses. Now it seems I always have a backlog of fifty to seventy comments to return. Maybe I’m making too b

It’s good to see the upswing of spring and summer topics. Winter may be on the way out. Here are a few that are climbing for me. The first one moved into tier one already. I’m hopeful that it will stay there for April, May, June, July, August and September at least. Create a Tuscan [...]

On Squidoo, a blessing from a Squid angel is highly prized. First of all, it means an accomplished lensmaster really liked your page and thought it worthy of a blessing. Multiple blessings can significantly boost the lensrank of a Squidoo page for a short time. In my experience, it seems to last abo

People sometimes ask me where I get my ideas for my web pages on Squidoo. I grabbed a sampler here of new and old pages. Let’s look at where the ideas originated. The first one on anime wigs was inspired by my niece. Pink Anime Wigs Momisms – Sayings from Moms This one was inspired [...]

Of the 500 web pages I’ve created on Squidoo, these are the ones at the top:   Pinterest Tips for Squidoo Lensmasters Pinterest and Squidoo make an awesome duo. If you haven’t tried Pinterest yet or are a little puzzled about how to use it with Squidoo, here are tips for that…. Wine Cork Crafts [...

Squidoo selected my web page Pinterest Tips for Squidoo Lensmasters for Lens of the Day on January 25, 2012. It received over 1000 visits, so obviously Pinterest is hot, hot, hot. Many commented that they loved Pinterest, a few growled about copyright and others asked for an invite. Now I have the h