Reflections Calendar for 2011

Reflections 2011 Calendar by joacreations
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Poem for my Grandfather

My Grandfather recently died. I wrote this poem about him.

When I think of you

When they told me you may be leaving us
So many memories of my life with you
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When I think of you
I think of family
All the vacations we took
Motorcycles in the desert
Three wheelers, two wheelers, that side car
You loved so much
And the way you would make it go up in the air
It would give me a pretty good scare
But it had a television in it
So, it was pretty cool to be in there riding along with you

When I think of you
I think about
All the things you loved to build
Best of all for me was the dollhouse you made
When I was ten
Furnished with thoughtful touches
You loved us like that
I think some may have missed
The beauty in your heart that makes you want to
Do things like build a butterfly house or a doll house
It is all out of love

When I think of you
I think of airplanes
You loved to fly
I speak often of the time I was 4 years old
Sitting on grandma’s lap co piloting with you
You let go and made me think I was driving the plane
I was so scared
But you were always there
You always cared for all of us

When I think of you
I think of orange trees on the farm
Of Christmases come and gone
Of memories that live on
Your wacky humor I have pictures of
And I am so glad
We said to one another

I love you no matter what
Because I do

Reflections of My Soul

Mothers Day Flower Greeting Card from Zazzle.com

Mother's Day is almost here. How about a pretty card for mom with matching postage

Mothers Day Flower

Yin and Yang

My daughter's artwork

Yin/Yang Angels by joacreations
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Yin/Yang Angels by joacreations
More Angel Postage

Yin/Yang Angels by joacreations
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Bridges of Oregon Print from Zazzle.com

Bridges of Oregon Print from Zazzle.com

Bridges of Oregon by joacreations
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Vote for American Idol

http://www.squidoo.com/2010-American-Idol

Come vote for who you would like to win on American Idol.

SImplicity of Spring

Spring Flowers by joacreations
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Spring is here and it is beautiful. I love spring and how all the trees and flowers blossom again bringing so many pretty colors.

Simplicity of Spring by joacreations
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Spring Flowers by joacreations
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Zazzle Helping Haiti

 I found these great shirts and more on Zazzle....proceeds go to help Haiti.

Profits to Unicef - Haiti Tags by HaitiRelief

Profits to Unicef

Profits to Unicef

Profit to Unicef - Haiti Air Drop

Lemon Rotini with Arugula and Asiago

Prep Time: 

10 min

Cook Time:

30 min

Serves:

4 to 5 servings

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon good olive oil
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic (2 cloves)
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 3 lemons
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 bunch broccoli
• 1 pound dried rotini pasta
• 1/2 pound baby arugula (or 2 bunches of common arugula, leaves cut in thirds)
• 1/2 cup freshly grated Asiago
• 1 pint grape or cherry tomatoes, halved

Directions

Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat, add the garlic, and cook for 60 seconds. Add the cream, the zest from 2 lemons, the juice of 2 lemons, 2 teaspoons of salt, and 1 teaspoon of pepper. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, until it starts to thicken.

Meanwhile, cut the broccoli in florets and discard the stem. Cook the florets in a pot of boiling salted water for 3 to 5 minutes, until tender but still firm. Drain the broccoli and run under cold water to stop the cooking. Set aside.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add 1 tablespoon of salt and the pasta, and cook according to the directions on the package, about 12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Drain the pasta in a colander and place it back into the pot. Immediately add the cream mixture and cook it over medium-low heat for 3 minutes, until most of the sauce has been absorbed in the pasta. Pour the hot pasta into a large bowl, add the arugula, Parmesan, tomatoes, and cooked broccoli. Cut the last lemon in half lengthwise, slice it 1/4-inch thick crosswise, and add it to the pasta. Toss well, season to taste, and serve hot.

 Don't leave out the lemon you will regret it as it is what punches the greens up. Enjoy!

RedBubble

Do you sell art or photography online? Do you want to but don't? Here is a site I use to sell my photography and my daughter's art.

It is called Redbubble. I did a lens on it here: Redbubble

Here is a widget to see what I have there:

Animal print on Zazzle

I personally love animal prints. I have some products in my zazzle store in giraffe, leopard and zebra animal print

Zazzle

Zazzle is a great place to make some money or sell your photos or art. You also make money through referrals of your own stuff or someone else's. Referrals are a nice surprise. I usually have a few each month that sell.

Here is one of my Zazzle products: The bridge in the meadow. It was such a peaceful place to be and you can feel that in the photo

Bridge

Bridge in the Meadow

The bridge in the meadow

The bridge in the meadow

Fan Club Counter

Do you have the Squidoo fan club counter?

You can get it at Squidutils which you will find a link to in your dashboard.

Here is what it looks like:


This is just a fun little thing to have for your lenses on Squidoo...

The Squidutils blog is a good blog to follow for useful tools and tips to help you with your Squidoo experience

Go here to get your fan club counter: http://squidutils.com/login.php

You can also find other useful tools such as the rss to your squidcasts
Here are mine: http://squidutils.com/squidcasts/from/jewelsofawe.rss

reBlog from Kirt Baab, M.A., M.Ed., M.S.W.: The Spotted Squid

I am featured on another blog:

Jewelsofawe is a Spotted Squid, originally uploaded by Quesea aka Kirt Baab.Jewelsofawe is a Giant Squid, Squidoo Mentor, writer, and work at home mom. You can learn more about her on her Squidoo Fan Page.  She was spotted at Facebook and has joined the Spotted Squid Fan Page on Facebook. She has created a Squidoo Lens that she'd like to see be Lens of the Day Real Bad. You can view The Story of a Vietnam Veteran here.Kirt Baab, M.A., M.Ed., M.S.W., The Spotted Squid, Feb 2010

You should read the whole article.

Zazzle art

I just wanted to share this design with you from my zazzle store...

artistic

Twitter Tools

I wrote a new lens about Twitter Tools...

Click on the title to go there and check it out. It has lots of fun twitter tools you can use if you are on twitter. If you are not on twitter you might want to be

My Twitter and me

I love twitter! It is a perfect tool to use with so many other places on the internet. I have lots of twitter friends. I talk to people I know, people I don't know. It is a great way to connect with the world outside of the world I know. I can share my blog, my squidoo lenses, my RedGage shares or just say something and people usually respond or retweet.

Jewelsofawe on Facebook

Many squids have a fan page on Squidoo. It is a great way to have all your squid fans know about your squidoo activities. I have many as my regular facebook page friends also which does mix with family.

Here are some of the badges I use to spread the word about my fan page:
Jewelsofawe on Squidoo | Promote Your Page Too


I like this one best of all and this is the one I have on sidebar of my blog:

Jewelsofawe on Squidoo on Facebook

You can do it with or without a stream of your activity

Jewelsofawe on Squidoo on Facebook

Squidcasts

You can get an rss of your squidcasts on squidoo and go to feedburner
Get an account there if you do not have one. Then people can subscribe to your squidcasts.
It is a fun tool to utilize...

Subscribe to SquidCasts from jewelsofawe by Email

You can also subscribe in a reader
Subscribe in a reader

Once you have the rss feed at feedburner you will get all kinds of benefits.
Here is one of the things you get from there:

↑ Grab this Headline Animator

These are great to post everywhere. I have one on my lensmaster page at squidoo.

TwitBack for Twitter

Twit backs is a cool place to get a custom made twitter back ground for free. They have quite a few to choose from .

You can check it out here: TwitBacks

Here is one I have on my twitter back ground: Jewelsofawe on Twitter

You can see that you can put your picture, links (they are not clickable) and a bit of information about yourself

Zazzle

Do you have a zazzle store? I have had one for a while. Here is a preview of some of what I have there. I wish we could get these flash panels on Squidoo. Putting it here on my blog and then putting the feed in the rss module is a way to get that done, at least while this post shows up.

Make a personalized gift at Zazzle.

Twitter Counter

Twitter Counter is a cool place where you can get a button of how many twitter followers you have. They have other fun tools and widgets there as well which you are for blogs

They also have another version of the counter in which you can customize the colors:

Here is another widget they have there:

Mysticsquid

I just joined a new ning for Squids. It was created by lensmaster Bambi.

Come join us or check it out.


Visit Mystic Squids

Twitter Buttons

By TwitterButtons.com

I know a lot of people use twitter. I found this cool place to get yourself a cool follow me on twitter button. See mine. There are lots of choices.

Here are a few more examples:

By TwitterButtons.com

By: Twitter Buttons


By TwitterButtons.com

By TwitterButtons.com

It is easy to get yours. You just type your name into the box and copy the code of the one you like.

Selling Pictures

I found a place called 123RF where you can upload your picture and sell it so that other people can use it on various things.

Here are some of the pictures they accepted of mine. They do not accept every picture.









You might want to try it out with your own photography...

Flower mousepads on Zazzle

RedGage

I belong to Red Gage and wanted to invite you to join also.

It is a place to earn money, share content, pictures and links, meet new people and have fun.

They have contests there that you can win money as well.

I just won $25 in one of their daily contests. It is awesome!

Come by and give it a try too...

We would love to have you there...

The link I put here is my referral link

Video sharing

My family is not close to me, so I thought it would be fun to make videos so they can sort of share in my life. It would be fun for them to also do it. After I make a video I will put them on Facebook or You Tube or both. I made a video of my dogs as my first video in this experiment. I used my digital camera's video for this video.

Here it is:

Artist-Connie Ashlyn

My daughter is an excellent artist.
Come by my lens on her I did and see her art...
http://www.squidoo.com/Artist-Connie-Ashlyn

Awakening mousepad by joacreations

prayer in purple canvas print by joacreations

of the stars canvas print by joacreations

Painted blue by joacreations