Following a massive revamp (I hope you like the new theme), I am reviving Going Green Ideas, which has lain dormant since before Christmas.
Although the blog may have gone “quiet” I have been off learning a lot of new things. Not just about blogging but also about Going Green and Natural.
I have collected a lot of recipes for home made skincare and household cleaning products, which I will be sharing on the blog and I have also been sourcing suppliers to make it easy for you to try them out. However, I will also be recommending plants you can grow yourself, so that you can supply your own ingredients too.
The first step to going green and natural is often the hardest one to take. However, I hope this blog will inspire you to do some things differently and set you off on an enjoyable journey.
OMG – that’s Oh My Gosh – my Squidoo lens Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights has been nominated for a Giant Squid Award! Whaaaat??? In the Green category? After all it is one of my Going Green Ideas lenses.
Errrr……no, in the Best Holiday Lens category!
When you look at all the better than excellent Halloween lenses on Squidoo, I am gobsmacked – to use one of my quaint English expressions – that my lens was picked out.
To be nominated is such an honour and I just do not know how the Giant Squid Organisers, Bonnie and Robin, managed to sift through so many lenses and come up with such an extensive list. Not only do I feel honoured but I also feel truly humble to be appearing among so many great Lensmasters, who have taught me so much over these last 18 months.
I am also proud that one of my fav lenses has also been nominated - Christmas at AJ’s in the About Me category, but I say more about that in my other blog: Always Juggling on Squidoo.
Thank you Bonnie and Robin!
Over the last couple of weeks I have had fun and frustrations setting up my new Zazzle store: AJ and Family. It has taken quite a lot of time organising the store and setting up categories and I must admit I have been quite shy about promoting it, to the extent that I have not even made a Squidoo lens about it yet!
Some of the artwork I have seen on Zazzle is awesome (and I don’t use that word very often) and I don’t know how on earth we can compete. But I guess it is all about creating your own style and niche.
One of my categories is Going Green and within that category I have a section called Sustainable Products, where I will only showcase the products made on organic or sustainable materials. The range of sustainable products that Zazzle makes available is limited but I am hoping that this will increase.
I am continuing to develop my theme of Going Green Ideas in my new Zazzle store. It is taking awhile to bring all my “Going Green Ideas” together in a series of blogs, articles and lenses but I am finally making progress.
So far I have:
My next task is to design an image that hopefully people will use to link any lenses or blogs that I feature to the posts on here and then I guess I ought to make more Green lenses. Oh AND a Zazzle lens of course!!
Twelve Days of a Green and Ethical Christmas was first published in November 2008 as I wanted to promote having an eco-friendly Christmas. I was utterly gob-smacked (one of my quaint English phrases) when on 01 December it was awarded Lens of the Day. Wow o Wow!!
Recently thanks to feedback from some Squidoo Giants, I have completely restyled the lens. And just in the last 24 hours Squidoo has released a couple of new seasonal templates that suit it very well.
The lens is full of information as to why we should make more eco-friendly choices when doing our Christmas shopping and there’s links to my favourite Fair trade Christmas present suppliers both in the US (Gifts with Humanity) and the UK (Ethical Superstore), where you can buy your environmentally friendly Christmas gifts.
If we all just make a few changes and some different choices we can all make valuable steps towards a more sustainable enviroment. So what will you be doing to have a Green Christmas?
All this blogging about going green on Squidoo and finally I realised that I have enough “green” lenses for a Lensography and Going Green Ideas was the result.
Going Green Ideas will be a place where I can organise my eco-friendly lenses. I have not made many Lensographies but they will become increasingly important in helping me manage my lenses as the number increases – 63 to date.
I often wonder how Lensmasters with over 100 lenses keep track!
Well here I are! A new blog and what on earth is AJ going to blog about on here, I hear you ask? What with writing articles for SquidLog and two other blogs….. To be honest when I signed up on here, I did not have the slightest clue what I would be blogging about, other than it had to be Squidoo related.
However, a conversation with my Hubby this evening decided it for me. I was telling him how my newest lens had shot up the Lens rankings to #1134 in only 48 hours. I remarked on how I ought to cover more environmentally friendly topics on Squidoo because it is something we both passionately believe in and yes, we actually do know a bit about it – after all my hubby does work in that field – pun intended, ha ha!
Since starting on Squidoo I have managed to publish a few “green” lenses and add a very eco-friendly slant to some of my “holiday” lenses including: Valentine’s Day, Twelve Days of a Green and Ethical Christmas and my very latest offering Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights so this Blog will focus on “Going Green on Squidoo”.
Sorted!
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