The 5th week of the Fall Rocketmoms session was all about using at least one picture you had personally taken (aka, not stock images) and telling the content story of that photo.

I actually struggled with this challenge at first. I was looking through my Flickr account trying to choose a photo and thinking I would do some kind of needlework tutorial post or something along those lines. Then I realized I’ve been taking a lot of food photos lately for my husband’s blog (Cooking with Zen) and I decided to go the food route with this challenge. What can I say? Food lenses are fun! And it was a good way to gain some new exposure for Brian’s food blog and hopefully earn him a few new fans since his cooking is really the star of this Squidoo lens, even if I did snap the pictures.

==> Banish Boring Baked Chicken Recipes Forever
(pictured below)

I did a quick check at Wordtracker and the main keyword here was baked chicken recipes, [Read more...]

I got a little carried away on week four, I did three lenses with holiday recipes. I’m blogging in a hurry today because my power has been flickering like crazy, so I’ll skip the screenshots and fancy stuff.

Check out the plexo lens for the fourth week’s challenge < - you an see all the RocketMoms lenses for the In the Kitchen challenge there.

Here are my three: [Read more...]

I almost forgot to blog about this one, oops! The to-do list has been quite full and I’m juggling some crazy chaos at home with teenager dentist appointments and my husband working some extra hours at the office. Busy as a bee lately, but in a good way.

The third week’s RocketMoms challenge was to pick a niche and then narrow into something specific and get super targeted. Sounds perfect to me! I was itching to put up a few more Halloween themed lenses and decided to do a new costume lens. [Read more...]

The second challenge in this session of RocketMoms was to create fun lenses around fall topics, like Halloween, Thanksgiving, festive crafts, favorite recipes, etc… I think this is one of the busiest times for Squdioo traffic, my Halloween and holiday lenses get loads of traffic… and they make quite a few affiliate sales as well.

For this challenge I actually ended up with two lenses. I put together a lens of pet Halloween costumes and safety and one on Halloween window decorations.

These lenses ended up as part of the new Squidoo Halloween magazine, so they look a little different than the usual lenses might. [Read more...]