Squidoo Hopping 3/31/11

Happy Thursday and welcome to this week's squidoo blog hop! I hope to see many join...keep me busy with squidoo.

Just add the link, or links, to your squidoo blogposts to the linky. The linky remains active all week.

It looks like Our Unschooling Journey 3 is on the bottom of my list today. I hope you will click over and help move it up some for me.

And...ta da!! I actually built a new lens last night. Our Homeschool Journey 2010/2011 Part 4 It should have been started a few weeks ago, but it's started now. I will add more to it as the week's go by. I must get busy and get some photos of Jasmine doing different things too.

I went through my blog and put my reviews on my reviews/giveaways page here. This will give me easy access to make those reviews in to lenses. Lenses are so fun to build, I just have to make myself take the time to do it!

Have a great week!

Auction Hunters Season 2 on Spike TV

Every year in America, 50,000 storage facilities hold auctions for abandoned storage units and, at these auctions, over $1 billion worth of goods changes hands.  Each unit has the potential to be a goldmine or a bust for those who make their living hunting unclaimed property.  “Auction Hunters” cuts the lock and opens the door into the high stakes, financial risks and potential rewards where the right purchase can bring in serious cash.  The series follows Haff and Jones in their quest to win auctions, dig for abandoned historical treasure and sell them for a profit.  This season they uncover high-valued items including a Winchester model 1912 shotgun valued at $1,500 and the exact scale remote control replica of a $3,000,000 luxury Viper Fan Jet plane valued at $11,500.     
Allowed only a brief glimpse inside the unit before each fast-paced auction begins, skill and strategy are paramount as Haff and Jones have only seconds to estimate the value and determine how high they’re willing to bid to beat out the completion.  Each episode will also feature “the dig,” a process by which our hunters literally dig into the contents of the unit and assess every item within as well as “the sell” where they consult experts, establish value and negotiate a sale with collectors and dealers.

The second season of hit series Auction Hunters premiering next Tuesday, April 5 at 10PM/9c.  

Auction Hunters Returns!
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Win an Alarm Clock that Shakes You Awake - without waking others!

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The drawing is on April 15, 2011

WIP Wednesday 3/30/11

We are still getting settled in here at the house...my craft room is getting closer to being unpacked and organized...although that may be a never ending process.  I'm sharing my progress video below.
I'm also sharing a photo of my current project which is making 3 bags for an order, then I have materials to make 5 more bags as well.

My daughter wants to have a garage sale here this Friday and Saturday.  Yep...major WIP going on today as we sort through the totes and boxes that got moved in to the garage.  As far as my own yard sale items, no problem, as they are all boxed up in one place in the garage.  The hardest work is just to get the tables up and such.

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diSanto The Beginning Album Review

Taken from my promo sheet:(excerpts)
diSanto commands attention everywhere he goes.  All eyes are captivated by him and everyone wants to know who he is.  diSantos voice is filled with a passion we have not heard from young male singers in years.

diSanto was born in a small town in Puerto Rico and from a young age he knew he wanted to be an entertainer.  He attended Castholic school and sang in the church choir at the age of 8.  He became the lead singer of the choir.

At the age of 17 diSanto received a dance scholarship at Broadway Dance Center and moved to New York City.  After attending Berklee College of Music, he moved to Miami.  diSanto has been cast in musicals like "Rent" and "Footloose".

diSanto's current album is The Beginning.  The album is fueled by heavy dance tracks and popping electronic beats.  The Beginning draws you into a world of flirtation, pleasure and carnality.  The songs blend both English and sexy Spanish lyrics to tell a store of a man who  is ready to share his innermost feelings and desires.

You can find a list of his current tour dates at http://www.IamdiSanto.com

My review:
Right away I enjoyed the beat of the music!  It's upbeat and enjoyable.  Easy to groove to this music and lighten your mood.

Track 1 in just 34 seconds long and acts as an introduction.  It goes straight in to track 2 with no pauses.

It's hard for me to pick what would be my favorite song on the CD as I enjoy the beat of all of them.  If I have to choose then I choose track 6: Sanctified.

I hope you enjoy this youtube video of Sanctified.



You can also find the album available on itunes!
 

Disclaimer:  I received a copy of this CD from LaFamos PR & Branding for the purpose of this review.  I was not compensated for my opinions in any other way.  LaFamos provided me with the promo sheet for information.

Giveaways Linky Tuesday

Mailbox Monday 3/28/2011

Good week here.
Magazines:
Time
People
Entertainment Weekly
Sports Illustrated
Good Housekeeping
Forbes
Businessweek

Other mail
Several pieces of hausernet mail
coupon train
Purina Pro Plan Roasted Slices sample bag and coupons, including free can coupon
Organize in Style coupon booklet
Healthident dog treat and $1 off coupon (notice only the package is in the photo as Jasmine couldn't wait to give it to Malakai)
Book-Life Without Limits to read and review from Blogging4Books
Book-Sanctuary of the Soul Sacred Heart Offering (poetry) to read and review from Outskirts Press.
Signed movie poster of Dear Lemon Lima movie--part of a prize pack won on gather.
Postcard from Hawaii
window decal from ASPCA

In my email:
paypal for a fabric bag order
$10 paypal from gather
.09 paypal from youdata

Shop Hop Saturday 3/26/11

Did you miss me Shop Hopping these past few weeks? I knew I would miss the Saturday that we moved.  I didn't intend to miss the following 2 Saturday's as well  :(


We've been in our new house 3 weeks today and it feels wonderful!  It also feels like we've lived here for years instead of just weeks.  That's the thing I love about this house.....how it felt like home before we even moved in.


I've been staying busy, which is nothing unusual.  I'm even pretty close to having everything unpacked!  Last Saturday I participated in a Monster Garage Sale hosted by out newspaper and held in a building at the Kansas State Fairgrounds.  We had a good time, even though I did spend just over the amount that I sold.


I've had some orders during this 3 weeks as well.  I sold all 3 of the plarn shopping bags I had crocheted.   This means it's time for me to get out my pattern and make some more!  I have loads of bags cut to make the plarn with.


I also sold 4 fabric bags.  Two were in my etsy store, the other 2 were special order.  I have another special order to buy material for today for 3 more fabric bags.  They are by far my most popular seller.


Anyhow....after the garage sale, I sorted books.  I couldn't re-list all of them easily so only 34 are currently listed on homeschoolbuy.  I will get more listed eventually, but after letting everything expire while I was so busy, this is a good start.  I hope you will click over and check it out.  And, if you have any homeschool or homestead items to sell, please give homeschoolbuy a chance.  It's free to list, and I am the only one who currently has anything listed!  Marsha's Homeschoolbuy Items.


I will also direct you to my etsy shop.  I have reposted all inactive items and currently have 47 items in my shop.  Marsha's Etsy Store


While I'm add it, how about checking out my zazzle store as well?  I really need to get busy and get some more items created here.  I really need to make this a goal for this week.  I have saved lots of different photos to make into products there.  Marsha's Zazzle Store

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Squidoo Hopping 3/24/11

Welcome to another week of squidoo hopping!

I'm still going to work from the bottom of my lens list.

  Homeschoolbuy--  I finally got to re-listing books on this website.  I ran into trouble re-listing as they weren't all there, but I'm done for now until I add a few more books.  Then, I've spent over an hour trying to update this lens!  I didn't have the pics still on my computer, and for the life of me couldn't figure out how to save them from the auction site.  It will only let me save them as .php files, which can't be opened.  gggrrrrr.....but it's at least updated finally.  I hope you will check it out and consider selling on the website as well.  The purpose of the lens is to get the word out about it.

Next is line is my pets lens, but it also needs to be updated to take out photos of animals we no longer have, and add in at least the cat we now have.  Maybe I can get around to undating it sometime before next week.

With Violets by Elizabeth Robards--this is a book review lens.  I've not updated it, but hope you will click over and help it climb in lens rank some.

WIP Wednesday 3/23/11

WIP's----too many to list.
As far as crafts though the only thing I'm actually working on is crocheting a double thick hotpad for my friend.

I'm in the process still of attempting to unpack and organize my craft/all purpose room.  I did this video and plan on sharing one each week as I make progress.  Hopefully it will give me the motivation I need to keep working on it since I will be sharing a new video each week until the room is done.



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