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The holidays are here and we had a great November. It's a big birthday month in our house and we enjoyed Thanksgiving too. I did manage to get some work done though and was pleased with all the Halloween costume sales from October. Here is a list of some of the fall and Thanksgiving lenses I worked on last month. 1. Hot Apple Cider Hot Apple Cider is the perfect beverage for those cold and crisp Fall and Winter days and nights. When the air turns cool it's nice to curl up with a good book and a steaming mug of hot apple cider. The smell of cinnamon, allspice and apples brings a warmth to your home and brings back memories happy holidays. 2. Thanksgiving Planning Are you planning a Thanksgiving dinner party at your home this year and need some advice? Well, you are at the right place. Here are some great ideas for everything you'll need to plan the perfect Thanksgiving. You'll find Thanksgiving dinner ideas including Thanksgiving dinner recipes... 3. Thanksgiving Puppet Show Telling the story of the first Thanksgiving with a puppet show is a great way to teach early American history to young children and preschoolers. You can involve the children by making pilgrim and native American Indian puppets and then acting out a thanksgiving story script with your puppets. I also worked on lots of Christmas presents and toys lenses for this year's shopping season. Here's 25 of them. 1. Fijit Friends
 Fijit Friends by Mattel are one of the top ten toys for this holiday season. Willa, Sage, Serafina and Logan are interactive electronic toys that chat and play with you. Fijit Friends come in four colors purple, green, pink and blue. You can talk to them when their bellies are lit up and they can...
2. Hedbanz Games
 Hedbanz Games are popular games for kids, adults and family game night. Hedbandz by Spin Master is an easy to play game. You wear a band on your head that holds a card with a picture and the words "I am a ___", the blank being the thing in the picture. Everyone else can see your card but you. The...
3. Lego Advent Calendars
 Lego Advent Calendars are a holiday tradition. This year's new 2011 Lego Advent Calendar is the Star Wars Advent Calendar. This 266 piece lego set features the characters and figures from the Star Wars films. Open one of the 24 doors on the advent calendar as a treat each day of December for a ...
4. Teacup Piggies
 Teacup Piggies are cute little pigs that fit in a teacup. They each come with their own birth certificate with name, birthday, litter number and farm birthplace. They talk and snore and are great fun to play with and collect. This little piggy is called Snowflake. She comes with a red teacup with... 5. Christmas Lenox
 Lenox China and heirloom collectibles make wonderful gifts for weddings, baby showers, birthdays and graduations. Lenox Christmas ornaments and decorations make wonderful presents for the holidays and become family favorites for years to come. There are so many Lenox Christmas decorating ideas.
6. Rock and Roll Toys
 Rock and Roll Toys are a fun choice for presents for kids who like to jam. Rock and Roll music and toys are a great combination. There are rock and roll toys for kids large and small. From Rock Star Mickey to Let's Rock Elmo, little kids love to move and groove with their favorite Disney and Sesame Street... 7. Fitz and Floyd
 Fitz and Floyd collectibles are wonderful gifts for Christmas, weddings, baby showers, birthdays and Halloween. Fitz and Floyd have several lovely collections that will satisfy just about any of your decorating and gift needs. There are beautifully designed cookie jars, soup tureens, snack plates...
8. Christmas Books
 Christmas books are great gifts for the holidays. Reading Christmas stories is a wonderful way to get in the Christmas spirit and create your own family's Christmas traditions. There are lots of Christmas tales and storybooks with a holiday theme. The classic Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas...
9. Orbeezs
 What are Orbeez? Orbeez are fun, squishy, different colored balls that grow when you add water. Kids love Orbeez and there are several fun Orbeez toys and play sets that make playing with Orbeez even more fun. The Orbeez Magic Maker is the original Orbeez toy. When Orbeez get wet they soak up the... 10. Angry Birds Knock on Wood Game
 Angry Birds Knock on Wood Game is the real life version of the smash hit phone and online Angry Birds game. Now you can build your own wood structures and launch your angry birds to knock those egg stealing pigs out. Build! Launch! Destroy! Angry Birds: Knock On Wood Game The Angry Birds Knock on Wood Game...
11. Batman Legos Sets and Games
 Batman Legos are great superhero building block toys for kids and grown ups alike. They make great Christmas presents and birthday presents and provide hours of enjoyment. There are also several Batman Lego games for the various game systems like Wii and Nintendo DS. This selection of Batman Lego...
12. Toy Story 3 Legos
 Toy Story 3 Legos are a great gift idea for Christmas, birthdays and other holidays. There are several different sets to choose from where you can act out scenes from Disney's Toy Story 3. There's the Western Train Chase, the Trash Compactor Escape, the Garbage Truck Getaway, the Pizza Planet Truck...
13. Backgammon Game
 Backgammon is one of the world's oldest games. It is a classic board game for two players. The backgammon board consists of 24 alternating color triangle stripes or points. Each player has 15 pieces or checkers of a single color, light or dark. The object of the game is to get all your pieces to...
14. I Love Lucy The Complete Series
 August 6, 2011 marks the 100th birthday of Lucille Ball the famed actress and comedian. The I Love Lucy show is a classic television program from the 1950s. Many of us grew up with I Love Lucy by either watching the original television shows or later seeing it in tv reruns. To celebrate Lucy's 100th... 15. Club Penguin Puffles
 Club Penguin Puffles are cute little pets that your Penguin can adopt on Disney's Club Penguin, the online membership club for kids. Puffles have round little bodies and big eyes and fuzzy hair on top. They come in ten different colors. There's orange, brown, red, blue, purple, pink, green, yellow... 16. Cabbage Patch Kid Dolls
 Cabbage Patch Kids dolls were one of the biggest toy crazes of the 1980s. Finding a Cabbage Patch Kid doll for your little girl or boy for Christmas was challenge and only the most determined or lucky were able to get acquire them. This was all before the internet so things were a lot harder to... 17. Air Swimmer
 Air Swimmers eXtreme will be sure to impress. This is a remote control helium blimp by Animal Planet. It's an inflatable remote control shark that when filled with helium "swims" through the air. This extreme air swimmer Great Flying Shark can fly up, down and around with the use of the remote control... 18. Holiday Barbie Dolls and Toys
 The holidays are a great time to get a Holiday Barbie to play with and collect. Each year there is a new holiday Barbie and lots of new Barbie toys that little girls will want from Santa. Barbie Doll collectors also look forward to the new release Barbies so they can add to their collections. 19. LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer
 LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer is one of the latest LeapFrog game systems. The LeapPad Explorer can play all the Leapster Explorer games and comes with a built in camera with video and photo editing software. Parents can add and update game applications online and check on their child's progress with ... 20. Dora the Explorer Toys
 Magical Fairy Dora the Explorer Doll is a great toy for your little Dora fan. Dora goes on many adventures and helps preschoolers learn basic skills like counting, shapes and colors. Kids can also learn a few Spanish words too. One of Dora's most recent adventures takes place in the Enchanted Forest... 21. Spy Gear for Kids
 Spy gear for kids is great fun for those little spies in your house. Kids like to pretend they are secret agents on a mission to save the world. There are lots of high tech gadgets and gear kids can get today that are super cool and use technology that real spies might even use. There are infrared... 22. Rory's Story Cubes
 Rory's Story Cubes is a fun and creative story telling dice game. It was invented by Rory O'Connor and has won the Dr. Toy 10 Best Games award. The game consists of 9 high quality dice cubes with 54 images. The object of the game is roll the dice and create a story using all nine of the images...
23. Connect Four
 Connect Four is a game for two players. The Hasbro version of the game has a yellow slotted grid with seven spaces across and six spaces down. The grid is held up with two blue side legs. There are twenty-one each of red and black checker pieces and the players take turns filling the spaces to... 24. Frustration Free Packaging  Frustration Free Packaging is a Godsend for parents and gift givers and just about anyone else who actually wants to be able to open and start using their gift without having to use a jackhammer, chainsaw, power drill and obtaining an advanced knowledge of and ability for untying knots. I don't ... 25. Car Outfits  Car outfits for the holidays are a fun way to decorate and celebrate the holidays. Bring some cheer to your commute with some car decorations and make other drivers smile and wave. There are lots of cute ideas to make your car, truck or other vehicle look festive. There are Christmas decorations ... I also am getting some recognition for my lenses. My How to Play in the Snow lens won a Squidoo Purple Star and a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate.  1.How to Play in the Snow You don't have to be that old to know how to play in the snow. Little ones learn from an early age that the cold, wet and white stuff that falls from the sky is fun. As time goes by we may forget just how fun playing in the snow can be. Here's a little reminder of some of the simple yet festive ... I also spruced up my Board Games for Kids lens and it is one of the lenses featured this week on first page of Squidoo. 2. Board Games For Kids Board games for kids can be great fun for the whole family. Either on a rainy day or for family game night, fun board games are anything but boring. If you want to spend more time together as a family with the televisions, computers, cell phones and other electronic devices turned off then board games...
So that's what I've been up to lately. I'm just about done with all my Christmas shopping and then it's time to start wrapping. I still have some more time to do a few more winter lenses before the holiday season is over. I'm already seeing sales and hope to finish the year with some nice commissions. Then I'll just take a little break and some time to enjoy this festive time and then start planning what I'll be working on in the new year. Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday and see you next year!
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