My Novella- Soap Opera- The Alchemy of Ivy Mae

 Here is a little project  https://thealchemyofivymae.blogspot.com/  I started and having a lot of fun. I get up really early and I need something to do before I can actually get up and move around so I decided to write a novella. And to post 256 blogposts and then at the end of a year , re organize it all and make it a book. I was going to get everyone to help but I was having so much fun I have already blogged up until end of Nov 2025. But I plan to go back and refine now so if you want to help, you can add weird plot twists and stuff but has to keep to the theme of the storyline. Anyways check it out. Going to be fun. Exciting, Scary, Adventure, Educational. 

https://thealchemyofivymae.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-spark-of-change.html

Reconnecting and Rebuilding- New BlogZ

 Reconnecting and Rebuilding: Introducing Zipolita'z NewZ and Zipolita'z Poemz

Hello everyone,

It's been a while since I last wrote here, and I feel it's time to share what's been going on and why you might not have seen much from me lately. For those who have followed my journey, you know that my blogs have always been a space for truth, activism, and sharing the beauty of life.

However, things changed significantly over the past few years. The political climate became increasingly tense, and I found myself stepping back from the media spotlight. It felt unsafe to share my thoughts and stories as openly as before. When Covid hit, it only added to the sense of uncertainty and vulnerability.

During this time, I focused on spreading positivity through my Instagram, posting happy and uplifting content to keep spirits high. But I didn't blog as much, and when I tried Googling my blogs recently, I noticed they aren't coming up in search results as they used to. It feels like I might have been shadow banned or that my content is somehow being suppressed. It's strange and frustrating, especially when my intention has always been to share meaningful and inspiring content.

Despite these challenges, I've decided it's time to reconnect and rebuild. I'm excited to announce two new blogs that reflect my passions and my journey:

Zipolita'z NewZ: This blog is dedicated to providing honest, uncensored news and insights. In a world where misinformation is rampant, I aim to share the truth and highlight stories that matter. Whether it's social justice, environmental issues, or personal experiences, Zipolita'z NewZ  https://zipolitaznewz.blogspot.com/ will be a space for raw and real content.

Zipolita'z Poemz https://zipolitazpoemz.blogspot.com  : Poetry has always been a powerful way to express emotions and capture moments in time. This blog will be my creative outlet, where I share poems inspired by my life, travels, and the world around me. It's a space for reflection, inspiration, and connection through words.

I hope you'll join me on this new journey. Your support means the world to me, and I look forward to sharing more with you through these new platforms. Let's continue to spread positivity, truth, and creativity together.

Thank you for being a part of my community.

With love and gratitude,

Zipolita (Tina Winterlik)

Photo Credit: Tina Winterlik

Photo Credit: Tina Winterlik

Thank you Readers- 190,000 views on my Tina Winterlik Blog!!!

Well last night was a little milestone for me.

My Tina Winterlik Blog- http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca

finally hit 190,000 views and this is quite a jump. I have been working really hard and posted 327 posts last year, this has had a big impact on my rise in views and also I have been tweeting a lot more.

If you noticed I never have ads- I can't help the ones on the Youtube videos but I want you to know I don't have any of the adsense or anything like that. I post what I want, when and where.

 I post for the pure pleasure of it. http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/autotelic-vincent-vangogh-do-you-know.html

So when you read my posts you can relax and not have crap flashing in your face all the time. I hate that. So please enjoy my adfree blog. Remember I do not get paid for my blogging or any of the social media I do. For some I barter but I have no regular gig from it or collect from ads.

I tried the Patreon and Tip Jar and others but they don't seem to work for me, yet...never give up right. And that is the thing about blogging, I blog because I want to share my opinions or things that I think are important with you.

I share things that I believe you will not see on TV and I hope to enlighten you about things going on that you SHOULD know about. 

I care about you, and me, and my family, most of all I care about my kid and I want her to have a future, a good future and so blogging is my little way of "Saving the World!!"

Well here's my stats. HURRAY!! I'm averaging about 10,000 views the last few months so all my hard work is finally paying off.

Tina Winterlik Blog All-time  Stats for Jan 27 2016 - 190,000 views

Have you heard of Patreon? Would you be mine?

Patreon: Support the creators you love

So my friend Jenn- a fellow artist set one up and I am working on setting up mine. I am going about it slowly as I want it to succeed and the hardest part for me is what to offer my patrons as gifts.

What would you like?

For the price of a coffee each month, what would you like to receive?

Or if you'd be willing to pay a little more, then what do you expect?

As many of you know I am constantly creating...when I stop creating I actually start to feel unwell, unhealthy and it can get pretty serious...until I realize..."OMG I am not creating..that's my problem.""

Normally I try to blog once a day and hopefully that enough for some of you but ...I am always creating videos from photos I have taken...I have many blogs and for the past year I have been oil painting, before that I was doing pen & ink watercolours.

So what should I offer you? Ideally it would be fantastic to get 1000 people to pay $1 each. That would totally help support my little cherub and me. Can you help me with this?

I have some health issues (chronic tendonitis) that make working certain jobs and full time not healthy for me. I am a very hard worker but truly I want to work for YOU!! I would love to keep creating art and have you pay me a $1.

What do you think?
Below are a bunch of links, you can check out my creating and you can also contact me through Twitter, Facebook or email and let me know what you think is fair.

Let me know what you really like about my work and what you would like to see more of.


Oh and just so you know for the last year I worked super hard at a part-time job, but they refused to raise my wage. I was very unhappy and left my work. Guess what, you can not get E.I. (employment insurance) for part-time work...even though you pay into it and if you quit, you can't get it either. :(

I really just want to freelance and I have been doing that here and there but having patrons would make my life so much greater. Will you be my patron on Patreon? Please!!! :D

Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita
zipolita@gmail.com
@zipolita on Twitter
http://zipolita.com
https://twitter.com/zipolita
http://zipolitazstudioz.blogspot.ca
https://www.facebook.com/tinawinterlikfb
http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.ca
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinawinterlik
https://www.youtube.com/user/fairyfotoslady
http://iheartgranvilleisland.blogspot.ca


Stay tuned.



Here is some of my work below. 
I would love to keep going with my #SaveOurCoast project. Right now I have no white paint and no canvases. Would you be willing to help me? 

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2015

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2015

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2015

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2015

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2015

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2015

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2015

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2015

If you visit my portfolio site you can see alot of my work, just click through the links  http://zipolita.com

Here is a little film I made of our first winter in Mexico. I have more videos and photos that have never made into film, I would love to keep working on this. 

Nominated for Ninjamatics 2011 Canadian Weblog Awards

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Hey!! This Blog Tina Winterlik has been nominated for the Ninjamatics 2011 Canadian Weblog Awards in the Best New Weblog, Ecology & Social Justice, and Life categories.

The 2011 Canadian Weblog Awards are a juried competition with nominations open in 37 categories between January 1st and October 31st, 2011. 

The nominees shortlist will be announced on December 1st, 2011, and the winners will be announced on January 1, 2012.




I'm so excited!! This is so cool as just the other day I was thinking maybe I should put this puppy to bed. I mean I don't get paid for blogging, I don't even have ads or a donate button. I have tested both but for the ads, well I didn't care for the products and well the donate no one did, so just left my blog pure. 

I do love to share though and that's what drives me to blog. 

It's lovely to acknowledged and to win this would be really fabulous. Congrats to all the nominees! P.S. Adventurez in Mexico is nominated too!

Social Media Week in Vancouver

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This is quoted from the Social Media Week Facebook page:
Social Media Week Vancouver’s mission is to connect multiple industries and people within Metro Vancouver to share best practices, create broader collaboration and celebrate our local social media talent and technology. It will also be a serious week long party.

Get more out of Social Media Week Vancouver by getting involved.

The success of Social Media Week is dependent on the collective involvement of the entire SMW community. Let us know how you’d like to pitch in. Your help matters.

There are multiple ways in which you can participate in Social Media Week. Hosting an event or speaking on a panel is free; however, if you would like to work more closely with our team on content curation, speaker selection or if you are looking for additional visibility for your company and/or brand, then consider exploring our paid sponsorship opportunities as well.



Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/socialmediaweekvancouver?sk=info

Website

http://socialmediaweek.org/vancouver/
http://socialmediaweek.org/vancouver/team/

SMWVAN- Twitter

@SMWVAN Vancouver, Canada

Social Media Week Vancouver will take place between September 19th - 23rd, 2011.

 

New Blogger Layout

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So they rolled out a new Blogger layout yesterday. Feels so weird, will take a little getting used to. The old way was so familiar and felt like home, but I'm open to new things and well improvements are good so I'll go with the flow. You won't notice anything if your just reading the blog but if you are using Blogger to blog then you'll definitely feel the change.  

Thank You For Reading My Blog

I just want to take a moment and say Thank You. Seriously THANK YOU!


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To ALL the people who read my blogs. I really appreciate it and it really makes me feel good that this news/info/photos/videos are being shared. That makes me feel GOOD!  It really makes me HAPPY. It makes my day when I get over a 100 pageviews, or like the other day it was 200 and that just thrills me.

So thank you again. Today I hit the 10,000th  pageview.

My 10,001 pageview

Wow! that's really alot. Amazing. Thank Everyone. Cheers, have a good sleep. day. Depending where you are. Cheers.  Tina aka Zipolita

10,000 Page Views Since September

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So this is very COOL. Today sometime my blog will hit 10,000 pageviews. WOW. This is really something for me, since I only really started faithfully blogging on it since September 2010. I have had this blog a long time but at one point deleted a bunch of stuff and just started to find my voice.

It took a bit, but now I know what I like to blog about I LOVE IT. I love sharing all the great videos, just like that funny one the other day Gotta Share  that's how I feel and guess so do alot of other people.

I remember I had my Adventures of Angel blog, I had it like 4 years and only had about 600 views. So this is a BIG DEAL to me, because my Adventurez in Mexico Blog http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.com is about to hit 10,000 pageviews too. But probably tomorrow or next day as it needs more than this blog Tina Winterlik

Overview of pageviews

Audience Stats

Here are my stats of Adventurez in Mexico

AdventureZ in Mexico Audience Stats

AdventureZ in Mexico Overview

So what's next.  Well people are always telling me "Get Some Advertising on there" and I know I should but I don't want just anyone, I want something GREEN, and they really have to align with my way of thinking. That's why I came up with the Billboard Blogpost idea http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com/p/introducing-billboard-blogpost.html   http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com/2011/04/billboard-blogposts-real-estate-on-web.html  And I ENCOURAGE you to take advantage of my offer.

It's very reasonable, basically it's  one time fee  and here is what you recieve.

Billboard Blogpost on Tina Winterlik

Package #1 Photography, Video, Copy, Links (Local Clients) $250 Cdn

Package #2 Copy & Paste Relevant Info from your Blog, Website or Facebook Page 

(Local and International Clients) $100

Package #3 Need a Social Media Manager - Let's Talk! 

Pay by Paypal

Anyways think about it,  you can see what other people said Testimonials .

So What's Next! I created a portal yesterday for my Zipolita blog http://zipolita.blogspot.com  to have a place for everyone to easily find my blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter & Linked in links.

I thinking that I would like to try Blogtv and I'm going to see if I can put the interface in there, I think that might be really FUN! I'm  a little nervous, but I think I could meet some SUPER cool people that way and we could talk about GREEN stuff.

What else...well I hope to start painting, my gosh it's been so cold, and yesterday it POURED all day, it was so grey. It was a great day to stay inside and fix my blogs. Anyways I hope we will get some nice weather here and I can start painting more.

And maybe start making some beach glass jewelry. You know before I had Angel I had a huge beach glass collection and I would sit for hours making jewelry. When you have a kid, sometimes part of your life gets put on hold for a bit. For me it was painting and my jewelry, but she's 8 almost 9 now and we are starting to do things together. She's a fabulous storyteller, so we will be working on that more too.

My other goals are to finish unfinished projects, I need to finish my actual MOVIE for Adventurez in Mexico. It will be 2 hours and have narration and music and I hope people find it very eye opening and helpful if they want to go on a trip to Mexico and if they are thinking about taking their kids.

I still have my Social Media Workshops, so I have to work on those. Let's see I want to make 3 more 5 minute films for the Possible Futures Contest for Four Years. Go. 

I have nearly 1000 Twitter followers too! I have 945 so I'm close, so I'm Super Happy with that too! https://twitter.com/#!/zipolita

Well I better get on with my day. Have a great one! Tina aka Zipolita :)

@Zipolita -Klout Influence

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So this is so COOL! This Twittering thing is really starting to happen for me and I'm enjoying connecting with people from all around the the world. This morning I had conversations with Gouri in India and Tina in California and Kim in Florida.  IT'S SO MUCH FUN! 

Gouri

@gourisgupta India

WordPress, blogging, web content, SEO, social media and internet marketing professional.. Loves travel, photography and humor.

http://friendfeed.com/gourisgupta

Kim Garst ツ

@kimgarst Tampa, Florida

☼ Solo entrepreneur & a MOM. Social Media Branding Expert ✔ Speaker ✔ Trainer ✔ Coach ✔ I love God, my family, SOCIAL MEDIA, personal development & hockey.

http://socialmediabranding.com

Tina Reed Johnson

@tinareedjohnson Ventura County, CA USA

Experienced Web marketing professional, SEO, social media, Web site analysis & #1 Mom. Yes, the hair is natural and no, SEO is not dead!

 

Now Kim wrote this fabulous article on Why a fan page is a Must! http://kimgarst.com/why-a-facebook-fan-page-is-a-must

Kim Garst- Social Media Branding

Don't you just love her Cartoon Character, Brand, Everything. This is a beautiful site and I feel blessed to connect and be inspired by Kim. 

Anyways, I was reading some other links she posted on Twitter and came across this http://kimgarst.com/what_color_is_your_brand about the colour you choose for your brand, which is super interesting and I love the way she explained it and then

What is Twitter Influence & how do you get it? 

http://kimgarst.com/twitter-influence-how-do-get

Want to know your Twitter influence score? Visit http://www.klout.com to view your Klout influence summary.

So I went there and this is what it said!

@Zipolita Klout Influence

Tina Winterlik is an Explorer

You actively engage in the social web, constantly trying out new ways to interact and network. You're exploring the ecosystem and making it work for you. Your level of activity and engagement shows that you "get it", we predict you'll be moving up.

This so COOL!  

@Zipolita Klout Analysis

@zipolita Klout Analysis Amplification

@Zipolita Klout Analysis Network

@Zipolita Klout Analysis True Reach

So Wow! This feels fabulous! It's like a nice compliment! I've been working hard on Blogging using Social Media Tools and here the proof in the puddin' that it's paying off .

Thanks Kim, Thanks Klout,  Thanks Twitter!! Thank you God & The Universe and everything Wonderful, Positive & Beautiful in the Big Wide World today!! It's Beautiful Day!! :) Happy Sunday! Hope you all enjoy it!