Pastiche's Lensography

Pastiche at Squidoo, a Giant Squid Lensography

This lensography features the most popular lenses on Squidoo by Pastiche - that's me. New lenses appear at the beginning of this lens. More unpublished lenses are on the way and will "go live" quite soon. Join my fan club - you'll get a Squidcast heads-up when I update one of your favorites.

I'm totally tangled in the Squidoo tentacles and working hard on my lenses every day. I blog about Squidoo - you can view my Squidoo stats, find online marketing tips, links to SEO utilities, and my favorite Squidoo-related sites and lots more that's related to my Squidoo universe.

I'm a Squidoo Rocket Mom lensmaster. Rocket Moms are the smartest women on the web, and we have our own special lens template.

Lensmasters get rewarded for writing Squidoo lenses - web pages that focus on a single topic. You write about what you know and like, and you share your knowledge as a Squidoo community member. It was almost by accident that my life took this wonderful turn - in fact my meeting with the unnamed orange monocular was pure serendipity and it was love at first lens.

I am completely addicted to Squidoo and happy to spread the word about that experience. I became a Giant Squid July 1, 2008. I was honored to be nominated for a 2008 Giant Squid Award in the Squidoo Lensography category - for this lensography.

My lens Rain Gardens-Nature's Water Filters earned a Purple Star award in May, 2009.

I'm working toward membership in the Squidoo Giant Squid 100 club and hope to complete my 100th excellent Squidoo lens by June 10th, 2009.

See, it's not a bad thing to be addicted to Squidoo! Join Squidoo and you can become a Giant Squid, too. It's free and easy to sign up and become a lensmaster - click here to start - you'll love it!

How I Fell In Love With Squidoo

Do I love Squidoo? Oh yes, I do.

Here's the short version of how I became a Squidoo lensmaster (and grew into a GIANT SQUID).

I'm a geeky grandma who makes clip art, writes freelance articles, and thrives on web marketing. I was reading my server logs like a good SEO code warrior one day when I spotted some traffic that originated from a Squidoo lens. Now, I've been building web sites since 1996, so I'm familiar with most of the usual traffic origins for my web sites and (more recently) my blogs.

Well, after I landed on the referral page, I was impressed, so I checked out the system and tested the Squidoo community waters as a newbie lensmaster. After only a few weeks I got caught up in the whole Squidoo community like, well, like a hooked fish. In just over year I've built more than 70 Squidoo lenses on topics that interest me.

OK! I admit it! I'm addicted to Squidoo. It's a far worse compulsion than my lifelong love for caffeine and chocolate. But it's a lot easier to manage my growing school of lenses than it is to manage 4 big web sites on 2 web servers (not to mention more cost-effective) and a dozen or more blogs.

Fresh Lenses by Pastiche

Just starting to swim, these lenses are my newest in the infosea

These newly released lenses could use a look me over and a rating and/or a comment if you please ... to get them off to a good start in the giant Squidoo sea of information.

Crafts for Kids Lensography

I've been a crafter since I was a child. My favorite subject in school was art; I joined scouts and 4-H because we learned new crafts to make decorations, cards and gift for upcoming holidays. I collected old cigar boxes, shoe boxes, paper towel rol...

Squidoo Tech Stew - Tips for Tasty Lenses

Squidoo Tech Stew is a collection of top notch Squidoo lens building and promotion resources. Remember the fable about Stone Soup, where each member of the group added a single ingredient to a humble pot of soup and the result was a big and delicious...

Sixties Memories - Woodstock Nation

Woodstock nation - more than half a million barely dressed, muddy and bleary-eyed young folks cavorting in the rain and mud in celebration of art, music and peace. Were you at Woodstock? Even if you missed the history-making rock festival in 1969, y...

Rocket Mom Lenses by Pastiche

Session 1 of Squidoo Rocket Moms was a 6-week program of lens creation and community building. I was one of 60 Squidoo lensmasters who are also mothers, grandmothers or mothers-to-be to participate as a team member in the first Rocket Moms group. It...

Pets and Animals

Dobush Farm - Vermont Horse Training & Boarding

Dobush Farm is as close to heaven on earth as a horse and rider can get. Located in Southern Vermont, on the outskirts of Springfield, Dobush Farm lies snuggled up close to Okemo in the Green Mountains. The century-plus farm is surrounded by old past...

Silly Animal Photos - Caption This!

Do animals have a sense of humor? Pets get themselves into some pretty silly situations and funny poses. What runs through an animals mind in situations that humans would find perplexing, annoying or hilarious? I think animals have feelings and a sen...

What's Up with Pet Fashions?

Clothes for pets and pet costumes are all the rage, especially during Halloween, Mardi Gras and weddings. Dog sweathers and fancy collars have been around for many years. It's not unusual to see a dog wearing a modified human tee shirt or neck bandan...

Little Black Cat - Ebony

This is the story of Ebony, my adopted cat daughter. This lens is a memorial tribute - Ebony has passed over the Rainbow Bridge, but she is still with us in spirit. Ebony was a feisty black cat who lived with my husband when we first met. She was po...

Gardening and Garden Crafts

New early fall lenses by lensmaster Pastiche

Gardening, landscape design, plants and garden crafts lenses.

Garden Crafts - Mosaic Stepping Stones

Concrete step stones embedded with mosaic patterns make a beautiful addition to your garden walk or patio. You can make a single mosaic pattern step stone as an accent piece or you can make many to form a pathway through your garden. Mosaic stepping...

Garden Crafts - Leaf Shaped Bird Bath

If you love the birds and enjoy crafts, make a decorative and unique bird bath for your backyard garden. All you need are a pile of play sand, a bucket of water, rubber gloves, plastic trash bags, a bag of acrylic concrete patch mix, and a large leaf...

Rain Gardens-Nature's Water Filters

A rain garden is a landscape feature that collects storm water runoff from roofs, driveways and paved surfaces in a bermed garden area. Rain garden designs are simple - they're basically a shallow depression or bowl shape surrounded by planted areas....

Garden Wildlife Habitats

Suburban sprawl and development of farmland and wilderness disrupt and sometimes destroy natural wildlife habitats. Development of suburban communities often displaces animals and plants; they strive to survive in areas adjacent to where they once li...

Garden Crafts Decorate Outdoor Living Spaces

It's easy and fun to decorate your home's outdoor living spaces with garden crafts - step stones, planters mosaics, wind chimes, and garden decorations you make yourself. You can create beautiful plant stands, garden trellises, shelves, flower pots,...

Fabulous Foods & Recipes

Delicious Dried Tomatoes - How to Make Your Own

If you have a bumper crop of tomatoes in your garden, you can preserve them by drying and enjoy delicious gourmet eating all winter long. Dried tomatoes are tasty additions to fresh pasta, sauces, sandwiches, salads, stir fry dishes and you can also...

Sweet Bouquets - Candy Crafts - Edible Arrangements

Anyone can give a bouquet of flowers or a box of candy as a gift. Why not give an incredible edible candy craft bouquet or an arrangement made from sweet treats (candy, cookies, fruit)? Every holiday features special sweet treats - why not make a dec...

Pesto Ravioli Primavera Recipe

Pesto seasoned cheese ravioli with stir-fry veggies is delicious hot or cold. You can prepare your pesto seasoned veggies and combine them with the pasta, then serve immediately with freshly grated cheese, or you can cover the dish and refrigerate it...

How to Make Fresh Apple Cake

There's no finer way to enjoy autumn's bounty and warm up a chilly house than by baking a fresh apple spice cake filled with your favorite variety of tangy, sweet apples. Autumn in New England is apple-picking time, and families love to visit the orch...

Basil Garlic Pesto

Pesto is one of my favorite cooking ingredients. I love to serve fresh basil pesto with crusty bread and extra virgin olive oil for dipping. I make a killer white pizza using home made pesto instead of tomato sauce. And I absolutely love pesto combin...

Peace Lenses

Peace Coloring - The Color of Peace

Children love coloring and themes of peace. Peace coloring book activities and drawing peace pictures teaches children how peace, kindness, conflict resolution and positive behavior can improve their lives and the world around them. Children enjoy c...

Peace Clip Art

The peace sign and other symbols for peace are popular subjects for artists, graphic designers and designers. You can find peace symbols as a key element in many works of art, on posters, cards and stickers, peace symbols on clothing, and even peace...

Make Peace Not War- Peace Crafts

Teaching peace helps everyone, and we can use peace arts and crafts to supplement the lessons of peace and peaceful living. Peace crafts and peace with art themes is popular in all cultures throughout the world. Children, youth, adults and seniors al...

Holiday Graphics Lenses

Holiday pictures are my favorite

Easter Clip Art

Grab your Easter Bonnet and follow this bunny trail to find the best Easter clip art on the web. Peter Rabbit and I searched far and wide across the global Internet to find the best Easter graphics and spring time clip art to gather into this lens....

Christmas Clip Art

Here's all you need to know to find the best good quality Christmas clip art and New Year graphics. You'll find hundreds of sources for Christmas craft graphics and holiday clip art borders in this Christmas Clip Art and New Year Graphics lens. You...

Valentine Clip Art

Where can you find Valentine clip art and romantic graphics collections? I found hundreds of heart graphics and Valentine clipart collections filled with romantic clip art. I love to draw heart graphics and love theme graphics to use for designing gr...

Halloween Clip Art & Day of the Dead Graphics

Here's the best place to find Halloween clip art collections for desk top publishing, scrap book crafts or web page design. This Halloween graphics lens features Day of the Dead skeletons and Dia de los Muertos border clip art, too! Check out hundreds...

St. Patrick's Day Clip Art

Decorate and design for St. Patrick's Day with Celtic graphics and St. Patrick's Day clip art collections. This lens is filled with clip art with Irish themes. You'll find resources for St. Patrick's Day decorations, scrapbook pages, party favors and...

Patriotic Holidays & Themes

Presidential Election Slogans

Every 4 years Americans vote in nationwide elections to elect the USA's President. The person chosen by the voters serves 4 years in the office of President of the United States (POTUS) as the nation's Commander in Chief, the highest government offic...

Memorial Day - Decoration Day

Memorial Day is not simply a day to "kick off" the summer season. It's much more than a reason to clean up the BBQ or have a picnic at the lake. It's a solemn holiday when the US pays respect to all fallen troops from all military conflicts. We place...

American Presidents Paper Dolls

Every four years, the United States Presidential elections reinforce every American kid's dream that one day he or she could become President of the United States. Presidents paper dolls are an excellent learning toy to teach children about US histor...

Valentine's Day

Valentine Crafts, Valentine Cards, Valentine Clip Art, Valentine Coloring

I <3 Valentine's Day ... it shows in these crafty Valentine lenses.

Valentine Coloring Pages

This lens is filled with Valentine coloring pages - Valentine's Day coloring pictures, Valentine coloring crafts and romantic coloring pictures with hearts, flowers and love themes. Make Valentine cards and decorations from coloring pages. Design an...

Valentine Clip Art

Where can you find Valentine clip art and romantic graphics collections? I found hundreds of heart graphics and Valentine clipart collections filled with romantic clip art. I love to draw heart graphics and love theme graphics to use for designing gr...

Valentine Crafts and Gifts You Can Make

Show your feelings and express your sentiments for Valentine's Day with a hand made card or crafty Valentine gift. If you love Valentine's Day, decorate up the house or office, make a thoughtful card, whip up sweet treats and special gifts, or just...

Valentine Cards and Gifts

Valentine's Day gifts include lots more than greeting cards. Candy, flowers, perfume, apparel and jewelry are popular gifts for Valentine's Day - in fact, for many folks a Valentine card is only a small part of how they express and share their love o...

Crafts for Kids - Valentine's Day Crafts

Kids love to make Valentine crafts and cards. Valentine's Day is a perfect holiday for children to get crafty with Valentine's Day gifts for mom or grandmother, Valentine cards, and Valentine party decorations for home or classroom. Use Valentine sti...

St. Patrick's Day

I'm a wee bit Irish, and I love St. Patrick's Day crafts.

Stickers, Stamps, Seals & Labels

Stickers, labels, fun stamps, bumper strips, decorative seals, peel-n-stick notes and funky stick-on tags - how could we live without printed bits of self-adhesive paper? Stickers are great fun for crafts, perfect for labeling gifts and packages, and...

St. Patrick's Day Fun for Everyone

Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day - at least it seems like that in the USA. Join the festivities for St. Patrick's day - enjoy a St. Patrick's Day party, decorate the office, classroom and home with shamrocks, leprechauns and St. Patrick's Day h...

St. Patrick's Day Clip Art

Decorate and design for St. Patrick's Day with Celtic graphics and St. Patrick's Day clip art collections. This lens is filled with clip art with Irish themes. You'll find resources for St. Patrick's Day decorations, scrapbook pages, party favors and...

St. Patrick's Day Coloring

Here is your lucky lens for St. Patrick's Day coloring books and crafts. Coloring books for adults and kids, St. Patrick's Day coloring cards and Celtic coloring posters, coloring in pictures of shamrocks, leprechauns and Irish pictures to color are...

Fiesta & Cinco de Mayo

Crafts for Kids - Fiesta Crafts

Children will enjoy learning about Mexican culture from crafting fiesta paper crafts, party decorations and coloring pages. Children can celebrate Fiesta, Cinco de Mayo, Dia de los Muertos or any other reason to have a fiesta style party with Fiesta...

Fiesta Coloring Books - Cinco de Mayo Coloring

Ola! Set a festive tone for a childrens party with fiesta coloring book pages for Cinco de Mayo and Day of the Dead. Teach Mexico culture with coloring pages and pictures to color of cactus, serapes, sombreros and maracas. Decorate fiesta coloring p...

Easter Fun for Everyone

Easter Coloring Pages

Easter is about coloring eggs, but it's also a time for Easter coloring and crafts fun. There are hundreds of free printable Easter coloring books with printable pages and sheets filled with pictures of bunnies, eggs, lambs, springtime, renewal and t...

Easter Clip Art

Grab your Easter Bonnet and follow this bunny trail to find the best Easter clip art on the web. Peter Rabbit and I searched far and wide across the global Internet to find the best Easter graphics and spring time clip art to gather into this lens....

Easy Easter Crafts & Gifts

Easy Easter crafts keep kids busy, save your budget and decorate your home for Spring. This lens features easy Easter paper crafts, fabric crafts, crafts from recycled items, crafts from natural objects, even crafts and Easter gifts that come straigh...

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas

Halloween Crafts for Family Fun

Halloween Crafts for Trick or Treat and Fright Night Fun - Pumpkin Crafts, Halloween Decorations, Paper Crafts, Halloween Party Foods and Family Halloween Photo Albums Halloween Decorations for Outdoors - Lawn Ghosts, Flagpole Witches and Ghouls, Gra...

Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids

Celebrate the bounty of harvest season making Thanksgiving crafts with your family. This lens features harvest season Thanksgiving crafts: Thanksgiving paper crafts, Thanksgiving food crafts, harvest nature crafts and recycled materials crafts with a...

Christmas Crafts - Decorations, Gifts, Giftwrap and More

This lens is filled with free holiday crafts projects, decorating tips and crafty freebies for you to make Christmas gifts, ornaments, decorations, greeting cards, stickers and gift wrap on a budget. Crafty Christmas gifts and ornaments come straight...

Halloween Parade in Temple, Pennsylvania

Harvest time means Halloween is coming, and the annual Temple Halloween Parade kicks off the season for young and old alike in the Reading-Berks region of southern Pennsylvania. Temple holds the region's first annual Halloween parade every year - it...

More Holiday Arts and Crafts Fun

Chanukah Crafts and Gifts

This lens features Chanukah crafts, decorations, cards and gifts for children to make for the Festival of the Lights. Making home made Chanukah holiday crafts and gifts helps children explore fun activities that teach them about Jewish culture and tr...

Crafts for Kids - Mardi Gras Crafts

Kids love crafts, and Mardi Gras is a crafters delight, a fun-filled holiday of masquerade, parades, music, parties and merrymaking before Lent. This lens is about Mardi Gras crafts for kids but the truth is these Mardi Gras crafts are fun for everyo...

Holiday Crafts on Squidoo

Who doesn't love holidays and crafts? I do, and I write about them all the time - holiday crafts, decorative crafts, kid crafts and crafts for adults. This lens is all about my favorite Squidoo holiday crafts lenses: crafts for Easter, St. Patrick's...

Chanukah Coloring Fun

Chanukah coloring pages and coloring craft sheets will entertain children from tots to tweens (and perhaps a few adults, too) for hours suring the 8 days of the Festival of Lights holiday. In the days before Hanukkah, children will enjoy coloring gre...

Mardi Gras Coloring Fun

Mardi Gras coloring pages are great fun for children and adults. Decorate a Mardi Gras coloring sheet with the official colors of Mardi Gras - gold, purple, green. Color a fantasy mask for your favorite Mardi Gras parade or a masquerade party for Fat...

Graphic Design & Digital Art

Digital Design, Printing, Web Sites

I write about what I know - graphic design, printing and web stuff.

Clip Art Lensography - Pastiche's Graphics Lenses

This Squidoo lensography features Pastiche's lenses about clip art collections, graphic borders, and downloadable fonts for blogs, web pages, scrapbooking, flyers, school projects or crafts. Searching for themed clip art can be frustrating and time-...

Image Factory Graphics

Image Factory Graphics design studio offers custom giclee prints and photographic restoration services plus an online shop where you can buy funky tee shirts, poster prints, cards, bumper stickers and lots more with customizable graphics. Image Fact...

Giclee Prints, Affordable Art

What is a Giclee Print? Giclee (to spray, in French) is the process of printing artwork reproductions, one at a time, by means of high quality large format ink jet printers. A giclee print may be created from original digital artwork, or from scanned...

Web Publishing Goodies

Find the best free web publishing templates, comment codes, fonts, blog widgets and free graphic images for use on your lens, blog, web site, personal page, MySpace site, eBay store or any other online community page. Check out the tips for designin...

Free Fonts & Type Tools

Do you love fonts? I like to play with type and lettering. We go waaay back - my first contact with a computer was actually a CompuGraphic typesetting machine. I miss those days of when you could really work with ligatures, kerns and other font-type...

Clip Art Theme Collections

Where can you find free graphics? I'll show you ...

Special clip art collections are hard to find. I've done hours of research to locate the best graphics on the most in-demand clip art topics.

Wedding Clip Art & Bridal Shower Graphics

This lens will show you how to find hundreds of lovely wedding clip art collections, bridal graphics, border clip art and wedding anniversary printables. You can use wedding graphics and bridal shower clip art to design your own wedding invites, brid...

Baby Clip Art & Pregnancy Graphics

Are you looking everywhere for good baby clip art and finding not many baby graphics for free? I've found lots of cute no-cost or low-cost clip art for baby showers, baby books, birth announcements, scrapbooks, invites and nursery decorations. Check...

Pirate Clip Art and Graphics

Avast, ye can find a treasure trove of free Pirate Clip Art and Graphics, plus pirate borders, animated graphics and buccaneer pirates graphic web sets just waitin' to be taken for creative pirate ventures. As long as it's for yer own use, most of it...

Clip Art Crafts Ideas and Projects

It's easy and fun to design your own clip art crafts - you can make gifts, cards and crafts for friends and family with graphics, borders and clip art photos or pictures. Sometimes the biggest challenge is finding the right clip art for your craft p...

Peace Clip Art

The peace sign and other symbols for peace are popular subjects for artists, graphic designers and designers. You can find peace symbols as a key element in many works of art, on posters, cards and stickers, peace symbols on clothing, and even peace...

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Parent and Teacher Resources

I'm a parent and a grandparent, and my most popular web site is about family living. These lenses cover topics from the most popular content sections on Pastiche Family Portal.

Star Charts for Kids

We all crave a gold star or reward badge that says "I'm special!" or "I did it!". Kids really respond to praise and encouragement-that's why star charts are an excellent tool for building positive behaviors and self esteem, or for helping children le...

Gift Coupons for Any Occasion

Printable gift coupons and gift certificates or IOU cards are the perfect gift for anyone. Pressed for time or money and need a show-stopping gift? Want to let a friend, student or loved one know you noticed their achievements? Give a gift certificat...

Printable Awards, Certificates, and Diplomas for Home and School

The Squidoo Guide to Printable Awards and Achievement Certificates for kids and adults will help you find and create school diplomas, achievement awards, certificates, employee awards, special effort citations and recognition documents from your comp...

Stickers, Stamps, Seals & Labels

Stickers, labels, fun stamps, bumper strips, decorative seals, peel-n-stick notes and funky stick-on tags - how could we live without printed bits of self-adhesive paper? Stickers are great fun for crafts, perfect for labeling gifts and packages, and...

The Tooth Fairy Legend - Childhood's Favorite

The Tooth Fairy is a wonderful night stealth creature who leaves little gifts and even money for children in exchange for their lost baby teeth. Tooth fairy legends abound in many different cultures, each with its own special tooth fairy customs and...

Arts and Crafts

Everybody loves holidays, and crafts are a natural passion for holiday fun. Here are a few of my holiday crafts lenses.

Clip Art Crafts Ideas and Projects

It's easy and fun to design your own clip art crafts - you can make gifts, cards and crafts for friends and family with graphics, borders and clip art photos or pictures. Sometimes the biggest challenge is finding the right clip art for your craft p...

Easy Easter Crafts & Gifts

Easy Easter crafts keep kids busy, save your budget and decorate your home for Spring. This lens features easy Easter paper crafts, fabric crafts, crafts from recycled items, crafts from natural objects, even crafts and Easter gifts that come straigh...

Holiday Crafts on Squidoo

Who doesn't love holidays and crafts? I do, and I write about them all the time - holiday crafts, decorative crafts, kid crafts and crafts for adults. This lens is all about my favorite Squidoo holiday crafts lenses: crafts for Easter, St. Patrick's...

Christmas Crafts - Decorations, Gifts, Giftwrap and More

This lens is filled with free holiday crafts projects, decorating tips and crafty freebies for you to make Christmas gifts, ornaments, decorations, greeting cards, stickers and gift wrap on a budget. Crafty Christmas gifts and ornaments come straight...

Coloring Crafts Projects, Patterns, Ideas

Coloring crafts are the easiest crafts for young children, and coloring crafts are often used for therapeutic activities but there's much more to coloring crafts. You can design all sorts of crafts from coloring page pictures. Use the line drawings f...

Paper Crafts & Printables

I'm also addicted to paper crafts ...

I love to design crafts and printables using my own original clip art. I've found thousands of free resources during my own craft research, and I share them in these paper craft and printable craft lenses.

Printable Greeting Cards

You can find printable greeting cards and note cards online at low and even no cost (yes, free printable greeting cards do exist). There are many lovely printable greeting card designs on the Internet that you can print out for holidays, special occa...

Bookmarks and Bookplates

If you love to read and collect books, you probably have a collection of special bookmarks and your own personal bookplates or library labels for your book collection. Bookmarks that hold our place between the pages of a book or magazine - gently kee...

Fun with Paper Toys

Paper toys are popular with children and adults. The simple appeal of taking a flat sheet of paper and turning it into a paper toy with 3 dimensions is a universal past-time enjoyed by all generations. Some paper toys are functional, while other pape...

Instant Gift Wrap

It's easy and fun to wrap gifts without buying expensive papers and ribbons. You can use supplies you have on hand, work with recycled materials or design and print very special wrapping papers, small boxes, goody bags, gift tags and money enclosures...

Clip Art and Graphics for Crafts, Scrapbooks, Blogs, Web Design

This lens features the best resources we've found for clip art collections online - links that take you to sites with many free or low-cost graphics in sizes large enough to be useful for crafts and general printed projects. You'll find top quality b...

Clip Art, Paper Crafts, Coloring Sheets Blog Candy

I'm out there blogging on my favorite topics!

I blog about my favorite topics - clip art and paper crafts, coloring pages, my Squidoo stats and lens making experiences, and yes, even about my family complete with photos.

Paper Crafts and Clip Art Blogs
Pastiche Printables - weekly craft printables blog from the Family Portal

Picture THIS - free graphics blog, new original clip art resources every week

Paper Crafts and Printables - crafts for classroom arts and crafts, home, church or club fun. How-to make your own crafts using free clip art, plus free graphics and paper crafts printables.

Masquerade Instant Masks - quick and easy masks to make from paper, fabric or recycled materials

Coloring Book Blogs
Coloring Book Pages Blog - free outline art for everyone, updates weekly

Coloring Fun for Kids and Grownups - projects and patterns for coloring page crafts; ideas for making stuff from coloring pictures

Adult Coloring Fun - complex pictures, mandala designs, detailed drawings with pictures that appeal to adults or older children (G-rated)

Squidoo Stuff
Squidoo's Geek Grrl - my weekly best lens stats, technical and marketing insight, Squidoo musings by Pastiche

Hansen Family Blog
Hansen Family Chronicles - general journal of my extended family and daily journal of travels, thoughts, opinions and what not

Coloring Book Theme Collections

Special coloring fun for grownups and kids

Coloring pages are the most popular topic I write about - kids love to color, but many adults enjoy coloring books and coloring pages.

Pirates Coloring & Crafts

Pirate coloring pages are great for relaxing fun, and they make a great basis for designing your own pirate party invites, decorations, pirate crafts and tee shirts. Make pirate coloring books and favors for your kids' next birthday party! Go all ou...

Fairy Coloring Pages

Coloring pages of fairies plus line drawings of wee folk, magical ones, pixies, little people and fairy friends. This fairy coloring lens is features simple and complex fairy art pictures to color. Whether you like to color fairies, elves, trolls, le...

Wedding Coloring Books

Romantic coloring pages of brides, weddings, hearts, flowers, love birds, butterflies and marriage themes are perfect favors to hand out to children at Weddings. You can buy special wedding coloring books at your book store or online, or you can mak...

Coloring Fun for Adults

If you loved coloring as a child, or you want an interesting pastime that results in a work of art you can enjoy, why not start coloring again as an adult? You can stay inside the lines, or add your own artistic designs and touches to the coloring pi...

Coloring Book Collections

If you love to color or your kids enjoy coloring, there are thousands of web sites with free printable coloring books and coloring sheets to print and color in. You can find a coloring book with a picture of almost anything you wish to color: cartoon...

Coloring Book Fun

Twitter Coloring Updates from NewCrayons

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Holiday Coloring Books and Coloring Crafts

I draw pictures all day long. Some of them I make into coloring sheets.

My life is images, and I use the computer to create artwork. Much of what I draw becomes clip art and my favorite ideas get turned into coloring pages.

St. Patrick's Day Coloring

Here is your lucky lens for St. Patrick's Day coloring books and crafts. Coloring books for adults and kids, St. Patrick's Day coloring cards and Celtic coloring posters, coloring in pictures of shamrocks, leprechauns and Irish pictures to color are...

Halloween Coloring Fun

Halloween Coloring Fun collections feature traditional, frightful and not so scary pictures to color. You'll find cute Trick or Treat coloring pages for younger children or preschool Halloween coloring activities. Plus we've found creepy, scary Hallo...

Valentine Coloring Pages

This lens is filled with Valentine coloring pages - Valentine's Day coloring pictures, Valentine coloring crafts and romantic coloring pictures with hearts, flowers and love themes. Make Valentine cards and decorations from coloring pages. Design an...

Christmas Coloring Fun

Christmas coloring pages and coloring craft sheets will keep the kids occupied in the hectic days before the holidays. Print out Christmas and New Year coloring pictures to decorate with crayons, markers, glitter, colored pencils, paints or colored c...

Easter Coloring Pages

Easter is about coloring eggs, but it's also a time for Easter coloring and crafts fun. There are hundreds of free printable Easter coloring books with printable pages and sheets filled with pictures of bunnies, eggs, lambs, springtime, renewal and t...

Decorating a Home, Apartment, Condo or Flat

Funky Junky Decorating - Thrift Shop Feng Shui

Whatever name you give it decorating a room, office cubicle, apartment, flat or home and garden with second hand furnishings, collectibles and accessories is economical, challenging and uniquely satisfying to those who are into eclectic design. You c...

Garden Crafts Decorate Outdoor Living Spaces

It's easy and fun to decorate your home's outdoor living spaces with garden crafts - step stones, planters mosaics, wind chimes, and garden decorations you make yourself. You can create beautiful plant stands, garden trellises, shelves, flower pots,...

Party Light Strings

Make a hit with cheesy kitschy strings of party lights for your next backyard bash or use them to decorate your flat, home or dorm. I love wacky strings of cheesy party lights. I have many different sets of party light strings: skeleton lights with...

Pennsylvania Travel,Tourism & City Guides

I lived most of my life in New England, but for the past 10 years I've lived near the Amish country in southern Pennsylvania.

Christkindlmarkt in Bethlehem, PA

Christkindlmarkt Bethlehem is a world-renowned holiday marketplace recognized by Travel and Leisure Magazine as one of the top holiday markets in the world. This annual event features fine arts, Christmas decorations, crafts, food and seasonal entert...

Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA

Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is an annual 10-day musical extravaganza that attracts more than one million people from throughout the US and abroad. Musikfest celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008. In 1984, Musikfest attracted 182,000 peopl...

Pennsylvania Dutch Country

This lens provides you with regional information and resources to plan a trip to Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania Deitsch) country. Any vacation visit to Southern Pennsylvania simply must include a tour of the farms, valleys and byways where the Amis...

Musikfest Bethlehem Video Showcase

Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania showcases hundreds of bands, ensembles and solo acts representing all musical genres on outdoor stages and indoor venues during its 10-day run every August. Musikfest celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008, and...

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - City Guide

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has been America's Christmas City since the mid 1700s. The city was founded by the Moravian Brethren, a denomination of German Protestant settlers whose patron in Saxony region of German was Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendor...

Politics and Social Issues

Political topics, health issues, current events

These are my newest Squidoo lenses. I invite you to visit and rate these newly hatched lenses, and to leave comments in the guestbook, lensroll to your related topics or favorite them if they mesh with your interests.

Alan Wilbar, Poet

Alan Wilbar has been a professional performing artist since childhood starting on stage as an actor, singer and dancer the age of 9. As an adult actor, singer and spoken word artist, his performances inspire, amuse, and captivate his audience. Shortly...

American Presidents Paper Dolls

Every four years, the United States Presidential elections reinforce every American kid's dream that one day he or she could become President of the United States. Presidents paper dolls are an excellent learning toy to teach children about US histor...

Presidential Election Slogans

Every 4 years Americans vote in nationwide elections to elect the USA's President. The person chosen by the voters serves 4 years in the office of President of the United States (POTUS) as the nation's Commander in Chief, the highest government offic...

Genetic Bill of Rights

DNA testing helps prevent disease, improve law enforcement and make our lives better but there's also a dark side to genetic sciences, research and DNA data collection. Do you know what's going on in the technological world that could change your worl...

Graphic Goodies Referenda

The Visual Display of Qua...

Graphic Artists Guild Han...

Google SketchUp For Dummi...

LogoLounge 4: 2000 Intern...

Day Tripper and Vacation Spot Lenses

Castle in the Clouds of New Hampshire

Castle in the Clouds is an historic mountaintop estate overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire. The castle and grounds have been restored and preserved as they were when it was home to its builder, Thomas Plant and his bride, Olive. T...

Halloween Parade in Temple, Pennsylvania

Harvest time means Halloween is coming, and the annual Temple Halloween Parade kicks off the season for young and old alike in the Reading-Berks region of southern Pennsylvania. Temple holds the region's first annual Halloween parade every year - it...

Costumes, Sixties Art, Vermont Horse Training

Make Your Own Costumes, Masks and Face Paint

It's easy and inexpensive to make your own costumes and face paint makeup. Make costumes for kids and costumes for adults using materials you probably have on hand in your cupboards and closets, or even stuff from the recycle bin. Kids (and adults) l...

Sixties Art - Op Art, Pop Art, Psychedelic Graphics

If you experienced music in the rain, bell bottoms, neon colors, dizzying patterns, genuine tie dye and hair, lots of hair - you're probably a member of Woodstock Nation. I survived it all, and still love my patched jean jacket, boots and macrame dec...

Dobush Farm - Vermont Horse Training & Boarding

Dobush Farm is as close to heaven on earth as a horse and rider can get. Located in Southern Vermont, on the outskirts of Springfield, Dobush Farm lies snuggled up close to Okemo in the Green Mountains. The century-plus farm is surrounded by old past...

Squidoo Insider - More About Pastiche

My Bio

* Pastiche's Lensography
* Giant Squid
* Coloring Book Artist
* 20th Century g33k grrl
* Graphic Artist
* Adult Coloring Fan
* Family Portal Publisher
* Purple Star Lens Rain Gardens, Nature's Water Filters (May 15, 2009)
* LOTD Easter Coloring Books (March 18, 2008)

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Words to live by: Dream big, then make it happen.

A few of my graphics are famous - perhaps you've seen them on your iPhone or YouTube.

Long before I jumped into all this Squidoo goodness, I was publishing my own web sites and blogs on the Internet. Here's a list of my clip art and paper craft blogs:

Clip Art Borders & Scrapbook Frames
Christmas Clip Art (plus graphics for Hanukkah & Kwanzaa)
Easter Clip Art
Halloween Clip Art (plus Day of the Dead graphics)
Masquerade Instant Masks
Romantic Clip Art for Weddings & Valentines
Creative Clip Art Crafts & Patterns
Pastiche Printables & Paper Crafts
Favorite Clip Art & Print-Cut Crafts

Want to look over my shoulder for coloring pages, clip art or crafts ideas? I save my favorite pages as a Shared Resource on Google Reader. I write at Helium, too.

I have a cool Zazzle shop where I sell cards, gifts, poster prints, apparel - even skateboard decks - imprinted with my photos and original graphics. You can customize any of my designs - change the style, add your own words, choose another color or size. My tastes are eclectic, just like my artistic style.

IMAGE FACTORY GRAPHICS

My Web Work Profile

I'm a 20th Century G33k Grrl - web designer since 1995

I've designed, coded and managed daily updates and marketing for hundreds of web sites since 1995. I learned the basics from 2 technical publishing pioneers - Patti Anklam, who mentored me in generic markup/SGML/SDML, TeX programming and distributed publishing at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) between 1981 and 1988; and Nancy Hoft, who gave me a one-on-one Q&D tutorial in HTML, information design and web site architecture in 1995.

The short list of my most active web sites:

Lee Hansen Graphics Original free clip art and coloring books from my drawing sandbox. I explore new ideas and drawings on this site before I make them into commercial graphics and craft patterns.

Pastiche Family Portal My biggest web site, both in terms of content and traffic, this site attracts more than 21,000 unique visitors every day.

Clip Art 'n Crafts Printable crafts, clip art collections, folding papers, borders and backgrounds plus fonts and other goodies for free download. This site offers samples of free paper crafts plus graphics and goodies to go with them: fonts, borders, backgrounds and coloring pages, including coloring designs for adults.

Blue Stone Studios Marketing, graphic design, fine arts collective conglomeration featuring work by members of my creative extended family. This 2001 site layout design pioneered fixed-width layout and controlled columns, a tactic employed today by many blogs and Web 2.0 site templates. Watch for a complete redesign in 2009 .

Senior Geek Squids

I manage this group of 50-plus lensmasters

What's a Squidoo's Senior Geek Squid?

We are the creative, inquisitive, inventive computer jockeys born before the middle of the last century, the senior somewhat geeky Squids who use technology in a practical or fun way. Anyone over 50 who's built at least one lens qualifies for membership in Squidoo's Senior Geek Squids group.

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Do I Know You? Should I?

Recognize me or my work? Or just stop in to say hi ...

This is my Squidoo lensography and it's a work in progress because I'm always creating new lenses.

You can read my profile or visit Who is Lee Hansen to learn more about me.

Lensmaster

KarateKatGraphics wrote...

Fantastic and inspiring body of work! I love "totally tangled in the Squidoo tentacles." Can easily see how that happens.... ;) I still can't believe you're a grandmother--you seem super young. 5*****

Posted May 30, 2009

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RinchenChodron wrote...

Very well written - you are an interesting lady. We became Giants on the same date but you are way ahead of me on the way to 100. 5*s

Posted May 10, 2009

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mbgphoto wrote...

Great collection of lenses. I just stumbled across your Senior Geek group and it looks like fun! I'll be checking out more of the lenses from the group.

Posted April 10, 2009

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CoolFoto wrote...

Hi Lee- just looking for ideas to make my lensography sparkle like yours since I became a Giant Squid yesterday.

Posted April 08, 2009

Lensmaster

WendyKrick wrote...

This is a wonderful collection of lenses.

Posted April 08, 2009

Lensmaster

tandemonimom wrote...

What a lovely collection of lenses, and very well-put-together, too. 5* and lensrolled to my lensography.

Posted February 26, 2009

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kellywissink wrote...

5 Stars!

Welcome to the Squidoo 50 Club!

Posted February 11, 2009

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kellywissink wrote...

5 Stars!

Welcome to the Squidoo 50 Club!

Posted February 11, 2009

Lensmaster

paperfacets wrote...

Hello Lee,
I visited your Pastiche Family Portal. It is tops in professionalism. Thank you for including my squidoo.com/teabagfolding in the sidebar. I feel honored. Take note that I am including a new series of folding lessons on that lens. Happy New Year!
Sherry

Posted January 06, 2009

Lensmaster

lisadh wrote...

Well done! And I think I'm going to have to go back and spruce up my own lensography now.

Posted December 05, 2008

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Lensmaster Pastiche, aka Lee Hansen, has been a member since August 12 2007, has rated 1,041 lenses, favorited 443, and has created 103 lenses from scratch. Lee Hansen donates their royalties to Squidoo Charity Fund, Room to Read, and Fund for Peace. This member's top-ranked page is "Clip Art Borders & Frames". See all my lenses

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Lee Hansen

Lee Hansen's my name, but no, real estate is NOT my game. I'm a visual artist and e-marketing geek. And I'm not a man. Thank my Dad for confusing the issue about my name. He was a forward-thinker and an engineer, so he named his first born - a daught...

Funky Fashions - My Hat Collection

I have always loved hats. My love affair with hats goes back to my childhood. Even though hats went out of fashion when Jackie Kennedy entered the white house, I never lost my passion for head wear. My hat collection has always been and is today a bi...

What's In My Closet - Pastiche's Funky Fashions

I don't know when I fell in love with wearing clothing that was a little off-beat or ahead of the pack. I remember going to a wedding with my grandmother when I was about 4 years old and being fascinated with the taffeta dresses and elbow length fing...

Pastiche's Lensographies

If you're looking for specific topics I write about, check out these lensography collections of my lenses about clip art, coloring books, crafts for kids and Rocket Mom lenses.

Clip Art Lensography - Pastiche's Graphics Lenses

This Squidoo lensography features Pastiche's lenses about clip art collections, graphic borders, and downloadable fonts for blogs, web pages, scrapbooking, flyers, school projects or crafts. Searching for themed clip art can be frustrating and time-...

Rocket Mom Lenses by Pastiche

Session 1 of Squidoo Rocket Moms was a 6-week program of lens creation and community building. I was one of 60 Squidoo lensmasters who are also mothers, grandmothers or mothers-to-be to participate as a team member in the first Rocket Moms group. It...

Crafts for Kids Lensography

I've been a crafter since I was a child. My favorite subject in school was art; I joined scouts and 4-H because we learned new crafts to make decorations, cards and gift for upcoming holidays. I collected old cigar boxes, shoe boxes, paper towel rol...

Coloring Book Collections

If you love to color or your kids enjoy coloring, there are thousands of web sites with free printable coloring books and coloring sheets to print and color in. You can find a coloring book with a picture of almost anything you wish to color: cartoon...