Pastiche's Lensography

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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 More unpublished lenses are on the way and will "go live" quite soon.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.

purple starMy 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 

LEE HANSENDo 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.

Pets and Animals 

Gardening and Garden Crafts 

New early fall lenses by lensmaster Pastiche

Gardening, landscape design, plants and garden crafts lenses.

Fabulous Foods & Recipes 

Peace Lenses 

Holiday Graphics Lenses 

Holiday pictures are my favorite

Patriotic Holidays & Themes 

Valentine's Day 

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

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

St. Patrick's Day 

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

Fiesta & Cinco de Mayo 

Easter Fun for Everyone 

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas 

More Holiday Arts and Crafts Fun 

Graphic Design & Digital Art 

Digital Design, Printing, Web Sites

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

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.

Pastiche Visual Mind Map

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.

Arts and Crafts  

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

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.

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.

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.

Decorating a Home, Apartment, Condo or Flat 

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.

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.

Day Tripper and Vacation Spot Lenses 

Costumes, Sixties Art, Vermont Horse Training 

Squidoo Insider - More About Pastiche 

My Bio

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* 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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lee hansen is a digital artist, publishes pastiche family portal and writes about free clip art, coloring books and crafts at squidoo Senior squid geeks group Manager I Am Officially Famous on Squidoo and Poddys

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:


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.


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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.

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*****

ReplyPosted May 30, 2009

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

ReplyPosted May 10, 2009

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.

ReplyPosted April 10, 2009

CoolFoto wrote...

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

ReplyPosted April 08, 2009

WendyKrick wrote...

This is a wonderful collection of lenses.

ReplyPosted April 08, 2009

tandemonimom wrote...

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

ReplyPosted February 26, 2009

kellywissink wrote...

5 Stars!

Welcome to the Squidoo 50 Club!

ReplyPosted February 11, 2009

kellywissink wrote...

5 Stars!

Welcome to the Squidoo 50 Club!

ReplyPosted February 11, 2009

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

ReplyPosted January 06, 2009

lisadh wrote...

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

ReplyPosted December 05, 2008

 
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Meet the Lensmaster 

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

Lenses About Me 

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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.

Web-O-Matica - How to Design, Build, Manage Your Own Web Site 

Learn the ropes of web publishing without getting hung up

It's a lot easier to be a web designer/developer than it was in 1994.

Building a Web Site For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

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Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy Every Time

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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Bible

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Senior Geek Squids Group - experienced, boomers, grandparents but definitely not OLD

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