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Pastiche at Squidoo, a Giant Squid Lensography

This lensography features lenses on Squidoo by Pastiche - that's me. My newest lenses appear at the beginning of this lens - with more than 150 lenses in my Squidoo portfolio, this will help you find and visit my latest and greatest work. If you 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.

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 joined Squidoo on August 12, 2007 and in my first year built more than 50 lenses about topics I like. I achieved Giant Squid status before my first SquidVersary, on 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 - and I was accepted into the Squidoo Giant Squid 100 club in June, 2009. My 100th lens is about Woodstock (the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Peace and Art Festival was celebrated in August, 2009).

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!

My 15 Newest Lenses

This is what I've been writing about most recently here on Squidoo.

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Giant Accomplishments

I'm a Giant Squid - and a Member of the Giant 100 Club

I'm a member of the Giant Squid 100 club - I've built more than 100 high-quality lenses right here on Squidoo. I'm trying to reach 250 lenses by August, 2012. In October, 2010 I had completed more than 160 lenses and I hit the 200 lens marker in August 2011.

Angel Wings for Pastiche at Squidoo

October, 2010 - My First Squid Angel Tour of Duty

Squidoo Angel Wings - Squid Angel Blessing graphicAfter my 3rd year anniversary as a lensmaster, I signed up as a volunteer to participate on the Squid Angel team. In October, 2010, I started a one month session of reviewing lenses and awarding uplifts (or dings, in the case of spam lenses) to lenses in the Squidoo community.

In February I volunteered for angel duty again. This tour of duty includes two specific neighborhoods - I fly around mainly in the Coloring Books and Clip Art subtopics looking for great lenses to bless.

Lens Features Category Index - Quick Jump List

Click a link to see a list of lenses in each category below

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.

Sampler: 5 Lenses by Pastiche

I write about many different things - sometimes I get an idea from a news story,but mostly I write about what I'm interested in or want to learn about a bit more. Here's a sample of the topics I've researched to create Squidoo lenses.
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A Pastiche of Lenses

An eclectic selection of my wide interests

These 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.
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Pets and Animals

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Gardening and Garden Crafts

Gardening, landscape design, plants and garden crafts lenses.
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Fabulous Foods & Recipes

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Peace Lenses

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Holiday Graphics Lenses

Holiday pictures are my favorite

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Patriotic Holidays & Themes

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Valentine's Day

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

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

I'm a wee bit Irish, and I love St. Patrick's Day crafts.
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Fiesta & Cinco de Mayo

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Easter Fun for Everyone

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Halloween

Halloween crafts, knit and crochet masks and decorations, Trick or Treat coloring, clip art and Halloween printables.
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Thanksgiving Lenses

Thanksgiving crafts, decorating, recipes and more.
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Christmas Lenses

Celebrating the Christmas season with ideas for traditional and contemporary holiday gatherings, green living, easy on the budget crafts and decorations and delicious cookies and Christmas treats. Christmas printables, clip art and coloring pages for adults and children.
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More Holiday Arts and Crafts Fun

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Graphic Design & Digital Art

Digital Design, Printing, Web Sites

I write about what I know - graphic design, printing and web stuff.
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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.
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Pastiche Visual Tag Map - Wordle 

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.
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Arts and Crafts

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

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.
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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.
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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.
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Home Sweet Home, Apartment, Condo or Flat

Building, managing and decorating your personal space

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Pastiche is a Rocket Mom

I was a member of the first session

Pastiche (Lee Hansen) is a Squidoo Rocket MomI'm a Squidoo Rocket Mom lensmaster. Rocket Moms are the smartest women on the web, and we have our own special lens template.

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.
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Politics and Social Issues

Political topics, health issues, current events

These are my Squidoo lenses that focus on social issues. I invite you to visit these lenses, and to leave comments in the guestbook, lensroll to your related topics or favorite them if they mesh with your interests.
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Graphic Goodies Referenda

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Day Tripper and Leisure Time Lenses

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Costumes, Sixties Art, Vermont Horse Training

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Squidoo Insider - More About Pastiche

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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.

My Top 10 Most Popular Lenses

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Meet the Lensmaster

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Lenses About Me

My funny hats, my funky fashions, my favorite stuff ...

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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.
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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.
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Nature Lenses

To get myself out of Winter doldrums, I sorted through many photographs of birds and flowers and gardens to create this group of Nature Lenses. Some feature my photos of plants, animals and insect - others are coloring book lenses with nature themes. Think Spring!
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Pastiche Ramblings, Roamings, Writings - Subscribe or Snag a Link

I blog about clip art, coloring pages, paper crafts and family life - here are a few places you can find my work and favorite links:

My Google Reader Page

Pastiche Family Paper Crafts Blog

My Squidoo Blog

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

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.

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Pastiche's Blog Post Highlights

Clip Art - Coloring Pages - Paper Crafts

If you're looking for crafts, printables or clip art for kids or adults, visit my blogs!
Nov 18, 2011 @ 3:54 pmLighthouse Coloring Page from Adult Coloring Books & Designs
I've lived in New England most of my life and my favorite place to be no matter what the time of year  is close to the ocean. Although I was born near the Massachusetts shore,  I've always had a gre...
Nov 18, 2011 @ 11:07 amPilgrim Hat Coloring Page from Free Coloring Book Pages
Pilgrim Hat At the first Thanksgiving Pilgrim men's fashion included a tall hat with brim and buckled band. Printable Pilgrim hat coloring page is part of the costumes collection that also...
Nov 16, 2011 @ 10:01 pmTurkey Shape Paper Coloring Page from Free Coloring Book Pages
Turkey Shape Paper Kids can share thankful thoughts or write a Thanksgiving poem then color it in using this Thanksgiving turkey shape paper with lines coloring page. Turkey outline shape c...
Nov 3, 2011 @ 1:55 pmRemembrance Day Poppy Colouring Sheet from Free Coloring Book Pages
Printable remembrance poppy colouring sheet or digital stamp. Poppy design with November 11 - Remembrance word art bubble letters. Remembrance Poppy Colouring Page
Oct 24, 2011 @ 8:11 amHalloween Scrapbook Freebie from Crafty Chick-Free Clip Art and Printable Paper Crafts
Halloween Freebies Graphics Set   Whip up a  Halloween stickers, gift tags or scrapbok layouts with this Halloween Freebie paper crafting set. Adobe PDF easy print download sheet measu...
Oct 11, 2011 @ 10:00 amWanted Poster Template from Crafty Chick-Free Clip Art and Printable Paper Crafts
Wanted Poster Frame Design your own Wanted Poster or use this template to make Wild West party invitations, scrapbook pages or joke posters. Printable Wanted Poster 8.5" x 11" blank is rea...
Oct 7, 2011 @ 11:00 amSouth of the Border Cactus Clip Art from Pastiche Craft Printables
I'm been  designing  Day of the Dead printables this week and  plan to use these cactus border clip art graphics to make name tags and drink charms. Cactus Clip Art BorderVisit Pas...
Oct 6, 2011 @ 2:00 pmTropical Fish Coloring Page from Free Coloring Book Pages
Tropical Fish Coloring Page These fancy tropical fish were inspired by pet goldfish that lived in our backyard pond for 8 years until last summer when a heron decided to have sushi for lunch. Fa...
Oct 6, 2011 @ 9:00 amPumpkin Shape Paper Coloring Sheet from Pastiche Craft Printables
Pumpkin Shape PaperHalloween or Thanksgiving harvest pumpkin shape paper with lines.Kids can write a poem or story about what their thankful for, write a spooky Halloween story, practice writing lette...
Oct 4, 2011 @ 9:15 pmPirate Party Sign from Crafty Chick-Free Clip Art and Printable Paper Crafts
Pirate Warning Sign Got Pirates? If you have pirates roaming your home or yard  hang this Ye Be Warned poster on the door ... Pirate party sign prints 8.5" x 11" but you can size the poste...
Oct 4, 2011 @ 10:00 amMaple Leaf Sticker Sheet from Pastiche Craft Printables
Maple Leaves Sticker SheetBrilliantly colored fall leaves are nature's curtain call to summer. Maple leaves are one of the most brilliant autumn leaf displays - you can find red, orange, yellow and mu...
Oct 2, 2011 @ 11:15 amSkeleton Coloring Page or Digistamp from Free Coloring Book Pages
Get ready for Halloween or Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) with this  printable skeleton coloring page. Bonus! You can also use Mr. Bones as a craft template.  Make your own...
Oct 2, 2011 @ 10:40 amDay of the Dead Mask from Adult Coloring Books & Designs
Mexico celebrates their dear departed  on All Souls Day - right after Halloween, November 1. Dia de los Muertos is a day for families to remember loved ones and celebrate their life with household s...
Sep 14, 2011 @ 12:01 pmCherry Blossoms Coloring Page from Free Coloring Book Pages
I've just got to visit Washington, DC next spring. I would love to tour all the public buildings and gardens, and I'd especially like to see the cherry trees in bloom.  I drew this cherry bloss...
Sep 5, 2011 @ 9:43 amJapanese Cherry Blossoms Coloring Page from Adult Coloring Books & Designs
Japanese Cherry Blossoms I love spring time and although it's fall in New England, below the Equator it's early spring. Here's my favorite spring flower drawn for you as a printable Japanese cherry...

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