Who is Lee Hansen

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Is that Lee, Lea, Leigh - or Leroy?

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 daughter - Lee. Not Leigh, or Lea, or even Leah. EL-EE-EE. LEE.

Dad's strategy worked a little earlier than I needed it. Imagine a 4-foot 9-inch 90-lb junior high school girl assigned to the boys' 7th grade gym class. It was awkward for me until I realized the social potential (I was a petite, shy, nearsighted geek girl with way-too-curly hair).

"Images are My Life.
Without a Camera or Drawing Tools I Would Be Lost"

I Squidoo ... I Do 

A few of my more than 90 lenses ...

I love Squidoo, and love to build lenses. I built more than 50 lenses in my first year of Squidoo-ing, and joined the Giant Squids in July 2008. By June 2009, my published lens total passed the 100 marker. In addition to these featured lenses, I also have (always) several lenses under development. I joined the first Squidoo Rocket Moms and started a new collection of About Me lenses in spring, 2009.

In Julne 2009, I was accepted into the Giant Squid 100 Club.
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I'm a Giant Squid 

... you can become a Giant Squid, too

I'm a Giant Squid, and in June 2009 I became a member of the Giant Squid 100 Club.

If you've created and nurtured 50 or more great Squidoo lenses, you can become a Giant Squid. I managed to reach this goal in July 2008, less than a year after I became a lensmaster. And I got a cool tee shirt in the mail with the Giant Squid emblem on it. I wore it to the Labor Day parade in New Hampshire, hoping another Squidoo-er would say "hey."

It's not hard to accomplish if you're a Squidoo addict ... in fact, it's a natural growth phenomenon that happens as you build new lenses and improve the more mature ones.

I built more than 50 lenses in my first year as a Squidoo lensmaster, and I find countless ideas for new lenses all the time. Go for it, you'll be happy you did!

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Pastiche is a Squidoo Rocket Mom 

I'm a member of the first class of Squidoo Rocket Moms, the smartest women on the web. Our team of less than 100 mom lensmasters each created 6 uniquely branded Rocket Moms lenses in 6 weeks. It was fun and challenging to build a new lens (or several) for the topic of the week.

Here's my Rocket Moms lensography featuring all the lenses I created in Session 1 plus links to all the other Rocket Mom lenses for each weekly project assignment.

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I Draw Pictures

I've been sketching and coloring and doodling since I was a little girl. I design commercial graphics and give my art away for personal and classroom use.

Here's where I pay it forward:
Lee Hansen Graphics

Have Pencil Will Doodle - I'm the Clip Art Queen 

I love to draw - I create computer illustrations and line art drawings

I've been drawing pictures for as long as I can recall. I spent many hours of my childhood creating fantasy worlds on paper. I made fabulous paper dolls, paper animals, paper craft villages and paper decorations.

I was never bored as a kid if I had a block of paper and some colored pencils. I could always create toys for myself, my 5 siblings and my friends.

When I was 10 years old I went away for the first time to overnight summer camp. The weather for our first week was rainy and wet and cold. We spent a lot of time in the cabin, so I created all sorts of paper toys and message carriers for myself and cabin mates. We strung up strings from bunk to bunk and created a network to send paper messages and little paper toys to one another inside the cabin without leaving our bunks.

I spend most of my day drawing pictures and making paper crafts as an adult, only now my favorite drawing and design tool is my computer. Some of my graphics are famous.

The rest of my work time I devote to marketing my free clip art web sites: Lee Hansen Graphics and Clip Art 'n Crafts and working on my Squidoo lenses. Just to keep things interesting, I blog about paper crafts, coloring pages, masks and clip art, too.

I Love Photography 

My digital cameras provide endless opportunities and instant gratification

I've been taking snapshots since I was a kid. My first camera was a Brownie black and white. I got a Polaroid Swinger as a 6th grade graduation gift. Next came an InstaMatic, a Petri 35mm, a Minolta 35mm, several Olympus 35's plus a Sony 8mm video camera until digital cameras became affordable (under 500 bucks).

I own 2 Olympus digital cameras, but I'm really longing for for a high-end Nikon or Canon model with interchangeable lenses and many mega pixel resolution. Perhaps this summer ... for now I am filling up xD cards faster than I can off load the pix.

Lee Hansen's Photos 

Some of my favorite photographs

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I have Celtic, German, Norse Heritage 

I'm a natural redhead with the palest of complexions and a scattering of freckles.

My grandparents immigrated from Europe in the early 20th century. My mother was an only child; my father was next to the youngest of 9 children.

My grandfathers were hardworking tradesmen: one was a professional baker from Germany, the other a tall ships sailor from Scandinavia.

My grandmothers worked outside the home to help support the family. It's no wonder the work ethic is so entrenched in me and my 5 younger siblings.

I'm a New England Native - Live Free or Die 

Born in Boston, but I only have a teeny accent. I don't sound like I'm from New Hampshuh, eethuh.

I was born in Boston and lived in Massachusetts until I was 10 years old. I still have a slight accent, but I think that's mainly a holdover from when I lived with my Boston-Irish grandmother. Yeah, I say baaath sometimes, and once in a great while you'll here me say caah instead of car. But that's usually if I'm very tired or I've been in New England for a few weeks ... it creeps into the speech!

My parents moved to the (then) wilderness of southern New Hampshire in the early 1960's. Dad commuted to Burlington, MA every day via back roads through New Hampshire until he could pick up Route 3 heading south in Tyngsoborough.

Today, most of southern New Hampshire's residents are former Massachusetts residents or their offspring who moved there to escape high taxes and traffic. So, the Nashua regional areas that were once a quiet patchwork of rural roads lined with farm fields, single homes, pastures and forest areas are now overcrowded suburban roadways that lead to McMansion housing developments, office parks, strip malls and parking lots.

I lived in New Hampshire most of my adult life, relocating briefly to the North Shore of Massachusetts for a few years before moving to southern Pennsylvania. I still love New England, and visit New Hampshire and Vermont at least every other month, year round.

It's ironic that the region where I live now - the heart of Berks county's Amish farmland - is going through a similar metamorphosis ... except the growth isn't being managed well and there appears to be little hope for the next 10 years as far as traffic and transportation are concerned.

NH Beauty - Castle in the Clouds

I'm an Organic Gardener 

Flowers, vegetables, shrubs, bulbs and trees, indoors and outside

I lived in New England almost 50 years then moved to southern Pennsylvania in 1999 to live closer to my parents as they got a bit older. (They relocated from New Hampshire to Berks County in the mid 1970s).

One thing I really love about moving south 350 miles from New England is the longer growing season. There is no way I could grow spinach outdoors all winter in New Hampshire without a heated greenhouse, but in Southern Pennsylvania, I can and I do.

Living in Pennsylvania has its benefits, but I really miss the ocean. Flat land and muddy creeks just can't compare to salty air, crashing waves, rocky coastlines, sea birds and sand dunes.

I Have 2 Daughters 

And they're online ... and in New England.

My firstborn, Trish, is married and mom to my 2 grandkids. She's got a busy life raising 2 active children and running her very popular e-Bay shop, Fairy Wings Fashions. Check out what's new in kids designer clothing and toys (new and gently used) - she's a power seller.

Oh, and she's a Squidoo newbie, too (her Squidoo name is FairyWings).

Younger daughter Bekah is also married, and is an artist and talented writer - visit her blog to see what's happening in the Green Mountains of Vermont these days.

I Have Grandchildren 

I love to visit with my grandkids in New Hampshire. New England will always be home to me. It's where I was born, and where my daughters live, and where my heart still lives.

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Exit 58 - Lee Road Highway Sign

I Collect Signs and I Photograph Signs 

I make signs and I collect signs - I love graphics

I love to photograph signs, especially signs with my name or names of my family members. I also collect old signs, posters and labels of all types.

My collection of old signs includes large and small signs from television studio sets, political campaigns, streets and buildings. I have signs with names, directions, warnings, informational graphics and pictures. I particularly like wacky signs, antique signs and nameplates.

Lee Plaza Highway Sign

I Collect Rusty Junk and Old Furniture 

At one time I had a collection of old tinware and farm tools. I sold it to pay tuition when I went back to school. I still have most of the antique furniture, though, and that stuff we use every day.

My husband also likes old furniture, junk and tools. Unlike me, Doug never gets rid of anything, including his '84 Toyota Celica. We have a detached garage mostly filled with his collection of stuff plus my mountain bike.

Techie Chick Loves Squidoo - the Fast Bio (yawn) 

I was a geek chick before it was cool. Now I'm a geek grandmother.

I've been working on the web since it was born. Before, actually. I used the Arpanet to send email when I worked in the software engineering publications group at Digital Equipment Corporation. I was a member of the VAX DOCUMENT (now DEC DOCUMENT) development team from 1983 to 1989, then a DEC publications and info design manager until 1994 when I left DEC for an SGML publishing tools project management position at another high tech firm in Massachusetts.


I got my BS in business and marketing (with programming and graphic design extras thrown in because I switched majors 3 times) on the twenty year plan. It wasn't my intention to take a generation to get my education, it just happened ... I started college as a graphic design major in 1978, but opportunities to learn programming that meshed well with my typesetting and design skills came along and I followed the rabbit trail. Career and family demands also interrupted my studies periodically, until finally in 1995 I decided it was time to finish my degree or abandon the credits. (I *really* wanted to graduate from Daniel Webster College in 1996, before my younger daughter got her BA at Castleton.)

I wrote a marketing thesis in 1995 based on my prediction that the Internet would overtake broadcast media as a marketing channel and become a delivery pipeline for communications and entertainment. That premise was based on Web 1.0 technology when most personal computer users - those who were actually online - used a dial-up connection and browsed with Mosaic, CompuServe or AOL.

Well, we're way past all that today, and still flying fast on this roller coaster. Web 3.0 is in the design stages ... I can't wait to see what comes through the wire and air next. I'm getting up to speed on XHTML, CSS and new online marketing strategies.

I blog about Squidoo where I share my favorite Squid-tech lenses, ramble about things marketing, tech and web, where I and post my Squidoo traffic stats every week.

Visit Me Online 

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Geek Tongue in Cheek 

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tech Get Silly

Bastard Operator From Hell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OMFG - did you really think that text messaging and IM were the origin of these essential alphabet shorthand phrases? Ah, no, they've been around at least 40 years or more.
For starters, read BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell ...

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Pastiche's Content Producer Page - Associated Content
Pastiche is a freelance author who also writes for Associated Content.

Developer's Nightmare 

Software Engineer's Nightmare shirt
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I Like Graphic Art 

This includes street art, sidewalk art, poster art, digital art, graffiti art and screen printing.

I've been a long time fan of Peter Max and Andy Warhol. I also really love Banksy, Keith Haring and (more recently) Shepard Fairey.

Visit My Zazzle Shop 

Image Factory Graphics

I sell my graphics and photos imprinted on products at my Zazzle store, Image Factory Graphics.

I Have Family in Detroit

Work Work Work 

I've done a lot of things to make a living ...

I've had a real variety of jobs since I was a kid. I worked at some really lousy jobs, and I've had some great jobs - a professional career, even. I really enjoy being a freelance marketing professional and a Giant Squid.

I decided to list every job I've done in my lifetime so far. Don't get excited - they're all legal ... and respectable.

Lawn Mower
Baby Sitter
Bean Picker
Strawberry Picker
Camp Counselor
Laundry Worker
Waitress
Dishwasher
Grill Cook
Macrame Artist
Embroidery Artist
Seamstress
Photographer
Typesetter
Proofreader
Graphic Artist
Programmer
Tech Writer
Web Designer
Editor
Publishing Manager
Designer
Program Manager
Photographer
Wardrobe Assistant
Sign Maker
Print Maker
Illustrator
Marketing Consultant
Lensmaster
Giant Squid
Rocket Mom
Mom
Grandma

My favorite occupations so far have been Mom, artist and job-sharing publishing manager. I'm loving being a grandma, and working very hard at learning to be a good one. Long distance love is a real challenge, but worth the effort and the miles you rack up.

I Love Pink Floyd

I Collect Hats - All Sorts of Head Gear 

I used to buy shoes, but I got over that ...

I've always loved hats, and I love to wear hats. I don't know if my fetish started because I hated my hair or I was always cold ... but I know I feel stylish and "complete" when my outfit includes a hat. I was known for my fedora, and for a few years my license plate carried that name: FEDORA.

I've created a lens about my hat collection - you might find it amusing or at least insightful ...

Do You Know Lee Hansen? Send me Your 411. 

Perhaps I Should Know You ... Strangers are friends we have yet to meet.

I've been on the planet for more than half a century. I've lived in several states in the Northeast - Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. My graphics are all over the web, and some of my clip art pictures are famous, used for YouTube vids and iPhone apps.

I've traveled for business and pleasure to the far corners of the globe (Japan, Europe, Canada, Bermuda, both US coasts, the Midwest as far as Illinois, plus Florida). Perhaps we met sometime, or worked together ... if so, let me know you've found me again - leave me a note, or a breadcrumb, or a blog URL.

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I Heart Coloring Books 

I design free coloring pages and I like to make crafts with coloring pictures

Many of the clip art designs I give away for personal use start out as simple line drawings created with my mouse and computer. Some of my favorite drawings get published as coloring pages -- many of them free for personal or classroom use.

I love to design crafts using line art as a basic design element, and I get really excited when I find web sites, blogs and Squidoo lenses that feature cool coloring pages for adults and kids.
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