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 May 2009, my published lens total reached 96. In addition to these featured lenses, I also have (always) several lenses under development and I joined the first Squidoo Rocket Moms and started a new collection of About Me lenses.-
Pastiche's Lensography
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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 More unpublished lenses are on the way and will "go live" quite soon.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 hea...
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Coloring Fun for Adults
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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...
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Clip Art Crafts Ideas and Projects
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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...
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Make Peace Not War- Peace Crafts
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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...
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Funky Junky Decorating - Thrift Shop Feng Shui
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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...
I'm a Giant Squid
... you can become a Giant Squid, too
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! I'm working on making it into the Giant Squids 100 club. My goal is to have 100 quality lenses completed before my 2nd Squidoo Anniversary in August 2009. If I really work at it, I may be able to qualify by June 2009.
July 2008 New Giant Squids
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.
I Draw Pictures
I've been sketching and coloring and doodling since I was a little girl. I make graphics and give them away for personal 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 do computer illustration and create digital graphics
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.
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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.
I have Celtic, German, Norse Heritage
I'm a natural redhead with the palest of complexions and a scattering of freckles.
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.
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.
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
Summer Water Slide Fun
Children playing on Slip Slide water game on a hot summer day.
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Featured Kids Craft Lenses
Arts and Crafts for Kids of all Ages
I love easy crafts, especially paper crafts or crafts made with recycled materials. My lenses that feature crafts for kids include crafts for all the holidays to make cards, decorations, gifts and go-withs the kids will love to craft (and some adults will also enjoy these simple crafty projects that don't cost much money).-
Coloring Crafts Projects, Patterns, Ideas
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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...
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Fun with Paper Toys
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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...
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Clip Art Crafts Ideas and Projects
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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...
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Crafts for Kids Lensography
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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...
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.
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- http://twitpic.com/a8x24 - Penguin pool party
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- Party animal -hula tube party pool penguin tee - http://bit.ly/8CtKL
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- Only a few weeks until another Musikfest - http://bit.ly/kOcFb
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- Thinking out loud: which state has lowest overall tax burden: NH, VT, MA?
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- Hotte4st masquerade costume this year? We're thinking this thriller -http://bit.ly/oRXPm
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 ...
CYA - 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 by imagefactory
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I Like Graphic Art
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.
GrowWear wrote...
Wow, Lee! You're very interesting! And talented. Love the T designs, and the cards!
Posted June 23, 2009
genglo wrote...
What a fun About Me lens! It's nice to meet you. Thanks for joining our I Squidoo group, too.
Posted May 22, 2009
Treasures-By-Brenda wrote...
Lee, twas nice to get to know you a bit better.
Lensmaster isn't on your list of jobs!
Great work; blessed by an Angel!
Posted April 27, 2009
Heather426 wrote...
Lee, I really enjoyed this! I went to college in the late 60's and 70's so I am like a child of the 60's too..same kind of parties, right. I will be checking out some of your art. My husband is artist Richard Burns. 5* lens.
Posted April 24, 2009
C-Joy wrote...
My mom Lee, Leah, and Leigh are all names in my family! Fun lens:)
Posted April 23, 2009
Evelyn_Saenz wrote...
Thank you for letting me get to know you a little better.
Posted April 22, 2009
alteredkat wrote...
Great getting to know you! *****
I enjoyed your lens!
Thanks for sharing!
Posted April 22, 2009
KarateKatGraphics wrote...
Well done! Looks like you love your work, which is wonderful.
Posted April 22, 2009
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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Coloring Fun for Adults
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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...
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Coloring Book Collections
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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...
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Valentine Coloring Pages
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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...
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Fairy Coloring Pages
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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...
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Easter Coloring Pages
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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...
Tag Picture - Pastiche
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