Is that Lee, Lea, Leigh - or Leroy? Lee Hansen, Geek Grandma Artist
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 4'9" 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).
So now I'm a petite, near-sighted baby boomer with getting-too-grey hair. I'm still a geek, and I still don't feel like a "grown-up."
Contents at a Glance
"Images are My Life.
Without a Camera or Drawing Tools I Would Be Lost"
Photographic Pastiche
A jumble of favorite images by Lee Hansen (aka Pastiche)
I Squidoo ... I Do
A few of my more than 70 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.-
Clip Art Lensography - Pastiche's Graphics Lenses
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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-...
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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...
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Clip Art Crafts - Paper Crafts, Fabric Crafts, Design Crafts with Free Graphics
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It's easy and fun to design your own clipart crafts for friends and family with free graphics, borders and clip art photos or pictures. Sometimes the biggest challenge is finding the right graphic ... this Squidoo lens will make it easier to find an...
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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 to the pictures you find. You can color pictures with cra...
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!
July 2008 New Giant Squids
I Draw Pictures
I've been sketching and coloring and doodling since I was a little girl. I make graphics and give them away.
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 create toys for myself, my 5 siblings and my friends.
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.
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
It's no wonder 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
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.
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.
A Piece of Heaven - New Hampshire
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 themid 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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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.
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.
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.
I Have Family in Detroit
Work Work Work
I've done a lot of things to make a living ...
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
Mom
Grandma
My favorite occupations so far have been working 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.
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.
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.
Pastiche wrote...
in reply to marsha32 I now have more than 70 lenses ... I'm addicted to Squidoo.
Posted October 24, 2008
marsha32 wrote...
wow! over 50 lens...I can't even imagine (there's the problem, no imagination) Nice to meet you here, you are a very interesting person!
Posted September 15, 2008
JoeTedesco wrote...
I was finally able to load your lens (yesterday it wouldn't load). I'm glad I finally saw it. What a great job! Five stars, and welcome to the Self-bio Group.
Joe Tedesco
Posted September 12, 2008
poutine wrote...
Lee,
I was just wondering if your free clipart can be used for my Squidoo lenses.
Poutine
Posted September 09, 2008
JaguarJulie wrote...
Ah, what a fun lens! Especially love your playing with the 'Lee' name. Would you believe that my Jenny Craig counselor is a Leigh who just married a Lee? Really. 5*****
Posted August 31, 2008
RufusQuail wrote...
Hollywood struck gold twice with Lees--Grant and Remick. You're in good company. Check out In the Heat of the Night and Days of Wine and Roses. 5*
Posted August 16, 2008
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