CrypticFragments' Lensmaster Log

Welcome! L'Afrique is a Zazzle-hosted gallery gift shop dedicated to offering quality products, created by designer Tammy Winand and produced by Zazzle. You will find imagery of and from Africa, with an emphasis on Colonial themes including safari a...

Western Skies is devoted to bringing you the best photography and design from the western and southwestern United States. We feature images from Arizona (including Grand Canyon National Park and Sedona), New Mexico, and Wyoming as well as Native Amer...

AsiaMajor is a gallery for those who love the colors and design styles of Asia, specifically the Far East of Japan, China, and Korea. We carry posters, greeting cards, ceramic mugs, magnets, handbags and keychains featuring imagery from well-known a...

CrypticFragments Design focuses on travel photography, original artwork, and a few computer generated graphic images featured on posters, mugs, magnets and keychains. The sections below will go into more detail. CrypticFragments is the pseudonym of...

A gallery shop for those who love tees! Art tees, graphics tees, travel photo tees, tees with inspirational sayings. Tees for men and tees for women. And a small selection of ties thrown in for good measure. If you or anyone you know wears a lot of...

The Mission to Morocco gallery on Zazzle ( print-on-demand company) offers brilliant Moroccan and other Middle Eastern designs on a variety of products. Proceeds from this gallery are ear-marked for use to help support women's empowerment volunteer p...

The CF World Emporium(short for CrypticFragments, their creator's, pseudonym) is a collective of seven separate but related Zazzle galleries, each focusing on gifts and design from a different region of the world, plus two "sister" gallery shops feat...

Sweeping landscapes, architectural images, still lifes offering commentary on our world... you will find these and more at CrypticFragments Photography. This page is an introduction to my work and my perspective on photography. I pursue this passion...

This is my Zazzle lensography...an easy way to reference every Zazzle lens I have published. I am an artist, photographer, and budding self-taught graphic designer who uses the pseudonym CrypticFragments for all my online promotional work. My real n...

Failte. Welcome. Celtic Creations is for lovers of Celtic art, design and culture. Our products reflect a passion for Irish, Scots, Welsh, and Breton history. It is our goal to offer the finest Celtic designs for you to wear to Celtic festivals, con...

CrypticFragments, aka Tammy Winand, is an artist and self-taught graphic designer who operates shops on a variety of print-on-demand sites, mainly Zazzle and Greeting Card Universe. With the biggest holiday season of the year rapidly closing in, she...

Everyone needs stamps...to mail bills, send postcards, write a letter to mom... and of course to send Valentine's Day cards! Why not buy some really unique postage designs or even come create your own? And, of course, check out all the other great n...

Are you a tea or coffee drinker? If so, you need a great mug. And, if you're like me, one great mug just isn't enough. You need variety in your diet, not just different flavours of tea and coffee, but also different visual stimuli! Well, rest easy,...

For a few years it had been a creative dream of mine to create custom painted shoes. I even painted my own tennis shoes with acrylics and rubber stamped designs. Then Zazzle introduced Custom Keds, real Keds tennis shoes which artists can put their...

If there is one main thing you should know about me, it is that I am passionate about PEACE. I am dedicated to helping others learn more about their differences, and also to FOCUS more on their similarities. I firmly believe that education is the key...

Welcome to the showcase for CrypticFragments' Jewelry and Ethnic Design. CrypticFragments is the pseudonym for artist and author Tammy Winand (that's me!). I love creating jewelry from wood, gemstone, glass and silver beads, found objects, and charm...

The Charter for Compassion is a collaborative effort to build a peaceful, harmonious global community. Bringing together the voices of people from all religions, the Charter seeks to remind the world that while all faiths are not the same, they all s...

It may come as a surprise to some to learn that Christianity is very much alive in countries westerners generally associate with Islam. Of course there is the obvious location, Israel, where Judaism, Christianity and Islam all maintain a very strong...

While the government of Iran is a theocracy (a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler, or a form of government in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are rega...

Islam for non-Muslims is my attempt to help others understand this very misunderstood religion and the culture and beliefs of its followers. I am not a Muslim. My only Muslim friends are pen pals. I am a seeker of peace and understanding which I bel...

#IranElection has been the hottest topic on twitter since the highly contested 2009 Iran Presidential elections in June 2009. Twitter has become a top resource for news on what is happening "on the ground" in Iran. CNN and other worldwide news agenc...

Has domestic violence affected your life? Would you know a domestic violence victim who was in need of help if you were talking to her right now? Would you even know HOW to help? Look at my photo. Do I look like a domestic violence victim? A survivo...

As an addict of blogging and of Squidoo, this page was all but inevitable. It only seemed natural to use each to feature the other. I'm not sure exactly when I started my first blog. It was several years ago, probably in conjunction with an early My...

One of my goals in life is to earn a living from my creative pursuits, whether they be "real" or "virtual". To chronicle this journey, I developed an art blog called Art on the Edge, which began with the intro post below: "I am an artist at the edge...

 Welcome! Are you a MySpace user? I am. In fact, I probably use it more than I "should". Over the past several years I have monitored and maintained 12 different profiles, each for a specific purpose, different aspects of my life and i...

Look at the girl in that whacky hat! tee hee...that's me, Tammy, aka CrypticFragments. This page was created with the intent of introducing all the unique and sometimes unusual passions and pastimes I get into. It is just another way for my friends...

Hello there! Thanks for visiting this page to learn more about my creative pursuits. At least, I assume that's why you're here. Most of you will know about my graphic design and other pursuits which I feature on Zazzle (for a full list please visit...

Throughout history, man has depicted food in various art forms, from cave paintings of the animals he hoped to hunt and kill for food, to the Impressionists of the 19th century. In the 20th century food began appearing as posters, and product labels...

Ohayo! (That's Japanese for hello!) Do you love beautiful handmade paper from Japan and other Asian countries? I do! In fact I'm somewhat obsessed by all the bright colors and pretty patterns! This is THE place to find beautiful origami and chiyoga...

All of the poetry included in this "online chapbook" was written between 1986 and 1992 by Tammy Winand. Tammy is an artist, traveler, writer and photographer with a lust for adventure and a wide open heart that sometimes bleeds for all the world to...

You may have seen my lensography...for a long time (well, some time ago, now) it was my highest ranked lens! However, a list of lenses cannot explain ME, and a lensmaster bio page seemed too brief when this page was created. As of May 2009 I decided...

Well Squid~peeps I am back...not as much as "before", but more than "recently". I currently have 52 lenses and am awaiting the results of this past month's quest to regain Giant status in this new challenge! I have chosen the Kab Fab team which seems...

Do you love candles as much as I do? Do you want to have fun shopping for them while supporting a good cause? If so, you have come to the right place! Candles For a Cause donates affiliate sales earnings toward a program I am participating in to sup...

Bring the Gift of the Magi into your home this holiday season! Frankincense and myrrh are two of the most used incense fragrances throughout history. Not only do they smell good, they are infused with meaning from religious history. Gifts of the Ma...

Ohayo! (That's Japanese for hello!) Do you love beautiful handmade paper from Japan and other Asian countries? I do! In fact I'm somewhat obsessed by all the bright colors and pretty patterns! This is THE place to find beautiful origami and chiyoga...

If you are looking at this page, you might be addicted to exotic smelling imported soaps like I am! I love smelling them through their often fabulously decorated wrappers and lining them up in the bath. If you ARE like me, you'll be glad to know you...

Bienvenidos! Welcome to the wonderful world of Oaxacan wood carvings, whose Spanish name is "Alebrijes", a colorful and popular hand-painted Mexican folk art form. Alebrijes are vibrantly colored handmade wooden figures representing a wide variety o...

The bright colors and free-form designs featured on this traditional art form from Mexico always make me smile, and I would like to share my passion for it with you. Talavera is a type of Mexican pottery produced in the cities of Puebla, Mexico, and...

Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim is a unique environment which hosts an estimated 5 million visitors per year from all corners of the world. For 11 months, I was fortunate enough to live and work here, at one of the Seven Natural Wonders of th...

Welcome to the world of adventure work. These are jobs "outside the box", maybe even just OUTSIDE! Every year National Parks, ranches, resort and wilderness lodges (amongst others) hire thousands of employees from around the world to staff...

I have lived part of the year in Florida almost every year since 1992. I love tropical design, decor, clothing and themes. Down here we can enjoy outdoor living almost year round. What better way for everyone else to get in a tropical mood this summ...

I love hats of all kinds... cowboy hats, Victorian fashion, fezzes and fedoras. Putting a hat on is playing dress-up. However, somewhere along the line, I acquired a strange habit. My friends say I have a "bad hat" fetish.I have to try on and have m...

Japan's sweet candy products are not only tasty, but they come in some amazingly beautiful packages which tempt the eye. I fell in love with Japanese candy at the Japan Pavilion at EPCOT years ago, and still can't get enough! Recently I decided to c...

Meow...mew...mrrah! Welcome to the page dedicated to communicating with funky felines! Does the MEOW have meaning? Having shared life with cats of all colors and breeds, I have a strong opinion. But read on, and then decide for yourself! In the abs...

If you're like me, when you travel, you don't want to be a "tourist" You want to see a place as it is from an insider's point of view. You want to get a feel for how the locals actually live. So I thought it'd be a great idea to have everyone say a...

Okay, let's face it. Everyone loves to eat. And even if for some strange reason you don't LOVE to eat, the fact is, you have to eat to survive. So, we want to know...what is the last thing YOU ate? Even if it's as simple as a snack. And especially i...

ETSY shop users, your attention please! Welcome to a new great way to announce your shop promos in real time! This also works, of course, for people having sales on other sites... just tell us your current discount, inc any special info needed, and...