Sparky’s Scratches Real friends don’t care if you’re a little different…

Another beautiful Google doodle to commemorate the great composer Vivaldi.

And as everybody is longing for Spring at this moment, here’s the wonderful Nigel Kennedy playing the first part of ‘Spring’ from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

Totally forgot to upload this Kit, which was supposed to be my Valentine’s gift to you

Well, love is timeless, so I’m sure you can still use it for one of your projects.

8 Background Papers
2 Buttons
1 Tag
1 Heart Element
1 Heart & Lace Frame
2 Rigrags
1 Swirly Valentine WordArt

Please read the TOU and leave some love if you download it

Swirly Valentine Elements 3.1 MB

Swirly Valentine Papers 11.2 MB

Last night, while browsing YouTube and going from one ‘related list’ to the other, I stumbled upon something that looked rather dull at the start, but during the video my jaw dropped.

Apparently you can change people’s behaviour, by making things fun. There are three videos so far, but I’m sure there will be more.
Thank you http ://www.thefuntheory.com

Some time ago I downloaded Inkscape, a free “Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw”. I hate learning new things and because I’m so familiar with PSP, I wasn’t really willing to give Inkscape a try. But I opened the program, tried some things, made a mess, closed it again and forgot about it :p

Until I found verysimpledesigns.com, a site with such a cute doll tutorial, I just HAD to make it. Me wanting the doll was stronger than me hating Inkscape, so I opened the program again and started reading the tutorial.

During the tutorial I found feats I loved! Aligning objects is a breeze, filling and changing colors is so easy (that is, after I found out what I was doing wrong about 100 times :p). It took me a few hours to finish the tut. And I looove my doll – even though she’s not perfect. But for a first try, it’ll do!

I already saw several other tuts I want to try. For now, here’s my Kokeshi doll: