Usually I'm not very skilled at handcrafting, but I think I made something cool today. Or have you ever seen a calendar full of gay kisses from nine different fandoms before? No? Me neither. So I made my own! :D

Here it is:

[May the smooching begin]I used one of those ugly kinda boring calendars that you get for free in every flower shop or pharmacy this time of the year ( Read more... )

Okay, so here comes the ultimate recipe for how to make a cake in less than 5 minutes! :D

You need:
- a big mug
- a microwave
- flour
- sugar
- cocoa powder
- chocolate chips or chocolate spread (I used Nutella)
- oil
- milk
- an egg
- vanilla aroma (not essential)

Step 1:
Fill a quarter of the mug with flour.

Step 2:Add 2 tablespoons of cocoa ( Read more... )

(Okay, that was quite a long title o.O)
I played a bit around with Gimp and discovered a way how you can colour your manga scans in a more realistic looking way.
So I thought, why not share it with you? :)

You need:
- Gimp
- a digital manga scan of your choice
- my Gimp tutorial #2 ("How to colour manga scans")

Step 1:Open Gimp and open the ( Read more... )

There are two ways to make animated avatars. You can either (a) make one out of pictures or (b) out of a movie scene. I'll explain it both to you.

Let's start with the first variant:
Make an animated avatar out of pictures

You need:
- Gimp
(- the picture(s) you want to animate - not necessary if you want to create an own animated picture.)

Step 1:
Open ( Read more... )

This time, I'll show you how to add colour to black/white manga scans. Of course, there are various ways to do it, but I'll explain to you the way I do it. :)

You need:
- Gimp
- a manga scan of your choice

Step 1:
Open Gimp and open the scan you want to use.
If you want to cut the picture to size, use the tool "Rectangular selection" from the toolbox to ( Read more... )

Change of plans: I've decided to post not only unimportant rambling, but also some useful tutorials here. And anything else that comes to my mind and could be interesting for you.

Let's begin with a very easy tutorial on how to create little Avatars (userpics for LJ, Twitter, Youtube, etc.). It's really easy, believe me. (I just don't know yet if ( Read more... )