I love video tutorials. Since I was a child I have always loved watching people do stuff and that was how I learnt how to do things - from watching other people. These days there are hundreds of amazing video tutorials that teach you software and it's like having your own personal tutor. You can turn it off when you get bored and rewind if you didn't catch something.

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon this Photoshop tutorial and it's really one of the best and hilarious tutorials I have seen and you'll actually might learn something if you weren't familiar with the application. It's actually comedian Dane Cook behind the Donnie Hoyle the host and tutor of You Suck at Photoshop.

There are so far 6 episodes and you can watch the rest at My Damn Channel which has another world of funny videos!

Oh how I love the internet and video sharing!!

Tags: Photoshop, Video Tutorials, Dane Cook, Comedy, Donnie Hoyle

It's DONE and I am so glad it's completed... This was another test-of-patience-project and required a lot of streaming TV to go along with it. I think I completed Band of Brothers, L Word (Season 1-5) and a little of Big Love. It has taken over a month to complete because it was on hold while I knitted Pin's scarf and Angie's iPod cosie.

This pattern is from Japanese Crochet Motif 2 book by Ondori. I had help at the start and required some time to decipher the diagrams and a bit of guessing. Also I found some help online from My Little Mochi who so kindly did some generic Japanese pattern translation. For people like me who are so crazy about Japanese patterns but can't understand the language. The yarn I used was various colours of Nikkelon S Egypt Super.

So after it was done... it's lining time. After 5 hours and 3 attempts it was sewn with an internal zipped pocket and a magnetic clasp! As you can see.... I have amateur sewing machine skills. The basic lining was created with help from FutureGirl's tutorial on Sewing a Lining for a Crochet Bag. I was initially just going to sew a pocket then I stumbled upon U-Handbag and the owner Lisa has has many wonderful bag making tutorials on her blog. (The other thing I'm into now... reading and learning from photo-tutorials!)

And of course thanks to Dixie for all her moral support and also for lending me her camera at work today so I could take some snaps!

Tags: Japanese, Crochet, Bag

Last March I read a posing on Boing Boing about Keepon and I was instantly a huge fan! I'm a Keepon groupie!! It's not too hard to understand why there's possibly a million-long waiting list to buy one. Keepon is a research project developed by wonderfully talented geeks of rhythmically intelligent robots for interaction with children and of course easily amused me.

Introducing Keepon dancing to Spoon's "I Turn My Camera On"!

More clips can be found on the official site. Guaranteed to make you smile ☺!

Tags: Keepon, Robot, Japanese