So damn blue

RIP precious friend. Seems like we've done everything we can for you now. It was really nice knowing you! ♥

I’ve never written a tutorial before. Ever.
So this is my first… well, attempt at one, at least.

I didn’t keep the .PSD to the banner this tutorial is for, so I have to my best ability tried to recreate it.
I’m gonna try to make this as easy as possible for both me and you by simply share the .PSD-file with you. That way, you can have a look for yourselves and see which parts suit you and what you’re doing, instead of me going into detail about everything I’ve done (which is probably for the best, seeing I have no idea what I’m doing most of the time! :P)

Alright, here's what we'll be making:

Click the banner to download the .PSD!

(This is the original; the one in the download looks slightly different)

Just a couple of things that might be worth be mentioning (with the risk of dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's, so please bear with me!):

• In this case I chose to merge my blend out of convenience. Should you prefer to keep all layers separate, of course that works just as well!
• The coloring is of course easy to adjust according to your images and own preferences (which you should!). The “key” in this one are the blend modes.
• Parts of the background/texture come from the images I used.
• Link to the texture used as background here.
• Created with Photoshop CS.

If you’ve got any questions, please ask and I’ll do my best to answer them!

This is kinda exciting, so feel more than free to share your results! :D

Spur of the moment thing: I'm gonna start saying "crap cake" instead of just "crap".
I crack myself up sometimes! :D

I'm too excited to sleep (which I should really try to do). And I don't even have anything to be excited about!

The plot thickens...

In recognition of the fact that it today has been one year since I graduated high school (seriously, where does the time go?!) I give you this:

Otherwise today, I went back to the kindergarten for a visit. They seemed pretty happy to see me and it was kinda nice to see them too, actually.
The kids had made me drawings which had been put together into a booklet. Let's just say that some drawings were more worked than others (hehe) but I think it was really sweet! :)

There was an Open House at my old school today, so my friend dragged me along (it was a great success btw; two ninth graders with their parents and then the two of us!).
I've only been there once since I graduated, and that visit was like a quicky one at the end of August, so it was kinda nice to come and talk to some of the teachers again. But my English teacher made me a bit sad - he told the both of us almost immediately: "I can hear that your English's gotten worse". So anyone wanna come and talk a whole lotta English with me? 'Cuz I can read all the English texts and watch all the English movies and TV-shows without subtitels etc I want, but that reallty won't help squat to improve my speech! And I don't want to get all sucky and stuff... :(

That's a real ass-move you just pulled!
I might have been expecting it for a few days, but it still doesn't make it okay. Not even close.

I'm too mad and too disappointed to even be able to put into words exactly what I think about it.

So it's almost the middle of May and I walked around today with my hat on and I barely noticed (and my parents had some of the radiators turned on earlier) because it's been so cold. Not okay!
Another thing that's not okay is that my throat's really started to hurt again, which makes me kinda sad and annoyed. And to top it off, I desperately need to pee at the moment, but I'm lying in my bed feeling very warm and cosy...

And about my... whatever it was that they called it: I decided to stick around for the three final days next week. I might end up regretting it, you never know, but it felt like the right thing to do after all. And I wanted to get the chance to have a proper goodbye with all the kids and stuff. Now I feel like I have the possibility to "prepare" them for my last day, because it would have been today it would have felt a bit too sudden. I don't even think they had the slightest idea that today actually could've been it.
So at the moment I'm feeling pretty good about my decision and it absolutely doesn't hurt that there's four days until I have to be there again.

The last two days on my practical vocational training place (yepp, that's what they call it, I looked it up at Lexin! Haha) has been quite good. The days haven't felt too long and like it's never gonna be half past four. I guess that means I'm finally getting into it.
But tomorrow may or may not be my last day. If not, there'll be three more days next week, Wednesday being the final one. I have to say I'm not quite sure how I feel about it all...

Uhm, yeah... I mean, sure, why not..? Haha!