A Really Cool Paint Tutorial Thingy

So while I was mucking around on Paint (On the computer) I actually made something somewhat cool and considering I hardly ever write a blog post I thought I should write up a tutorial... Right... Here it comes...


1. Open up your Paint. I think this would also work with Photoshop but I often get really lost there.. So this tutorial shall be in Paint.

2. Begin with the colour black... If you absolutely despise black you may use a different dark colour.

3. Next, select the polygon tool.

4. Now, you may begin drawing lines. The first line, you will have to click and drag to where you want it to go.. After that first line, you can just click it where you want it.

5. Click, click, click! Keep on clickin' until you are happy with your shape!

6. Now you can start colouring! Select the "Fill" tool, choose your first colour and then colour away!

7. Try not to allow two same colours to touch, that kind of ruins the effect in some ways.

8. Running out of colours yet? A simple-ish way to fix that is to double-click on the colours, then click on the "Define custom colours" and it will take you to this cool little menu.

9. When you finished colouring it in, select black (Or your other colour), move your mouse away from the rainbow of colours and to the white-ness and..... CLICK!

10.  Not bad eh? If your not so sure about that one.....

11. And..... RIGHT CLICK! Personally I like the white version better.. But it depends how you want it really. You could have.....

11a. Black!

11b. White!

11c. Or even a brown-ish red!

Basically you could have any sort of colour you want as a background... Anyway, this is the end of the tutorial so... Enjoy! 

If you could have been anyone in history... Who would you be?

This is something I actually did a long while ago...  Waaaaaaaay before we moved I think. So anyway I just thought it would be nice to have it on my blog instead of hiding in a dark, creepy folder on the computer. So here it is....

'If I could have been anyone in history I would have been Lei Zu the Chinese Empress. I think she was cool because she was Empress and if I were her, I would have been the first person to discover silk.

Lei Zu discovered silk when she was sitting under her mulberry tree quietly drinking her tea. Suddenly PLOP!  A small white bundle was floating in her tea. Lei Zu picked it up, it was a silkworm cocoon and the thread that was wrapped around it started to unravel. Lei Zu stood up and started to walk around the garden unravelling the cocoon all the way until there was no more thread around the silkworm, she did this a few more times with the help of her maid. Then she called for her royal dresser “Can you weave this thread into cloth?” Lei Zu asked “I have never seen threads like these!” the royal dresser exclaimed, she took the thread away and wove it into cloth that shone like water in the sunlight, and Lei Zu made a robe for her husband Huang Di. History tells us that when he saw it he was so impressed that he said, “From now on we shall call this silk, and no one but the royal family shall wear it.”

So that is why if I was anyone in history, I would have been Lei Zu.'   

(Mum wrote this part..)
Lei Zu was a woman who had imagination and foresight to see that silk worm cocoons weren't just a gross little bundle of fibres. She questioned and investigated a possibility and came up with a fabric that would be considered lovely throughout history. She contributed to Chinese culture.