Welcome
I live in New York City with a partner and four parakeets. I am 30 years old and still don't know what I want to do with my life. Based on my background education, supposedly I should be working in a field of accounting/finance. I never have. Not a day. I hated it when I was going to college and I hate it now. Why did I major in it? Only God knows. My passion has always been in the arts, animals and the environment. When I was a kid I used to secretly cry when I saw a homeless dog. I used to get seriously upset when I saw garbage in the otherwise perfectly beautiful scene. In my then naive perceptions of life, I wanted to literally change the world. I was sure that I could do it :-). I wanted to save all the animals, I wanted to persuade people to act consciously, to think about the trees, rivers, nature, pollution and so on. I firmly believed that I could make a difference and so about 12 years ago I went to college to major in the arts and environmental studies. Well, to make a long story short, that didn't work out and graduated with a degree in finance/accounting.
After getting my diploma I realized that if I have to work as an accountant, I will hang myself after a day or two. I hung around for a couple of years helping my friend with her business, building things, painting houses for an income, fixing attics and so on. You name it, I did it. I am a very handy person and I love working with my hands, so painting houses and doing construction work beat the hell out of accounting. After that I got into graphic design and attended the School Of Visual Arts for a while.
I run three websites:
Lara Berch Tutorials - which is this site.
Lara Berch Designs - which is the graphic design portfolio site (includes prices)
Down With Basics - which is an environmental site.
I created the tutorial site because it is something I am passionate about and because I am constantly being asked "how do you make this?" "what did you use on here?" "what is this for?" "can I make this too?". I think anyone can make anything with the right motivation. Hopefully you will find my tutorials clear and simple enough to try it yourself.
I am still in the process of building these pages. I will add more stuff as soon as I make more stuff. Hope you have fun with this site. If you have any questions, suggestions, feedback, do not hesitate to email me. If you like me to do a tutorial that is not listed here, do contact me as well. Comments, suggestions and feedback can also be left in my blog.
DO SEND ME THE PICTURES OF THE THINGS YOU DID USING THE TUTORIALS ON THIS SITE. PERHAPS YOU USED A BETTER MEDIUM OR HAVE A MORE INTERSETING IDEA. I WILL POST THEM ON THE SITE FOR OTHERS TO SEE.