I can't stop Elfing myself!

This one's gone COUNTRY!

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Elfing Fun!

It goes around each year and every year it gets better... I'm not talking about the flu, I'm talking about "Go Elf Yourself"! Last year I got one from my sister, this year from Carolyn's family.

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Cleanliness is next to dogliness

My friend Annette sent me this cartoon from Off The Mark. It pretty much sums up what tries to happen at my house every single day.

I was going to share it here for you, but the website states they want $10 from me to show it to you here for a year.

So, as funny as it is... I guess you'll have to follow this link. Cause I love ya', but I don't love ya' $10!

My early work

Me as Nancy Sinatra

When we moved to Los Angeles and Lyle was in school for computer graphic design, after he finished his assignments and went to bed I would go to town with his precious baby computer.

I wasn't very talented. But I had ideas. Big ideas. ODD ideas. I like to put my face on other people's bodies. No, it's not photos of me in drag. Just photos of me superimposed (poorly) over other people.

I was looking for something today and tripped across some of my early work. They still make me laugh.

Jim Margaret

Me as the Altoids lady.

This one, I took a real photo and placed us all on Broadway!

Okay, fine. I still do this. This was last summer when I was on tour with Madonna.

fun with photoshop

A long time ago, when Lyle first started to go to school for computer graphic design (so long ago, that it was a "new" degree) after he would do his homework, I would "play" on the computer. My head on Madonna's body. My head joins Ann Margret. My head on the body of someone so hot and nearly naked that I could put in on business cards and hand them out to friends telling them to refer people to me for a good time... In the morning, Lyle would look over my work, roll his eyes and tell me how I could have done it better. That is how I became self taught on the computer. But that was a long time ago. I don't "play" on the computer anymore. I have work to do. This is my job now.

Then Carolyn made a comment the other day about having a poster of me up at her house , I asked her if it was the one of me in the one piece red swimsuit and then sent her this:

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Create your own here. Thanks to Michael for leading the way.

What's that on your head?

Today on Carolyn's blog she wrote:
I have never seen anyone take advantage of a photo op like Jim. Here is what it must be like to walk down the street with Jim.

Carolyn: "So then this stupid bitch in my Bible study starts to talk about her big old King James and...

Jim: "WAIT!!! There's a huge pyramid of oranges over there! Take my camera!"

Carolyn: "WHY? I was just getting to the part when I opened my jacket to reveal my "Jesus is my Homeboy" t-shirt!"

Jim: "Whatever! If I stand in just the right way, I will totally look like Carmen Miranda!"

I take probably 100 photos A DAY when I am on vacation. Not all of them are things on people's heads. But many are. No one is safe from my critical eye for embarrassing pictures.

Here's how it really happens:

Jim: Ha-ha-ha... that's a funny story. Now just stand over here.

Carolyn: Why? Are they lowering a piano from a crane above?

Jim: No. Don't worry. A little to the left, little more, now stand on your tip toes... (click!)

Again, No one is safe!!!

My dad at Hollywood & Highland with an elephant on his head.

My friend Robb in Shanghai.

My friend Rachel at the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Lyle in Cozumel during Carnival.

It's not always things on heads however. Sometimes, you find yourself driving through Southern Alberta and you see a perfectly good opportunity just waiting for a photo at a rest area. Perhaps it's a rest area that has an exhibit. An exhibit on the natural wonders of history and fossilized bones of creatures that lived many years ago. And it comes to me, as if in a dream, with just the right positioning, and just the right camera angle, I could have the most amazing picture for my photo album. (click on it to see it larger) I promise you, this one is not photoshopped in any way...

Something funny

I was looking over somethings regarding my blog and one of them was "where do people come from?"

No not a post about the birds and the bees, but what site refers people my site?

For instance when Rachel told people on her blog that I had photos of her at Disneyland, I got a few people showing they had come from Rachel's blog.

Here's something funny - open a new window and go to www.google.com.

type these words into the search area - Paula Dean in swimsuit (don't use quotation marks around it).

My blog comes up in the top ten results!