Icky Pictures

It's a lot harder than you would think to find a picture of me not grinning like an idiot (and/or sticking my tongue out at the camera). Seriously, check this out... this is the kind of awful, happy face I keep finding:

What am I smiling so hard for? I hate having my picture taken and I'm wearing a wedding dress for goodness sakes (a damn fine wedding dress, might I add)!

Anyway, I'm using my own image to start work on a series of family and friend photographs to use on the walls in my house for next Halloween. The 'technique' (there is no technique yet, I'm just fiddling about) involves using the 'burn' tool to darken the eyes, duplicating a layer with just the skin and lightening it by increasing the brightness, then doing a Watercolor filter on the whole shebang to make it look -- I don't know, melty and ghostly.

Now, if I could just wipe that stupid smile off my face: