Am I Talkin To Myself?

I love decorating for any holiday. I also like decorating my blog according to the holiday! As you can see by my leg lamp and countdown to Christmas tree! I would fill up this baby with all sorts of widgets if I wasn't afraid it would take an hour to load the page. SOOOO, I was fooling around on my computer during nap time the other day and actually figured out how to add a hat to my photo without having to buy any software. Because putting on one and taking a new pic would be OH SO DIFFICULT right? lol! I plan on doing that at a later date, but wanted to try this out first...cuz I didn't need to put on make-up to do it this way. There. I said it.

Anyways, it was really easy and I wanted to spread the knowledge...just like the snow effect! Every blog should have snow...and every profile pic should have a Santa hat! :) Quick shoutout to Tena and Jen and another Jen that are rockin the Santa hats!

You take a photo you already have in your pc and open it in paint. Then you draw a hat on your pic and color it in...or you can get all fancy and add a beard. lol! Now to some people it may seem obvious to "save as" as a bitmap, as opposed to a JPEG or GIFF...but I was unaware of what that even meant so it took half of naptime for me to realize why it was not saving my pic w/ the hat on my head...THEREFORE, save it as a "bitmap", not JPEG or whatever...or it won't capture the drawing you did. Once you save the new pic into your computer you can now upload it to your profile! WALA!