Mary Torture

I should be working on next month's tutorial since April is almost history.

I have been tormenting my wife telling her I am going to buy some of those garden gnomes (which as soooo appropriate to the desert--not!). She is really afraid I will do this and she thinks they are so tacky and embarrassing (hope I am not offending anybody).

I have left catalogs open to photos of garden gnomes and I went so far as to change her background on her laptop to a repeating wallpaper of gnomes.

Her normal background photo is one I took of Baxter the cat looking at dinner from out of my office window. I replaced the bunny with a gnome (took me about an hour to outline the plant to position over the gnome and to clone the blacktop and remove Mr. Lapin.

Now I just have to wait for Mary to turn on her computer. Heh, heh.

Gary

Devious. Cunning. Creative. Mischievous. I LOVE IT!

Oh so merrily we go tripping down a well laid path.

You do know that pay backs are H E double hockey sticks :)

But aren't these types of things fun until then :D

Great work on putting the Gnome into the photo.

Nice work Gary! Hope you wont be in Doghouse for too long. ;)

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Originally Posted by a4hire

Nice work Gary! Hope you wont be in Doghouse for too long. ;)

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LOL. That´s the first thing i thought too. Better go prepare your sofa... You´re asking for it.... :D
Nice work anyway!

Actually, Mary laughed. (At least I though she was laughing :o)

We have been married for 32 years. Nothing really surprises her anymore.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

We have been married for 32 years.

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you should know Gary that for men it should be double counted
so you have really good "score" :)
just kidding
nice work

very clever and very well done. your wife must be a saint.

i love the cat. I have been considering including a cat in my still life... a cat sitting on atable.... just like yours. but... i need the tail hanging over the edge.

geo.

Cool yet wicked!!! I like Mr. Lapin better and I so agree with Mary, gnomes are tacky. ;) Still it sounds pretty funny as a joke. Good edit as well. :cool:

Better be careful, if it was me I would go out and buy a bunch of gnomes:)

Grace from my home town, (LA) are you trying to get me in trouble ;)

Gary

Garry
Your attention to detail extends even into your private life. It is the extra "tweaks" that characterize your endeavors!

Maybe she would take to this one Gary, looking for a warm desert home

Norman you were cut out (so to speak) to be a gnome.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Norman you were cut out (so to speak) to be a gnome.

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I love it ---Now enlarged printed and hung on the radio shack wall to be framed later. thanks Gary.

Very interesting. Gnomes are very popular to wood carve. Looks like the cat is staring out a vinyl picture window. GT

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

I should be working on next month's tutorial since April is almost history.

I have been tormenting my wife telling her I am going to buy some of those garden gnomes (which as soooo appropriate to the desert--not!). She is really afraid I will do this and she thinks they are so tacky and embarrassing (hope I am not offending anybody).

I have left catalogs open to photos of garden gnomes and I went so far as to change her background on her laptop to a repeating wallpaper of gnomes.

Her normal background photo is one I took of Baxter the cat looking at dinner from out of my office window. I replaced the bunny with a gnome (took me about an hour to outline the plant to position over the gnome and to clone the blacktop and remove Mr. Lapin.

Now I just have to wait for Mary to turn on her computer. Heh, heh.

Gary

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Now my cat is exactly the opposite!
Stygg2003

Stygg,

You need to be very careful posting squirrel images. Risto is very sensitive about squirrels.

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Stygg,

You need to be very careful posting squirrel images. Risto is very sensitive about squirrels.

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Nice one Egg, did you do the extract in Xara? as I did my original pic. extract and blend in PhotoShop, not tried doing this in Xara yet.

Stygg

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Stygg,

You need to be very careful posting squirrel images. Risto is very sensitive about squirrels.

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Which one is Risto Egg?

Stygg - All in Xara
Parahandy - Ristos the one on the left.