I am not crazy I am an "Arteest"

So last night I needed to take my daily self portrait. Emily was not home, Katie was upstairs, Bill had fallen asleep watching basketball in the bedroom, and Amanda had gone out with some friends. I had seen some self portraits on flickr where they had draped themselves with Christmas Lights and I thought it was a really cool idea and wanted to try it. I was waiting for Amanda to come home, because I really didn't want her to walk in on me, but I got impatient. I set up my tripod in the living room, plugged in a strand of Christmas lights (we still haven't put the tree up yet) and was wrapping them around my upper body, when Amanda of course walked in. Thank goodness Steve and Billy didn't come in with her! She didn't give me a look like I was crazy - she said "Oh that's a really cool idea for a picture, will you take some of me like that too?" I am so lucky that she inherited the"art gene" from me!

While she went to the bathroom, I set the timer on the camera and quickly got into position. This was the first shot I took and the one I think came out the best!

Here is my favorite of Amanda:

Then we even decided to try it out with Jack Jack - we had to bribe him with cheese of course!