Halloween will be here before you know it, so get ready to blog about upcoming events in your neighborhood!

A great way to spice up your posts for this spooky holiday is to doctor a photo. A house is perfect, of course, but this works with pumpkins or almost anything else.

So start by finding a photo of a house that you can use. I'll choose a pic of a listing I sold a few years ago in the Blossom Valley area of San Jose (Silicon Valley). Next, go to www.Picnik.com and upload the chosen photograph. (Picnik is a free site. Just go, and use.)

After uploading the photo to this nice, free online site, go to the "create" tab (unless you need to crop it or otherwise fix the pic - in which case, you should go to "edit" first.) You'll have lots of choices for altering the pic now!

There are lots more fun things you can do to take a wonderfully nice house and make it look creepy for halloween on the Picnik site. Enjoy!