Once I calmed down, I decided to take the image into Photoshop and dick around with it for awhile until I liked it. And eventually, I came to an end I was satisfied with, and Mario and company have happily graced my computer screen ever since. I had a bit of fun with the process, so I scanned in some other stuff close at hand and made them into backgrounds too. Granted, I anticipate a tiny portion of my tiny readership to actually use these, and they will probably look pretty amateurish to someone who is at all skilled with Photoshop, but I think they look nice so you can all go eat a bag of bandit barf.