Haha, that's cool. Very original indeed. Is it from "World Wide Wabbit"? (I can kind of see Mac's disgusted expression in your avatar, lol, I love that expression!)
And now that I've posted something here, I made my avatar a few days ago. The gold border is suppose to be "sparkling", but it isn't for some reason, I don't know what went wrong. I'm somewhat happy with it, since I love all things Edwardian, and tea too for that matter.
I found the picture online, uploaded it onto animated-avatar.com where I sized it, added the border and text. Since it's hard to read, it says "Color me Guilded!" for the Edwardian era, also known as the "Guilded Age".