Hi Steven --

What you are trying to do is not Etoys, but to do something in Squeak Smalltalk using one of its graphics systems (called Morphic). Etoys is a UI that rides on top of Squeak Smalltalk. Its objects are called "Players" and the associated graphics of a player is called its "costume". Using Squeak Smalltalk, you can talk to the costume of a player by saying "self costume blah blah", where blah blah is a message that morphs understand.