Here's Something About Mary

mary's website news

• July 2007
  Well... Can't believe it's the middle of the year already. Boy, time does fly when you're not looking.
  • Posted some more pictures of costumes that I have made myself.
  • Made some minor updates to Costuming links pages.
  • Changed my dance videos format to Flash (to resolve compatability issues between Microsoft products and the rest of the world) and I am slowly adding some more videos
• March 2007
  • FINALLY!! The new redesign has been launched. I'm still working out some of the kinks, and I'm still not 100% happy with it. But... I finally decided that 95% was good enough to go live. LOL Please send me email if you have any problems with any of the pages, and try to include info about what browser & OS you use. And of course, general comments, "atta girls" and criticism is also welcome.
    Now I can finally get around to doing all the updates that have been piling up...
• October 2006
  • Wow, it's been a long time since I did any updates! Gah! I've been working on a site redesign, but can't decide on anything I like (close but no cigar...). I've recently been contacted by distant relatives who stumbled on to my family tree.
  • Costuming links have been added and/or updated. More photo albums need to be added, but I don't know when I'll have the time - it's Nutcracker season again! Boy, time does fly!
• March 2006:
  • Beginning a reorganization of the costume links & supply pages, and reviewing pages for broken links. Next, I will begin adding a whole slew of new links that have been piling up.
  • Two new photo albums are up:
    • Nutcracker 2005
    • New York City — Summer 2005
• February 2006: It's been a while since I've done any content updates -- just been really busy! Still recuperating from Nutcracker, including making a new Clara costume in 2 weeks, because one of the girls playing Clara was sooooo tiny, she didn't fit in any of the other costumes. Did some other general maintenance on other Nut costumes, which kept me busy for most of November and December.
  • Created a page with images of Hungarian costume. The images are from a 19th century calendar that my Hungarian sister-in-law sent to me several years ago. This is something that's been in the "to do" pile for a while. So far I have about 20 images scanned and posted, with more to come....
  • Updated the 2006 Nor Cal Renaissance Faire schedule.
  • Planning a total re-organization of the Costuming links section. Some of the pages are just getting waaaay too long. I've also collected some more 19th century clothing photos to add to those pages.
• September 2005: Some minor updates:
  • New photo album of my daughter, Hannah, in honor of her becoming a Senior.
  • Slowly but surely adding new links to the costuming section.
  • Planning on reorganizing the costuming links pages.
  • Working on two other sites, Sebastopol Ballet School and a site for a friend's new music teaching business.
• June 2005:
  • My father died unexpectedly in April and I have created a tribute page to him.
  • My daughter is spending 8 weeks this summer at Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. She worked really hard this year and attended many auditions in January and February, so we are very proud of her accomplishments (see notes below about her scholarship competition). Preparations for the trip have taken up a lot of my spare time lately...
  • New video page added with clip of Hannah dancing a piece from "Paquita"
  • New page for Dance Costume & Supply Links
  • A bit more website tweaking, so that the site is now almost completely table free! Yay! I love CSS design.
• March 2005:
  • Just finished making my first tutu! Phew! (Not the actual net part, but the bodice and plate/overlay.) It was fun, considering I had no idea what I was doing and didn't have a pattern. I made the costume for my daughter's participation in a scholarship competition. She won 2nd place in the Senior division and she won a special "Musicality" award! We're all very proud of her!
  • New - Stephan Bergdahl's article "Finding Time to Sew"
  • Updated the 2005 Nor Cal Renaissance Faire schedule.
• February 2005: I've been a busy girl the last few weeks. Besides taking another class at SRJC, I've been making some more additions/updates to the site. Also, working on my first attempt at making a tutu. I've been working on the bodice pattern, then I will make a plate to go over the tutu base that I bought my daughter for Xmas. I'm dying to go to the seminars that are being put on by Tutu.com this summer in LA, but time and money don't allow for it.... <sigh>
  • New page with a petticoat pattern.
  • Updated and reorganized the "How To" page.
  • Some more visual tweaks, coding tweaks, etc, to the site design.
  • In the process of adding more new bookmarks to the costuming pages.
• January 2005: Happy New Year all! Hope 2005 is better than 2004 (and 2004 was pretty good to me!).
  Haven't added any new content to the site for the past several months, because I've been caught up in the tidal wave known as "The Nutcracker." This year my daughter got the part of Clara and she was fabulous (if I must say so myself). And besides sewing up stuff for Nutcracker, I was also helping her to sew a costume for an English project on "The Scarlet Letter." Oh yes, and trying to finish my class at SRJC at the same time. Whew!!