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name: mysie
age: 34
locale: seattle
sign: capricorn
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My husband originally purchased the domain mysie.com for me sometime in 2001. It took me months to figure out what I wanted to do with it, despite thinking about buying the domain for myself for over a year. I decided that I wanted 2 things out of my domain: to share myself and my name with the world. I wanted a place where my friends and family can take a peak at me, my ideas, the things I enjoy, etc. And I wanted to be the #1 information resource for Mysie's on the web! I'm very attached to my name, and have found out lots of stuff about it over the years, so I thought it would be great to collect all that information in one place for anyone who wanted to know that information. I even had grand dreams of all the Mysies in the world getting together and registering on the site and we'd all be buddies talking about how horrid it was growing up with this name. Alas, despite the many Mysie's I've seen listed on the web, only one of them has ever contacted me. To find out more about the name Mysie and mysies on the web, go here.






Easter Season 2006: version 7.9.5 - "bunnies are for shagging". The most quotable man in the universe, that adorable transvestite Eddie Izzard, once described the Pagan/Easter connection by saying something about "rabbits are for shagging, eggs are for fertility". I *heart* bunnies, and I *heart* shagging, so there ya go.






Valentine Season 2006: version 7.9 - "i ♥ vd". Veneral Diseases bad. Valentine's Day good. Well, cute little red and white Valentine's Day cards are good! I picked up a display of vintage valentine's, I'm guessing 60's or 70's, and scanned this one. Yes, Mysie has a new collection: vintage greeting cards, preferrably Victorian, preferrably Halloween, Valentine's, and Christmas.






Christmas 2005: version 7.8 - "white Xmas 2005". If you scroll down to version 4.5, you'll see that I attempted to cheat and re-use an old layout. I say attempted, because when I tried to use the exact same image, I could no longer get a consensus on browsers to match my image to a good background color. Weird. It worked the first time, but wouldn't work now. So I changed the color of the image just a wee-bit, and voila!, I could match a background color to it that was supported in all browsers available to me for testing.







Fall 2005: version 7.7, "Robert Holman's Shades of Fall". I found the 4 single images at All Posters, and slapped them together to make a header pic.









October 27, 2005: version 7.6, "Halloween 2005". If you scroll down to v6.1, you will see that I cheated and used that version as the base for this one. I just dropped in a new Halloween Girl image that I found in my COPYRIGHT-FREE clip art collection entitled Full-Color Holiday Vignettes CD-Rom and Book, published by Dover, 2001.


       


September 2005: version 7.5, "Top-All". Image scanned from a greeting card Copyright Bodleian Library, Oxford. The book itself is from the Opie Collection of Children's Literature, c. 1920.




March 28, 2005: version 7.4, bumbergirl. Image from the COPYRIGHT-FREE clip art collection entitled Scrapbookers Full-Color Treasure Chest CD-ROM & Book published by Dover. Color tweaked and texture applied via Photoshop.




March 27, 2005: version 7.3, easter05. Image from the COPYRIGHT-FREE clip art collection entitled Scrapbookers Full-Color Treasure Chest CD-ROM & Book published by Dover. Experimenting with Photoshop Filters to provide texture.




February 2005: version 7.2, Valentine's Day. Image scanned from a greeting card.




January 2005: version 7.1, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Honestly, my first motivation to learn about Dr. King was because his birthday was only a few days after mine. At least it prompted me to find out what all the fuss was about. When I found out he had been a Civil Rights leader who believed in non-violence, I was moved. I was very affected by watching the film "Gandhi" as a kid, and have since revered both these men for their dedication to equality through non-violent means. I somehow lost the link to where I found this particular image of Dr. King. The full quote is very beautiful, which I first heard quoted on "The West Wing", and it was my sig line for over a year. Here's the full quote:

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate.
So it goes.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."




November 3, 2004: version 7.0, "finally fall". I used leaf clip-art from this site, which I altered in Photoshop.




November 1, 2004: version 6.2, "re-defeat bush". I shamelessly stole a Bush sign from the candidate's official website using their sign-maker. Then I altered it to suit my world-view using Photoshop. Lick Bush and his Dick in '04. Yah.




Halloween Week 2004: version 6.1, "halloween with kitty & bats". I got the image from a greeting card printed by Merck Family's Old World Christmas, of Spokane, WA, 800-962-7669. I used Photoshop to make multiple bats and add new text.

     


version 6.0, "miso pretty", went live March 23, 2004. The original image, found below, is for the Miso Pretty line of cosmetics/bath products offered by Blue Q. It's gorgeous and colorful and crisp, but the shape and size just weren't working. The final product is much smaller, and clipped on the left side.




1/3/04 - 3/23/04: version 5.0, "Cerulean". The main header image used for layout Cerulean was obtained from the COPYRIGHT-FREE clip art collection entitled Old-Fashioned Floral Designs CD-Rom and Book, published by Dover. I re-colored it in Photoshop.




mysie.com version 4.5, "Blue Snow", was in honor of Christmas 2003, and was only up for about 3 weeks. The snowflake was found from a free clip-art site online, now since forgotten.




mysie.com version 4.0, entitled "Henna", was released sometime in mid-2003. Once again, it was a completely different layout design, not just a color, image, or theme change. Version 4.5 and 5.0 have used the base layout of Henna. The main header image used for this layout was obtained from the COPYRIGHT-FREE clip art collection entitled Oriental Designs, published by Dover.




Version 3.0 of mysie.com was my Bettie Page layout, in shades of pink and black. It was much more adult than my previous layouts, as I was trying to be more myself and attract less of a teen and pre-teen crowd. However, the teens and pre-teens kept coming because I remained interested in many of the same things as they were. Plus, I was always nervous that my layout wasn't exactly work-friendly. Eventually, Bettie just had to go. It was a sad, sad day for me. But launching Henna made updating, maintaining, and navigating much easier, so in the end it all worked out. The original black & white Bettie image was found here.




Version 2.0 had lots of purple (my favorite color), and sported a cute little faerie girl in a pink dress. My husband and I worked tirelessly for many hours over many days to get that damned fairy to hang just so. The original version of mysie.com was very simple: black background with red text. I believe there was a cartoon doll on the main page.





I got this bullet from deviantart.com and turned it into these bullets with Photoshop.