Grace Magazine

Look who came visiting my yard.

Doesn’t he look like a miniature dinosaur?

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”

–Ruth Gordon, Actress and Playwright

You can buy these thought-provoking words on a key ring at Victorian Trading Company. Perhaps for Mother’s Day?

Try this experiment:

1. Click on one of the links in your blogroll.
2. Click on a random link in their blogroll.
3. Click on a randon link in that person’s blogroll.
4. Last time, click on a random blogroll link.

What did you find?

Here is what I did:

1. I choose to start with Celluloide Blonde. She seems to know all the interesting people.
2. From her blogroll, I clicked on Librarian Woes.
3. From there I clicked on Bitch With Books. How could I not? It’s such a great name for a blog.
4 - From there I clicked on Cracked. From there I learned about the coolest toy around, the Motorized Monocycle.

Try my little game and let me know what you find.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

– Douglas Adams

Art: Flag by Jasper Johns, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Blogroll Amnesty Day doesn’t really affect my blog and other fashion and beauty blogs, but I do support the liberal bloggers.

Here is an inspirational quote from Benjamin Franklin for all those bloggers who fight for freedom of speech.

If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead & rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing.

Here are Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli singing Time To Say Goodbye:

Such a romantic song.

Happy New Year!!!

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the past year. I’ve chosen one from each month on Grace Magazine in 2007.

January 2007

Louise Brooks: silent movie star, beautiful, intelligent, talented and witty.

February 2007

Ancient Roman lovers, locked in an embrace for 6,000 years.

March 2007

Carine Roitfeld: Editor in Chief of French Vogue.

April 2007

Jasmine flowers from one of my posts about tea.

May 2007

French actress Audrey Tautou who will be play Coco Chanel in an upcoming biopic.

June 2007

Katie Holmes short haircut. The most popular post on my blog all year.

July 2007

Grace Kelly: one of my idols and possibly the most beautiful woman ever.

August 2007

Illustration from my post about home hair color. This post was originally written as a homework assignment for a Beauty Editing class I took at mediabistro.com.

September 2007

A close-up picture of my eye.

October 2007

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel: my fashion idol and a truly modern woman.

November 2007

I love shoes and the color purple.

December 2007

A detail shot from my beautiful Christmas tree.

Yay! It’s Grace Magazine’s one year anniversary.

A year ago on December 18, I started publishing Grace Magazine with a simple mission statement and a post about champagne cocktails.

Twelve months, 350 posts, and over 166,000 page views later, Grace is still going strong. My goal was to create a place where you can relax and take a little time for yourself. I like to read about beauty, fashion, women, and tips on how to live well. So that is what I try to write.

Thank you, dear readers, for helping me gracefully navigate the blogosphere.

And thank you, WordPress, for a great blog platform.

I have a lot of ideas for the upcoming year, so stay tuned.

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