My Favorite Blog Images From 2008

January 2008

I love movies about ballet and pictures of ballet dancers.

February 2008

Another ballet photo. At a distance you see beautiful legs, up close you see hard-working feet in broken-in shoes.

March 2008

Karl Lagerfeld takes a picture of Princess Caroline at the Rose Ball in Monaco.

April 2008

Hillary Clinton for President. She almost made it.

May 2008

The paparazzi reflected in Julianne Moore’s sunglass as the 2008 Venice Film Festival.

June 2008

Cyd Charisse in all her graceful glory.

July 2008

A bear enjoys a frozen treat at a Roman zoo.

August 2008

If I were a cartoon.

September 2008

The sky on my birthday.

October 2008

Looking at life through wine-colored glasses.

November 2008

I wish I could wear my makeup like this every day.

December 2008

Detail shot of my Christmas tree with a tutu ornament.

Retrospective: My Favorite Images From 2007

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.

Grace Magazine Celebrates One Year Anniversary

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.

I’ve Been Tagged Again. Yay!

CuriousC tagged me. I’ve done this one before so I’m not going to tag seven people again. But I will write 7 different things than I wrote last time.

Here are the rules (I’m skipping 3 and 4):
1. Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Here are my 7 things:
1. I’m a Formula 1 fanatic. Yay, Kimi.
2. I collect vintage cocktail glasses and use them quite often.
3. In an alternate universe I drive a 1984 Ferrari 308 GTSi Quattrovalvole.
4. I still have my collection of Nancy Drew books from when I was a kid.
5. When I was little I wanted to be an opera singer.
6. Now that I’m a mature adult I want to be a jewel thief and/or spy and/or film noir femme fatale.
7. Purple is my favorite color.

Feel free to write 7 facts about yourself in the comments section.