Marie Antoinette

Marie-Antoinette: Am I to be Austrian or the Dauphine of France?
Ambassador Mercy: You must be both.

The story
Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

Marie-Antoinette: This is ridiculous.
Comtesse de Noailles: This, Madame, is Versailles.

The parties

The Love
Louis XVI: Ooooh! Your feet are like icicles!

Marie-Antoinette: [to her first-born, a daughter] Oh, you were not what was desired, but that makes you no less dear to me. A boy would have been the Son of France, but you Marie Terese shall be mine.

The dresses

The shoes

The cupcakes
Let them eat cake!

The garden
The scenes that are dear to me...the garden scenes.
Every scene shot in the gardens is pure and simple perfection...

Marie-Antoinette: [in the gardens] Welcome to my little village!
Princesse de Lamballe: I love it!
Duchesse de Polignac: It's heaven here!

I will do a separate post on the garden scenes, because they deserve it!

It's the year of the boar and my horoscope was looking great. And then on January 2nd I had to visit my mother in the hospital. Perfect way to begin the new year right?
I could choose...completely break down and be of no use to my mother or wipe my tears and get my shit together. And so I did.
I packed her stuff together and went to the hospital. Seeing her with needles in her body and other things stuck to her, I wanted to fall on the floor and cry myself into and ocean, but I had to be strong for my mother. And so I was.
She's back home now.

I did a post on Marie Antoinette, first of all because I absolutely LOVED the movie, but also because it made me see that things could always be a little bit worse or a little bit better. You just have to make the best of the situation you're in. When the things take a turn for the worse, make it better with love, fashion and cupcakes!!

I've decided...it's going to be Fabulous!

Well, it's almost 2007. I wonder what the new year will bring me. I checked my horoscope and it's quite positive. The first sentences read:
This year you will get exactly what you've been made for. Love and friendship with an enormous intensity that makes it possible for you to experience an emotional rebirth.

The stars must be having great fun up there messing with my head. Sometimes I wish they could also mess with my memory a little. Just enough to make me forget about certain people and certain feelings that have ruled my being for way too long.
The past cannot be changed. The past cannot be erased nor forgotten. It's just there and we( I ) have to learn to accept it. I think that it is always important to remember what you have and be grateful for it. And closing the chapter of 2006 and opening the chapter of 2007 makes me realize even more what I have to be thankful for.

Looking at the news, seeing all the horrible things that are going on: I am thankful that I still have my mother, father and brother with me. I am thankful that I have the opportunity to go to school and educate myself. I am thankful for the fact that I always have water, food and clothes. I am thankful that I am lucky enough to be in the position where I can realize how lucky I really am. I am thankful for the Lord and his blessings and all that he may bring me in 2007.


I wish all of you the best in the new year. May your hearts desires come true and may you give to, and think about, the less fortunate in this world

-Images: DeviantArt-