Oh, so thankful. It’s a great pleasure to announce that DeluxeGrrl.com is 2 years old today, and man, has it been a journey. I have grown with this site, and the people I’ve met have been simply amazing. It started out being one woman’s journey through fashion and became a journey of acceptance - loving myself as-is, rather than trying to be something manufactured.

I didn’t have any extravagant plans to celebrate that this site is two years old - there’s always a lot going on in the world of DG, and I wish there were more hours in the day to share with you some awesome finds. For the here and right now, I figured I’d talk to all of you about what I’ve been working on in the background.

I want all of my content sites to represent the very best of what I have to offer. I’ve been working on a set of guides that everyone can refer to — I want to build a library. I was going to do this on another site, but I decided to keep the fashion conversation right here on DeluxeGrrl.

I had thought about changing the name of the site, and then I realized that the site is everything I want to represent: luxury for every lady, luxury for every price. I hesitated talking about stores for a long time — as a marketer, I think sometimes I’m hyper-sensitive about that sort of thing. I’m going to make a renewed venture of showing you the very best, and explaining the why behind it.

We’ve had some great advertisers, and some great stores. I’ve gotten several requests from advertisers, and I’ve turned down a couple, because I don’t think they’ll represent something good for you. I don’t mind lingerie sites, but I will never promote adult-oriented material to you. I want this to be a site you can bring your mother to (mine is aware of this site, after all, and I hope your mom is too!), which can be a tall order sometimes.

I have an awesome interview, well…”interview” is pushing it. It’s unlike any interview I’ve ever done. If you’d like to be interviewed by me, don’t hesitate to send me an email: nichelady@gmail.com - it’s where all emails should go from now on. My poor deluxegrrl email address has been eaten by crazy spammers. Same bat woman, same bat replies. And by the way: my name is Isabella Murphy. I’ve gotten a lot of emails that don’t bother to address me by name — so I just chalked it up to maybe they didn’t know my name or something. Benefit of the doubt.

Happy Birthday, DeluxeGrrl.com. I love you and the readers who come here more than anything else, and I hope this year will be filled with more content, more laughter, and of course, more style!