top celebrity fashion 2011: May 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Ronaldinho The Best Football Player

Ronaldinho goal picture

Ronaldinho in squad Brazil

Ronaldinho Biography

Ronaldinho best player

Ronaldinho and lampard

Kimi Raikkonen Finland Formula One Racer

Kimi Matias Raikkonen born on October 17th, 1979 in Espoo, Finland is an outstanding Formula One racer with a string of successes to his credit.

Raikkonen the born winner started off karting at an early age and continued participating in several races. Displaying his amazing racing skills in 1999 European Formula Super A championship, Raikkonen finished 2nd. Thereafter he continued his winning spree, winning first four races in 2000 British Formula Renault Winter series, and in 2000 Formula Renault UK Championship, Raikkonen won seven of ten events. With that he achieved a grand 56 percent win rate - winning 13 of 23 events in all.

These spectacular results have straight away landed him a Formula One racing berth. Peter Sauber took a daring step in signing Raikkonen for his Sauber-Petronas team in 2001, which he test-drove it in 2000.

But F1 critics including FIA president Max Mosley expressed dismay over granting an F1 superlicence to Kimi Raikkonen, as he had only 23 car races to his credit. Trying to prove his critics wrong, Raikkonen made a flying start in his debut 2001 Australian Grand Prix and finished 6th in the race.

In 2002, he switched over to McLaren-Mercedes Team and raced for them from 2002 to 2006. Giving out the best of his performances in racing, Raikkonen finished 2nd conceding the title to Michael Schumacher in 2003 Formula One World Drivers' Championship. In 2005 Formula One championship Raikkonen repeated the feat and again finished, this time conceding the title to Fernando Alonso of Renault team.

Ferrari is proud to have signed a three-year deal with Kimi Raikkonen, the most exciting driver who has currently set his sights on the world championship title. He has twice come closer to winning the world championship title and only needs to take one step more to win the title.

Kimi Raikkonen won the Brazilian Grand Prix and took the Drivers World Championship title on October 2007. This is the first of his career and the fifteenth for Ferrari in Formula 1. This was win number fifteen from 122 race starts for Kimi.

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Kimi Raikkonen

Kimi Raikkonen celebrating

Kimi Raikkonen To Replace Mark

The House of Luck

I haven't seen the new Sex and the City movie yet because I've read some not so great reviews. I am curious to finally see the fashions and interiors but so much that I feel like giving up two hours of my life just yet. I'm surprised at how much attention has been given to the fact that they shot the movie in Morocco for two months which was used as a stand in for Abu Dhabi. What would have been more interesting is if part of the film actually took place in Morocco and more specifically, in Tangiers, at the former home of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, seen here. It was decorated by the illustrious interior designer Jacques Grange and was for sale last year and might possibly still be available. I can't find any record of it being sold. Perhaps Carrie and the girls could have rented it while getting away from their lives in New York or used it as a pit stop on their way to visit Christian Louboutin on his houseboat on the Nile. Couldn't be any worse than them wearing harem pants in the desert and falling off camels. The house also happens to be named Villa Mabrouka which means House of Luck. Sounds like they could have used some. Enjoy!

Photos by Ivan Terestchenko and Christie’s Great Estates

Supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio hot wallpaper

Alessandra Ambrosio is a hot Brazilian supermodel. Alessandra Ambrosio is one of the top model of Victoria's Secret fashion show. Alessandra Ambrosio is a very beautiful model. She is also very sexy and hot. Alessandra Ambrosio is one of my favorite supermodel. Here is some of Alessandra Ambrosio's picture from my collection:

Alessandra Ambrosio hot wallpaper

Happy Memorial Day: Decorating with Stars & Stripes

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

~ Elmer Davis

A special thank you to the United States Military for protecting our freedom and way of life.

Happy Memorial Day!

*images courtesy of Country Living, Wisteria, Martha Stewart, Pottery Barn, About.com

{ Sweet bedroom }

Isn't this bedroom just the cutest?
I ♥ the chandelier
I ♥ the wallpaper
I ♥ the cushions
I ♥ the floor
I ♥ the light
I ♥ the dressing table

What do you ♥ about this bedroom?
Happy Monday to YOU!

Images: Alvhem

Sunday, May 30, 2010

I Don't Need This - but it's so cute!

I have two perfectly good juicers so I don't need this from a practical point of view. However, from an "It's so cute to look at!" point of view, I do. $24 at Anthropologie here.

Heroin Heroine

First, I apologize for not posting yesterday. Life has been a bit crazed as of late - but it's all good. And today's post is a little different as well. My friends at American Apothecary started designing t-shirts (like the one I'm wearing above) that showcase drugs that are now illegal or unhealthy but were once considered medicinal such as heroin, cigarettes (given to asthmatic children) and cocaine. With these daring designs, they hope to expand the public’s knowledge of our dubious pharmacological past and encourage people to consider what the future opinion of today’s widely prescribed drugs will be. Personally I think we're turning our children into zombies or speed freaks by deciding that they're all suffering from ADHD instead of admitting that they just need to get outside and burn energy. Leave those drugs to the club kids that really need them! (I'm kidding...kind of)

Anyways, I’m giving away two of these great shirts to two readers. All you have to do to enter is make a comment below or follow me - @katya_NYC and @a_apothecary on Twitter! I've never done a giveaway before, so if you like this one I'll do others. ps the t-shirts are ridiculously soft as well. xo katya

{ Sunday Dreams }

Oh, what a lovely day! I´m soon going out in the sun, but I just wanted to say hello and wish you all a wonderful Sunday!

Happy colors on a happy day!

Images: Car Möbel

The beautiful garden of May & Axel Vervoordt

As a lot of you know, 2 times a year, in summer and in winter, the castle of ‘s-Gravenwezel, owned by our famous Belgian antiques dealer and decorator Axel Vervoordt, is open for public.

As I am a huge admirer of the work of Axel and his wife May, I won’t miss any opportunity to visit the castle.

I thought about you, all my readers and blogfriends, and wanted to share with you some pictures I took of the castle and its gorgeous garden! The weather was so beautiful this Friday, so I was able to take a lot of good pictures to share.

Unfortunately, we are not allowed to take pictures of the inside of the castle, that we have to respect because Axel Vervoordt and his family live in it.

I hope you will enjoy the tour of this fantastic garden!

If you want to read more about Axel Vervoordt and his castle, please visit http://www.axel-vervoordt.com.