Happy 5th Birthday to my Blog!

It's been five years this month since I started this blog.  In the beginning, I focused strictly on etiquette...all about social and dining etiquette.  I covered every subject I could possibly think of.  Then somehow, I added my outfits...first showing photos of them on a mannequin, then photos of myself in my OOTD.  Then came posts about what my Yorkie Mlle. Coco Chanel was wearing and posts about entertaining, recipes, book reviews, shopping trips, tea reviews, gift ideas, et cetera.  Before I knew it, my subject matter was all over the place.

Looking back, I wish now that I had titled the blog "Miss Janice."  Since I am not teaching etiquette at the present time, the blog name probably confuses a lot of people.  I am in the process of trying to link up my parked website MissJanice.com to the blog.  {My late BF Teresa Jane designed everything and I'm lost without her technical support}.  Anyway, until I can get my sites together, I'll still be Etiquette With Miss Janice...and that's okay, because I'm not ruling out returning to teaching etiquette.

Writing blog posts is fun but can sometimes take a great deal of time.  I've always been surprised when a certain post gets a lot of hits--some of them unexpectedly so.  My Google analytics show that these are the top five posts which have received the most hits in the past five years: {beginning with #5}

#5 in my Google analytics:   http://etiquettewithmissjanice.blogspot.com/2012/01/celebrities-and-birkin-bag.html

This was such a fun post to write.  After reading the book "Bringing Home the Birkin" by Michael Tonello, I did a series of post about the elusive and sought-after Birkin here and here.  But this #5 favorite was about the celebrities who love their Birkins and the "Queen of Carrying Birkins" Victoria 'Posh' Beckham.  She is just so posh!

#4 in my Google analytics:  http://etiquettewithmissjanice.blogspot.com/2009/03/tee-time-at-masters.html

It's no shock to me that this post receives so many thousands of hits.  I receive so many e-mails about entertaining themes for golfing events and especially for the Masters Tournament.  This was one of my favorite tablescapes I ever created and my husband's friends loved it!  

#3 on my Google analytics:  http://etiquettewithmissjanice.blogspot.com/2009/02/mrs-bucket-of-palm-springs.html

I have to say that the number of hits this post receives is shocking to me.  I do love the show and had fun writing the post...just never knew it would be so popular.

#2 on my Google analytics:  http://etiquettewithmissjanice.blogspot.com/2009/03/lilly-fied-luncheon-fashion-show.html

I always thought this post would receive the most hits because it is my favorite tablescape ever!  I'm sad to say that I have found this photo on several websites with writers passing this tablescape off as their own!  Shame shame!

The #1 post on my Google analytics:  http://etiquettewithmissjanice.blogspot.com/2010/03/napkin-etiquette.html 

This post is all about Napkin Etiquette...and THE most popular post.