may favourites

♥ Favourite Book of the month: the Handmade Marketplace - by Kari Chapin. a lovely book full of tips about how to improve your handmade activity. the book explores many different aspects, from how to use social networks to how to make good photos of your products. it has a really good links section, and last but not least, a superuseful checklist at the end that you can use when you plan to go to a market. not to mention the incredibly lovely design... I got it on Amazon for less that 10euros! definetly worth the investment :)

♥ Favourite Movie of the month: 

I haven't been much at the cinema or watching movies...may was a busy hectic month! but when I was in Italy I saw a nice movie named "Habemus Papam" by italian director Nanni Moretti

♥ Favourite Place of the month: I visited Hamburg for the second time and liked a lot... I even managed to visit the location of the movie Soul Kitchen and had an amazing cheesecake at a small lovely place called "Don't tell Mama" 
♥ Favourite Purchase of the month: this is a hard one!  but let's choose a present instead of a purchase...I got a lovely book from my boyfriend... crochet goodies for fashion foodies.... definitely for me!
♥ Favourite Food of the month: vegetables curry in Hamburg... yummy!
♥ Favourite Music of the month: the lovely Missincat... she is italian as well! 

♥ Beejoux items sold in april: 12 ! (not bad...not bad...)

a bit late but...

good monday my readers! this is my monthly post about my favourite things...this time in the month of april! I am late but I promise I'll do much better in the future...and it's almost already time for the may ones! 

♥ Favourite Book of the month: a really nice book I found in an english bookshop in Berlin, named "Speaking with the Angel". it's a mix of short stories by several writers, compiled and edited by Nick Hornby. there are some small gems in that book which totally deserve to be read!
♥ Favourite Movie of the month: I absolutely LOVED the movie Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin. it's funny, clever and even romantic, in every possible sense.  
♥ Favourite Place of the month: I had a great time in Italy...so this time the favourite place of the month is HOME!
♥ Favourite Purchase of the month: a really nice italian book about graffiti and street art by a very young italian lady!
♥ Favourite Food of the month: it has to be pizza, sorry, not very original! 
♥ Favourite Music of the month: I discovered Agnes Obel, which is truly inspiring and dreamy. I love her music! 

♥ Beejoux items sold in april: 3 (ok it's still not a lot... but I am doing much better this month I swear!!!)

new start - february/march 2011!

Once again I have been neglecting this blog and my crafty activity in general...guess I need to learn how to use my energies better!
But now, it's time for a new start...hopefully a good one! So I will begin with talking about the month that just finished, and then it's time for good resolutions for the month that just begun!

February 2011

♥ Favourite Book of the month: definetly Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby which I finished in about 5 days when I was in Berlin. the sweetest, nicest book I read in a really long time...I loved it! It made me stay up late to finish reading it...a feeling I really love :)
♥ Favourite Movie of the month: a movie from some years ago that I saw now for the first time: A Love Song for Bobby Long.
♥ Favourite Place of the month: this HAS to be Berlin! I love it more and more every time I visit it...guess who's thinking about moving there?
♥ Favourite Purchase of the month: a beautiful book of photographs taken by Felix Gonzales-Torres. simply amazing and really moving.
♥ Favourite Food of the month: sushi!!!
♥ Favourite Music of the month: Iron and Wine, that I saw performing live in Paradiso, Amsterdam. amazing evening! and then I kept listening to his music all the time...

Items sold in February: 3 (I know, this sounds a bit ridiculous but considering I did not put any effort in my crafty activity it's a miracle! and it gave me the energy to start putting some effort in it again...)

Good resolutions for March (or let's call them goals...):
- spend more time on my crafty blog/website/twitter
- save some money (ouch, I spent SO much money in Berlin...)
- be in a better mood (january and february have been sort of grey months for me...)
- think about some new beejoux items!!!