Category: LOVE
Why I love April
April is my favourite month of the year and I can give you 10 (maybe 9!) good reasons why it should be your favourite too.
- spring has officially started, whether the weather knows it or not
- end-of-winter blues are generally over
- the days are visibly longer
- the air smells good
- there is colour everywhere
- people have a positive attitude
- wool clothing is no longer around
- you can say hello to fresh food
- it is ok to have ice cream outside
- it is my birthday month J
I’ll leave you with a few pics from last weekend.
My Personal Blogging Editorial Calendar
It has only been this year that I started to blog more regularly and started planning in advance my blog’s posts. The switch happened after reading an article from Kam of Campfire Chic in her ‘better blogging’ archive (this one). Before then, I never really thought myself as a blogger, and still don’t to be honest, but reality is I have been blogging since 2009 and that makes me a blogger. I don’t want to start talking about the reasons why I blog, that is a possible subject for another post, but I started to enjoy the weekly tasks, the coming up with a topic and, most of all, the record of things I have been building up during the past five years.
My editorial calendar is very simple and flexible. Since I’m using the Moleskine 12-month diaries this year, I have downloaded one of their free templates (the weekly notebook alternative template in pocket size, here). I have printed out 13 pages to cover the 52 weeks in a year and folded each in 3 pieces to nicely fit at the back of each monthly diary.
Since my planning is more or less on a weekly basis, I tend to shift things around very often, especially is something comes up at the last minute and I want to blog about it. For this reason I use post-it notes, the index ones, as they perfectly fit in the space allocated for each day. I write down the topic and I stick it on the planner, and eventually move it around.
So far this method has worked wonderfully for me; it gives me the flexibility and organisation I need to stick to my plans and gives me time to plan and schedule in advance, especially when I’m too busy or on holiday.