Back again

Hello my dears,

it's a shame I haven't posted anything for such a long time. Almost four months.. I tried to explain you my reasons for this in the last post. It was true, that there were a lot of other things in my life, I needed much time for. 

At the moment I'm preparing myself for my last test of my A-Levels. It's kind of strange that school should be finished next Monday after 12 years. Since about one month I just go to school for one or two lessons a day and the last week just for the test. Although I should learn for it, I feel very bored these days. 

Right now I'm sitting in my room, listening to Sarah Connor's Close to crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI3T0P1-dpc because every single word suits perfect to my situation. Today my mind is anywhere else, I don't know where exactly it is. Well and now after doing organisational stuff for the German blog, I really had to write you here. I missed this blog so much, sometimes it even hurt. I missed my English audience cause you're so cute although my English is not the best one. I'm not sure what'll happen the next days but NOW I'll start translating the German posts for you.

I love you.

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I'm sorry

Hello my dears,

Unfortunately I have to tell you something sad. Blogging is my life and I have a lot of success with my German blog 'Buntes Bonbon'. I got there a lot of readers from all over the world and so I thought it would be a great idea to do this English part here for you but then i found out, that even the followers from abroad prefer the German blog and it isn't really worth keeping this blog alive. It had a great start but now it's not the way I'd like. Of course you can read the German posts or the old posts here still. 

I try to find a way for keeping this blog during the next weeks but till then there won't be much new stuff here, I think. Just give me three or four month, when I finally passed my A-Levels and then there'll be much more time for posting here and publish it as well.
If I really have several readers here, please let me now and share this blog. If it's woth going on, I'll do it of course.
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Enjoy your weekend,
yours Marie

That's what a winner looks like

Hello my dears,

What important news reached us last week? I heard about Thomas Hitzlsperger's coming out on Wednesday and since then hundreds of thoughts run through my mind.
Surely it wasn't easy to do this step and that's why Mr. Hitzlsperger should gain our all respect! I can't imagine how terrible it is to hide from publicity and to live a different life although you look pretty contrary inside. I was really shocked when I read about the French player who had to leave his team because of his homosexuality a few months ago. Why makes it a difference whether we love men or women? And by the way why does it bother others? If people do a great job and don't bully others it doesn't matter what sexuality they have, I think.
I just can salute Thomas Hitzlsperger, he was a fantastic footballer and now he has an enormous influence in German football. I'm pretty sure that now more and more gay players will be brave enough to talk about this topic. And because football is already topic number one for little boys, it's great to show them, it doesn't matter who you are or who you love. It's just important how talented you are!
I wish Mr. Hitzlsperger a lot of power during the next weeks and I hope that he and his aim will find tolerance everywhere.
Enjoy your life and don't hide because of trifles!

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New label :)

Hello my sweeties,
How was you start in the daily life again? At the moment there are about 1000 things in my mind and it becomes more every second so I just can post here with a small delay, sorry.

I just wanted to tell you that I opened a new category called 'Fashion'. Don't be afraid I won't be one of the fashion bloggers who post everyday something else but somehow always the same. Sometimes here are some posts about fashion and so it's better to organize everything. I'll shift the old posts to this place of course.

That's all. See you at the next real post.

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My First Band

Hello my dears,

Do you also wonder what all the Radio stations played before there was Lifesaver of Sunrise Avenue? I really love listening to the Finns but after the 12th time a day it's enough.. Nevertheless I have to think every time on the concert in Munich. I'm sooo happy :) The last weeks I was very excited who'd be the next member of the 'supporting act group' after The Pusher and Superscar. Then the facilitating news that My First Band will be the supporting act came. I really love their sound although I was a bit shocked about the song title 'Baby you're too Young [I wanna make love to your mama]'. Pretty provocative but I'm very excited. Until now they're my favourite of all supporting acts.

When I was at the Champions League finale two years ago, Heikki has already been there as Sunrise Ave's keyboarder. At first I thought he's Riku's brother, they really look a bit similar ;)
Who'll be in Munich, too?

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#Regensburg

Hello my bonbons,
On Friday I was in Regensburg with my best friend Keks, it was fantastic! We both needed a few things for the soon coming school leavers' ball and found great stuff fortunately! Keks bought a wonderful red dress, she looks so pretty in it! Of course she needed the suitable nail laquer and lipstick!
I already have my dress since the Strasbourg trip, it's dark red and a bit mixed with pink and of course the right accessoires were still missing.
At first we swa these shoes at Deichmann, I love them! [Sorry for the bad colors, my computer..]

 

After that we were at KIKO, my favourite shop for nail lacquer, I bought number 286 & the perfect lipstick [30 Raisin Berry] at dm.
 

And finally I found this beautiful necklace in gold at Claire's.
 

 Keksi, thanks for the great day!

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Bloggers against animal tests

Hello my sweeties,
You've already seen the new button in my sidebar, haven't you? I found it a few weeks ago on another blog and I loved the idea. As a vegetarian I'm of course against animal tests and for vegan cosmetics but unfortunately there are a lot of companies that don't produce with these guidelines. On this page

http://www.kosmetik-vegan.de/erbse/blogger-gegen-tierversuche/

you can find a list with firms producing without animal tests. It's a big help if you don't have to check this on your own for each product.
See you.

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How to build a photographic studio

Hello my dears,

This post is for all of you who love photographing but only have less Christmas money left although wanting to build a small photographic studio.

Actually you don't need much for it:
* one curtain rail (2-3m long) ca. 9€
* white stage molton (2-3m long and 5m wide) ca. 40€
* two work lights ca. 12€
* if need be a tripod
* screws, ca. 30 roll clamps (I'm not sure if this word is right), 2-3m curtain tape ca. 5€

And that's all you need, probably you already have some things at home and if not it costs you less than 100€, not comparable with the price of the original equipment..
At first you have to find a suitable room, I read everywhere that the light is very important and a lot of other stuff but honestly that isn't necessary if you turn your work lights on, by the way strong desk lamps are as good as these. It's just important that the room is big enough so you can spread the molton on the floor as well while having still space for the tripod. If you found a room, put the curtain rail on the ceiling but don't do this alone, that's too difficult. Then cut the molton in the right length like the rail is and stitch down the tape on the cloth. After this just put the roll clamps in the tape and then in the rail. You probably need several test shots till the light is in the right position.
And after your shooting you can just put the curtain to a side and your studio disappears.
It's really worth, I got mine for about 2 months now and I've already down a few videos and photos. This background is a wonder.
Great fun.

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Word of the month 01/14

Hello my dears,

I wish all of you a great year 2014, a lot of success and health! Without much bla bla I wanna go on. At the moment it's still New Year's Eve and I'm sitting here after raclette and two glasses of punch and there's already
 

till the day before yesterday. Actually I find it useless to shoot vast amount of money in the sky but somehow the glitter in the sky is pretty.

As you can see it's the 1st now and it's again pretty late. I had to think about fireworks yesterday and today the whole time. At New Year's Eve the whole world stands still for a moment, when all the rackets fly to sky, I think. Whoever doesn't burn anything watches the spectacle with big eyes in front of the window or even outside. Although I don't like this day very much, I forget everything during these moments. I wonder about the great colors and the glitter and I'm happy that the world is loud even at night. There might be a time I'd prefer the silence but at the moment I love this. You see the most important things of the old year in the rackets' light and the new year stalks quietly with all its surprises.
How did you start into 2014? It was very important for me to listen the right music for my 2014 and so 'Afraid of the midnight' of Sunrise Avenue was showing and suitable I wore my Sunrise Ave shirt. Haha, it was damn cold! But now let's look at some pictures.

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Bye

Hello my dears,

unfortunately I won't have enough time for blogging this year and I have to take a short break. I'll be back at the 1st with the new word of the month. Actually I wanted to post how to build your own photo studio easily at home but I'll show you next week.

I'm looking forward to a new year with you and the Bonbon, that'll be our year! Enjoy your time till then and have a good start!

_Marie_

Review

Hello my dears,
I don't wanna bore you with some details of my life but I'd like to do a small review of all important steps for my blog the last year. 

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Merry Christmas!

Hello my dears,

This year was so special for me, I think it was the best year of my life. I met a lot of great people and did a lot of crazy stuff but I'm sure that all I have done was pretty great. Of course there are always things you worry about but everything went nearly perfect. I'm not quite sure if I'll do a kind of review here with a lot of pictures but I think so. Maybe the next days when I'll be a bit more relaxed. 

I have to say that this year wouldn't have been the same without you. You probably know how thankful I am for your kind words and your faithfulness.

Now I'll have hopefully a great evening with my parents and my aunt and I hope you do so as well. I wish you a merry Christmas with a lot of fun, nice hours and a great Christmas meal! Enjoy your free days and here are the promised greetings I got for you on Friday.

The Nürnberger Christkind herself made this great photo for you!

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Without words

Without words. I love it!
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Bloggers against racism!

Hello my dears,

Honestly I just got the idea for this photo when I posted the Sunday's music tip today morning. You maybe read that it's 'Love is color-blind' of Sarah Connor. Yeah, it is and that's why we mustn't discriminate others just because of their skin color or other appearances. It's the great thing that we all are different. How boring would life be if everybody would be the same. You wouldn't need humans because everyone would be replaceable. Probably a robot would write this post right now for his robot friends. I think we should think about the bad things we did during the last year on Christmas, even if it was unknowingly.

In summer this year I was at the  pcfritz bustour in Nuremberg and made a great experience concerning skin colors. I met Nana Lifestyler https://www.facebook.com/NanaLifestyler?fref=ts and asked him for a photo, then he wanted to do one with my mum and asked me later if it is black and white or colored. At first I thought I understood something wrong but Nana is just relaxed. He knows that he has a different skin color like most of the other Germans but he has no problem with this. And that's what he's like. He didn't only win my sympathy with this sentence.
And then I also had to think on Paradise Oskar's song 'The invisible ones' but you can see it on the picture.
Along these lines: bloggers against racism!
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21.12.

# Bayreuth
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Christmas market

Hello my dears,

Today I visited the 'Nürnberger Christkindlesmarkt', the Christmas market of Nuremberg and it was just wonderful. Unfortunately it was pretty full so that you couldn't see everything but that doesn't bother me when I'm in Nuremberg. All smells like ginger bread and hot wine punch and the whole town sparkles.

I didn't know that there's a small market only of the partner cities. It was so great and I found a lot of new presents there. If you haven't seen it, you probably can't imagine. One store is next to the other but there are a lot of different countries in a few meters. Poland, France, Scotland, Spain, Italy, Greece, China and even Cuba. The sellers were sometimes even of this countries and you could buy things like shortbread, olive oil, wood figures and special soap. I preferred the Cuban shop, the seller was so funny and you could even listen to Cuban music. 

But now enough words, let's look at the photos. Oh and I got some very kind greetings from something very special for you but I'll show you them on the 24th ;)

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Christmas story

Hello my dears,

Instead of the usual Advent calendar you'll get today a film tipp for the best time of the year. It's called 'Christmas story' and it's from Finland. That was honestly the main reason for me to buy it..

Meanwhile I'm so happy that I've bought it, I watched it twice this week and my mum even wanted to watch it again the day before yesterday. 

All is a about Nikolas, a little boy who becomes an orphan because of a terrible accident. The village that the boy lives at is pretty poor that's why no family can care about him forever. They decide to let him live with each family for one year and every Christmas he has to change the family. 

He takes this day to give little presents to the children of his bygone families, also he brings a present to his sister Ada who died in the accident as well. 

After it was each family's turn, there's no one left to take him beside the dark carpenter Iisakki. Nikolas has to work hard there but on Christmas Eve he gets to know Iisakki's story, followed they become friends. 

I don't wanna tell you more about it but I really can recommend you this film. It's a mix of dark Finnish mood, hope and tension. I love it.
Have a great day, maybe I'll post another calendar stuff today ;)

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Here you can order the film:

http://www.thalia.de/shop/tha_homestartseite/suchartikel/wunder_einer_winternacht/marko_leino/EAN4260181981314/ID18144719.html?fftrk=1%3A1%3A10%3A10%3A1&jumpId=3628649

18th December

Do you also know people you can't lie at? Even if you don't wanna show your feelings, they immediately know them and can speak with you about it.
Thanks my sweet cookie :)

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I'll stop wearing black...

...when they invent a darker color.

I read this sentence in the last glamour magazine and I really liked it. I'm not just a black wearer, but I love this 'color'. You can just combine it with everything and it's alawys a bit in the background. Last month you couldn't read this post but you can see pictures in my second fave color right now!
Because of my term paper about Paris' fashion, I worked a lot with this color. Isn't one of the most famous dresses the little black dress? It was invented by Coco Chanel. After the death of her big love Boy Capel she started working again but all seemed to be black. She let painted her whole flat in black and this color even found a place in her creations. Before black was just used for sorrow clothes and attendants but Chanel made a revolution with her dress. I still remember another story concerning this topic. When Chanel was in the US some people wanted to shoot a movie about her, Hepburn was chosen as main part. Chanel was content with the idea of being played by Audrey Hepburn, the young beautiful actor. But that was a mistake, Katharine Hepburn, about 20 years older than Audrey should play the role. Chanel was very angry about it. Isn't it ironic that Audrey Hepburn brought the little black dress back in the focus a few years later with her famous movie Breakfast at Tiffany's? And Monifa Miller is very right with the sentence 'A black dress, it's never going to go out of style.' In the following photo you can see Chanel in her celebrated dress.

http://blog.mode-stil.eu/wp-content/uploads/coco-cannel.jpg

                
Now let's go on with fashion because what would the winter be without a coat? Last year I bought this pretty black one. I didn't like the button and so my kind mum changed them for me. Now it's kind of an unique copy. I love the style even I don't know why. But I'm looking forward to the new things I'll experience with it. Waiting several hours for the next Sunrise Avenue concert or running through Bayreuth for seeing Frederic Heidorn. We'll see but I'm sure we'll be a great team! 

That was probably enough fashion for one month. The most obvious black thing in winter is the sky. Even if it's before 04pm you have to turn on the light, I hate it :/ This night sky might be romantic but I prefer being outside till 10pm without needing any light. Summer, I miss you! 

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Hihi bonbon

You are my sweet bonbons!
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