Aussie Curves- Belts

It was a strange feeling, picking my belt to show you and then choosing my outfit- usually it's the other way round! I wanted to pick a quiet dress so the belt would get all the attention. This belt is from Domino Dollhouse, I hadn't had the chance to wear it yet, so belt week was the perfect time. I continued the pink and white theme with my accessories. 

This dress is from Asos Curve, a similar style to this one. Once again, it's too big up top but perfect down bottom. I've pinned it a bit, and will probably have a go at sewing it later, so it's not always slipping and showing my bra.

I have quite a few belts, all hanging on the back of my door. They are mostly from Asos Curve and op  (thrift) shops. I like comfort in my clothes so I don't wear belts all the time, but I do like how they add something to an outfit. 

Outfit Details
Dress: Asos Curve (26)
Belt: Domino Dollhouse
Sandals: Big W (11)
Earrings: Kmart
Hair Flower: Big W

Fat Bitch E-Course Week 1

I have started an e-course from the lovely NearSighted Owl, titled "How to Be a Fat Bitch". In Rachelle's words "A fat bitch is confident, out-spoken and proud of who she is." The course is free, comes with an assignment each week and discussion in the comments. 

I'm starting a little late, but I'm going to start at week one and see how I go. This week is about not viewing yourself as having given up. Don't let people shame you for existing in a fat body. I like the quote she included from Lesley Kinzel "The people who get angriest about fat girls looking good and feeling hot are the people who are the most strongly invested in the idea that a person has to be skinny in order to be happy, healthy, and loved." 

The assignment this week is to write down five things that you are going to do to make you happy. Five things for yourself and your well-being. This is what I came up with:

1. Paint my nails

I have lots of pretty polishes, and rarely bother to take the time to paint them. But when I do make the effort, they make me smile when I look at them. So I want to do this more.

2. Play my guitar

My acoustic guitar has been sitting in my room being neglected for a long time. Time to get it and sing, and feel happy.

3. Play Just Dance on the Wii more often

I find Just Dance (1 and 2) fun, and should make the time to do it more often, as there's not much movement I enjoy. My fav song is Big Girls You Are Beautiful, which has a fat lady on screen to copy (awesome).

4. Have a try at making a skirt

I have had plans to try a basic skirt with elastic waist for ages, but keep being too worried about failing to even try it. I even bought some cute cheap vintage pattern sheets to try out my skirt on to encourage me. Must just jump in and have a try.

5. Dye my hair more often

Another self care thing that I tend to put off, but I feel so good when I get around to it. I have a dark purply tinged dye waiting in the bathroom right now.

I'm going to try and do most of these things this week, and then move onto Week Two.

Thank you Rachelle for such a great Ecourse idea!

Aussie Curves- Body Con

So, the body con theme is upon us. I was a little nervous about this week. I only have one body con (body conscious, form fitting) dress, so choosing an outfit was easy, putting it on was hard. I checked myself out in the mirror when I was done, and thought I actually looked pretty good. I'm working on loving my VBO this week (visible belly outline) so this dress is helping. 

This dress is from Asos Curve, I bought it with the intention of layering stuff over it in the winter. It's very comfy. I needed some colour with this outfit of course, so I chose my loudest necklace, sunnies and my cute shoes.

I've never seen the back of me before. I like it! 

Dress: Asos Curve (24)

Necklace: markets

Sunglasses: Domino Dollhouse

Hair flower: Target

Shoes: Em & Sprout on Etsy (11)

Earrings: Kmart

Aussie Curves- Yellow

I had a yellow top all picked out for this week's yellow challenge, but then this lovely dress came in the mail from the Asos sales and I had to show it off. I love the flower print, I feel like I'm wearing a garden. This yellow handbag from Kmart brought out the yellow in the dress a bit more, and I painted my nails too!

The dress is a lovely soft jersey, very comfortable. I went for the higher size instead of my usual 24, and was happy with the fit, even though it's a little big up top. I like the 3/4 sleeves, will be great for the inbetween Autumn weather.

I tried painting my nails yellow but the polish was too thin and it didn't work. I was happy with my second attempt- Opi's Blue My Mind and my son's glitter gold polish he bought from the local chemist with his pocket money. I love the blue/yellow combo.

Dress: Asos Curve (26)

Hair Flower: Big W

Unicorn Necklace: Catfight Collectioons

Handbag: Kmart

Shoes: Big W (11)

Nails: Opi base coat, Opi Blue My Mind, Moda gold glitter and Opi Top Coat

Aussie Curves- Retro

Hello lovely readers! I haven't been posting for a little while, I know. I took a break over the Christmas holidays, planning to start again when the kids went back to school. Mr 5 started school for the first time (leaving me with no kids at home for the first time), and I found myself quite teary and depressed for a while, which I wasn't expecting. I had trouble finding motivation to get back into the routine of outfit photos. But with this week being retro theme, I knew I had to make the effort for I love retro and I had the perfect dress to show you. And yes, I do wear this outfit out in public, just minus the gloves. I wore it out to coffee with friends the other day. 

I found this gorgeous dress at my local shop, Catfight Collections (which have an online shop so you should totally check them out). This dress was only a 20, which is not my size at all but there was some give in the fabric, and I decided to give it a go. It fitted me perfectly, and I used my birthday money to buy it, so I think of it as my birthday dress.

I don't usually wear the dress as a halterneck but I thought I would for the photos. Usually I pin the straps to the back. I always wear a red bra with straps, so if it shows it looks like it belongs to the dress anyway.

Both the gloves and the petticoat come from Domino Dollhouse, and are awesome. I have three petticoats from Domino Dollhouse now. It's a bit addictive.

Gloves require an "I'm a little teapot pose". Yes they do.

This photo made me laugh- looks like I have wind machine going on here (just normal Newcastle weather).
Polka dot Diva coming through!

The red beads are from the op shop, and I think they're something other than the normal plastic because they're rather heavy. The earrings are from Big W and my headband is hand made from The Olive Tree Markets. It's good to be back!

Dress: Catfight Collections (20)

Petticoat: Domino Dollhouse (XL)

Gloves: Domino Dollhouse

Bra: Target 

Necklace: Op (thrift) shop

Earrings: Big W

Headband: Olive Tree Market

Sandals: Big W (11)

Aussie Curves- Mixing Patterns

This week the Aussie Curves challenge is about mixing patterns. It's not something I've really tried on purpose before. I love patterns and have a lot of them, I just haven't mixed them together! I decided on trying to mix both colours and patterns, why not jump right in the deep end, right? I love the red and blue colour combo, and thought I'd try mixing my polka dot shirt with my floral skirt. I think it works!

I picked up the polka dot shirt a little while ago from Big W. The skirt is a Target brand find from the op shop (must have been back in the day when they made coloured plus-size stuff). The skirt is a bit big, I had to safety pin it at the back. 

My shoes are from Best and Less, they were only $10 at the time, and came in a snug size 11. My hair bow and necklace are from my favourite local markets, the Olive Tree Markets. My bracelet set is from Yours Clothing. I like the colours and the elastic which means it fits my wrist, but the quality isn't great. The knots on it made from string or something, are starting to unravel.

I bet the other Aussie Curves ladies have some great pattern mixes, check them out below!

Outfit Details

Top: Big W (24)

Skirt: Thrifted (Target, 26)

Shoes: Best and Less (11)

Tardis Earrings: Etsy

Bracelet Set: Yours Clothing

Necklace and Hair Bow: Olive Tree Market

Aussie Curves- Orange

Thanks to the Aussie Curves group, I've been venturing into the colours orange and yellow. I tried out my first orange top (in this post) and loved it! Orange is such a cheery fun colour and given my love of colour I'm surprised I hadn't tried it before. I guess I thought my complexion wouldn't suit orange as I tend to look washed out in warm tone colours, but I think it looks okay. And even if it did, well so what? I want to wear things because I like them, they don't have to suit my complexion. Another fashion rule that you can follow if you want, but there's no need to!

I was going to wear my orange top again, but then I remembered this skirt. I usually play up the red tones in the skirt, but there's plenty of orange there to work with! This pretty skirt is an old Autograph one (back when they were called Sixteen Twenty Six) given to me by a friend. My black top was passed on to me by a friend too! By the way, when I have described something as "gifted" on my blog, I meant something given to me by a friend or family member, not something donated to me by a brand. I'll include more details from now on so I don't give the wrong impression. All my gifted items on the blog so far have been presents or things passed on to me from friends/family, and if I'm gifted something by a brand I'll say so clearly.

I think this orange hair flower is my biggest so far. The flower and skirt together make me think of tropical vacations. :-) The skirt is lovely and comfortable and swishy.

Trying to show you my accessories here. Hair flower and earrings are from Big W. My unicorn necklace wasn't photographing very well today, so further down is a better photo from another time.

Unicorn necklace from Catfight Collections.

Check out below the other ladies rocking some orange!

Outfit Details

Skirt: Gifted from a friend (Sixteen Twenty Six, 22)

Top: Gifted from a friend (Katies, no size on tag)

Necklace: Catfight Collections

Earrings: Big W

Hair Flower: Big W

Shoes: Payless (11)

Aussie Curves- Dark

I almost didn't get this theme done this week, I've been busy, and dark isn't really a theme I'm into. I have one black dress that I'm saving when we have the LBD theme, and most of my other dark shade colours were used in previous weeks. I could just wear all black, but I'm not a fan, wearing all black makes me feel depressed. Then I remembered I had this spotty dress.

Yes it's black, but the white spots make it fun. I picked this dress up at Best and Less for about $40 years ago and it's really been value for money. The pattern reminds me of a starry sky. It is comfy and easy to wear too.

I usually pair this dress with red accessories, but I went with purple to keep it more in the "dark" theme. The bag I'm holding is a vintage bag that used to be my Mum's when she was young and single. :-)

Just trying to show you all my accessories in one pic. The necklace is from the op shop, the bracelet from a market, the hair flower from Target, and I made the button earrings myself. I added the hair ribbon to the pendant, I think it goes nicely. Also, you can adjust the length really easily, which I like.

Isn't the embroidery pattern on the bag cute?

Outfit Details

Dress: Best and Less (20)

Necklace: Op shop/ thrifted

Earrings: Made by me

Hair Flower: Target

Bracelet: Market

Shoes: Payless (11)