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And thus, an obnoxious dress was born.
An outfit photo of me, fat and pale skinned, wearing a short dress with a large retro stylised flower pattern in teal, purple and yellow, with teal leggings and brown wedge sandals. I'm standing in the...
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Elk Espresso at Broadbeach.
A photo of Pete and Mem sitting at a table with their thoughtful faces on, pondering their shared platter. When my friends Pete and Mem came down for the weekend and asked where we should eat for...
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Kermit the dress.
A collage of three versions of the Coffee Date dress, a sleeveless dress with A-line skirt and neck ruffles. Remember a long time ago when I was really determined to grade up that Coffee Date Dress to...
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Fat necklaces are back.
A photo of fat necklaces in white, red, silver mirror, green and blue. I was sorting the pile of new fat pendants into a box with compartments to divide each colour when my mother-in-law came in with...
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The Cambridge Dilemma.
I have been besotted with Cambridge Satchels for a long time and what’s funny is that I don’t know if it really has been a long time or if time just slows down when I’m drooling over them. Since their...
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No diet talk; a badge for your blog.
So, it should be no surprise that I completely object to participating or being submitted to any kind of diet or weight loss talk. The way I see it, 99.9999999% of the world around me is a space where...
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A life like Strictly Ballroom
I’ve been quiet recently, focusing on little projects and trying to look after myself and the other day I rewatched one of my favourite movies and took a whole buttload of screencaps because I thought...
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Just call me Casual Perkins.
I love seeing casual outfits on bloggers. I don’t mean “oh I just slipped on these really expensive wedges and woops everything coordinates perfectly and how convenient it is that I have a full face of...
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Hanging with Frans.
A photo of our group of picnickers under the shade of a tree. While it’s nice living down the Gold Coast, being close to the beach and generally living a slower paced life, I miss Brisbane and my...
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No Diet Talk brooches are available to buy right now!
A photo of two No Diet Talk brooches in black and ivory pinned to my green singlet. First you could declare your site a No Diet Talk zone, and now you can set boundaries around your body with a No Diet...
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Did you hear about the #fancybonanza?
A graphic with an illustration of afrotitty and photos of an ivory No Diet Talk brooch and purple hologram Fat necklace. Text follows: Win fancy stuff #fancybonanza! Win • an ivory No Diet Talk brooch,...
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This dress and its associated struggles.
I bought this dress on sale about a year ago from Myer, it was reasonably priced and comfortable and at that stage I was desperate to get some casual dresses into my wardrobe. The problem with this...
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The Village Markets.
A photo of people walking past lots of crafty market stalls. With the runaway success of markets like Finders Keepers I’m so pleased to see smaller weekly and fortnightly markets popping up. When we...
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Shiro Cosmetics, made of win.
I was finally able to make my first order with Shiro Cosmetics after hearing so many good things about this indie cosmetics brand with awesomely geeky products. Caitlin, the founder, has a wicked sense...
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#fancybonanza, what a kerfuffle.
I was hoping to draw the Fancy Bonanza prize today so I went to look through the hashtag on Twitter and discovered… I couldn’t see tweets older than 6 days old! Argh! I thought I had 30 days of the...
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I am the Twelfth Doctor?
Doctor Who used to scare me when I was little so I went for a long time without ever really watching it. Just the theme song intro would be enough to freak me out, so I always changed the channel! It...
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Road testing my doona dress on a rainy day.
A photo of Sonya, Zoe and myself in a playground, sitting in a spinning cup which is out of shot. My friends Sonya and Zoe came down the coast on Saturday and we headed out to Burleigh for coffee, food...
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Kale chips, my new thing.
I’ve been seeing kale chips all over the internet for the last year or so but because kale is oddly hard to find where we live I never tried them until today. If you’re already a kale chip convert feel...
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Pre-birthday unbirthday.
The spokes inside the Wheel of Brisbane against the twilight sky. [Warning: this post contains an animated gif.] The Wheel of Brisbane is pretty much a huge laughing stock situated at South Bank, a...
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31 today!
Today is my for-realsies birthday! Getting older is such an odd thing, I said that I still feel like an awkward 16 year old and my mother-in-law replied that she feels the same way too. It seems that...
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