Weekend Walk

What I Wore:

Dress: Old Navy

Cardi: Thrifted (Value Village)

Tights: Ardene

Shoes: Payless

My family doesn't really celebrate Easter, but on holiday weekends we like to go out and take a walk together. This time we headed out to the Arboretum, which is part of the Royal Botanical Gardens. There are some really nice trails to walk and some of nice scenery to look at. Unfortunately it was kind of a grey and mucky day (which especially sucks since the day before was beautiful and sunny), but it was still a nice temperature and it wasn't raining so it was fine for walking. The trails were practically deserted too so we didn't have to worry about our crazy dog barking at people. She's not really crazy, just wary of strangers. She was abused by her previous owner so she is kind of funny around people sometimes. Luckily she took to use right away and have never had any problems with her. She liked Colin right away too which is good. Anyway, we had a really nice walk and I thought I would share some of the pictures from the day. I didn't bring my proper camera (didn't think too, whoops),but my phone does pretty decently outside and I think they turned out pretty well. Enjoy!

The sun came out near the end of our walk and it was really beautiful. I also drove us to the trails, which is pretty exciting. I am getting to be a decent driver. I need to work on parking a bit more and checking my mirrors frequently, but I have improved a lot since I really started practicing in the late fall. Hopefully by summer I will be ready to take my road test, but we'll see. It's not a race, haha!

How To Be A Fat Bitch e-course Week #6

Discussion

If you had to name your VBO, what would you call it? I think I would name mine Ms. Jiggly N. Fluffy, Master of Sexy and Spandex. Because she likes spandex. Your turn!

Squishy "Not A Baby But Still Awesome" McGee 

Assignment

Stand in front of a mirror and come to terms and get to know your VBO. Talk to it, tell it why you love it, sing it a song, tell it it's sexy, touch it, etc. Do this once or until you have happy feelings about your belly. Blog it, Instagram it, Tweet it (#fatbitchecourse, #nearsightedowl), etc. and share it in the comments below.

A Letter To My VBO

Oh VBO, 

in the past I haven't been very kind to you and I think I need to apologize to you for that.

I used to stare at you in the mirror, think mean thoughts about you and call you names.

I didn't think you were very attractive and wished you away on several occasions.

I would hate it when people would mistake you for being a baby and not just fat.

To be perfectly honest you used to be the stuff of nightmares. 

But lately things have changed. Lately I don't hate you so much. 

Lately I have grown to accept you, appreciate you, even love you. 

And do you know why?

Because you are a part of me.

You are what makes me special.

You are what makes me beautiful.

You are what makes me me. 

And I love you for that. 

So thank you VBO for helping me learn to accept and love you, 

and in turn accept and love myself.

I hope we can put our hateful relationship behind us and have a long and happy life together.

Yours always,

Hope  

 

March Sew-Along Final Update

What I Wore:

Dress: Made by me from this pattern

Tights: Ardene

Shoes: Payless

Here is the finished product for the March Sew-Along! There was one less update than usual, and I apologize about that. Next month will be  little more on track. The toughest section between the last update and the final product were the sleeves. It wasn't even setting them into the dress, but preparing the cuffs. For some reason I found that section to be really difficult. Other than that it was a pretty happy pattern to work with. I wore this dress to work yesterday and it got rave reviews. I think it turned out really well, one of the best things I have made in the last while. This month seems to be the month of winning things because I found out this morning that I won a free pair of shoes from B.A.I.T. footwear thanks to  Cut Out + Keep. If you haven't checked out either of these websites I really think you should! I can't decided which pair of shoes I want from B.A.I.T. there are two in the running. It is really hard to decide because all of their shoes are lovely. Not much else going on around here so I am just going to share next month's project with you.

I am doing McCall's pattern M6604 option D. I am pretty excited about this one, I absolutely love the fabric (I got it at JoAnn's in Florida).

Red Coffee Pot

What I Wore:

Dress: Made by me

Sweater: Zellers

Tights: H&M

Shoes: Blowfish 

I also wore this outfit last week during the crazy sale days at work. A lot of customers commented on my dress (although they thought it was a skirt) and said they really liked it. I thought was kind of appropriate considering the discussion from the Fat Bitch e-course last week. It's nice when people like something that I have made, it gives me a satisfied feeling. This dress amuses me. The print shows a lady making coffee in the morning and waking up her husband(?) with some coffee. But there there are there two random people and one guy sleeping in a chair? I am not really sure what is going on but it is pretty amusing anyway. 

Yesterday I worked a few hours at a local theatre. It was a nice change from standing all day that's for sure. I mostly worked on rigging things for quick changes and some other minor jobs, but it was fun. I get to go back on Thursday and am really looking forward to it. I did a co-op there when I was in high school and it is nice to be able to catch up with the employees and get back into the theatre world. There's not much else going on this week which is good because as you probably noticed from the lack of posts I got really behind on things last week. It didn't feel good to be so unorganized and out of the loop, and I am glad that things are getting back to normal this week.       

How To Be a Fat Bitch e-course Week #5

Discussion

I prefer sincere compliments over too many compliments, probably because duh, I am vain and I am hearing what I already know. What about you? Can you take a compliment? Or do you catch yourself saying the obligatory self-deprecating response?

Sometimes I am really bad at taking compliments. I like getting sincere compliments over forced ones any day, but I feel really awkward about real ones still. I don't make self-deprecating comments, but I think inside I kind of question why the person is complementing me (I am very unsure of myself) and I don't know how to react. It probably comes off as me being arrogant or rude, but in reality I am just awkward and trying to handle it in the best way. I am glad to say this happens a lot less frequently now, I used to be way worse. But since I have found more self confidence I can handle compliments way better.

Assignment

Be vain and take a photo of yourself. Take a million of photos of yourself! Even if you don't post them, see what it feels like to be your own apple of your eye. Say, look at me! I am a fat bitch AND hot! Blog it, Instagram it, Tweet it (#fatbitchecourse, #nearsightedowl), etc. and share it in the comments below.

Here is a collage of all my vain activities from last week. Enjoy!

Peter Cottontail

Supplies Used:

NYC: French White Tip

Quo: Free Spirit

Quo: Instant Artist Black

Revlon: Extra LifeTop Coat

Wild Horses

What I Wore:

Dress: Made by yours truly

Cardi: thrifted

Tights: Ardene

Shoes: Payless (online)

Bow: Shoppers

I have to apologize because I have been neglecting my blog since last Wednesday. I worked a lot more than usual last week, and I picked up an extra 8 hours shift, and it was a huge sale and I felt like I was going a mile a minute and had no time to do anything extra. I felt as busy and stretched out as that sentence actually. I really intended to do outfit posts everyday and have a sew-along update and a final assignment post for the Fat Bitch e-course, but it just didn't happen. Sorry for the late post today too, I kind of forgot about it yesterday and I really just needed a day to myself to relax. But, I am back now and I should have some more time this week to catch up and do my regular posting.

I wore this outfit to work last week during the ridiculously busy sale (hence the awful wrinkles, awkward). I was so run off my feet that I spent most of the time without a sweater on, so I decided to post some pictures without a cardigan for a change. I don't know why I never thought to pair this cardigan with this dress because it matches really well. I bought the cardigan a while ago, and before this I only wore it once. It's kind of a shame because it is really soft and comfortable, it just doesn't go with a lot of my clothes. It is also kind of an awkward length, I generally prefer my sweaters to be a wee bit shorter. In my last closet purge I was even contemplating donating it because I hardly wear it. I am really glad I didn't get rid of it though because now that I have found this pairing I think I should try and see what other things it looks good with. I am really trying to work on making more creative pairings and I think that I have been doing a pretty good job lately.     

Covered Buttons

What I Wore:

Shirt: Smart Set

Skirt: Made by yours truly

Leggings: Suzy Shier

Socks: Spring

Boots: ModCloth

I like this shirt and skirt combination a lot. If you haven't figured out by now that I love polka dots than this shirt probably proves it. That's not the only thing I like about it though, I also really enjoy the fake pocket on the front (which is weird because usually fake pockets annoy me and I keep wanting to put things in them and then wonder why it isn't working, but for some reason I find it endearing on this shirt) and the covered buttons at the back of the neck. I like shirts that have buttons up the back, and I love covered buttons so I really can't lose with that combination. I just love buttons in general though and I tend to collect items of clothing with interesting buttons, or I hoard buy buttons to sew onto things at a later date. This dress is an example of something I bought mainly for the buttons. Buttons are just really cool.

I have been experimenting with taking natural lighting pictures for my outfit posts and I think I prefer the results over those taken with a flash. The pictures just look richer and more natural (haha). The only downside is then sometimes you get blurry pictures,or ones where I am moving a lot. Sometimes they look really cool like the last one from this set,but others are not so great. Usually Colin takes my pictures for me (if he isn't here I use a tripod that he got me for my burfday), but the shutter speed has to be pretty low because of the lighting in here and he often has to take a few in a row to get a steady shot. Style blog problems. Overall I prefer taking a few rounds of pictures over fake looking ones. What do you guys think? Yay or nay to natural lighting? 

So far I am enjoying doing outfit posts everyday, but I don't think I could keep up with this every week. It is a lot of work mostly because I am running out of things to say haha!