Happy Birthday OOTD 2013

Hello Everyone,

Well yesterday was my birthday and after two weeks of full on horrible Winter weather,FREEZING COLD TEMPERATURES, RAIN, THUNDER STORMS and miserable GREY SKIES, we had a beautiful sunny day, there was still a pinch in the air, but it was fabulous to wake up to the warm delicious SUN shining through my bedroom windows, I knew it was going to be the beginning of a fabulous day.

Apart from waking up to the delicious Sun, I had some presents waiting for me on my bedside table, now I should tell you that this isn't a usual occurance for me. My husband is wonderful, but to be honest he has never really done gifts that well, although he has bought me things in the past that I have loved, he hasn't ever really bought me a birthday present I didn't already know about it before, even though I spied out some pamphlets that weren't mine, I still really wasn't that sure and I wasn't going to get my hopes up. hehehe

So of course I gave him some cuddles before having a look at them, he has only bought me jewellery one other time which was a necklace and I love it and still have it, I have worn it in another OOTD post.

First present was from Michael Hill Jewellers, some Rose Gold twisted hoop earrings to go with my Rose Gold Michael Kors Watch that I already bought myself for my birthday hehe and............................

these new Pandora charms and clips for my bracelet, so originally I only had six charms, I have been quite slack with my Pandora bracelet, but my husband doubled the amount in one birthday, thanks my darling. I love them, I actually would love anything he bought me himself, because he bought it and that is a big ask hehehe. So my Pandora bracelet is filling up.

So you probably may have realised that my husband stayed home with me for the day, lucky me, we went out to breakfast with an Uncle I share my birthday date with, I couldn't get any photos with him because my phone is out of action for now and my camera was at home. But I managed to get a couple of photos up on Instagram of my OOTD. Here they are!! I love this combination of colours and I have been wanting to wear this dress for a long time now but I hadn't got the opportunity to wear it until yesterday.

HANDS ON HIPS

HANDS DOWN

I loved this outfit of the day, Casual but pretty.

We pretty just mucked around for the day, went to go and see how much it will cost to be my phone fixed, then we both had a nap when we got home. My sister and husband bought Chinese for tea, which was nice we didn't have to cook anything and then, then we had a yummy birthday Cheescake, with was delicious the combination of Almonds and Passionfruit it undeniably one of my favourite Cheesecake combinations. It was yum then to top it of my Sister had a few pressies for me as well. I had a wonderful day it my pretty OOTD.

YUMMY CHEESECAKE

PRESSIES FROM MY SISTER. Thank you. :)

(This photo doesn't do these colours justice unfortunately, I love them)

Thanks to everyone who was apart of my special day, to my husband I love you with all my heart, thank you for loving me just the same, Mum and Dad love you's soo much, to my sisters and brothers who are always there for me, Love yous and your families as well,

thanks to my facebook family for all the birthday wishes too.

Dress - Asos Curve

Cardi - Garage from The Warehouse

Belt - City Chic

Ballet flats - The Number One Shoe Warehousse

Watch - Micharl Kors

Earrings - Michael Hill Jeweller

Bracelet - Pandora

Glasses - Rubi

Love and Light xox.



Playing catch up

Hey everyone,

I know it has been forever since my last post so many fabulous OOTDs and so many Shopping Hauls I have missed out on, most importantly so many weeks of Aussie Curves Challenges I have missed :( !!

Believe me when I say I have been so busy with nothing else other then LIFE. For the last 8 months I was lucky enough to be allowed to Co-Curate an exhibition called 'Manatunga' the closest english translation for this is 'Heirlooms', basically we are showcasing Historic Maori treasures we hold in our Heritage collection and it has definitely been a huge learning experience for me.

I am also in my last year of full-time study and I cant wait for that part of my life to be done and dusted. Seriously! the majority of the writing I have been doing is essays upon essays. I love the pressure though.

I have however had heaps of time to shop, I absolutely love online shopping,  I especially love my ladies at the City Chic store at St Lukes. Shout out to all of you fantabulous ladies.

On another scale I have recently been watching a lot of Fatshion ladies on YouTube,  which is a whole other ball game again, amazing and very inspirational. I have been recently posting OOTDs on my Instagraam, which is all I have for you at the moment, but now that I have time, Watch this space :). 

That is all I have at the moment I hope all is well.

Love and light xox.

Aussie Curves - Black & White

Aussie Curves Photo Challenge  - Black and White

I am back this week and Black and White is this weeks theme for the Aussie Curves Photo Challenge. For a long time I have thought that this combination of Black and White for day wear was boring, risky, and that it was probably best left for elegant and classy Black and White cocktail parties.

I have always been about the splash of colour everywhere, which is why I am really loving the "Colour Blocking" trend. However the recent "Black and White" trend I have to say has got me excited for the first time and I am loving all the Black and White pieces I have seen on the ASOS website and the City Chic website as well.

Obviously these photos are my Black and White look for the week. I think it's quite smart and something I am able to wear to work without looking like a waitress.

Black & White outfit

Black Scoop Neck Peplum - City Chic

Skirt - K mart

Shoes - The Number One Shoe Warehouse

Ring - Lovisa

Earrings - Diva

Flower - The Warehouse

That is me for today.

Love and Light xox

Bye Bye B@#$*h

Still suffering the after effects of a fantastic Conference last week, though it was inspirational and a whole lot of fun, I have some how ended up with the flu, in the middle of our Summer. All this lying around, has given me a chance to do a little reflecting.

Another OOTD from Conference Last week. This has to be my favourite dress, I especially love all the colours. 

Yes I am a size 24-26 and I love every bit of me and I think it shows. Last weeks Conference was the first I have intended since I since I decided that enough was enough and that it was about time for me to accept me and all my glorious flab as it is.

Ever since then it has been the best thing I could ever do for me, it is like an invisible veil has been lifted. I say this because the response I was getting from both women and men was different to what it has been like for me at past Conference's I have attended, this time it all seemed so much easier,which was a huge surprise because I always thought that my confidence level was pretty high, but this time around that barrier has been busted down. It's a little hard to explain, but this is how I explained it to my workmate, "I must have had 'BITCH' written across my forehead all these years and since I have turned a page in my new book, I am now approachable".

It's crazy to think it must have been me, for years I have always thought it was everyone else that had the problem. Don't get me wrong there are a few still out there, but I know for sure it won't be me any more. Because I am still loving every bit of me, flab and all.

Has this happened to you?

Love and Light xox

Night and Day at Conference

I have truly returned to work, last week was so busy, I had a talk to give and then a Work Conference took up the rest of my week. I am quickly learning how dedicated I need to be to get regular posts up on my blog. Although I had fun with my outfits last week, I had little time to get photos of my outfits and I didn't even get a chance to take part in last weeks, Aussie Curves challenge. : (

Even though I had a busy week, the conference was absolutely amazing, inspiring even. It also provided  me with great opportunities to pull out some of my dresses I have been wanting to wear and post on here, now I am definitely in two minds about whether I should post these pathetic photos, these dresses are so beautiful and it almost feels like I am not doing them any justice. Yes the photos are very poor quality, I ended up doing 'selfies' which I absolutely hate to do, but I had to snap myself in some of these amazing dresses and outfits because I felt absolutely gorgeous in these dresses.

These dresses are very similar in style and the cut I love on me because I feel that it gives an illusion that my stomach is smaller then it actually is and as I am loving my legs these days, in this style dress they look fantastic.

I tell you, when more fuller figured women realise that all they need is a great bra to give them a waste and most importantly some shape a lot more women would feel a lot happier with how they look when they go to things such as Cocktail events and formal dinners.

I hope you all like the outfits, huge apologies about the photos, but as I said I felt great in the dresses and I am going to post them even if the photos are shitty.

This first outfit I bought to wear at a Wedding I went to at the end of last year, I have been itching to wear it again, I love the colour and so do many others, I actually done a double banger of this outfit last week, I wore this to the Cocktail Part at Conference last Wednesday night and I also wore it on Sunday at another cousins wedding. I love, love, love this dress.

Dress - City Chic

Flower - The Warehouse

Necklace \ Ring - Diva

Shoes - The Number One Shoe Warehouse

This outfit I wore to the Formal dinner of the Friday night, I decided to go Nautical as the event was held at the Auckland Viaduct above the Auckland Maritime Museum, it was an amazing night and I definitely had my boogie shoes on that evening. 

Dress - City Chic

Shoes - The Number One Shoe Warehouse

Bangle - Virtu 

Pearl Necklace used as Bracelet - Diva

Ring - Diva

Earrings - Tiffany&co

These were only my outfits for the evenings out, below are my some OOTDs.

Leggings - ASOS Curve

Necklace - Virtu

Top - City Chic

Glasses - Rubi

Ring - Lovisa

Shoes - The Number One Shoe Warehouse

Black Peplum - City Chic

Skirt - ASOS Curve 

Neckland and Earrings - Gifted

Black Lace Peplum Top - ASOS Curve

Skirt - Hunters Plaza 

Shoes - The Number One Shoe Warehouse

Glasses - Rubi

Necklace - Virtu 

These were my Night and Day outfits at my first Conference of the year.

Love and Light xox

OOTD - Picnic - Aussie Curves Catch-ups

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend, not only is this post going to be a Aussie Curves Catch-up today, it's actually a Blog catch-up post as well. So today's outfit is my Picnic outfit, when I first saw this on the list I thought that is totally crazy, why do people dress up for picnics, then soon after I thought to myself, yes I am definitely one of those people. I admit I never use to be as a Picnic is usually about the food and the scenery, but I do.

Why? because I love picnics, it's a great opportunity to get outdoors and do something especially when the weather is fantastic, take a ball or some stale bread to feed the ducks, it's a chance for me to pull out my vintage picnic set that I absolutely neglected to take any photos of. Sadly I didn't take any photos when we went on our picnic, I only remembered to when I got home.

Today's outfit was very simple, a maxi dress with horizontal stripes, totally against all the rules taught to me about choosing the right patterns for my body shape, but I love this dress and it loves me hehe. I love material because it'stretch and comfortable. The necklace I bought from a place called Origin, my pink zebra striped jandals and a teal cardi because it was a little nippy.

Cardi - Maya - The Warehouse

Dress - Sara 

Necklace -  Origin

Watch - Takapuna market

Jandals - Capture 

That was my OOTD 

Love and Light xox