The weekend in pictures

This weekend was full of building these and cleaning the apartment. But to kick off our weekend of adult organizational tasks, we went to an awesome outdoor concert.

Sometimes I wonder how many pictures of the space needle I really need in my online photo album:


At an awesome outdoor concert at the base of the Space Needle:


We saw The Head and the Heart, and they were AMAZING.

I really love Seattle Center.


awkward public posing!


Details:
Dress: asos curve, clearance
cardigan: alloy xxxl
leggings: duo maternity (so comfy! not pregnant!)
shoes: avenue old lady boat shoes
scarf: AA circle scarf

And my adorable husband:


We also spent yesterday stuffing swag bags for our upcoming weekend of fun. Who's excited? We're excited. And dorky.

Being visible as a fat body

Hey folks,

I know I keep it light (ha, punny) around here, but Natalie over at definatalie.com made a seriously awesome post today about why blogging and documenting her outfits as a fat lady is important. She puts it better than me, so I'll let you read her words:

"...I blog about my outfits (real and ridiculous) because I’m passionate about the visibility of fat bodies. I don’t care if people don’t like what I wear and I don’t care about trends – I blog because fat people are dehumanised and made invisible and if I’ve got a platform and an audience, I’m going to take advantage of it to normalise my body and bodies like mine.

Bodies like mine usually don’t get to dress up in designer clothes. Instead of “supporting local designers” or collecting pieces from super designers, most of us buy our clothes off the internet from the “high street” stores. The funny thing is, bodies like mine would absolutely consume designer fare if it were made in our size. But it’s not, so fat people remain in a position where they’re portrayed as unfashionable and unattractive, when being fashionable and attractive is rewarded! It’s so frustrating and circular, I’m baffled when people fail to see this cycle.

One of the most fabulous and powerful things to happen in the last decade, beside plus size shopping online, has been the fatshion blogging movement. It’s about time fatties were given back their heads and their humanity, along with a glimmer of inspiration and solidarity through community. And that’s why I take photos of my outfits and post bitter diatribes against the fashion industry!"

One of the main reasons I started blogging my outfits, at first over at the Fatshionista LJ, and now here, is because I want for fat bodies to be seen, not just as a headless fatty shot on the news about the OMGbesity epideminc, but as real and human and valid and beautiful and fantastic and yes, fashionable.

I think there's something radical about loving your body the way it is, rather than as the starting point to all kinds of self "improvements" (such as dieting, etc.). There's something radical about owning the way you look and the body you have as a good body, not a body that needs to change. Like Gertie wrote recently, we live in a good body. No matter what shape that body is.

That's all for now I guess :)

Announcing... the winners of the 50 followers giveaway!

Drumroll please?



I'm excited to announce the two winners! Each will receive $15 eShakti gift certificate!

Lexie
(who was comment #8)


and Christina
(who was comment #1)


Lexie - I don't have an email address or active blog for you. Can you please contact me at wearelargepeople at gmail?

Thanks everyone for reading my blog, even if you don't comment. It's so amazing to me that more than 50 people are interested in what I write and post here!

Also, please check out eShakti and also their facebook fan page if you are interested. They were super nice to provide these gift certificates at no cost to me!

**also, please excuse my grainy and dark pictures of the random number generator. I don't know how to do screencaps on my mac (sad, I know) so I took the pictures with my phone!

Reminder: last day to enter eShakti gift certificate giveaway!

Hello dears,

Today's the last day to enter my 50 followers giveaway.

To enter, please leave a comment on this post and say hi! Feel free to link to your blog, or a picture of you wearing your favorite outfit, or do neither of those things - but please comment and leave some way of me getting in touch with you!

Also, feel free to pass along this link to your friends/post it on your blog if you think your readers would also enjoy entering the giveaway!

You have until 11:59pm(PST) Wednesday, 8/25 to enter.  I will use a random number generator to pick 2 winners and will post the results on Thursday, 8/26.

What do I have for the lucky winners?  Each will get a $15 eShakti gift certificate**!

I know eShakti only ships to the US and Canada, and I hate to be so restrictive on my first ever giveaway :(.  I promise my next giveaway will be something that is more inclusive of everyone, no matter where your shipping address is!

**Full disclosure: eShakti provided these gift certificates to me to give away - I did not purchase them myself.  They expire on 9/30/2010.

OOTD: layers upon layers

I've only recently gotten into these layered, open-front, "waterfall", "hanky-hem", whatever you call it cardigans.


(with all the charm of our apartment building hallway)

I really dig this one that I picked up at Alloy a few months ago. It's very warm too, which was perfect for the autumn-come-early evening we were having Saturday.

One think I love about this look is that the points of the cardigan hit below the hem of the dress! I'm learning to embrace shorter hemlines this summer and to love the way my knees look.


Go knees, go.

Outfit details:
Cardigan: alloy (whose "extended sizes", as they call them, are super difficult to find. It's like they're ashamed or something. Anyways.)
Dress: fatshionista sales post
Belt: Target 2xl, recent
shoes: Avenue, recent (my old lady boat shoes)
scarf: AA circle scarf
purse: garage sale

Also, if you want to enter my giveaway, you have until 11:59pm(PST) on Wednesday, 8/25. Go forth and do so, if you'd like. It's for one of two $15 eShakti gift certificates!