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Heaps Cool Stuff

Bronny — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:50:10 +0000

I love these photos of leather craftsman Steve Soria’s house in Santa Barbara, California (via Design Sponge).

Here’s a cute DIY from Pine Needle Collective – painted heart tights! I’m not sure how they would go in a washing machine but they do look adorable. And you could do this with any shape/pattern you liked!

I can’t stop listening to Cults lately.

I love this project ‘The Girl With 7 Horses‘ by Ulrika Kestere.

I love this DIY tufted headboard by Little Green Notebook. I am getting really bored with my bed lately and I think this could bring some life back into it.

Who wouldn’t want to pay $70 for some Guns N Roses nesting dolls?

Chocolate brownie pancakes with chocolate hazelnut sauce (from Lawfully Wedded Wife). These look insane and delicious.

Fatshion February Round Up

Bronny — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:42:44 +0000

Fatshion February Day Six: coat: Knitted Dove via Mod Cloth, shirt: ASOS, trousers: Tripp via Torrid, loafers: vintage.

Fatshion February Day Seven: skirt and shirt: ASOS, shoes: Urban Outfitters, cardigan: Miss Shop

Fatshion February Day 8: shirt and skirt: ASOS, loafers: vintage.

Fatshion February Day Eleven: dress: ASOS, coat: New Look, boots: vintage.

I skipped posting a few days on here because my work clothes/work bathroom get pretty boring and repetitive after a while. You can see photos from the missing days on my Instagram (bronnyzig). How are you guys going with Fatshion February? So far I’ve only missed photographing one day but taking photos of my work clothes every day is making me hate everything I own and really want to go shopping.

Fatshion February

Bronny — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:46:50 +0000

Do you guys remember Fatshion February? I did it last year. The idea comes from this tumblr post by Jessie Dress and you can read more about it on the official Fatshion February tumblr here. Long story short it’s about taking photos of your outfits for each day in February in an attempt to bodies that are generally ‘othered’ more visible. I am participating again and have been posting photos of my daily outfits on tumblr and twitter via Instagram (bronnyzig). I’m going to post them on Fat Aus also but rather than posting on here every day I’ll just do a round-up post every few days. Here are my outfits from the past few days:

February 1st: cardigan – miss shop, pussybow blouse – asos, trousers – tripp via torrid, bag: h&m. This was the first day of my new job and this is about about business-y as my outfits get.

February 2nd: horse print shirt- asos, trousers – tripp via torrid, loafers – vintage, bag – h&m.

February 3rd: dress: c/o dream diva (proper review post on this dress coming soon), sunglasses: karen walker, loafers: vintage.

February 4th: dress – asos, shoes – urban outfitters.

Excuse my bra straps in that last photo, but I think stuff like that is kind of what I like about Fatshion February – these are just every day outfits and you know what, some days I wear a halter neck dress with a regular bra and usually I wouldn’t post that on here but really, so what?! It’s a bit of a warts-and-all thing and I’m sure there will be a lot of boring outfits and repeated outfits through out the month but stuff like that is a bit more ‘real life’ than the idea that bloggers have some kind of never ending supply of new clothes and never wear the same things twice.

If any of you guys are doing Fatshion February let me know, I’d love to see your outfits!

January Wishlist

Bronny — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:20:38 +0000

January Wishlist by fat-aus

clockwise from left: ASOS HABIT high wedges with straps, ASOS Metallic Bronze Midi Skirt, House Of Harlow Pave Arrow Tag Necklace, ASOS Midi Spot Dress, Bernie Dexter Graceful Greenery Dress, ASOS Curve Floral Capri Pants, ASOS Striped Knit Midi Dress, ASOS Skeleton Necklace, ASOS Striped Midi Dress, ASOS Cat Eye Glasses

I think it’s safe to say my Polyvore skills aren’t exactly amazing. I couldn’t be bothered with PhotoShop today but it’s currently 33 degrees Celsius which I think makes a bit of laziness acceptable. I’ve had myself on a bit of a shopping ban for the past few weeks so I hadn’t even been looking at online stores because I didn’t want to know what amazing things I wasn’t buying. I decided to let myself have a little look and got so carried away on ASOS that I didn’t let myself go any further into wishlist creating (apart from that amazing dress from Bernie Dexter that actually showed up on my tumblr dashboard). I’m attempting to only buy things that are somewhat work appropriate (but still a bit fun) for my new job since business/corporate clothing is a bit depressing and boring but it’s so far from my usual taste that it’s really hard to find a happy medium.

Heaps Cool Stuff

Bronny — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:53:00 +0000

Apologies for my absence/lack of posts lately. I know it generally sounds pretty wanky/self important when bloggers act as though everyone is constantly refreshing waiting for their new post but I don’t know, I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired and been having a weird month so I haven’t been updating much even though I want to be posting 3 or 4 times a week. I’m starting a new job next week and I’m hoping that will help with a new routine with lots of blogging and with that in mind, here’s some heaps cool stuff.

DIY: all you need is some clear plates and some scrap booking paper and ta-da!

This mug changes from sleepy face to awake when you add hot coffee (or tea. or probably hot chocolate). How cute.

I’m generally not that into clutches but these Kate Spade book clutches are pretty cool. (Brought to my attention by Oh Happy Day).

I think I’ve mentioned before how beautiful I think Colorado is but here’s another reason I want to go there – The Stanley Hotel! It’s beautiful, reportedly haunted and was the inspiration for Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’. Apparently they play the Kubrick version on a loop on channel 42 on the televisions in all the guest rooms.

Speaking of The Shining, lately I’ve been really into ‘making of’ documentaries. ‘The Making of The Shining’ (shot by Stanley Kubrick’s then 17 yr old daughter Vivian) is on YouTube in full and I also recommend Hearts of Darkness.

Have you guys ever heard of fatal familial insomnia? Basically it’s permanent insomnia that eventually kills you. Pretty scary stuff.

I love Kelli Connell‘s ‘Double Life’ images. She scans in two or more negatives from self portraits and edits them to look like there are two different people in the photo.

I love obsessing over houses I will never own (now that I know I have to move out of my current house by the end of March I’m finding myself doing this more and more) and this L-Stack House (designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects) in Fayetteville, Arkansas USA is beautiful. I love the window boxes and floor to ceiling glass doors.

Henry Miller’s eleven commandments (from Henry Miller on Writing).

My favourite of all the ‘shit ____ says’ videos – Shit Liza Says!

Lesley Kinzel wrote a great article for XOJane about fat shaming.

Instagram Thursday!

Bronny — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:58:09 +0000

We went to our first wedding last week! It was Tom’s cousin’s and it was super fun. My dress is from JezzyBelles and Tom’s face is from being sad that he had to wear a shirt and tie.

Hanging out with Zigmond.

Trying on clothes at Dream Diva.

I’ve finally mastered the delicious art of homemade baked beans.

Zigmond cuddling with his father.

I ate this amazing pizza the other day.

And we finally made it to the beach for the first time all summer!

As always if you guys want to be Instagram friends my name on there is bronnyzig

Heaps Cool Stuff

Bronny — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:27:06 +0000

BRB guys, I’m just going to the 1970′s so that I can have a pet lion.

The lovely Rachele of The Near Sighted Owl made this amazing digital portrait of me! How sweet is that?! You can also commission your own digital portrait from her here.

Aetienne shows how to make your own mirrored collar using broken CDs. This looks both surprisingly easy and awesome.

On a scale of 1 – 10 how wrong would it be for me to put one of my cats in a pram? Probably pretty wrong, hey? Still, Suki the Siamese looks adorable.

20 Reasons Why We Still Need The ‘F’ Word.

Gifolas Cage – fairly self-explanatory.

Meme Proposal | Tim * Audrey from Crazy Monkey Studio on Vimeo. So nerdy, so cute!

Photographs depicting the final 12 hours of Chinese women on death row. They were convicted of drug related offenses and are mostly in their 20′s.

Meet The Sponsors

Bronny — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:00:49 +0000

I’ve been accepting sponsors/advertisers on FAT AUS for a few months now and I thought I would give my lovely sponsors a chance to tell you guys a little about their blogs/businesses and hopefully you’ll find something you enjoy on their sites. I am really picky about which blogs/businesses I accept as advertisers on here, I only work with brands that I feel are appropriate for that and that I personally believe in and think reflect my and the blog’s style. Anyway, enough out of me – meet the sponsors!

JEZZY BELLE’S VINTAGE

Hi, I’m Deborah! I run Jezzy Belle’s Vintage out of my little apartment in Knoxville, where I live surrounded by boxes. My husband, daughter and borderline obese cat take up the space that the boxes don’t. I’m a classic collector, I fall in love with pieces. I imagine stories for them, invest emotions in them. So basically if I didn’t run Jezzy Belle’s I’d be starring on my very own episode of Hoarders. I’m drawn to things with sparkle, loud colors and obnoxious patterns. If it might run a little too tight, a little too low cut or just a little Too Much, it makes me happy. I love sharing pieces with other collectors and there is little that makes me happier than photos of gloriously obnoxious gems on my lovely customers. Things have been a little crazy the last few months, (I’ve moved TWICE. YEAH.) but now that we’re settled in Tennessee I’m really looking forward to getting back into the swing of things both with my shop and with my blog. And getting to know more of my customers!

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POP CULTURE MAJOR

Pop Culture Major started because I got tired of submitting posts to other sites and decided to take charge and do it on my own for once. My name is Dani and lemme be for real, I’m a lazy person and I’ll take the easiest way out always but for some reason, my love of pop culture propelled me to say “Hey, I’m gonna start my own blog and do things on my own terms!” Of course it was admirable and cute of me to think it’d be so easy but damn is it hard. You basically have to be online at all times because if you dare to look away for one minute, you might miss something. However, this doesn’t mean I don’t like what I do, I’m just being straight up: blogging is hard work but I love it so it’s rewarding (how Hallmark of me).

I birthed Pop Culture Major in August so it’s a baby but it’s growing and getting there. Aside from the above, I also started the blog because I am a pop culture groupie: I know a lot of useless trivia about TV shows, music, movies, etc. I couldn’t tell you squat about the history of my country but I can look at a photo of Rihanna and tell you what year it was taken, tell you which artist had the best selling album of all time (Michael Jackson, if you’re nasty!) and could probably kick your ass in Trivial Pursuit. I could talk your ear off about anything pop culture related all day and I will but that’s for another post.

I’m married with two hounds (one of whom is a puppy) so between blogging and dealing with that, I can get kinda tired out but I love doing it. There’s a lot of Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Rihanna on there but that’s to be expected since they’re such huge stars. However, nothing makes me happier than seeing a news item about Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian or Courtney Stodden (http://www.popculturemajor.com/tag/courtney-stodden/); I get to perfect my wit and snark every time I write about them. My favorite post has been the one about Coco (Ice-T’s wife) and her dog shopping in Miami because she retweeted the link (http://www.popculturemajor.com/2011/11/09/spotted-coco-and-her-english-bulldogs-day-of-retail-therapy/) and sent great traffic to my blog: that made my year.

Another perk was interviewing an up and coming singer named Doxi Jones (http://www.doxijones.com/), which blew my mind because it was the first time I ever interviewed a celebrity or anyone in the entertainment industry. Her interview will be up soon and I hope get the opportunity to interview more celebs. I also added someone else to the PCM team – my friend Monica, who loves “Clueless” and fashion since I know crap all about the latter. If you’re into free gifts, the holidays are coming up and we plan on having a giveaway so you don’t wanna miss that! We also have a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/popculturemajor) so like us if you’re into us.

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DOMINO DOLLHOUSE

Plagued her entire life by drab clothing choices, owner Tracy Broxterman has always worked towards contributing her energies to adding style and glamour in the plus size fashion world. She started in 2009 with her own personal style blog, Chubble Bubble, and now with this unique online plus size shop, Domino Dollhouse! While the choices for sizes 14 and up are expanding, Domino Dollhouse strives to bring exciting, charming, and fun clothing and accessories to a market thirsty for more. While others give you water, we give you fruit punch!

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VIRTU

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BIG BANG BOUTIQUE

We are Brittany and Sheri Garner, a mother/daughter dream team determined to bring you the best in affordable plus size clothing. We are hoping to provide the shopper with trendy, fashionable, elegant, and edgy clothing that can be worn by anyone size US 12 and up. We want to provide clothing for plus size women of any shape, size, age, or walk of life. We want you to see the beautiful you. We want you to look in the mirror and know you look amazing! We’re determined to show you how truly great you can look at absolutely any size.

Big Bang Boutique has been a dream of ours for years. Brittany has gone to school for fashion, and worked in the plus size industry for over 6 years. She finally decided to fulfill her passion for the industry after she started http://thefatgirlsguide.com and saw the need for affordable clothing for women who are sometimes overlooked. Her passion for this is never-ending. Both Brittany and Sheri have backgrounds in business and retail, and are happy to bring you the best customer service and shopping experience possible.

We are located north of Atlanta, Georgia and launched August of 2011. We are hoping to have a brick & mortar store in the next five years located in the same area. We will continue to have the online store so we can provide beautiful clothes for plus size women all around the world!

Follow us on Twitter: @thebigbangboutique , Like us on Facebook , Follow us on Tumblr and Check out The Fat Girl’s Guide.

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TS14+

TS14+ specialises in fashion forward designer collections in sizes 14 to 24, and has been a cornerstone brand in Australian plus-size fashion for over 28 years.With a range encompassing everyday essentials, After 5 wear, swimwear and shoes, we help you Celebrate Your Curves® from head to toe.
The core philosophy at TS14+ is to recognise that even customers of the same size have quite distinct body shapes, so suit different styles – or styling – of the same garment. With over 100 beautiful boutiques and Myer Concept Stores in Australia and New Zealand, all TS14+ store staff are trained fashion stylists, and are experts at identifying body shapes and assisting you in highlighting your best features and minimising others. Their goal is simple; to help customers fall in love with themselves and the clothes; having a curvy figure doesn’t exclude you from fashionable fun.
Free styling sessions can be booked at any of our stores and customers are welcome to bring in their favourite pieces and we’ll show you how to style them to make the most of your wardrobe.

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Summer Goth

Bronny — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:29:21 +0000

shoes: deena & ozzy, sunglasses: karen walker (I feel like I should get some other sunglasses because I wear these so often but they just got with everything), skirt and top: ASOS.

I bought these shoes a few months ago and actually forgot all about them until a couple of days ago! I’m still really wanting some proper black and white saddle shoes but maybe these will tide me over for a few weeks. After looking at these photos I think I need to take a couple of darts in the top just under the shoulders, that might be my next attempt-to-sew adventure. I do really like how it’s sheer but not super obviously see through though.

Instagram Thursday!

Bronny — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:00:48 +0000

So as I said the other day in my 2011 wrap up post, I want to start doing a couple more regular features here on Fat Aus. I’m going to do a bit of an Instagram round up post every other Friday to show you guys some photos of what I’ve been up to since it’s a lot easier to take photos with my iPhone than to carry around my big DSLR everywhere.

Pretty into this bag/shoe combo (shoes from Urban Outfitters, bag c/o JezzyBelles)

If you were in Melbourne on Monday you’ll understand why I cooled Zigmond down with some water – it was 40 degrees Celsius! Too hot for furry kitties.

The hot cats in their fur coats.

I made some little zucchini pizza bites for dinner the other night.

I got so addicted to playing Pokemon Snap on N64 that I tried downloading an emulator so that I could play it on my MacBook but I couldn’t get it to work properly

Looking grumpy while drinking cocktails before Christmas

My first attempt at making strawberry jam – it turned out pretty delicious.

If you want to be Instagram friends you can always follow me on there, my username is bronnyzig.