Just like last year I'm doing Movember together with one of my colleagues at work. He has got a team and I'm a member of it. We did the same thing last year and managed to raise quite a lot of money between us. It was a fun month at work too as I was wearing different kind of mustaches throughout the month, but one became my favourite and also was the reason that I was crowned Movember Tash Champion for the company I work for (and my company has more than a thousand employees). Here are some photos from last year. 










 And these photos are from this years Movember :)







This year we are doing the same and I have the same tash as last year, but I am currently waiting for my new even more impressive mustache so watch this space for more Movember photos. :)

This is a plus size blog so I can even mention that when I was on holiday in Spain I found a perfect t-shirt for this month in size XXL. I actually love this t-shirt. Teamed it with a very apt necklace for the occasion as well.



If you would like to donate a little sum of your hard earned money to a very important cause as Prostate Cancer is, then please follow this link MY MOSPACE to my donation page within my team. I would be very happy if you did and for every donation I get I will send out an autographed photo of MovemberMookie;)

This is my first ever blog challenge and I'm very excited about it. Steph from Seeing Spots accepted my request to join and here is my first challenge.

This time it was Beka from Beka's Stuffy Stuff that had chosen theme-horizontal stripes.

I really like stripes. I never used to before, but the last few years I have really started liking it.

I knew exactly what item in my wardobe to use in this challenge. This dress!









I bought it a while back at Tesco for some silly amount of £5 or £7... I saw it and I instantly fell in love. I love the monochrome and I love the stripes. It looks so nice and elegant and can be worn in so many different ways.It's made of a thick cotton fabric so it is a good item for autumn and winter as it feels warmer on. What I also love about this dress is that I get enough room for my boobs. I wore it yesterday and it was quite a cold day so I teamed it with this colourful boyfriend cardigan from Simply Be. They don't have this one on the website anymore as it is a while since I bought it, but I have never come around to wear it before. I put some coral lipstick on and a coral scarf I bought in Naples earlier this year and I think the whole style works. Not something I would normally do since the cardigan is quite bright and so is the dress with its big bold stripes. Definitely out of my comfort zone, but I was actually really surprised with how great this outfit felt on.

Do you like stripes?




xxx 

Skirt from Dorothy Perkins, Top got in Clothes Swap, Belt bought on travels, Boots from Evans last season, cadigan bought in Ebay

Yesterday I went to London for Plus London. I won't lie, I was terrified! I'm quite new to the whole plus size blogger community and wasn't sure what to expect. I was scared it would be clicky and that everyone knew each other from before and therefore difficult to get to know anyone. But I was very pleasantly surprised. Everyone was really friendly and I made several new friends. The day itself started early and lets keep it short by saying that the tube sucks. So many disruptions that I'm glad I left early...Met up with a bunch of people at Liverpool Street Station and they made us get to the venue safely.

 My lovely caring husband came with me to London since I was scared about going on my own and he is a gem. He took me up there and made sure I had met the other girls before he went to a record fair. He is the kindest husband anyone can ask for and I am so happy to have him in my life. I hope i repay him some of the love he is giving me cause he is a true treasure.

We arrived and there was lots of people already there. First thing I saw was some lovely boots from Simply Be that I now have ordered. They looked perfect and very similar to a pair I have looked at from ASOS, but these doesn't have a heal and that suits me perfectly as I can't wear heals due to my dizzyness condition.

I went over to Betty Pampers stand to talk to her cause she had brought one of her great t-shirts to me. She was such a sweet lady and so friendly. She was waiting for someone for their pampering slot, but they had not turned up yet so she offered me to do my hair and make up since I was going to have my photo shoot at 12. :) I was over the moon to be able to have a fab hairdo for my shoot and freshened up make up too. She said she wanted to do a beehive style on me and said, go for it. :)
 The result was amazing. I had never thought my hair would be long enough to make a do like that. I thought my hair had never looked that great before. I got so many compliments for my hair and I felt like a princess. Thanks to Betty for making me so beautiful and thanks to Curvissa for hiring Betty to make us more beautiful.

The stands were really good and I spoke to some amazing and really inspiring people from Simply Be, Carmakoma, Lovely Alyssa from Twisted Siren,Lovely Charlotte from Black Heart Creative, Apple and Pears, Curvy Kate and Curvissa. I bought a lovely ring from Alyssa at Twisted Siren and I will get her to make me a customized necklace cause her stuff if amazing. So is Charlotte at Black Heart Creatives stuff. I loved the cat's head necklace, but couldn't afford buying it now. I am thinking of getting something customized from her too.

Seven of us went out for lunch and Cassie from Plump Parsnip took us to a Vietnamese restaurant and it was a good choice. I had the best spring rolls I have ever had, and I have had them a lot of places. If you like that kind of food and you are in the Hoxton area it is well worth a visit as the food was so scrummy!! The restaurant is called Song Que

I don't think I have ever seen a more beautiful crowd anywhere. All the girls were so glamourous and nicely dressed. Everyone in their nicest outfits and so much fun seeing all the different styles.

Myself I was wearing a rather dark outfit for me. As I love colours it is not that often I wear mainly black, but I had just bought this lovely skirt from Dorothy Perkins that I wanted to shine on its own so I toned the rest of the outfit down. This skirt is amazing and looks so on trend thanks to the black fake leather edge. It makes it stand out and adds more individuality to it. The skirt is good quality fabric and a total bargain at £15 so hurry to Dorothy Perkins while you still can get one.

Another great feature at Plus London was that Simply Be had hired in an amazing illustrator Clym Evernden he made this amazing drawing of me in a few minutes. I was really impressed and needless to say I loved my portrait!!! 

After the event I had to go home as me and my husband were going away for the weekend so I sadly missed out on the rest of Plus London, but going away with my love is something so special so it would always be the priority. But a great big thank you to all the organisers of Plus London and I'm already looking forward to the next event!!

Thank you so much for sending me the photos from the even yesterday Hsqauredblue as my phone died and I couldn't take any photos.  You're a sweetheart. :)

My sexy 70s hunk, Mike :) Look at that chest hair girls ;)

Me with lovely Maria and just as lovely Lucy.

Showing the lion some affection in my drunken state of mind.

Mike after I have been smudging my lipstick all over him:)

Happy Halloween everyone. Since it's midweek we couldn't celebrate Halloween today so wet celebrated it last weekend instead. A group of us from work went out and as soon as we decided to go out dressed up I decided to be a devil. I have never dressed up fancy dress as a grown up and gone out so I was looking very much forward to it. I decided to try and do this make up I'd seen online and based on the pictures how do you guts think I did? I mean I don't think I have ever had this much make up on before but it was fun. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on an outfit I wouldn't wear again so I decided to wear something I already owned and make a top. I had recently bought a really cute faux leather skirt from AX Curve at New Look. This skirt is so lovely and flowy. I have tried other faux leather skirts before, but very often they come in a very thin cheap material that just feels and looks strange. This one however is very very nice. I might add that it has more of a rubber feel to it than leather, but for me it doesn't matter cause I love it. It is so flattering, the length is perfect and I know I will get so much use of this in the months to come. It can be worn with all kind of tops, mixing materials and for different occasions. I wore it when I dressed up as a devil last weekend, but I wore it today as well when I went to a gig.  The top I wore dressing up I made myself and is just a plain black t-shirt that i cut the neck off of and threaded with red ribbon for effect. Wore fishnet stockings from Ann Summers which I find so incredible. If I ever want to wear fishnet I always choose stay up stockings from Ann Summers as they are stretchy and very lasting. My jacket is so lovely... It's amazing and I will make a special post about it in a few days as it deserves so much more than just being mentioned. :)

Hope all of you had fun today. Did you dress up?

Mookie xx