Autumn comes with cooler days and one of the first places I notice it's time is my hands. They go all white and when they do I need to find my gloves. I love gloves, as I think they can can make an outfit tie together. When Dents asked me if I wanted to review one of their pair of gloves I wanted to chose something timeless and elegant. I chose these beauties.



I chose them in charcoal colour as it is a colour I haven't got and I think it will go with so much I have in my wardrobe. Grey is such a lovely colour with red, blue, pink and my favourite colour right now, yellow. The gloves are stunning and amazingly soft. I have never felt softer leather before. Lined with 100% silk makes them soft on the inside too. They are designed with an elasticated palm and a 3 point detail on the front of the glove. I love the 4 buttons at the wrist as it makes them stand out nicely, but subtle.

I went out the other night to celebrate my mother in laws birthday and I wore this.

Doesn't the gloves go well with my beautiful dress and wrap scarf?

I love this outfit. The colours goes so well together and I love how the gloves just ties up with the colours of my tights and my boots.

Details of my outfit. Love the colours. Plus Size clothing doesn't have to be boring.

Xxxx 


*these gloves were gifted me, but all views are my own. 

I've been wearing glasses since I was 10 years old, so that is close to 30 years!! I have never ordered glasses online before because I've been scared that they wouldn't be the right strength or that they would be uncomfortable. I'm normally a very impulsive person who like doing new things, but buying glasses online was something very daunting until I was informed about Specspost's Home Trial offer.

Home Trial easily explained is a service where you can chose from a number of different options of frames and chose three of them to try on at home before you commit to buy. How great is that? You can actually get to feel and try on and even wear them for a while to see which frame that is the best for your need. And if you're not happy you can easily send them back and ask for three more? You can do this until you find the perfect pair of glasses for you.

I was offered to try this service from Specspost and as glasses don't come cheap I was very very happy to say yes to collaborating with them.

I looked at the website and I chose three frames to try on at home. These came quickly and I tried all of them on. One of them was a no from the start, but the other two I wore for a while (with contacts in my eyes, as I'm blind as a mole) to see which ones I preferred.

Here is the pair I liked best of the ones I got sent. I really liked these frames as they are very cat eye and I love the vintage style very much.

Here you can see my challenge with thick lenses too.

As you can see, the glasses are still a bit thick, but thankfully there are technology to make them as thin and attractive as possible.

I will definitely come back to order more from Specspost as they convinced me that buying glasses online isn't an ordeal after all.


Xxx


*these glasses were gifted to me, but all views are mine. 

Is it only me or is there any of you that think this autumn has been more of a summer? Have you packed away your summer dresses and found autumn clothes? Are you wearing boots instead of cute ballerinas and thick jumpers instead of little cardigans? I'm not!! I'm still using my summer clothes. It's as warm here as it is in Northern part of Norway where I grew up as it is in Norway in the summer so I'm still wearing my gorgeous floral Joe Browns dress from Simply Be I bought not so long ago. It's on sale now as well, so snap it up before it's gone, as this dress is really lovely.








Isn't it a gorgeous dress. I think these kind of dresses are so flattering on my curvy plus size body. It really enhances my shape and makes me look very proportioned. I've kept the outfit simple as I want the dress to shine. It's such a vibrant and lovely print that I will even use this dress into the winter. I'll layer it up with tights, boots and a pretty jumper or thick cardi and a cape and I will be ready for colder weather. And I need a bit of colour and reminder of warmer times in the winter. It makes me happy and looking forward to spring and summer again. And remember it is only 63 days till the sun turns again and it gets lighter every day.



This dress is a great fit over my boobs and doesn't "cut" my boobs in half as many other dresses do. So when I find a great dress like this one, I tend to treat it so carefully that it can last a long time. It's a nice and thick fabric as well so I can't see it wearing out quickly. A very good crafted dress.

Do you like Joe Browns?



Xxx

 Rarely have I been to a more beautiful city then Bruges. I was surrounded by beautiful achitecture, canals and we lived in the most amazing hotel too. I will write a travel guide to Bruges in another post, but this one is all about what I wore on the last day of my stay.

It was a very warm and lovely long weekend in Bruges with temperatures up towards 26 degrees so on Saturday and Sunday I wore summer dresses, but the last day we were there, Monday, was a little bit cooler.

I had brought with me my gorgeous Nicky Rockets Curves vest and wanted to wear that to get the message out there while I was just taking in all the beauty that was around me. I teamed it up with this gorgeous skirt from Asos. I bought it in the summer and it is not on the website anymore. I also wore a simple black cardigan to make the t-shirt and skirt shine.

I've got VERY short legs hihi

Hell Yeah!!! :)

Details.

My cute hair clip as I changed my hair from pigtails to this. :)

T-shirt from Nicky Rockets (HERE)
Skirt from Asos (Old)
Cardigan (Old from a clothes swap)
Shoes from F&F for Tesco (Old)
Handbag (birthday present)
Bangles Evans (Old)
Glasses Read or Dead (HERE)
Ring Harry Fay (HERE)

Do you own a Nicky Rockets t-shirt? If not are you getting one?


Xxx

I have never been shopping much from abroad as I've been concerned about the cost of customs and also about fit as it would be a lot more hassle to send anything back abroad. When I lived in Norway I used to buy clothes online from abroad sometimes as this was the only way I could get more exciting ones. When I moved to Canada there was a bit more choice, but when I moved to UK I felt spoilt. As a size 22/24 I had lots of choice, both in high street stores, supermarkets and online. So I haven't really felt the need to get something from abroad, until now.

I went shopping with the gorgeous Katt, Abi and my friend Heidi back in August. Katt had a dress that she had bought, but didn't fit from Modcloth that I wanted to take a look at as I loved it. I was a bit worried it wouldn't fit over my boobies, but when I tried it on it was a perfect fit. I was in love.

Boob grabbing!!!! I Love this photo of Katt and me. :)

LOVE the back of this dress. It's so cute. And the print is amazing.

Modcloth is an American company that specialises in independent designers and they have some amazing and quirky clothes. If you haven't looked at their site yet, go now and take a look and I can guarantee you that there is something that will catch your eye. Visit Modcloth HERE

I decided to wear this dress for the evening do at Plus North and so I did. I felt so nice and I got lots of comments on the dress and that I looked lovely. Here you can take a look for yourself.







 Dress Modcloth (sold out)
Shoes Primark (Old)
Necklace (charity shop, old)
Belt (Street market)
Bracelet Azendi (HERE)*
Flower Accessorize (Old)

Becky, Abi, me and Sam. Aren't we a stunning bunch?? :)

After this first encounter with Modcloth I have totally fallen in love with the shop and even if it cost me extra to get them sent to UK and the risk of having to pay customs on top of that, the clothes are so beautiful that it's worth it. I have had two more orders come to me since this first lovely dress and I can guarantee you it won't be the last as I'm officially in love.

Do you ever buy clothes from abroad?

Even if I'm fat, I'm quite lucky to have well shaped legs. I really like my legs and like showing them off. In the summer I always go bare legged, but in the winter I need tights, stockings or leggings to not become like a smurf in the colder weather that we have got now.

I normally wear leggings or tights, but with some skirts or if it for a special occasion it's nice to wear suspenders and stockings or hold ups as they gives you instant confidence and you feel very feminine.

But plus size stockings are not easy to come by. At least not some that goes up far enough on my thigh so that I don't fear the embarrassment of having my stocking around my ankle if it slides down.

Pamela Mann kindly sent me a pair of hold ups for me to try since they have a plus size range both in tights and stockings.




I had been sent the size 20-26 which was a quite good fit for me. I'm 5'6 so average height, but I have to admit that I did struggle to get them up. Ideally I would have liked it if I could have managed to stretch
them even further up on my thigh, but when it was up it stayed up the whole night I was wearing them. The stocking itself is delicately decorated with a lovely soft lace which has the normal "gluey" strips on it to keep them up. This band was a bit annoying on one stocking as it kept folding over. This made me a bit conscious about the stocking, but that being said, it did stay up so plus marks for that.


As I said, I wore them a whole night when I was out on a date night with my husband. I walked around quite a lot in them and also up and down stairs which is something I find tricky when wearing stockings. Another plus was that they didn't ladder all evening.

These stockings are good, but I think that for my own comfort would prefer to use them with suspenders as I was worried they would fall down.

Do you like wearing stockings/hold ups?


Xxx

*Item was gifted to me, but all views are my own. 

This beautiful baby doll is made in a lovely silky satin with lace around the bust. It's really comfortable with elasticated straps so it doesn't end up "on top" of my boobs. 


Lovely stretchy lace details around the bust. I chose size 6XL which is a 26/28, but due to my bust measurements I knew that 5XL would be too snug. I'm glad I did as even in size 6XL it's a little bit snug over my boobs. But not more than I feel comfortable. Since it's 6XL it becomes very baggy around my waist, but it doesn't bother me much. It looks nice.


The bottom of the babydoll has got a lovely contrast hem and also a sexy split with a little cute bow. This gives it the little extra so you can show a bit of thigh as well.



Xxx 

*This item was gifted to me, but the views are all mine.