A nice day for a white wedding...

Hello lovers & friends!

It has been a while right?! To say shit's been crazy lately is an understatement. One that I'm not complaining about because let's face it, I'd rather have a million and one things to do than be one of those peeps on FB with a status that reads "I'm bored".

 I'm so excited to share with you a beautiful wedding I had the honor of attending just last week! (I can't believe this post is actually coming to you so soon. I am THE WORST at blogging in real time, haha). My cousin/sis Hermione and her beau Saia finally walked down the aisle and said I do and here are some of the moments I managed to capture on my little point and shoot. I'm not gonna lie, there are a butt load of photos. Enjoy the workout your scrolling finger is about to have...

The bride and her flower girls. 

The bride x 

The page boys taking their important job very seriously x

The head flower girls leading in. Sign was thrifted and then hand painted by my sister with the help of our baby girl Bianca-Rose x

A special father/daughter moment x

The bride & groom x

Gorgeous baby Nia x

Cousins! Beautiful Nia and handsome Lisala x

Tried eyes Bianca-Rose x

Tired eyes but beautiful smile from B for Aunty x

Tree memento - hand drawn by the sis Falala Mele (she's amazingly talented). Guests left their fingerprints as the leaves on the tree for the happy couple x

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Team hair stylists x

WERK Flower Girls, lol x

Mr. and Mrs. Saia & Hermione Fatai x

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Baby Lily-Anne leaves her fingerprint on the tree :)

Bridesmaids aka stunners!  That dress colour is delicious ;) x

The Bride & her MoH x

The wedding was held at the beautiful All Saints Woodville Church just outside of Maitland, NSW. There was a wonderfully, rustic reception space located next to the church and the entire venue was surrounded with lush green paddocks.

The day was super busy (as they always are). My sisters and I were up nice and early to style the hair of the beauties that made up the Bridal Party (Flower girls included)! That was fun! My sister and I traveled from VIC for the day and so couldn't bring hair supplies with us. Challenge accepted...
Cue creative and improvisation skills and we got all that hair done literally using two combs, clothes pegs for holding parts during the styling process, Paw Paw ointment (in place of hair wax), ten tonnes of hair spray and a gazillion bobby pins. IT WAS THE BEST! It actually wasn't that difficult because we had wonderful canvases to work with, our sissaaaaaays are shmexxxxy! ;)

To Hermi & Saia,

It was truly an honor to witness the two of you unify your lives. Thank you for the privilege. I hope you remember always, the special moments and feelings you shared on this day as you jump into the crazy/fun journey of marriage and brave the inevitable challenges life will throw at you.

Love & an abundance of blessing to you both xx

On another note...

Here's what I wore:

I kept this outfit SUPER simple because I knew we would have limited time to get ready for the wedding after beautifying the Bridal Party. So I let the dress do all the work and topped it off with a few subtle accessories in silver and a lip colour that pops.

• Floral dress- Purchased this for $6 while thrifting in Brooklyn, NYC earlier this year.
• Wedge heels- Target $22, last season.
• Silver plait necklace- This was actually a feature piece attached to a top I found thrifting. The top cost $2 so I grabbed it and cut this awesome necklace off it.
• Lipstick- borrowed this beautiful colour from the sister. It is Rimmel #120- Cutting Edge purchased from Kmart for $11 I think.

Please excuse the shocking quality! Yay for phone cameras though :p

OOTD: That thrifted thing...

So this last term of teaching has been SO busy. Mainly because I now work with 4 different classes at two separate schools 45 minutes away from each other 5 days a week! PHEW! It has been super fun and challenging but two weeks ago I realised it had been about 2 months since I had last been op-shopping/thrifting! NOOOOOOO! So by some awesome luck I was able to leave work early one afternoon to run errands and totally didn't even think to pop in to my fave local opshop until I drove past it and feeling bummed because I thought it was closed already! By some MORE awesome luck I pulled over to double check closing time and it was STILL OPEN! YESSS! I had 15mins to scour 2 months worth of this store that was having a 50% sale as well as four $1 and $2 racks...challenge accepted!

I left feeling pretty chuffed with my finds...here are just two of the items I walked away with!

I am a true 90's baby...can you tell? LOL. ehh what can I say...I just love all shit 90's. Floral cotton tee was 50c, Midi skirt was $2 and the fab denmin jacket is borrowed from sister's closet. (I wish it were mine) lol!! Wedges are from Target last season (Size 11W for those inflicted with big feet like me). Thank goodness for Target otherwise I'd be buying all my shoes online. Australia more than lacks in awesome shoes for awesome women with big feet!

So that's that! Short and sweet!

I hope you are well wherever you are. I am about to enjoy the school holidays so I am pumped!

Big love xx

Aussie Curves: LBD...

Hi AC babes!

LBD. I am yet to meet a woman who loathes the LBD. I am not an exception here. I have a little black dress that I wear under EVERYTHING. To say it's my staple is an understatement. My sister and I grabbed two each on our first trip to NYC from H&M's basics range in 2011. We saw it and didn't have any hesitations and in fact had to stop ourselves from buying 5 each lol. It is a soft stretch, cotton baby doll style dress that drops and flows from under the bust and stops above the knees. Perfect for me because I don't usually like to accentuate my middle area and love to leave my legs free.

Since purchasing this dress I've worn it a gazillion times! Here's how I wore it today...

Denim button down shirt $3, thrifted/H&M basics LBD circa 2011/ FOREVER21 neon scarf this season $8/Black hightop creeper style sneakers $20 Payhalf, Harlem/ Reflector aviators $8 Valleygirl this season.

Here are some of the other ways I've styled my faveeee staple!

in Syd, NSW <3

in Nowra, NSW <3 

in Berri, VIC <3

in Harlem, NYC <3

in Boracay, Philippines <3

I seriously don't know what I'll do when it finally falls to pieces off my body from wearing it too much! lol.

So there you have it. The little black dress.

Big love xx

NYC Round 3...The first night!

Hello lovelies!

If you know me, you know I'm shocking at posting things that I would love to share with you shortly after it's actually happened. So here I am a month after our NYC trip, sharing with you some pics of our first night back in our beloved city showing our sissy around for the very first time and watching her fall in love with it just like we did...

love you Ruthy, thank you for always putting up with us! Back in a Yellow Cab <3

Our cozy hotel room at The Pod Hotel on 51st St, Mid Town Manhattan <3

Yes, much needed shower time :)

Times Square <3

Sister Sia x

What I wore: Sheer tribal pattern hi-lo top from Supre Factory Sydney $5/DIY Denim shorts Kmart $12/ Sandals Kmart $5/ Leather hand bag, thrifted $3

sisters, dead from the epic flight but too happy to care!

Times Square <3

We had our own balcony, fave place <3

So there's a quick look at our first night in NYC. We also hit Grand Central Station and a pizza place along the way for our first NY slice....oh how I would love a slice right now!!!

Hope you are well where ever you are and whatever you have on right now.


Big Love xx

Aussie Curves: Feminine for FFFW!

Hi lovely ones! This week's AC challenge calls for an outfit of the feminine kind! The perfect excuse for me to share what I wore to the Full Figured fashion Week, Bloomingdale's Runway event!

I found this dress at my local MS Op shop around the start of the year for $6 if my memory serves me correctly! When I tried it on it was tight around my bust but dropped perfectly from under my boobs as it has an elastic banding. I usually only buy things that I feel comfortable in and fit me nicely but I seriously could not leave the deliciously vibrant floral print hanging on the rack so home it went with me. I had plans to alter it somehow for a comfy fit but somehow it got lost in my wardrobe not to be thought of until I was going through EVERYTHING while packing for NYC! I found it and was like..."Oh HELLO!" lol. I put it on and yes it was still as snug as ever around my bust...my sister and I were talking about how I could alter it because it WAS going in my suitcase to New York one way or another.
I thought of cutting the top half of the dress completely off and wearing the bottom as a skirt but we both agreed that the top was just too pretty SO sister with her brilliant mind suggested she just cut straight down the back to the elastic banding to loosen the whole top half. We sewed a small piece of looped elastic at the top of the cut so it could be secured to the button and hold the two pieces of back fabric together. The fabric is light and flowy so it draped down nicely after being hemmed. LOVED IT!

The yellow shirt I'm wearing is also thrifted. I borrowed it from sister's closet. It was a normal button down shirt that didn't button all the way down but she just loved the colour and the fit around the arms was so perfect that she bought it anyway and simply cut it from under the bust to make a cropped shirt! I wear this all the time when I'm going out clubbing or on a hot day because it's cool (temp wise) and the colour is just...BAM! Defs a fave of mine!

ANYWHO, back to the Bloomingdale's Runway event which was a part of Full Figured Fashion Week. To be completely honest it was pretty hectic but not in a fabulous way. To try and keep it as short and simple as possible here's my pros and cons list:

among the awesome fashion front bloggers for FFFW were our fab Aussie beauties Ash, Sam & Dani <3

Cons

• Being an open event it saw a lot of people vying for a good view of the runway in a tiny space with inadequate seating. To make things that much more difficult the standing areas surrounding the runway still had clothing racks and mannequins in the way which saw sister and I just chilling and being goose-balls amongst the racks while waiting for the show to start.
• Speaking of waiting for the show to start...yeah we waited 2 hours for the kick off. The event ran so behind that by the time the models began working their way down the runway we were just sick of waiting to care much about the fashion.
• Speaking of fashion...yeah that was pretty underwhelming and average. There was nothing there that "wowed" me or that I felt like I hadn't seen before. I must admit though, I didn't actually stay for the whole show because I was just too irritated to make the effort to stand tangled in garments and clothes hangers waiting for what seemed to be mediocre fashion so I may have missed something brilliant but I guess I'll never know.

haha, in with the coat hangers!

Pros

• Meeting beautiful blog veterans that I truly admire!
• Dancing like crazies in the clothes racks (for the first 30 mins, lol)
• Seeing so many fierce, full figured women WERRRRRRK. I honestly think some of the ladies attending the show were flaunting more forward and creative style than what the runway had to offer.
• Chatting to other bloggers who were so excited to be apart of FFFW 2013 
• Stumbling upon Magnolia's Bakery on the way out. WINNING! Hahaha!

While the event side of things was kind of a bust for me, meeting Kiah from From the Rez to the City was TOTALLY worth the heartache. I am not star struck by many but after my sister introduced me to her blog over a year ago I have serioussssssly crushed on her style. She makes bold, brave and striking styling choices AND she thrifts too! Kiah is always on point and in my opinion is just so fly. Meeting her I was kinda all sorts of giggly and wacko I think! She was lovely and greeted me with a hug and a kind smile! So yes...that was the BEST! Kiah, WE LOVE YOU!!! lol. Ok enough of the fan-girling. Smh. Oh wait here's some pics...haha ;)

haha, the excitement is apparent no?!

I also got to meet Chastity from Garner Style! She was super nice and snapped a picture with me a midst the mayhem! I love Chastity's style, the woman can DRESS!!! I adore her polka dot number right here!

The pros for me far outweigh the cons so YAY! The glass is always half full!

nude/pattern brogues $40 size 11 from Rivers...sooo comfy! 

I just love New York City. I leave you with the view from our Manhattan hotel balcony. How I wish I were standing on it right now.

Big love xx