Curvy Girl on the Run

I received an email asking me if I would like to come and visit the  House of Shine  and take a tour and maybe a workshop. This is how it all started. I didn’t know anything about the House of Shine or what it was. I looked it up on the internet to find out more information and was pleasantly surprised at the fun interior and photo ops there were. Little did I know what I was in for.  The workshop I was scheduled to attend was called Name Your Year. It was rescheduled from January to February. I got there a few minutes before the class started and registered and found a seat. I was nervous when I saw the paper on the table as I wasn’t sure what to expect.  We started the class available both in person and via Zoom and I quickly became absorbed with learning what was going on in my life. We did a stop light which red was stop doing these things this year, yellow was continue doing these things and green was start doing these things. Now pick one of the red ones that y...

Not to sound like a spoiled little child, but I wear what I want. It never used to be that way. Not even a little bit. Most of you who know me know I grew up in a very strict home and only was allowed to wear dresses and skirts. And let’s not forget those horrible culottes. Or better yet, please let’s forget them!  Anyways, fast forward to nowadays. I’m so tired of people saying you can’t wear this or you can’t wear that. One of the biggest myths is that bigger women cannot wear horizontal stripes. Why not? I look at it like this. If I’m bigger, I’m still going to be bigger wearing stripes. Nothing will change. My body is still my body.  It took me a long time to get rid of the nastiness in my head. The voice telling me I was too fat. The voice telling me you can’t wear that. The voice telling me to go up sizes because you could see the shape of my butt or my stomach. And I  still felt so uncomfortable because the clothes didn’t fit me right.  Lately, I cannot believ...

I thought I would do something different on the blog this week. Who doesn’t love a good throwback Thursday pic? But why not have some commentary behind it and talk about it more? Dia and Co usually has a monthly campaign in which they discuss different issues. You all know how much I love my monthly Dia and Co box-I actually did an unboxing today over on Instagram! February’s topic is full body love so I thought I would talk about the first time I took a full length body pic and posted it on Instagram. I remember it clearly-I first started posting my outfits of the day on Instagram in a flat lay on the floor in my spare room. I lived in MI at the time and it was winter and freezing cold. I remember that someone (I wish I could remember who) actually commented on a picture of mine and asked me why I didn’t post a picture of myself wearing my clothes. I remember feeling scared and I didn’t want people to see pictures of me. I was incredibly self-conscious and didn’t think I w...

Justin Bieber sings it best... ' Cause if you like the way you look that much... Ohhhh baby you should go and love yourself.. . Love yourself...And by the way, if you are asking, yes, I do listen to Justin Bieber and have been known on occasion to belt out lyrics...Moving on... All you need is love. Love is all you need. Thanks to my friends over at Ollie Marie Boutique  for hooking me up with my outfit today! I'm loving this gold foil tee and these  jeans ! Ollie Marie Boutique has such incredible finds and deals! I'm loving their assortment of clothing and accessories that fit into any budget. An online boutique with unique items and wonderful customer service is sometimes hard to find but they have taken care of me and will do the same for you!  Can we talk about love again for a minute? Love sure is tricky. We think about love in our relationships with our significant others or maybe even the way we love our children or most importantly  the way we lov...

I hate the movie Finding Nemo. There I said it. It's annoying to me that the mom dies at the beginning of the movie. Why do Disney movies always have to have a parent die? Usually it's the mom which annoys me even more. Why not the dad? But the movie is a lovely one in which the dad tries to find the fish child that has gotten separated from him. It's a story of love and perseverance. It's a story of passion and gumption and spunk. It's a story of finding that which is lost. Finding Sandae.  Anyone else have this happen to them? They become a parent, a spouse, an employee, a volunteer, the list goes on and on. They become what they need to become in that particular situation. Take a step back though and really think about it. Do you really know yourself? Do you really know what you like to do? Do you know what you enjoy? Do you really know who you are? What about when you are alone with only your thoughts? What about when you are forced to discover all of these th...