Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation

Okay, so I've lost a bit of weight on my own, put it back on, took it back off - I'm sick of it.
I am sick of trying really hard to lose weight and then putting it back on the second I come within sniffing distance of a carbohydrate. So, no more no-carb diets - I'm trying the Michelle Bridges 12WBT, and I am pretty excited about it.
Scared is probably a more accurate term, but I'm committed to the program, and to blogging about the program. I'll still blog a bit about clothes and everything - maybe more than before? - but my focus is on getting fitter, smaller, and healthier. I have a whole wardrobe of brand new summer UK18 dresses, skirts, shorts, blouses, belts, and other exciting things waiting for me. I can't wait to blog about them. I can't wait to fit in them. I really hope taking photos will be less painful then - I do so want to keep a pretty blog but its hard to blog about clothes when the pictures make you cry.

Heres a picture that really got me thinking -

Lets do this thing! I hope I gain some followers from posting this on the 12WBT forums, because I would love to think someone was reading, keeping me honest and accountable. It's hard sometimes to stay true to a plan when nobody is watching.

I have 35kg to lose - wish me luck?!

Much love to anyone out there who just wants to love the skin they're in - but thinks that maybe it could use a little downsizing action.
Happy thoughts -
Emma
WARNING - UNDIES AND SPARE TIRE SHOTS AHEAD

OOTD - Love at First Sight

So, I got two parcels today - an awesome luggage bag from Dorothy Perkins, and the Collar Insert Dress in Latte by ASOS Curve.
This dress was love at first sight. Oh my. Oh my. It is so fun and flirty and light and swirly and I just couldn't behave in it.

Twirling and carrying on? Me? Never!

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Awesome awesome dress.

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In other news, my awesome floral tapestry luggage bag from Dorothy Perkins came just in time to go housesitting!

All packed up and ready to go!

It is so much more bottomless than it looks. Nestled among my many treasures in there (other than the gin!) is an awesome River Island handbag I've been neglecting to take pictures of. I fell in love with it after seeing this post on Cupcakes Clothes. (I also bought the dress but it isn't here yet!)
As it is only Spring here in Australia the timing couldn't be better, even if I'm a bit behind the other bloggers!

I have a lot to do to get ready for housesitting, as I am also having a new friend over for dinner on Saturday night. To be honest I'm a bit of a nervous wreck about it. I don't often have friends over, and even though it isn't my house I feel very awkward about all the possible inadequacies. I'm not terribly good at socialising and being in such a small town (and such a strange girl!) it is hard to find new people and try to do the whole friend shebang. I want very much to have a small circle of good friends. I am not used to not having a circle of intimate chums, I 'lost' mine when I followed The Boy across the country.

Nervously,

OOTD By Request - Bird Shirt

I bought this shirt because it was cheap (AU 13 GBP 8) and I thought it had the potential to be cute, and at that price it was worth a shot.

It isn't what I expected. Looking at the picture on the website, I expected it to be a starchy workshirt kind of cotton, because I rarely pay close attention to these kinds of things. In fact, it is the loveliest stretchy viscose, and could not be more comfortable.
I paired it with a flowy blue chiffon skirt by Rockmans and found it had the cutest retro feel.

I was rather bummed that my good bra has gone on some kind of walkabout, but this shirt was very forgiving, unlike others I tried on today! When I buttoned the shirt all the way up to the top, it had the sweetest innocent almost childlike kind of vibe.

I love this shirt! It is going to be a staple of my wardrobe this summer.


 

love love love, 

2 Months of ASOS

A week under 2 months since I discovered ASOS, 12 orders, 58 items, endless love.

Heres the majority of the clothes on a rack: (pants and skirts are on shared rods, so don't be fooled by the number of hangers)

and in a pile, because I was too lazy to bring them out of my wardrobe one by one:

This of course doesn't include jewellery and hair accessories, which I've also been accumulating rapidly.
I have not sent one single thing back, as I am yet to be disappointed.

I LOVE ASOS.
That simple.

love,

Cleaned Up My Wardrobe!

Inspired by the gorgeous Charlotte of Sugar and Spice, as she posted an entry about her wardrobe and dresser, I finally took on the gargantuan task of cleaning up and organising my main wardrobe!
My dresser is in no fit form to be seen, but if I shift things around, I won't know where anything is, so it gets to stay as is and be my untidy little secret ^_^

I thought about doing before and afters, but the befores were far too shameful.

Yay Organisation!

I am supremely blessed in that this is only one of my wardrobes. The top cupboards hold shoes and luggage, and a lot of The Boy's old videogames and figurines. The wardrobe is in a room we refer to as 'my' room, which is pretty large and has no real purpose. We have 3 spare rooms and this is one of them, we own a 3 bedroom 2 lounge room house and have utilised the back lounge as a super big bedroom. I love it.

My cabinet of DOOM

Outfits to wear

I have quite a few dresses stashed around the house in various states of laundering, in addition to many many piles of random clothing here and there. I'm working on it.

My display cabinet and some treasures

A random assortment of homeless things

And a Disney princess balloon.

Which is about 18 months old now, and still going strong. 

<3

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So, thats my main wardrobe, even if it looks terribly empty. It is where I keep my newest dresses, my shoes, and the handbags I use most (other than my everyday bottomless pit bag.) Also homeless things, childhood books, and the DVDs that The Boy doesn't want to admit are in his house. Apparently having my Friends boxset and such in the loungeroom is one thing but my holographic pink Barbie boxset or the Buffy DVDs are across some sort of line. Go figure. I have 3 other closets and another set of built in wardrobes, and many many many chests of drawers.

Eventually I'd like this room to be like a large dressing room, with a full length mirror and a couch and cube shelves to display my shoes. In the meantime, I settle for the bathroom mirror across the hall and spending time elsewhere, with my shoes in a pile in the pretty pink chifforobe. Le sigh.

A parting shot, my windows. Love.

With so much love,