Catching Up: Lessons Three and Four

I'm a bit behind on my lessons... so here's me trying to catch up!

How To Be A Fat Bitch: Lesson Three

Week Three's assignment is to challenge yourself to wear something that you might have felt wary about in the past. Break up your routine with something different and you might open yourself up to some radical new styles!"

I'm super excited about this assignment! I've been wanting to revamp my wardrobe for a long while now and haven't gotten around to it. I'd love to go thrifting and try out some new styles, but honestly money's a bit tight right now and I don't know if I'll be able to do that anytime soon. I really need to get a new job :/

But! I think a good cheap substitute would be for me to try to get into doing my makeup. I never really went through a makeup phase when I was younger -- I never learned how to do anything, so I'm pretty damn clueless as to what I should do and what would look good on me. I've been trying to ease into it a bit -- I've even bought some new shades of lipstick! Even though I love them, I'm still feeling a bit weird about wearing them out in public. I'm not used to drawing attention to myself, or having to worry about accidentally touching my face and smudging something, so I've been a bit paranoid. I would really like to get into the habit of wearing lipstick out and about, though, so that's what I'll try to do for this assignment until I'm able to go clothes shopping :) Here are a couple of the shades I've purchased recently (and have only worn around the house, because I feel that silly).

^Wet 'n' Wild's Black Orchid!^

^N.Y.C.'s Retro Red^

How To Be A Fat Bitch: Lesson Four
This lesson is all about loving your fat body, and seeing beauty in other fat bodies despite what the media says. Our assignment is to create a tribute to a fat body. Your fat body or somebody else's. Make a papier mache figure, draw a silhouette,  photograph your rolls, curate a collection of images of bodies similar to yours, etc." 

It's a bit late for me to do anything about that right now, but keep an eye out for it in the (hopefully) near future! I have a few ideas up my sleeve ;)

x
Krista

#3

Hey kitties!

Sorry I've been gone for a while... school started back up again and I've had a lot of reading to do.

I've started working on some fat art! I don't know how long it's going to take me to finish it, as I've been crazy busy with schoolwork, but I'm glad I've at least started to do something with this canvas. I've had it for a ridiculously long amount of time for it to still be blank.

Here's what I've got so far:

I'm quite liking it so far!

I also got a mani/pedi like I'd been wanting to since week one... I absolutely love the color!

Alright, that's all for now. Hopefully I'll be posting more frequently, and with more exciting things!

x

Krista

P.S. Dude, were there enough exclamation points in this post? I don't think so!!!!

How To Be A Fat Bitch: Lesson Two

This week's assignment is to reclaim the word fat and do something amazing with it. So I've been brainstorming some ideas of what I can do -- let me know what you think!

1. Put on my favourite outfit, get all dolled up, and have a photo shoot in my  backyard -- making sure to accentuate my fatness! :)
2. Bake a cake and write "FAT BITCH" on it with yummy colored frosting. Mmmm. 
3. I have four canvasses and some acrylic paint... I can make some fat art!
4. Maybe post something on Facebook to try to make more people aware of fat acceptance
5. Write a song or a short story about fatness :)

That's all I've been able to come up with... I can't promise that I'll do all of these, but I'll definitely do some! I can't wait to get started :)

x
Krista

#2

Hey kitties!

So I made cookies yesterday! I liveblogged the whole thing on instagram, so I thought I'd transfer it all over here.

First things first: gotta get my apron on! The last few times I've baked I've always forgotten to put it on, so I made sure not to forget this time. I got it from my Momma for... Christmas or something. I can't remember. It was in 2011, I think. It's from Anthropologie in case you were wondering!

Next I got all the ingredients together. I decided to bake some oatmeal cookies because I had been craving them something fierce for weeks. If we had raisins I would have put them in, but alas, we did not. I got the recipe from the smitten kitchen website.

After mixing everything up and letting the dough cool probably longer than was really necessary, I spooned them into balls and placed them on a cookie sheet.

I really should have made smaller balls and used two cookie sheets, cos this is what happened...

That's what I get for being lazy. Oh well :) Next time I'll do it right, and with raisins! Mmm :)

x

Krista

#5

First part of number five on my list -- dyeing my hair -- is almost complete! FUCK YEAH!!

An behold: the finished product! Here's a side-by-side comparison so you can tell the difference (sorta -- the lighting is kind of funky in my room right now, I dunno why it's so yellow).

I was planning on bathing and doing my nails and that spa treatment and watching Sex and the City tonight, but I think I might wait until tomorrow. I didn't sleep at all last night and I'm pooped. Though I may be able to fit in an episode or two or SatC regardless... ;)

x

Krista

How to Be A Fat Bitch: Lesson One

Hey kitties! 

I've been inspired by the lovely Rachele over at The Nearsighted Owl to get into blogging* again. She's started a course in How to Be A Fat Bitch, and I thought I'd give it a go.

I'm gonna get a bit personal with y'all here for a second: All my life, I've struggled with being larger than all my friends, having trouble buying clothes that were flattering, and even shoes that fit (I'm a size 12 in women's, which is just damn cruel). I've done Weight Watchers at least three times, and lost a good amount of weight each time but was never able to stick with it. And frankly, I'm tired of trying. Of course I'd love to be a bit smaller, but I'm starting to realise that it's no fun trying to be something I'm not. I need to learn to love myself the way I am -- otherwise no one else will love me. That's what Rachele has been helping me see ever since I discovered her's and some other lovely blogs a few weeks ago. I want to be a confident, fat & and sassy bitch. A moral sex kitten, if you will.

So: Lesson One of the How to Be A Fat Bitch project is to write down five things I want to do but normally wouldn't. So here are five things that would make me happy (in no particular order):

1. Go thrift shopping and find some (cute!) clothes that actually fit me.
2. Bake that recipe I've been wanting to try forever.
3. Sign up for a yoga class.
4. Wear something a little more tight-fitting than I would normally feel comfortable wearing.
5. Give myself a spa day -- dye my hair, paint my nails, take a LUSH bath -- all while watching Sex and the City like I've been wanting to for the past few weeks.
6. EXTRA BONUS: Start going through my Closet & Other Junk to clear out unused & forgotten crap!! (Hopefully without getting stuck reminiscing... that stuff gets me every time.)

I get extra credit if I actually do some of them! :) So I'll update y'all on my progress throughout the week. If anything I do calls for a picture, I'll post it on instagram and tag it with #fatbitchecourse and #nearsightedowl.

Thanks for reading, kitties! I'm super excited about this project :)

x
Krista

*here, the term 'blogging' refers to actually using a proper paragraph format and saying things that can actually be understood by a majority of my potential audience, unlike ASKDFASKDN;KJ (as I do un tumblr)