A Costume For Any Occasion?

Me on Halloween almost 2 years ago can you tell? Just look at that hair!

Everyone loves a good excuse to break out the fancy dress and go out on mass but in the past I've found it pretty difficult to find good costumes in plus size that aren't A. Something completely shapeless like a present costume or something that barely covers your bum which is similar to my costume above, I had to wear the black dress under it to cover my modesty on many different levels!

I recently found Elliotts Fancy Dress and even though now isn't the perfect season who needs an excuse such as Christmas or Halloween for a fancy dress party? Not me! and what's even better they have a brillaint range for plus size people like myself. Though of course I still love making my own costumes and being imaginative when it comes to my creations but sometimes you just can't beat a cute ready made costume to throw on and be out in an hour instead of spending weeks sewing a million sequins to metres of fabric! 

A personal favourite of mine from the site is the adorable cowgirl fancy dress online complete with cow print skirt, which lets be honest I'd probably wear out as normal day wear anyway!

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We're just the same, we all get desperate sometimes, feeling black and blue.

This is Paloma Faith's 3rd(?) single of her second album and I genuinely love the whole thing! Obviously I've blogged a number of times about this girl because I do have a massive crush on her, in fact if you feel the need to us together (yes that happened) you can see it here. I'm also obsessed with Paloma's tattoos on her back which in my eyes are artwork. But anyway I could just talk for hours about her face, let's be honest!

I've had to watch this video twice to realise that Paloma is most of the characters ( I still can't decide if she's actually the bloke or not...) It's just so beautiful and simply which for someone who is as mental as Paloma is something fresh. Another thing I love about her is that she always sings from the heart and each of her own songs will have a genuine story behind it and I think it's really important to have a connection to a song or the lyrics if you want to sing it to it's full potential.

This is just a short post to show you a video I'm loving and it feels I haven't done a music post for awhile. I actually had to restrain myself from posting the photo's from when I saw Justin Bieber... I kind of still want to though. Tomorrow I'm going back to my old College to do a talk all about blogging, exciting and a little scary! I'll let you all know how I get on!

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Pantomime.

For the last month or so Panto has pretty much taken over my life in the best possible sense as it's something I utterly love doing! I'll class myself as wardrobe assistant but I basically help out all over, from dressing the cast as believe me these costumes are heavy and not at all easy to get on, to altering and fixing costumes to. I also get asked my input or thoughts on how it looks from the stage. I'm lucky enough to help one of the loveliest ladies I know she's called Diane and it's always a pleasure to see her and help her out!

I snapped these pictures during one of the shows, while my dressing room was empty. Unfortunately I didn't make any of these costumes but one day I'd love to try my hand at making something for the stage. Another thing panto has made me do is love glitter, sparkles and anything diamante! If my 15 year old self could see me now she'd be horrified! (at 15 I generally hated colour, wore alot of black and liked to think I was a massive emo, and I wasn't.)

By the way the Pantomime was Sleeping Beauty and we had some rather wonderful music in it including tracks from Olly Murs, LMFAO and even had the dame doing Gangnam Style... the most disturbing thing I've ever seen to this day!

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