The AF Bloggers Budget Challenge - November

I've been following a blogged called Sera for a long time now, initially I followed her Slimming World blog but when she moved in to fashion I carried on following her.

For a while now she has been involved in fashion challenges. After a lovely chat on Twitter it was decided to do a Plus Size / Curvy edition. Now even as a "BIG" girl I don't know what the correct or polite terminology is.

The challenge is called

The AF Bloggers Budget Challenge

The other ladies in the challenge are:

Sera  - who organised it all
Beth
Kathryn
Kellie

The jist is 4 bloggers one store one theme, all the clothes are from Clothing at Tesco -Party Range

As a massive fan of Tesco clothing I was very excited, I go to my local store a fair bit and just before the challenge I’d been to the Tesco Home store in Denton and seen lots of nice things. I'm not a massive fan of shopping on line and initially struggled finding things I’d seen in store available in my size (20/22) on line.

The "Theme" was Christmas Party Wear. I knew exactly which dress I wanted from the True Range. Black and with Lace - as a normal avoider of black i thought it'd be nice for a change.

We got given £30 so with my spare £12 I wanted to get shoes but the ones I liked or they weren't available in my size, so I did a bit of panic buying and got a jacket and a cardie from the sale area.

I also need to apologise for the photo quality my camera is eating memory cards so I'm using the internal memory.

The Dress was £18 from the True Range - this is a range I tend to avoid as I can just about fit into the standard F&F range but as this was a plus size challenge decided to run with it.

I love the dress, its really nice good quality material, the main dress is a thick Jersey and the lace is nice and stretchy so i don't feel restricted.  Sadly i don't think the shape is very flattering on me.

Dress Size 22 - Tesco £18

I also got this Kimono style jacket, I didn't realise (even though the title should have told me) it was flowery I thought it was dotty. I just don't know how it is meant to look when its on.

Jacket Size 22 Tesco £7

 I love the white waterfall front cardie they only had it in a 16 but it fits! I thought it might dress down the outfit so I could wear it for work.

Cardie Size 16 Tesco £5

Shoes Size 7 M&S 

I have plans to wear this dress for a friends 30th in December and I will be teaming it with Black tights and some Navy and Black Heels from M&S, the theme of her Party is B&W however I don't like this combo so thought I’d add the blue to cheer me up.

Another Weekend Another Dress

I'm really enjoying wearing dresses at the weekend and i don't i'd complain if i got told i could only wear dresses for the rest of my life. 

The weather yesterday was quite nice so i wore the dress i got from ASOS Curve. i wasn't quite brave enough not to go without a cardie so i wore my H&M one.

 I adore the neck detail on this dress, i think its a little bit different.

I also love these shoes, but sadly they are too small for my and by the time we were ready to go home my little toes were really painful! i'm not ready to part with them just yet.

OOTD - Saturday

Today i had to go to the Dentist boooo - good news apart from a some potential gum issues that i can fix myself by flossing, i don't need any treatment. No dentist visits for 12 months! 

It was strange weather this morning, sunny but cold so i went with the old faithful jeans, i dread the day these wear out. 

My converse and a top from ASDA Moda

 Teasing you. here is the full outfit , thank you primark for the use of your mirrors.

Shoes - Converse
Jeans - NL £11 Size 20
Top - ASDA Moda £6 Size 22

 On i forgot i also wore a cardie as it was a bit chilly

Cardie - £7 H&M 

Weeks Round up

I feel like i've run out of time this week, We've been in our billing week at work and it is always a really tiring process and not my fave aspect of my job but as a billing analyst guess its not something i can get out of! 

Don't get me wrong i love my job which not many people i know can say but sometimes it gets in the way of life and blogging

The important things for this blog my clothes

Tuesday - Felt like a trousers day. 

Top - Sainsburys size 20 past season
Trousers - Matalan Size 24 £5

Boots - Tesco £15 

 Wednesday - It was raining and although i am happy to embrace Autumn i'm not quite ready to give up summer just yet.

 I wore a Peachy Corally dress from Newlook Inspire, this was a sale bargain but i can't remember how much it was. it was cheap enough to justify buying it at least a size too big.

Necklace £1 Dotty P's

oooo this is a bit washed out
 i teamed it with Black tights, a black cardie and my tesco boots
Dress NL
Cardie - Tesco a hand me down

 Thursday i didn't take a picture but i wore the bow print skirt i got at the leeds fat swap. a black vest from Tesco and some berry coloured tights (the tights are the same colour as the top in the next couple of photos.

Friday - dress down day at work.

I'm sick of feeling scruffy on a dress down day, a couple of Next Sales ago i got the top below, but i've never known what to wear it with. i feel like i needs a really nice dressy skirt but i don't think that look is very ME.

So as it was DDF i wore the jeans.

The top is lacy, not sure how to describe it so some useful terms would be appreciated. it comes with a built in liner which makes it work appropriate and buttons up the back, i did wear a black vest for that extra layer of protection in case all the buttons popped off!

Top Next Sale £12 Size 20
Jeans - NL £11 Size 20

Close up of the sleave

A close up so you can see the detail, pls ignore my face

OOTD Thursday

I'm still keeping up wearing a skirt a week. While although it is still on the chilly side i felt like being  summery. 

Skirt Size 20 Primark £5 (sale reduced from £10)
Top Size 16 Tesco £1 (Sale reduced from £5)
Cardie Size 20 Leeds Fat Swap, Label is washed out but does remind me of Littlewoods mid 80s

Cardie Detail

OOTD Monday

Back to work today, i've been wearing the same few outfits for weeks.

Time to dig out some other things to wear. I have so many clothes i need to start shopping in my wardrobe.

As it's getting colder I'm going to try and sort out my wardrobe at some point. 



Dress - Primark £10 size 20
Cardie ASDA Size 16
Leggins Next £9 Size 18
Boots Primark

  I wore my Primark Owl print dress, with a Blue Cardie from Asda, the Trusty Next Leggins and Boots from Primark

 Gotta love the Owls

A really bad shot of my boots, these are comfy but are really strange to walk in, they feel soft almost like Jelly shoes.

OOTD Saturday 14th July

Today I am wearing my Cath Kidston flowery ballet pumps. I love that shop but find it incredibly expensive and I often wander in and out without buying anything. Just checked the link for the shows and these are now reduced to £12.00 which I don't think is bad!

Work knows how much I love it and bought me these shoes.

I am also wearing my simply be boyfriend cardie yes the same one as yesterday

Black leggins from Next. I'm not a massive fan of Next and I must admit I only buy sale items from there with the exceptions on ankle length black leggins which I can't get enough of

Navy sun dress from h&m got this a couple of years ago for holiday them promptly lost it!

It reappeared a few months ago but as I've gained weight since I bought t. Feel it's too small however today I thought sod it I ripped the label off and here it is. I love the rope straps and belt detail and the fact it has pockets!

It looks much better with the Cardie on; I just took it off to prove it’s too small!! It also kept riding up at the side where my bag was so I’m glad I had leggins on or it could have been trés embarrassing!