Well it’s been a while since I last posted and there’s a reason!
In September 2016, my then boyfriend proposed to me while travelling around Myanmar. Not wanting a long engagement we got married in June 2017. You could say I’ve been rather pre-occupied planning the wedding and of course upcycling and making as much as I could for it. I was wanting to post as I went along but decided to keep the plans under wraps until after the wedding as wanted everything to be a surprise for the guests! I now wish I had at least written them at the time…!
So the theme of the wedding was Travel, simply because I’m a bit of a traveller and since my newly acquired hubby, Danny, met me he’s become a bit partial to it too! The theme was also perfect because we’ve quite a lot of friends of different nationalities and origins so it was a great way of celebrating that. Plus, the other theme option was cars (Danny’s passion) and I wasn’t going to have that!
I’m just going to keep this blog post short and should be back very soon with more but in the meantime if you look at the title picture you can see pictures of some of the things I made. If you want a nose at some pics from my wedding then my cousin who is a wedding photographer and was there as a guest couldn’t resist snapping a few pics which you can view on her website: https://lesleythomasphotography.pixieset.com with the password: Bennett. Simply search for Chrissy & Danny’s Wedding on 17th June 2017.
5) Next, I spray Montanta Crackle, Grey Squirrel colour in a sweeping motion over the piece and wait for the magic to take place… and wait….ummm…while a bit of cracking did occur it seems you need an oil based undercoat for optimum results. Instead, after drying a couple of hours, I decided to give it a light sand, dusted it down then used white spirit on a cloth and wiped it in the direction of the grain and hey presto got a great distressed effect.
8) Houston, we have a problem! The handles are a gold antique colour which is not the best match for grey but don’t despair as I found this great spray in my local B&Q and one blast instantly transforms them into chrome coloured handles, I even screw all the screws into an old bit of wood and give them a spray up to! (Notice the use of the lingerie again!).
e bar was a novelty at first and it was like being a kid in a sweet shop. Not sure about you but when I was a kid I loved playing shop and it was a bit like that only playing barwoman. Anyway I think we all know where this is all going…the more we used the bar the more we started to get even more cuddly than we were.
I made a conscious decision years ago to accept myself for how I am and accepted that my weight can go up and down and that I am not defined by how I appear on the outside but who I am as a person. With this acceptance actually led to weight loss and to me eating much healthier and ditching the negative connotations I had with food. Yes, I still put on weight if I consume too much but I also lose weight, it’s never more than a few pounds either way but this is not a conscious effort and just happens.
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you that you should look and be a certain size. The media lies and tells us that it’s all about outer beauty and it seems being a kind, caring person with inner beauty is nowhere near as important as looking the part! So when you don’t measure up to that image then you are in some way a failure or not good enough. What a warped lie, yet a very powerful one and it’s no wonder that there is such a big incidence of adolescents that suffer with eating disorders when this is what society is telling them.
Talk to any tall, slim, attractive girl and see if how she looks has made her happy. I think you may find that they have their own problems from looking that way. I’ve had friends who’ve struggled to make friends as other girls would think they were ‘up themselves’ or ‘who does she think she is’ just based on how they look. People who think these things are obviously insecure and not at peace with how they look but still it’s not exactly their fault if they have pretty faces and lovely figures. I’ve also known girls to be bullied because of being ‘too beautiful’. So the grass is not greener on the other side.
would not see that I was fat – in reality, when you are bigger you actually look slimmer by wearing more fitting clothes! I remember one period of my life, probably early twenties when people would ask if I had a boyfriend, I would look at them in disbelief that they had asked a question like that and would think ‘Look at me, of course I don’t’ but outwardly I’d make a joke of it by saying ‘No, I haven’t found anyone good enough for me yet’ or ‘I’m far too happy being single, I don’t want to be tied down’. I really did believe that no one would want to go out with me because of the way I looked. In reality I gave off the ‘I don’t want a boyfriend vibe’ and ‘Don’t come near me’ so there were guys interested but I acted like I wasn’t bothered by them so they didn’t pursue me. Them not pursuing me was my affirmation that they didn’t find me attractive. Now I look back and see how silly my line of thinking was and how warped my outlook was but back then it was my reality. Self fulfilling prophecies really do have a lot to answer for.
kind of gal and I consciously made the decision that I wasn’t going to let food control me anymore and I decided to be nice to myself and give myself a bit of acceptance and self love. I decided that if people didn’t like me because I was fat then that was their lookout. And in reality, I’d suspect there are very few people in the world that would not like someone due to their size and if they were that shallow then why would I be bothered what they thought anyway? Ahhh…but you do when you can’t see the wood for the trees.
We can be our own worst enemies and critics – why do we allow that? Just think of all that wasted energy you spend on criticising and hating yourself, where does it get you? Why not focus our energies on learning to love ourselves as we are and gaining acceptance of ourselves?
naturally goes down. If I fancy eating a bar of lard for breakfast I will and I refuse to feel guilty for doing so (although I can safely say I don’t get the urge to), if I want 5 plates full of buffet food at that party I will have it and guess what I may feel a bit full and wish I hadn’t ate quite so much but do I feel guilty and start counting up all the calories I’ve consumed? NO because let me tell you this, I prefer to live my life to the full and not waste my time on all these insecurities and fear. As a result I have a very healthy self esteem, I like myself (mostly, it wouldn’t be human if we didn’t have the odd wobble here and there) and above all I am a pretty healthy size. I don’t know whether it’s an age thing but the foods I’m attracted to now has completely changed to what I craved before, so now the thought of a nice healthy salad is far more mouth watering and attractive than a chocolate bar. They say you get out what you put in so feed your body with great nutrition and you’re going to get more out of it than feeding yourself with crap!
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