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Halloween 2013. So much fun dressing up! #goddessbyday #burlesquedancerbynight #biggirlscanbesexytoo #loveyourchub

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First of all, I want to personally thank all of you for supporting, reading, and enjoying my blog. This is has been the best thing I have ever done and find it so incredibly gratifying to have connected and shared with so many of you.  I never knew 3 years ago how much this blog and this community would change and shape my life, and I am forever grateful! So here’s a little something for you to give back to the people who have given me so much. Keep rockin on, making yourself visible, breaking barriers, changing minds, and dancing down the path of self- acceptance to “Damn, I’m fine!” 

So this giveaway will be open for a week. We’ve got four great prizes!

You can win:

One month FREE with Gwynnie Bee. If you’ve already signed up, great! If not, you can sign up here. If you win, your winning month will be additional to your first free 30 day trial! That’s a lot of free clothes! 

An awesome outfit from Proud-Mary Vintage! The cute, vintage dress I’m wearing is around a size 22. Comes with some precious daisy earrings!

A $25 gift card to Embellish Boutique! This is my favorite thrift shop in Atlanta. You can shop in store and online. They carry great new and used plus size clothing. Their Instagram is full of new arrivals! 

A killer sugar skull hair pin from Hell Razor and a beautiful print from Colorfly Studio. 

Each winner will be picked at random through the widget for each prize. 

Just reblog & use the Rafflecopter Widget below to enter! Good luck! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Acceptance

From Voluptuous Vixens on FB:

"I won’t say that hating our bodies is a universal experience, because I know that it’s not, but it is a pretty common one. The problem with a lot of the rhetoric around the whole “love and accept yourself unconditionally” ideology — popular and awesome-feeling though the words may sound — is that it doesn’t leave much space for individual realities, complicated as they are. There are many reasons why loving your body may occasionally be impossible. It happens.  Allowing yourself to then feel like crap about your apparent lack of perfect loving joyfulness in your every molecule is self-defeating. I prefer to advocate for acceptance, because acceptance doesn’t place a value — positive or negative — on our bodies, or our bodily parts. Love can be fickle, but acceptance is not. Your body, and all its little idiosyncrasies and annoyances, exists. You cannot blink the frustrating parts away, and you cannot wish them into oblivion. If you are able tochange them, it will probably take time. So you may as well accept them, as they are, right now.  Acceptance doesn’t mean “I will never change,” it means, “I will roll with whatever changes come,” because bodily changes are inevitable, no matter what you do. I’m fat, and most of the time I love my body. When I don’t, I accept it, and I steadfastly refuse to hate it, because there is no point to hating the awesome vehicle that allows me to interact with and participate in the world. It’s the only one I get. Sure, 24-hour self-love may be the ideal, and we can keep striving for it, but first we must forgive our bodies for not being perfect, and forgive ourselves for any anger or despair we may feel in wanting this to be so. We would do well to remember that in some relationships, forgiveness can be far more powerful than unconditional love. This is true for our bodies too." - Lesley Kinzel

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My first submission to chubby-bunnies yay!