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A photo of the nesting doll with all dolls packed away inside. It's painted turquoise and white with gold accents and paisley motifs. Hand lettering in a thought bubble says, "Who won us?"

Nesting doll winner announcement!

On 1 August, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Blog Stuff

It’s time to announce the winner of the nesting doll set…

~drumroll~

I exported the results from my survey and opened them in Excel, then I went to random.org to pick a random number. It chose number 174 and on line 174 was…

Caitlin’s survey response! I’ve already emailed her to congratulate her and [...]

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The definatalie.com header graphic, with hand lettering and paisley doodling.

Blog Housekeeping.

On 31 July, 2011 · 15 Comments · In Blog Stuff

If you’ve been to my site in the last few hours you might have noticed that I’ve shuffled a few things about on definatalie.com. The most significant change is that I’m now using the conventional reverse chronologically ordered layout rather than the magazine style layout I’ve had for some time.

I made the change [...]

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A graphic with hand drawn block letters in a fridge magnet style. It says “definatalie.com is about” and a whole bunch of words including: fat, acceptance, empowerment, personal style, fashion, art, community.

Would you help me build a media kit for my blog? I have a bribe!

On 21 July, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Blog Stuff

More and more I’m asked to provide media and other interested parties with information about myself and my blog, so I’ve been preparing a kit with all sorts of information. It includes a profile of me and this blog, talking about my ethos and reasons for blogging as well as data on traffic and demographics. [...]

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Primping and preening

On 14 July, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Art, Blog Stuff

I did a bit of sprucing up on my blog this evening. I’d been meaning to for a while but time had gotten away from me! As always, I got way too into it and started playing in Illustrator with lettering I’d copied from sketches.

My soundtrack all [...]

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Archive this!

On 24 May, 2010 · 21 Comments · In Blog Stuff

I got an email the other day from the National Library of Australia, asking if I would grant a license for my blog to be archived in PANDORA for perpetuity. Not really understanding the awesomeness of this, I turned to Twitter… to find out that this was in fact, a Big [...]

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Outfits from the last week

On 21 September, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Blog Stuff, Fashion

The other day I tentatively asked on Twitter whether I should start posting outfit of the day (OOTD) photos here, and was met with a rather confidence boosting and unanimous “YES”. I’ve been posting outfit photos to various flickr pools as well as the Fatshionista Livejournal community for a while, whenever I’ve remembered [...]

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All new definatalie.com, again!

On 20 September, 2009 · 12 Comments · In Blog Stuff

I decided to move my website from the Serendipity platform to WordPress, and in the process figured that if I was going to port the design over… I may as well redesign it! So now definatalie.com has a new bone structure and a makeover, and I’m quite proud of [...]

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