My first bike was a mustard yellow Malvern Star that Dad bought second hand for Christmas. The colour was awful and I remember being excited to have a bike but so horrified at the colour. Dad taught my sister and I to ride in our cul-de-sac and soon we were flying down the hill in the middle of the road like we owned it.
Even though the colour of my bike was the approximate shade of a McDonalds cheese slice stuck to an oily wrapper, I grew close to it and learned of all its secrets. If I wanted to carry stuff on the rear rack I had to balance it just right because it was a little bit wonky; and no matter how hard I tightened the bolts on my handle bars and seat they would go askew at inconvenient moments throwing me off the bike violently unless I paid attention to the warning signs.
I had that same bike until I was about 16 and with it I explored three different neighbourhoods; I rode around multi-story carparks, made my way through bushland to fish water lilies out of the creek and snuck out to the shops to get ice blocks on hot summer days. There must have been some moment when I thought I had outgrown my ugly yellow bike, leaving it in the garage in favour of catching trains and buses to explore things outside my neighbourhood. When I learnt how to drive a car it seemed that I would never ride a bike again!
In recent years I’ve noticed a renewed interest in biking for transport and fun. Brisbane City Council have even started the City Cycle initiative with bikes for hire to get around the inner city and CBD. The programme is pretty cool but I never lived close enough to a City Cycle station to have a go. That, and the last time I’d ridden a bike was well over a decade previously! So living too far away from a bike station, having long distant bike experience, no helmet and lingering doubts that one of the City Cycle bikes could even hold my magnificent body sort of precluded me from jumping on a bike like the Council wanted. Their “healthy initiative” unfortunately won’t be a great success until it becomes more accessible and inclusive.
The thing about encouraging fat people to “just get active” is that far too many activities are unwelcoming and even hostile to fat bodies. Did you know that many resistance machines at gyms have weight limits? Fat people do. Have you ever gone on a nice walk only to have people looking at you or screaming fat hating jeers out of cars? It happens to fat people all the time. So pardon all the fatties when they react with extreme suspicion to council “healthy lifestyle” initiatives!
It wasn’t until I came across the Fat Babes on Bikes Tumblr that I truly believed I could possibly get on a bike again. When the seed was planted, it grew furiously! Fuck Yeah Fat Positive started receiving lots of tips and information about bike riding for fatties and with those bits of encouragement I started researching bikes, tyre pressure and seats until I was fairly confident that I’d be able to sit on a bike and fly down a hill just like I used to.
Before we moved down the coast I had a few goals, and buying a bike and learning to ride again was one of them. My plan fell into place beautifully thanks to Zoe, who sold me her Electra Amsterdam Ticino! I started out by having a ride on the grass with the seat lowered but found it really hard until I figured out the gear was set high, another challenge for me since my childhood bike was only a fixie. My first practice left me feeling exhilarated but a bit daunted, it was a challenge to balance myself on the bike and control the brakes.
A photo of me wearing a bike helmet and smiling.
So I sat back down at my computer and looked up information on learning to ride as an adult. Best of all, I discovered I wasn’t alone and that I wasn’t a complete failure for forgetting how to ride a bike! Top tips that were helpful for me: don’t use the handlebars to steer, instead use them for balance; it’s easier to ride in a straight line when you’re going faster; and many people find rolling, not pedaling, down a gentle grassy slope useful for getting their bike balance. There are quite a few more tips on this fantastic forum thread too!
A few days after we moved into our new place Nick went out and bought his own bike. The assistant at the bike shop was super helpful and listened to all the things Nick wanted to have in a bike, plus he ensured the best fit. Nick bought a speedster, a much faster bike than my Dutch city-styled Electra, and we started out slowly for my benefit because Nick seemed to be able to get the hang of his bike much easier! Once I raised my seat to the right height for me everything clicked and I was able to ride down the street with a fair degree of ease (but alas, very little grace!)
A photo of me standing next to my light blue bike in the middle of a street.
A photo of me standing with my helmet on and my blue bike in front of me.
A photo of me riding my bike, taken from the side.
We’ve been riding down to the shops, along the local bike path and exploring our neighbourhood and while I’m still a little nervous it’s incredibly liberating to be able to get on a bike and make it fly. It’s been so beneficial for my social phobia too, allowing me to go outside for some exercise and exposure to the world while still having a little personal space bubble enveloping me and my bike. I’ve been able to ride around by myself without feeling like everyone is going to laugh at me, probably because my bike makes me feel like I really am in a badass bike babe gang! I’ve even got plans to sew myself up some cute biking outfits. Wanna join my gang?
A photo of me riding my bike away from the camera, down the road.
A photo of sand and the beach with two people walking along the shore line.
Since moving I’ve been quiet, but I’m taking some time out to settle in. Where I was once at home in the city, bordered by big buildings and noise while everyone went about their Very Important Business around me, I’m now allowing myself to sink into a world that is much slower and kinder. There’s lots of nature around us now, and I can sit on the balcony and watch magpies pick over the lawn as corellas and lorikeets browse the branches above. I’ve been riding my bike to the shops and getting to know the best route to take, overcoming narrow pedestrian bridges and roundabouts like obstacles in a new life-sized course. We are about 5 or 10 minutes away from the beach and the best hot chips I’ve ever had in my life!
For some people Brisbane is home forever, and for others it’s just a springboard before going on to much more exciting places. I never really thought I’d leave the city even though Nick and I had dreams of living in Melbourne and being fancy artisan types. The move to the Gold Coast was a decision we had to make due to illness and finances; we never thought it’d be the most ideal decision but as I settle in I’m charmed by the sense of community, the fresh air and the space around me. Too often I am seduced by the most glamorous and fancy things but now I’m seeing the value of the opportunity to rebuild myself in such a caring and nourishing place. It’s rather liberating.
A photo of my feet on sand.
A photo of Nick walking away from the shore towards the camera.
A photo of lots of tiny tomatoes lined up on a window sill to ripen.
A photo of a hanging pot plant with its green leaves tumbling down.
A photo of my reflection in a window as I take a photo.
A photo of the vista from our balcony through a security grill. Beyond tree tops and roof tops Surfer's Paradise sits on the horizon.
A photo of a Polaroid camera and red polka dot tea cups sitting on a shelf with a pink my little pony tucked inside one.
A photo of several hanging pot plants outside agains a backdrop of greenery.
A photo of a bright orange teardrop shaped light fitting in the hallway.
A photo of an owl shaped clock on a wall with pink and green wallpaper.
I admit I am suffering withdrawals from the awesome big hollow brick wall at our old place. It was such a good backdrop for my outfit photos and I haven’t quite found the right place to take outfit photos at this place. I doubt I’ll find a match for the big brick wall for a while so for now I’ll make to with the back of our new place which is quite lovely and almost twee with its weatherboard-clad walls and gardens beautifully tended by Sheila.
A photo of me holding a bright green watering can and pretending to water flowers.
We’ve been so flat out in the last few weeks which is why there’s been a scarcity of outfit posts lately. My moving and unpacking clothes aren’t terribly creative or fun! We’ve been back and forth between Brisbane and the Gold Coast quite a few times and today I had to go into the city for an appointment so I thought I’d get dressed in something beyond a daggy t-shirt and a pair of pajama bottoms.
An outfit photo of me, fat and pale skinned with short blonde hair, wearing a black top with a white peter pan collar tucked into a high waisted pink patterned skirt with black court wedges. I'm standing on a ramp outside our new back door.
Another outfit photo of me.
I always feel a bit prissy in this skirt and one day I’ll get a petticoat so I can ramp up the prissiness factor to a million. The top is actually the Asos Curve peter pan collar dress, but since it is FAR too short for me to feel comfortable in I’ve decided it’s now a top. If I can find some nice pale coloured fabric I might even make a pattern from the dress because I love the idea of the dress but I feel like the black and white is too harsh for this skirt.
A photo of my butt clad in the pink patterned skirt.
Nick stealthily took this photo of my butt however it’s probably worth sharing since I rarely think about getting outfit photos from different angles. This fabric is really nice to wear, a polyester blend if I remember correctly, needing little ironing. It was a little windy today and I noticed some static though!
A close up photo of me turning my head to show off two small pale rose hair clips in the side of my hair.
When I got home (new home!) I had a package from glamsquared in the letterbox, a pair of lovely white rose ear plugs that I can’t actually wear yet. I was overjoyed to see a pair of tiny rose hair pins included in the parcel and I put them in my hair straight away!
Top (a dress): Asos Curve
Skirt: Made by me
Shoes: Softspot
Hair pins: glamsquared
My parents have tried to instill in me the importance of setting goals but I am generally quite a foot-loose and fancy-free type of person. I’ve always floated through life content with pursuing knowledge and experiences organically because life has always seemed to be the sort of thing best served largely unplanned with a side of wondrous wide-eyed whimsy.
Photo of a page in a notebook that says "Goals." and a list. Click for full text.
For me goals have either been quite nebulous (see: be a rockstar and become Michael Jackson’s best friend) or fairly specific (see: learn to crochet, get my art in a gallery or oh-god-let-me-just-survive-this-awful-anxiety-until-I-can-get-home-and-hide-in-bed.) When I think about it I am pretty good at achieving the latter and quite okay with leaving the former filed under A for “As if”, but I’ve always shied away from goals that are imposed on me. I’m not terribly interested in buying a house, maintaining a stock portfolio or losing weight. Other people are, and that’s cool, but it really bothers me when they assume I’d be into the same sort of thing.
So I guess I wanted to try and formalise my goal setting because throughout my life I’ve always felt other people looking down their Rather Adult noses at me because I’m not Terribly Mature. As I mentioned above, sometimes my goal for the day is simply surviving and I feel these little goals are persistently overlooked as unimportant and if you’re like me and have disabilities, a keen disinterest in keeping up with the Joneses, and aptitudes that veer away from the mainstream, you can feel as if your goals and the passions that populate your life aren’t worth much.
I think that my goals should be worth a lot, especially in this recovery period in the wake of a rather bollocks few months. I want to feel like I have some measurable and realistic goals to cross off, and also some other slightly hard to measure ones too that I can be mindful of and work towards. If I can get to New Year’s Day in 2012 and reflect on this list and the stuff I’ve achieved, I hope to feel a stronger sense of confidence and self worth.
Things I want to accomplish before the beginning of 2012
- Ride down to the shops on my bike by myself.
- Make a padded headboard for our bed.
- Paint a mural on our bedroom wall.
- Go to an art gallery every month.
- Grow my nails long enough to do a french manicure.
- Design and sell a new piece of jewellery.
- Hold a nail painting party.
- Get my back tattoo touched up.
- Start my sleeve tattoo.
- Dye my hair turquoise.
- Hold an event for SEQ fatties.
- Sort out my recipe book.
- Finish my first scrapbook.
- Revamp my two bookcases.
- Sell stickers of my art.
- Write a business plan.
- Charge what I’m worth.
- Return the books I have that belong to other people.
- Make a new friend.
- Catch a train from the Gold Coast to Brisbane.
- Make new art.
- Finish my first cross stitch.
- Write ideas down in my sketchbook more often.
- Take action on the ideas in my sketchbook.
- Undergo Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
- Be nice to myself. Engage in positive self talk and commit to dedicated self care.
- Support other people more.
- Make a dress.
- Adopt a puppy.
- Write a zine. Gather all previous zine content and just do it!
It was quite nice sitting down to collect all the loose goals and ideas flinging around my head. If you’ve got 10 minutes I really recommend writing your goals down. Even if they “seem” silly, but are secretly really special and important to you, write them down. I bet it’ll make achieving way more achievable. And if you’d like to share, please do!
The Chilli ‘n Spicy Hut at Burleigh is the first excursion on my Malaysia Kitchen Australia tour. I can see that it’ll be a catalyst for exploration of the Gold Coast’s restaurants, which is pretty important because getting to know a city’s foodie offerings makes you feel that much more settled!
So I took Nick and Sheila (my mother-in-law) out to dinner last night to kick off my Malaysia Kitchen Blogger Ambassador stint. We chose The Chilli ‘n Spicy Hut on the recommendation of the nice people at Malaysia Kitchen Australia because it’s located pretty close to where we now live and we found their menu online. I always like a restaurant that has their menu up somewhere, especially because I’m vegetarian and there’s nothing worse than going out for dinner and finding nothing on the menu to eat!
A photo of the exterior of the Chilly 'n Spicy Hut which has a big yellow and orange awning over the front.
Chilli ‘n Spicy Hut is located in the Old Burleigh Theatre Arcade, a great old building full of retailers. The restaurant is just inside the arcade marked by a cheerful yellow and orange awning. It’s a very small restaurant with inside and outside tables, and because the restaurant is inside the arcade it wasn’t too cold for outdoor diners. There were lots of cheeky chillis strung up inside the restaurant intimidating me because while a little spice is nice, too much makes me cry!
A photo of three entree dishes, top left - clockwise: Mixed entree, sugar cane prawn, vegetable spring rolls.
We arrived early and were among the first diners of the night ensuring that our drinks and entrees were served efficiently. The vegetable spring rolls were the only vegetarian entree option, but they were delicious and crunchy with a fresh vegie filling. Sheila had the sugar cane prawns and Nick had the mixed entree, both raved about the sugar cane prawn! None of us had ever seen the dish before so we were all curious about it; the cane sticks out of the batter much like a prawn tail and apparently gave the prawn a subtle sweet flavour.
A photo of Nick and Sheila at the table, she has her head on his shoulder and both are smiling.
After entrees we chatted and warmed up with our wine. See how cute Nick and Sheila are?! They are super rad. We’re living with Sheila now and are getting on famously; it’s so nice to listen to stories about Nick as a kid!
A photo of four dishes, top left - clockwise: curry duck, combination ho fun, vegetable fried rice, mixed vegetables and bean curd hot pot.
A photo of my dish: Mixed vegetable and bean curd hot pot.
A photo of my dinner bowl full of vegetable, bean curd and rice.
I asked the staff member attending us if she could recommend the vegetarian dish that she liked best and she chose the mixed vegetable with bean curd hot pot. It was one of the only vegie dishes without an ominous chilli symbol beside it and even though I would have given the others a go, I went with her recommendation. I also got the vegetable fried rice and Sheila couldn’t stop raving about it! My hot pot was really warming and full of vegetables. The bean curd tasted beautiful but the sauce was very mild. I think it was more of a Chinese dish rather than Malaysian, so I was a bit disappointed there but it was still delicious.
A photo of our dinner spread with my hands in the background busily scooping food out (to go in my face!)
A photo of a serving bowl full of Nick's Malaysian duck curry and vegetables.
I had a spoon of Nick’s curry duck sauce and it was spicy but really delicious with lots of different spice flavours rather than just being hot. I wished I could have a curry bean curd like Nick’s! Maybe next time we go back I’ll ask if they can do that for me.
A photo of three dessert plates: Nick's fried ice cream, Sheila's banana fritter and my pineapple fritter served with ice cream and a cherry on top.
The dessert menu was full of fried delights, not something I usually go for but I figured since I’m doing this ambassador thing I have to go the whole distance. It’s my duty as a Malaysia Kitchen Blogger Ambassador! I was glad to see a pineapple fritter on the menu as I’ve never liked banana, and when our desserts were brought out Sheila and I couldn’t believe the task ahead of us. There was so much fritter and ice cream! My pineapple was freshly cut into huge chunks and the batter was nice and crispy. I gave Nick most of my ice cream though, he didn’t complain!
A photo of the business card for Chilli 'n Spicy hut sitting inside an empty dessert dish with a scrunched up napkin..
With food in our happy bellies (and the leftovers in gratefully accepted containers!) we left the Chilli ‘n Spicy Hut just as it hit peak busy time. The restaurant had a few loyal local diners very friendly with the staff, and it seems like just the place to hang out if you need a big warming meal after a windy day on the beach, which is just opposite the arcade. (What a life, I love the Gold Coast.)
While I left wishing I’d had something a little more traditionally Malaysian, I know I’m now a local and can always come back and try new things!
Chilli ‘n Spicy Hut
Shop 13 Old Burleigh Theatre Arcade
66 Goodwin Terrace 4220
Ph – (07) 5576 8025
I dined at Chilli ‘n Spicy Hut as a guest of Malaysia Kitchen Australia as a Blogger Ambassador. This is my first review out of four planned reviews over the next four months.
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?"
It’s time to announce the winner of the nesting doll set…
~drumroll~
A screenshot of random.org's random number generator picking number 174 out of 250 entries.
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…
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Caitlin’s survey response! I’ve already emailed her to congratulate her and ask for her postage details. My nesting dolls will be making their way to her place in New Zealand. Horah!
Thank you to the 250 people who filled out my blog survey over the last week and a bit. Now I have heaps of information for my media kit and I’ve already begun to use your feedback to make useful changes to my blog.
I like doing giveaways! I’d love to find more stuff to giveaway so if you’re a business or maker of nice stuff and would like to host a giveaway on my blog you should get in touch with me. It’s good fun :D
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 for a few reasons, most of them to do with accessibility. A magazine style layout limits the amount of information readers can see at a glance and necessitates a lot more clicking. I don’t like clicking a whole lot, so it didn’t make sense to force my readers to! While magazine themes appeal to my need to group information and present it clearly, it doesn’t really work for blogs and if I were to have a useful magazine-themed blog I’d have to undertake far more code tweekery than I’m capable of to make it work.
The layout switch was also important to me because I don’t update my blog as regularly as I used to, and the latest posts in the highlighted categories on the front page were remaining static for far too long. The layout didn’t easily show readers what the freshest content was, and isn’t that kind of what blogging is about?! Readers were having trouble finding new stuff as well as old, so I’m hoping that the new layout will make that easier. Every post displays a hyperlinked category now, and I’ll be tidying up my unwieldy category list so I can display it in the sidebar too. For now you can see the most recent posts in a select number of categories in the top right of the sidebar, those are the categories I post in frequently.
In the latest layout I’ve also increased the font size of the body text, changed hyperlinks to a nice blue colour, included links to my social media places in the sidebar, and listed my blogroll in full on every page. The footer has a little blurb about me, some popular posts I’ve written and a search bar.
I’ll probably be tweaking this layout for a while because there are still things that bother me! One major thing is related to image descriptions, as descriptions appear within the image caption on the site but for those who view my blog posts via an RSS feed those captions are unformatted text indistinguishable from the post text. Nick thinks I can’t hard code an italic tag in there, but I’m going to see if I can figure it out!
I’ll be doing some more research on accessibility and web pages to make my blog as easy to read as possible while still looking cute and reflecting my own personal style. I felt it was important to switch out the very limiting magazine theme as soon as possible based on my increasing discomfort and feedback on my survey (thank you!) I’m also going to write up a page on accessibility so that new readers can gain an understanding of why I incorporate image descriptions, animated gif warnings and other things into my blog.
Come on and check it out!
Let me know if there are any significant obstacles to easy reading of definatalie.com for you and I’ll see if I can make your experience better. I truly believe that the Internet can only benefit from more involvement and consultation when it comes to accessibility, and I’d love to be able to enhance access for my readers because youse are GROUSE!
We moved down to the Gold Coast this week and it’s been intense! Fortunately the move went smoothly and we’ve only lost the TV remote control in transit and pinched a few nerves. Protip: Use your knees when lifting and tape your remote to your TV.
We came back to Brisbane on Thursday and stayed with my Mum and Dad overnight to tidy up a few loose ends, and also to attend a talk by Dr Samantha Thomas at Griffith University. It was great to catch up with Sam again and introduce her to the Brisbane crowd for an evening of raucous laughter, drinks at Archive and delicious Thai food at Sawadee Ka.
A photo of me posing in front of the hollow brick cream wall wearing a purple floral dress and turquoise cardigan.
An outfit photo of me, fat and pale skinned with short blonde hair, wearing a purple floral dress, turquoise cardigan and purple tights with navy and white wedge shoes.
This will be my last outfit in front of the awesome wall at our old place in Coorparoo. A few people on Twitter said they’d miss it so I had to get Nick to snap some photos when we stopped in to do a few things.
I’ve posted photos of me in this dress before, and didn’t have time to iron it, but it’s still fabulous. I wanted to be super visible today and I’m fairly sure I achieved that!
Cardigan: City Chic
Dress: Torrid
Tights: We Love Colors
Shoes: Evans
Sunglasses: Giant Vintage
Necklaces: Markets and my fat necklace in pink.
A photo of Samantha, Sonia, me, Zoe and Lauren in a group smiling and looking fancy and chummy.
An outfit photo of Zoe, fat and pale skinned, holding her thick rimmed glasses on her face, wearing a black dress with black mesh panel tights, scarf and floral docs.
An outfit photo of Sonia, fat and pale skinned, leaning against a railing wearing a black dress, jacket tights and knee high lace up boots with a red scarf.
An outfit photo of me, still wearing the purple floral dress and turquoise cardi, posing like a menswear model pointing into the sky in front of a wall with "Lecture Theatre" written on it. I'm always exited to be in a uni because I'm a uni drop-out!
A photo of Zoe and I in matching "I'm poopin" poses, crouched over with strained looks on our faces. I don't even know if I can explain where this pose comes from but it's becoming a tradition!
A photo of Nick and I showing our colour coordinating outfits. Nick is wearing a purple polo shirt with jeans and coordinates perfectly with me!
A photo of an altered chandelier-style light fitting in Archive Beer Boutique with book pages hanging from each arm. It throws a nice shadow on the ceiling.
A photo of a bar at Archive Beer Boutique that is built with books!
A photo of a lounge chair with floral tapestry upholstry at Archive Beer Boutique.
A photo of Zoe and Lauren at Archive .
A photo of Sonia and Samantha sitting on lounge seats; Sam has her hand around Sonia's shoulder and is making a cheeky squinty smile.
A photo of Jennifer looking down and smiling.
I’m sorry there are so many photos but I wanted to share! We had such a great night. It’s fabulous knowing so many awesome people doing great things in the world. I’m both humbled and invigorated being around folks like these.
In related news, I’d love to get together with fatshion bloggers from Brisbane and surrounding areas for a meetup. Who would like to come? What should we do? Where shall we go?! It’d be so great to connect with local bloggers and readers of fatshion blogs so we can develop a stronger local community. Please let me know what you think if you’re from south east Queensland!
I’ve raved about Dello Mano brownies before and yesterday was cause to reiterate my love for this small handmade brownie shop in Breakfast Creek. This weekend is our last in Brisbane so we caught up with friends for coffee and treats courtesy of Dello Mano’s super lovely owner Deb. I finally got the opportunity to give Zoe her much belated birthday gift too!
This post will pretty much just be photos because I’m in the middle of packing chaos, I hope you don’t mind.
A black and white photo of Zoe opening a present.
A black and white photo of a paisley Gocco printed card that I made.
A black and white photo of Zoe holding up a framed drawing I made for her.
A black ink drawing of a border of flowers, paisley, waffles and tea surrounding text on a blue background that says "Stay calm and have tea and waffles."
A black and white photo of Sonya holding up my paisley card to her wrist.
A photo of two gold wrapped brownies and some shortbread biscuits on a white plate with fingers dangling ready to snatch all the yummy things up.
An outfit photo of Sonya standing in front of the boot of a white Porche. She wears a black tshirt with animal print harem pants, black shoes and big bangles.
An outfit photo of Zoe standing in front of the Porche, wearing a black tshirt, purple cardigan with floral print wide leg pants and red shoes. She's posing with spirit fingers raised in the air!
A black and white photo of Sonya, Mel, me and Zoe looking generally badass.
A photo of Sonya posing with her hands on her waist like a super model with Zoe in the background.
An outfit photo of me posing with the Porche wearing a cropped pleather jacket, a blue/black/grey diagonally paneled tunic, straight leg jeans and black flats.
Cleaning out your wardrobe has benefits! I found the pleather City Chic jacket given to me when Hayley gave me a CC makeover. It was a pretty awesome choice for the day because later in the morning I went to Zoe’s and adopted her bike!
An Instagram photo of me sitting on my new (to me) bike in Zoe's living room.
BIKER GANG BABE! I’m terribly excited to go on a ride, but need to get this packing out of the way first and then find a bike pump to pump up the tyres!
My outfit details:
Jacket: City Chic
Top: Big W (?)
Jeans: New Look
Shoes: Evans
Necklaces: ebay and made by me ;)
We move on Wednesday and I’m nowhere near ready. EEP!
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.
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. Down the line I might start offering advertising spaces but I’m still thinking about that!
I need your assistance when it comes to demographic information, and if you’d like to help me out I’ve made a quick survey to fill out. None of the questions are mandatory, but obviously the more information you graciously provide the more I can tell people about the fabulous folks who read definatalie.com. There’s also a place to give me feedback as I consider my current site design and how I can make it more useful and accessible. If you’d like to write a testimonial so I can include it for big-noting purposes, that would be grand too!
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If you do fill out the survey, I’ll put you in the draw to win this hand painted nesting doll set by me!
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I’ll draw the winner at random on August 1 2011.
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