Jonathan Antoine is in the final of BGT after a great performance of Caruso. Jonathan’s voice sounds like the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who often sings with Andrea Bocelli.

Have any of you read this article?

http://www.plus-model-mag.com/2012/0...-call-you-fat/

positive...but real, this guy is no Little May Sunshine, but I like him
 

I am going to be able to open my store in the larger store instead of the smaller one! My landlord is almost done fixing up the bigger store and offered me the option to move in there. That would mean delaying the grand opening a couple more weeks. But I am already a month late so a couple more weeks wont hurt. So, I will have 4 times the floor space, and its a much more pretty site too!

I just want to open already! I have so many wonderful women wanting to come in and shop, meet other Positive Women (I call plus sized women because in math, the plus size means Positive!) and enjoy space meant just for them!

Did you know 60% of American women are above the average weight? I just got that statistic from the library research I did today..I will post more stats as i run across them!

Fun, Fattery and Fringe with Love Your Body-Detroit


http://dailyvenusdiva.com/2011/07/21...-body-detroit/

I don't know why, but this song always makes me tear up

I was getting sooo frustrated over this store opening. Mostly, about my landlord switching places on me, and not doing the renovations as promised. He has literally delayed my grand opening by three months! I was suppose to meet with him tonight and he "forgot"...probably because he was suppose to be making progress and nothing was done.

So tonight I went and rented a different location. Same plaza, but a MUCH bigger store front. And its so feminine and charming, old casablanca type fans, gorgeous historic ceiling tiles, and even has a balcony inside, where I can put mannequins. And best of all, its in move in condition! I can start moving my things in the first of June and be ready to open as soon as its all hung and ticketed!

What a relief! After so many ups and downs, I feel this is the best move. And I can get my pretty ladies their store that they have been patiently waiting for!

Thanks for the Pics, Kiwi! Those are great!

And good luck with the opening, Miss Tia, keep us posted.

I am still learning to love myself the way I am at this point in my life and I appreciate this thread. Thank you.

I found a pic that looked fun and happy, so I am sharing.

http://www.mrbestguide.com/wp-conten...bese-Women.jpg

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend!

Please remember you are not "being bad" when you eat something with substance to it.

Don't assume that telling women they lost weight is a compliment.


Don't assume my or any woman's body is your business. E.G. "Are you pregnant?", "You don't look like a BBW to me," and the ever present, "Did you lose weight?"

From a feminist perspective, is it meaningful for women to spend our time together talking about what we ate in measurements throughout the day? Is there anything more meaningful that we could discuss?


Keep up the fat positivity and be fierce, my friends!

http://curvature.files.wordpress.com...05/girth-1.jpg

http://www.rmichelson.com/Artist_Pag...s/MaxBeaut.htm

Check out this plus size fashion slide show! Who says full-figured women can't rock high fashion?


http://www.velvetography.com/galleri...pte/index.html

http://styleproperty.files.wordpress...10/velvet4.jpg

All I can say is Wow!!! I am thinking I'm going to be needing one of those sheer halter things with the rhinestones circles over the nipples.......

I had a wonderful Memorial Day with family and friends. My newly married nephew and his bride had a gathering on Sunday and like all good slovak parties, it was ripe with food. We are not timid eaters! LOL. No one ever apologizes for eating heartedly. My sister, who just had stumach surgery, could not eat, and she apologized for not being able to enjoy the food! What a twist for most parties!

I spent Monday working on my third draft of the business plan, submitted to BVR for my funding. I am so proud of it! It reads so well and is a well thought out, thoroughly researched proposal. It is a formality, for they are funding me, but it still had to be done correctly.

and today I put the utilities in my name! I will be able to open mid June! I feel as though I can reach my arm out and actually touch the Grand Opening!

I am loving this thread. I have shared parts of it in my group for the store. I thank you for the lovely images and articles!

The utilities are in my name for the store and I get the keys on Friday! I have teams of volunteers, customers from my shop and friends and family, coming on saturday and Sunday in shifts to help me move everything from one location to the next. We literally have to walk it up the sidewalk two stores! LOL. The store will be moved and I can finish ticketing and set up my displays and yes, yes, we can open by the 15th!

I am overwhelmed by my customers, who are keeping track of things via my FB group for the store. I have been asked what things I need for the store and they are all trying to figure out what they have to bring to me. The support that is being offered is not like any other I have witnessed before. And its not about me. Its about "us". They want to create a place that is sacred for "us", us wonderful plus sized, curvacious, ample bodied lovelies who have felt isolated and condemned as sojourners for so long...

I am really humbled by all of this...

Thanks for all the pics and articles to read, very encouraging.

I am so happy for you Miss Tia, congrats! Be sure to get pics of the opening for us.