The only way to go with Jasmine was GLAM!
Here’s how I would style Jasmine with what’s available for plus sized beauties online – Right Now!
Dress – ASOS Curve
Shoes – Office
Gold and Blue Hair Chain – Etsy
XL Gold Clutch – ASOS
Isn’t the dress just beautiful?! I think I’m in love, sadly it only goes up to a 24 – but at least that’s progress from fat fashion a few years ago!
Things can only get better.
Alyssa xx
I have mentioned previously that my trip to Disneyland Paris this year was one of the best and most inspiration trips of my life thus far. I genuinely had the most amazing time and got to hang out with some of the loveliest people while I was there – which was a huge bonus too!
Before I went, I spent hours online searching for the perfect outfits to wear in the park. I’d been warned that I would need comfortable footwear (advice I chose to ignore and regretted doing so – Disney feet are evil. Fact.) and that I should bring jeans (again, advice I ignored but I didn’t regret this choice!) and comfy clothing. Now, I’m not really a comfy clothing kind of girl. I understand that for many people clothes are just something that have to be worn, they choose not to put much thought into them and good for them if that’s their choice. This fat girl however, likes to look good and so clothes are a very important part of my life.
I already had some Disney park ears that I had either brought online or had brought for me as gifts (I really do have the best friends a girl could wish for) and decided that I would co-ordinate what I was going to wear with them.
I arrived quite late in the day to the park so didn’t have long to explore before dinner on the first day, this meant that I didn’t change out of my travelling clothes – so no ears were worn on the first day! I did however wear a gorgeous dress from Yours Clothing (sadly, no longer available) which is covered in teeny tiny multi-coloured hearts. Turns out this was the perfect choice as I wandered around the Alice in Wonderland maze and had my photo taken with the queen of hearts!
I knew that I was wearing red and black the next day and didn’t have ears to match that outfit, so on the way back to the hotel I brought myself some lush black and red sequinned Minnie ears so I was co-ordinated to the max!
The dress that I wore was from ASOS Curve (sadly, no longer available either) and I teamed it with TU leggings and my red leopard print converse hi tops that I brought in Office – ok, I did take one pair of sensible shoes.
I had such a fun day, met loads of characters and even bumped into the Tweedles which was A-MA-ZING! I kind of regret wearing this top as the shapelessness of it makes me look way more massive than I actually am, but I was comfortable all day and co-ordinated so I can’t complain too much.
My outfits got progressively more ridiculous from this point. I was visiting the studios on the 3rd day and decided that was when I was going to smash out the Ursula Ears …. Can we just take a moment to admire how amazing they are ….
*Sigh* So in love with these ears.
Now, obviously if you’re rocking out some villain ears you can’t be wearing a pretty floaty summer dress, you need to make some impact and judging by some of the strange looks I got walking around that day, I think that my pleather dress and studded boots combination did just that.
The dress was from AX Paris at Simply Be (no longer available) the shrug is from Yours Clothing, the leggings are from TU, the boots are Joe Browns at Simply be and my bag is from Zatchels.
This was by far my favourite day. Once again, that is controversial to say as I spent the majority of it in the studios and I know that not everyone likes them but I really enjoyed everything there. The stars in cars parade with the impromptu meet and greet afterwards was awesome – here I met Ariel, Elvis Stitch and I hula danced with Lilo … how blooming amazing is that?
I loved the Animagique show, the live art section where you can join in and learn to draw characters, the storyboard of the development of Ursula, the toy story area and peering over the wall at the Ratatouille area being built!! SO much excitement!
Day Four brought my most ridiculous outfit of the trip with it, I had brought some leopard print Animal Kingdom ears online and decided to go all out leopard for my final whole day in the park. The dress is from Yours Clothing (no longer available) and is the love of my life. The fit and design of this dress is amazing, it makes me so happy I could burst. I teamed it with a black Tutu underskirt from Domino Dollhouse, Tu Leggings (do you get the feeling I only buy leggings from one place?) and my oxblood red studded boots from Simply Be.
This is the day that I met the most adorable princess stalkers in the queue for tickets to meet a princess. Although I was disappointed that I met Ariel again, especially as Tiana was in the other room! I also watched the Spring Fever parade for the zillionth time in 3 days and danced and sang along with everyone in the sunshine.
My entire stay was magical, and made me a very happy girl. The Dreams show every night was an emotional and dramatic end to a day of wonder, happiness and excitement before traipsing off back to my hotel and collapsing into my big comfy bed!
One of the most surprisingly excellent aspects of my DLP experience was the food, I ate in the most incredible places and was taken by surprise by how amazing the dining is. I will do a separate post about this on it’s own though as I have waffled enough for now!
Have you been to DLP?
Did you love it as much as I did?
What did you wear?
Alyssa xx
I saw this dress and it screamed Belle to me so I had to put together a Belle inspired look.
I love to mix up quirky with classical and the clutch bag made from a book made my heart melt when I saw it! I definitely need one of these in my life.
Dress – Simply Be
Clutch Bag Made From a Vintage Book – Etsy
Shoes – Office
Rose Earrings – Etsy
Belle with a twist. I would totally wear this to a wedding or an event, I love it.
What do you think?
Alyssa xx
“ The Victim of the Sleeping Death can be revived only by Love’s First Kiss”
It’s no great secret that I am more a fan of the Disney Villains than the princesses, I can understand the appeal of the princesses to the masses but I’d much rather root for the bad guy and my artwork does have a tendency to reflect that.
One of my favourite designs, which incidentally is one of my most popular ones, “Sleeping Death” poison apple print. The poison apple is such an iconic villainous prop that it is instantly recognisable and either loved or hated by Disney fans dependant on what side of the fence you root for!
Silk painting allows me to create some very dramatic effects with the colours in this piece and I have made it with a variety of backgrounds for different customers. The grey smoke effect has proved the most popular and can be seen in my Etsy store at the moment on one of my smaller scarves, I love this and wear if often as a headscarf when I’m trying to tame my crazy curls!
This design proved so popular that I have branched out and made a few bags with it on too, this are brand new to the store this week so I would love to know what you think of them?
What other products would you like to see this design painted on to?
Do you own this scarf? I’d love to see how you style it!
Alyssa xx
Who doesn’t love the Pirates of the Caribbean ride?
I’ve thrown together a little Plus Size fashion outfit inspiration based on Pirates of the Caribbean using products available in stores right now.
Shirt – Yours Clothing
Pleather Trousers – Simply Be
Shoe Boots – Irregular Choice
Skull Bag – Kate’s Clothing
Compass Octopus Ring – Etsy
Hourglass necklace – Etsy
I would definitely wear this outfit and am especially in love with the bag!
What do you think?
Alyssa xx
When I grow up, I want to be Ursula.
I have loved the Little Mermaid since it was released in the UK in 1989. Even way back then I had more of a love for the villains than the princesses and this is where my love affair with Ursula began. I’ve always been more drawn to strong and vibrant characters and for me, the princesses haven’t ever been that until recently.
When I visited Disneyland Paris recently I was fortunate enough to see the display of the concept art of Ursula in the Disneyland Paris Studios. The designs varied quite greatly between artists but both myself and the friend that I was with at the time agreed that the final character was by far the best of the options.
I was pleased that the day we visited the studios was the day that I decided to wear my Ursula themed outfit with my fabulous Ursula ears from the Disney villain ear collection that was released a couple of years ago. I will do a separate post about my Disney outfits as they were a *bit* outrageous in comparison to the jeans and t shirts that majority of the other guests were wearing.
I have attended one fancy dress party as Ursula and whilst I was relatively pleased with the results at the time, I have since started working on a costume for myself that will knock my initial attempt out of the water. I have no event to go to wearing this new costume, but it was something that I wanted to make for myself and has been a work in progress for some time. I am confident that the end result will be something spectacular, my dream would be to attend a Disneyland Halloween party in it – the opportunity to wear fancy dress into the park for an evening would be my dream come true …. Sadly I still need to find that millionaire ….
I think that Ursula is somewhat of an icon in the plus sized community, she’s a strong and powerful woman that definitely embraces her curves. Who can forget that iconic “and don’t underestimate the importance of body language” wiggle during ‘Poor Unfortunate Souls’ that certainly gets me cheering and wishing I had a large round voluptuous bottom instead of a thutt! She makes no apologies for who she is and is certainly a commanding presence in every scene she appears in.
I hope this goes a bit towards explaining why my Etsy store is called QueenUrsulaUK and that you can understand a bit more about my love for this amazing character.
Who is your favourite Disney Character?
Are you a Princess or Villain fan?
Until tomorrow Poopsies!
Alyssa xx
Elegant, vivacious, determined, independant and hardworking – Tiana is a princess for the modern age.
I love the styling of the characters in The Princess and the frog so thought I’d have a bash at bringing Tiana up to date with what’s available in the plus size market, right now!
Dress – Simply Be
Hair Ornament – Etsy
Shoes and Bag – ASOS
Is this how you would style Tiana with what’s available now?
Alyssa xx
I go through phases creatively and can often flit from project to project when I am not wholeheartedly inspired. However, since visiting Disneyland Paris for the Swing into Spring festivities in April this year I have been overflowing with creativity and loving every minute of it.
One of my favourite attractions at Disneyland Paris was the Alice in Wonderland Maze. Now, I know that this attraction isn’t for everyone and I know that it could do with some work and a lick of paint here and there, but I loved it. Alice in Wonderland has been one of my favourite books and films since I was young and I actually skipped around the maze singing ‘We’re painting the roses red’ and behaved like a giddy child which was fabulous!
The Giant Cheshire Cat face with the spinning eyes in the flowerbed is so lovely, the mad hatters chairs for photos are awesome and the view from the top of the castle was pretty incredible too.
If you have taken the time to look at my Etsy store you will see that all of the items listed at the moment are Disney themed.
The majority of these are hand painted silk designs from scarves to pillow cases and I am working on a few new bits at the moment that will be uploaded when I finish them. I am particularly proud of the Cheshire Cat silk cushion cover that I painted all by hand, it turned out way better than I expected it to and I just love the effect of the writing on the back of it as it means it can be displayed either way.
When you are a creative person, being really inspired is like having a new love, you eat, sleep and drink ideas and probably bore your friends to tears with the fact that everything that comes out of your mouth is about what you’re working on currently or what you’re planning to do next. I find myself spamming all of my social media with pictures and links I’ve found that inspire me and though I know it’s boring to most people – I can’t stop!
The reason I actually started my Etsy store is to save the money to get back to Disneyland next year. It was such an amazing experience that I am hooked and want to do it again. Sadly, having not found a millionaire boyfriend yet, I need to make the money myself. I’m hoping that people with love what I’m doing as much as I love making it and help me find my way back to my inspirational home by buying what I’ve made.
What is your inspiration?
Alyssa xx
Who doesn’t dream of being a mermaid?!
As part of my Plus Size Disney collection I have put together a casual Ariel outfit from clothes that are available online, right now!
Trousers – ASOS Curve
Top – New Look
Purple Shell Necklace – Etsy
Rose Gold Sandals – Simply Be
Mermaid Bag – Zazzle
I think this would be a perfect festival look … What do you think?!
Alyssa xx
Have you visited Etsy yet?
Are you as hooked as I am?
What is Etsy?
It is basically a marketplace for creative and imaginative minds that make the most bizarre and incredible designs and is my idea of heaven. I spend hours upon hours searching different key words and browsing through shops of wonder and have even brought myself some awesome pieces on there.
As a little introduction to those of you that may be new to Etsy, I thought that I would show you a few of my absolute favourite stores and sellers – I hope that you find this as useful as I do!!
This store sells the most amazing hand made Disney Inspired hair bows. The quality is second to none and I love the ones that I own.
It is owned by Shannon, who is super friendly and lovely and will work with you to design something if you can’t see what you’re looking for!
Can we all just take a moment to admire Courtney’s sensational talent?!
Look at the detail in those shoes ❤️
This store is currently closed due to the unsurprising high level of orders that she has, but is definitely worth following on Etsy for when she’s back!
Not only does Courtney sell shoes, she is an amazing artist too and has some beautiful prints for sale of work that she’s done.
These ears make me so happy!!
The attention to detail and creativity is just fabulous and makes me want to buy every single pair they list!
I will own the Cheshire Cat ones in the very near future!
Ok, so I probably shouldn’t shout out my own shop, but I’m going to …
I work really hard designing and creating items that I love in the hope that you guys will too.
It’s a relatively new store and as such there aren’t as many items in it yet as I’d like there to be – but bear with me, I’ll get there!!
I do offer a bespoke design service so if there is something that you want then please do get in touch and we can work together to create the item of your dreams!
I’ll revisit my love of Etsy at some point in the future as this is only the tip of the iceberg of shops I love!
What’s your favourite Etsy shop?
Alyssa xx
Queen Ursula 
