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I hope you will all find this a helpful, friendly and constructive 'space'. It takes a bit of courage to share your thoughts with other vidders, I know, but hopefully this is somewhere where we can all reach out to each other a bit. I'm prepared to be a dork if you are. :p And just a reminder that you are very much encouraged here to reply to other commenters, not just the original poster(s)! And you are welcome here any time--there is no 'late' in vid chats.

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laurashapiro

• How important is it to you that you continue to grow as a vidder?
• What does "growth" mean to you as a vidder?
• When/how/why do you feel you grew most as a vidder? What contributed to that?
• Do you feel like you hit plateaus? What do you do when you do?
• What motivates you to try something new? What motivates you to take risks?
• When are you willing to move out of your comfort zone?

• What does "growth" mean to you, as a viewer?
• How important is it to you that the vidders whose work you like continue to grow creatively?
• How have you reacted when a vidder whose work you've liked in the past takes off in a direction you didn't expect?

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Full Figure Plus Turns 5!

Originally posted on: Full Figure Plus

Pardon the dust folks.  Full Figure Plus is in the middle of a makeover to celebrate five years of plus-size blogging.  For those who are new to FFP it began as a humble blog on blogger.com November 14, 2004 with the simple goal of providing shopping links to other plus-size women and to help my plus-size bride to find comfortable affordable bras.

Fast forward to today and Full Figure Plus has gone through many changes in look but the core message has remained the same.  Looking to the Internet to find stores that have the best in plus-size fashion.  This Summer a chance to go to Full Figured Fashion Week gave me the opportunity to meet many of my fellow bloggers like Marie Denee the Curvy Fashionista and Belle Noir founder Aja Stubbs and caused me to pause and realize that Full Figure Plus is not about me and how the blog looks it is about you the reader and giving you the best information inthe most timely manner possible.  Other things that have shaped the evolution of this blog is the sudden interest in modeling which lead to the birth of th plus-size beauty of the week.

On to the goodies.  One new feature that is a part of the new Full Figure Plus is the new logo!  I am excited about this becasue I have been needing to brand this blog for far to long.  So tell me what you think.  Second, as you can see there is a featured post section which contains five randomly selected posts from five years worth of content.  The plus-size beauty of the week remains as well as the sponsors.  Be sure to check out all of the merchants they are listed for your browsing pleasure.

Upcoming on Monday the current beauty of the week will be listed along with the photos of the ladies featured for the last three weeks for you to vote on to recieve a dress from IGIGI or a discount off their next purchase at IGIGI.com.  The rest will remain the same bringing you the best I can find in everything plus-size.  Since I am not one who gets all sentimental I will not even try to name everyone who has helped me out over the years to make FFP what it is today.  Those that have helped out you know who you are.  Wait their is one person I would like to thank and that is my wife Twanna.  Without her support their is no way I would have been able to start let alone maintain a blog and a business many still do not understand and I have been doing the same thing for five years and plan to do it as long as Iam mentally able.

Thank you to all the readers, supporters, advertisers, lurkers and everyone else!  Here is to many more years of bringing all thing plus-size to the light!

oursin

From yesterday - still peeved at this: yet another book that looks as if it is all about let's do amused superiority at the quaint views of ye people in olden tyme, and a concept that I have seen redone several times: i.e. picking out snippets from relationship advice columns (an archetypal loo book idea, really). Am cross because there is surely an interesting book to be written on the subject, without the being condescending to the past motif.

Yet another column by yet another bloke (why is it always blokes?) about their Mystickle experiences doing some high-risk activity of enormous pointlessness (in this instance, climbing skyscrapers). Break out the codfish of Dooooom and smack him off the top of one...

Katharine Whitehorn on a survey of Britain in the 1950s in which she nails a rather significant omission from a volume of 800 pages....

In fact, the main way in which my memory differs from this account of what was actually going on is in what was happening to women. The war had opened up all sorts of jobs for women, and the educated ones, anyway, weren't ordered back into the kitchen nearly as much as American women – which is, I suppose, why the women's movement exploded so much more forcibly there. All my college friends assumed they would get married and have good jobs, and did. With full employment we weren't unduly upset when we were fired (often): there was always another one. I could hitchhike round France by myself – long before backpacking became standard – and no one thought it odd. We weren't nearly as staid as we had to pretend, and it was the great age of the bedsitter – freedom from the family at last, for some.

Kathryn Hughes reviews Elizabeth's Women by Tracy Borman. Hughes seems somewhat ambivalent, on the hand conceding that 'dressing up became a political act as well as a personal pleasure at the Elizabethan court', not to mention the privileged and politically sensitive data routinely garnered by chambermaids and laundresses, but concluding 'his approach will hardly appeal to anyone who prefers their history hard and flinty, but for those of us who like their national story clothed in a pretty frock, it is irresistible stuff'.

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