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Bringing Back a Bygone Era of Beauty in Your Home | Feminine Dress Sewing Patterns Simplicity 2917 & McCall’s 8209
Ladies, Play house. Dress up. Have fun. So much of our lives are about getting things done in the home for others and on time, that we can forget how the fun and finer things serve our family as well. These are also the things that help us be at our best and enjoy our work more. Your family benefits from the beauty you cultivate in the home as much as you benefit from the enjoyment of it. Every pretty dish, every pretty dress, this is a way that you bring good things to your family’s days and how you enjoy an ordinary day full of work. Weaving beauty into…
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Feminine & Classy Summer Style | Sew or Buy a Boat Neckline Midi Dress
Ladies, Here is a golden gem of age-old fashion advice: when a piece of clothing checks all the boxes in fit, your style preferences, and the way it flatters you, buy (or sew) many! There is no reason to reinvent the wheel. No one has to wear completely different clothing all of the time. When you find a shape, a color, a kind of fabric, anything you like, wear it and wear it again. This is a sewing pattern that I used to create this boat neckline pink midi dress for summer. This season I had seen one similar on the Nordstrom website for over $300. That one was in…
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How to Make Your Home Look Elegant but Feel Cozy
Ladies, A home can look regal and feel cozy but styling these two qualities together takes careful consideration. Here are some solid guidelines for the homemaker decorator to achieve a home that looks elegant but feels cozy. Afterall, we want things to look nice but feel just as good. Long Billowing Curtains The more you use long, beautiful curtains around your windows, the more the look harkens back to the days of ballrooms, sitting rooms, and a certain elegance that can be as understated or overstated as you want. By using lighter colors or lighter weight fabric you can get an ethereal feel from your curtains, ones that can even…
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The Wife is the Home Manager & What to Keep in Stock at All Times | Health Preparedness
Ladies, As we are instructed to do in the Holy Bible, women are to be “working at home”. Among many verses teaching us this vital role that has often gone unattended for work outside of the home. Let’s revisit some essential groundwork for working in our homes today in the topic of what to keep in stock that is absolutely essential for health. The Wife Manager Since your husband will be gone all day earning money, it is our job to manage what he does not have time to do. One of those things is keeping our homes stocked with essentials. This means stocking our homes with food, medical supplies,…
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Elegant, Graceful & Dignified: The Blessing of an Inward Makeover
Ladies, “Elegance” is not exclusive to an income bracket. In fact, elegance is a thing of rarity in all social circles now days. “Graceful” is a concept we quickly apply to a ballerina but is lesser seen as a concept to apply to women in everyday life. “Dignified” is a nearly forgotten idea in a culture that praises brash personalities, diminishes the importance of manners, grooming, dress, etc. But the Christian woman has the unique blessing of becoming elegant, graceful, and dignified from the inside out. “The woman Folly is loud” Proverbs 9:13 Elegance Recently, upon re-reading The Little House on The Prairie book series, I was enraptured in how Ma…
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The Best Classy Stretch Knit Dress Sewing Patterns & Pattern Hack Simplicity 8874 & New Look 6301
Ladies, When building a classy wardrobe, it is vital to identify specific elements of clothing that set it apart as being classy. One of those elements for me in a classy summer wardrobe is having sleeveless dresses that cover more of my shoulder and around my arm than the spaghetti straps that abound. I have noticed that this style element is common among women in the limelight who dress classy. Without naming names, I have studied these dresses of women whose bra straps are securely covered by this wider sleeveless style and whose necklines are decidedly higher than most. The fabric of these dresses is also of vital interest as…
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How to Be Lovely & Beautiful in Dress & Deed
Ladies, The topic of dressing can seem surface, but I like to point out how what we wear reflects our deeper held values. Our style, like our manners, are only employed when we feel it is necessary from a deeper belief that it matters. Many women believe that their appearance does not matter It does not matter in the sense that God looks at the heart. He is concerned with our inward character and motivations. But what woman attracts a husband by rejecting her looks? Men look at the outward appearance before they get to know our heart. So, our appearance does matter. Once you are married, your appearance matters.…
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How to Love Homemaking by Delegating & Hiring Help
Ladies, “A woman’s work is never done.” as the old saying goes. Many days we can fall into bed with things still in the sink, people needing to be fed the minute we wake up and never-ending laundry and crumbs on the floor. We find as homemaking wives and mothers that it is not a badge of honor to wear yourself down until your disposition is anything but pleasant. But so often the workload does wear us down. No caretaker can go on endlessly at the same pace without serious burnout. There are countless paid jobs that do the work of the homemaking wife such as a maid, a nanny,…
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How to Sew This Basque Waist Cotton Sundress | McCall’s 8209 Pattern Notes & Review
Ladies, Here is my latest spring summer dress fit for a princess. This dress is a fast favorite of mine from the cotton fabric to the color and floral print, to the princess waist. What makes you gasp with excitement when you see it? If you are color shy, the spring/summer seasons are the perfect time to wear colors instead of neutrals for a change. Let your feminine style instinct guide you. In a world of dull and drab office looking women’s clothing, revive your daily dress by embracing color, pretty prints and things that would look perfect for walking in a garden in the glow of the sunlight. This…
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How to Sew This Spring / Summer Dress Simplicity 8874
Ladies, The spring sunshine brings flowers out and how much more beautiful colors in our wardrobe. Wearing happy colors can not only enhance your complexion, but it also brings cheerfulness to your family. This yellow color was one of those rare perfect yellows for my preference, vibrant but soft, not dull, not neon, not green, not mustard, not too pastel. Finding the right colors for you in quality fabrics for your project is half the battle of sewing, but these elements are what make a pattern shine. Fabric found on fabricmartfabrics.com While I prefer sleeves, I ended up making this dress sleeveless lending it to not just springtime but to…
