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Q&A | cinnamon, SIM, jeans, and grocery spending

The Frugal Girl

However, sometimes the school hires real people to be actors for us, and those actors come in with a script and an assigned disease process and they don’t break character. Kristen, I have a sewing question. I was planning to cut a patch from a ripped pair of no longer worn jeans and then hand sew it from the inside out.

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8 Valuable Life Skills to Teach Your Kids During Quarantine

Couponing 101

Most children can help with some steps in the cooking process. For instance, measuring ingredients uses math, while the cooking process illustrates scientific principles. You can teach your kids the process of sorting lights and darks and explain how to wash and dry the laundry. Luckily, kids can help. Fixing Things.

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Women’s New Balance Running Shoes for $34.99!

Saving With Shellie

Here are a few details about the shoes: 8 mm drop: due to variances created during the development and manufacturing processes, all references to 8 mm drop are approximate. No-sew details. No-Sew material application. Injection molded EVA (Ethyl Vinyl Acetate). Leather upper. Mesh upper. Rubber outsole.

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Baby Budgeting: How to Save for Your New Arrival

Koupon Karen

If you’re crafty, consider sewing or knitting some items yourself. There are plenty of tutorials online to guide you through the process. DIY Where Possible Some baby items like burp cloths, bibs, and blankets can be easily made at home. You can also get creative and repurpose items.

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Chatting With: Cristina Ottaviano, Fashion Designer

Cheap Chica's Guide To Style

When dressing clients, what is the process like? She taught me how to sew and hand bead at a very young age. Cristina Ottaviano: When I dress a client my goal is to select a silhouette that enhances their figure and makes them feel completely and beautiful and comfortable. LVG: When did you fall in love with fashion?

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Balancing Cake and Bread

Work With What You've Got

It needed to be altered to fit in some way, but I can't sew. I've tried cutting tanks out of tees and few times now and only lost one tee in the process. Got any other ideas for cutting up a tee that don't involved sewing? My BFF moved last year to a much smaller place, and as a result, she purged a lot of old tees. It was huge.

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Keep on Trend With a Clothing Update!

The Bargain Hunter Extraordinaire

If you are looking to update your clothing but don't have the power of sewing behind you there's no need to worry as you can still update your clothing without it needing to cost you a fortune. If you've got an old plain cardigan you can update it by sewing on some ribbon bows or creating and sewing on a design with beads.

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