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"Hi My name is Mary Beth Graves. I am a Fashion and Decorative Frugal Consultant. This means I am an expert on specializing on the most inexpenive ways to dress and decorate your home.

I am reaching out for a large audience, divorced parents, single moms/dads, disabled, women/men, over 35, and are at a loss on how to dress? Sick of tees and jeans, or "the local marts offer of clothing/"

Let me help you. Lets help each other. Sure, there are tons of fashion sits on the web, but, I am one who has specialized in decorating whole homes for those on fixed incomes, battered women, leaving shelters, the elderly, even teens wanting a new look, and are saving for college, college dorms, and such.Also I want anyone and everyone to feel free to post how you feel as a woman in your clothing? Are you feeling sexy, down, fat? Are you at a loss? Can't figure out what to buy on a fixed income or budget to put together to look great? I am also offering my consulting services, on how a sewing machine, knowing how to alter and resew, add accessories, pockets, changing collars, etc. can produce a great new wardrobe.

I think the problem today is that women of low to middle imcome just don't know what to wear, and the shopping we have available to fit this price range is not helping. It used to be easy for our mothers and I am talking of forty and over of age. Remember when our moms were escorted to dressing rooms, with a clerk, with lots of outfits, and others if she were gook, knew would look good on ? Now we are lucky, if we are middle to lower incomes, to have a dressing room. Noone wants to help, nor advise us. One side we have women's clothing, frumpy, and big, more plain, and the other side is the younger side, with brighter and nicer styles. Why aren,t those clothes on the bigger side? Lets talk about this. Also I use the word Creative consulting. Lets get creative here, let loose, break out in song or poetry about women's dressing and decorating issues today. Lets talk about how creativity fits into frugality and dressing and fixing up our homes pretty without being rich.  MBAlso, on my website, I am taking orders for personalized homeade robes. Kimono style, but designed in a variety of ways, for eeryone....my new business. I hope to spark much interest in your support of my business. I am working my way through college at forty  plus, and I used to buy second hand men's pajamas and redo them into really cute women's pjs, another frugal and economic way to make things to give, sell, and resuse our resources. I'd like to hear and welcome anyone to blog who sews or makes any type of cltothing for a living, designs, or loves to sew, for home or for clothing. With patterns in such wide variety of sizes in one,, good outlest stores and Wal Marts fabrics, a dollar a yard, it is cheaper to sew many times. It is also going back to what we used to do. It is something viable, and gives us a hobby and a way to be original. Lets hear from all the seamstresses out there. A great site: About.com and sewing, Also, About.com and Fashion. Mary Beth. Email me anytime: mb_graves@yahoo.com