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Tips for making your sewing room beautiful and secure

Sewing room door with Kwikset Smartkey lock installed

All of us want our homes to be secure, but that is especially the case if we have special equipment such as in a sewing room. When a child is in the home, it is also important to use locks to secure rooms with machines or heavy items that might be dangerous to a tiny explorer who slips in unnoticed. Even with locks, heavy items such as rolls of pattern paper should be stored safely so that nothing can fall accidentally on anyone who is in the room. Recently, I have made some upgrades to my sewing pattern work room, including new paint, window treatments and door locks, and I wanted to share with you tips I discovered through this project.

Latina women are "flipping the script" toward a positive view of femininity

Avenueva company owned by Jessie Martinez in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas

It was a treat recently to receive a message from Jessie Martinez, a dad who had read some of the information about modest clothing on the Fashion Belle website and wrote to thank us. His perspective on the cultural pressures young women face and his plans for engaging his own and other families in instilling positive values in girls from early ages so impressed me that I wanted to share his message here. When I asked for permission to publish his email, he wrote, "Absolutely. Feel free to re-post my message in your site's forum. I am delighted that you think it may benefit your readers. .

"Life is Beautiful" for this Christian modest fashion blogger

Abby of the Silk and Purple Christian blog

Abby recently requested that I add her Silk and Purple blog to the Fashion Belle blogroll, and after seeing the quality fashion, etiquette and recipe material she posts with the help of several other contributors, I was happy to do so. Abby also publishes an individual blog called La Vie est Belle (French for "Life is Beautiful") with even more photos of cute, modest outfits.

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