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Make Do and Mend
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Having a make do style is a great asset for your bank balance. Make Do & Mend is all about style, sticking to budget and being in credit, not in the debt hock house. You can be stylish on any budget. Buy treats when you have saved the cash. After all a great bank balance is the best accessory a gal can have!
Recent Posts
High Street Pick of the Week - Christmas gift ideas
Again not exactly on your high street although I'm sure you can find a shop that sells hand held fans. After my brush with Turandot I thought a fan might make a cute stocking filler for Christmas cheer.Hand Fan Phoenix and Camilla £1.75...
Carrie does Covent Garden
Mama and Papa MDS took moi and Mr MDS to the opera last night to see the English National Opera's performance of Turandot at the London Coliseum on St Martin's Lane. It was a delightful evening and I will post a review of the opera production on my F...
Back to Work
Now I've finished my dissertation and hence my Masters I need to go for glory on getting freelance fashion styling work. I'm lucky to have fairly regular contract work and I'm teaching on the next NHJ Style Academy in January...however I need to ment...
New Skirt and a hip update
On my charity shop browse last Saturday I spied a cute orange skirt for a fiver and thought I'd pop back on Monday to get it. It is a woollen M&S number of quite a few years ago and it is a UK size 10. I also found a £199 Dolce & Gabbana gol...
New Book
I really want to read fiction again after nearly 18 months of academic reading only. The transition is proving harder than expected. I've managed to devour my Christian Dior's The Little Dictionary of Fashion. It is a great read and the perfect Chris...
Thought for the week - quality v quantity part 2
Thank you for your contributions to this debate - which as ever are inconclusive! I mean this in a positive way because in one sense the phrase 'what is one man's pleasure is another man's poison' is as applicable for fashion as anything. The good th...

