Hey Ladies!! Ok, I wanted to take you along with me to go shopping. One of the things I LOVE to doooo!! A fashionable thing goin on right now is jean leggings. Also known as jeggings. I LOVE, love, love mine. Wearing them with boots too. Love this look. There are ways that you can wear them that I believe are fashionable and classy. Not giving off wrong messages. I have a couple pair darker ones… and also a light washed out pair. So watch the video as we find things that you should wear with jeggings. The picture shown here is how not to wear Jeggs. A no, no in my book. Doesn’t even really look that great. ((( It’s always good to have something go over the ole backside;) )))) Let’s go shop!

Thank you to Hope for videoing it…. she was trying to hold the camera down so no one would see us videoing. So it’s kinda funny. But… I hope this gives you a good ideas for your classy and fabulous closet Thank for shopping with me!!

I have always loved fashion, style and beauty. It’s a fun, very girly and feminine thing to do. Something that is perfectly healthy and normal if your a girl. This is something you should do, I beleive, if you are a Christain young lady. Too often Christian young women find it wrong to be stylish or look beautiful or enjoy fixing up. I beleive this is a wrong way to think! Beauty is something God given. See our Bible heroine Esther ( though I don’t recommend spending, what was it 12 months? in a row just on your personal appearance, as she did ) she was beautiful and God used her mightily because of it!

Recently my sister Hannah found a cute book at Borders that she showed me, knowing I would also love it. (Thanks Hannah) It’s called “The Little Black Book Of Style” by Nina Garcia. It’s really a cute book and I love reading it. I think it’s good to be as stylish as we can as Christian young women. We of all people should know how to be stylish in the right way. I actually would like to write more about this subject a little later. Based on a question I recieved from a girl thinking about all of this. Coming soon. Anyway!…

My style is that I love unique things. Realizing that this IS your style. The things that you really like are the things that set you apart and make you kind of your very own person. Of course, some people need more help with seeing fashion then others. But I like this rule that if you like it and others say “That looks like you” then this is your unique style!

For me. When I am shopping with my sister’s (one of the coolest things you can do, by the way) they will often see something with ruffles, tapers to the waist, gathers, and say “Holly, this looks like you”. Usually, they are right! It’s my style! I beleive we all have our own style.

Style Tips from “The Little Black Book Of Style”

– You can never have enough high heels. (I like this one)

– Wear your size. (When I realized this it was like night and day! A lot of times I don’t need to wear a size Medium just for the sake of “modesty” that wasn’t modesty that was frumpy and frumpy isn’t holy! Ok? OK … moving on … I can fit a size small and still be modest and look like a woman. Yeah! There may be a time, God forbid, that I can’t wear a small I need to enjoy it now!)

One of the quotes in the book I like. She was talking about not always going with the flow. To be fashionable we need to do our own thing. Be our own person. I like this. Yet at the same time, I beleive we shouldn’t purposefully go against things that are in style just for the sake of oddly sticking out.

Here is the quote:

“Only dead fish swim with the steam” – Malcolm Muggeridge

So in other words, do your own thing! Make your own style. When people see something unique in the mall or in the store they say your name. That is YOU! So be stylish, have fun! Find your own way. Let me tell you it can be a challenge to find beautifully stylish things that are modest and honorJesus. I am not expert and never claim to be. But, IT CAN BE DONE. Yes it can.

With the start of a brand New Year I would like to start a small serious on feminine-ness! (that’s my own word) I believe that true feminine-ness is true beauty. There is such a need today for real women (and men but we won’t go there right now). I hope this series will help you really think Biblically about who God has created you to be. We will start with one of the most importnant parts of femininess though outward femininity is so very important as well.

A Spirit of Femininity
Here I will list the topics that we will be going over in the next few weeks~

1. Submissive & Strong
2. Gentle & Bold
3. A Quiet Spirit — Trusting & Humble
4. The Law of Kindness — Gracious & Loving

Submissive & Strong

There was once a beautiful woman. She was truly beautiful on the inside and on the outside. She was a strong woman. She was very loving yet she had to be unyielding because she had such a strong loyalty and love. She was a Queen her name was Esther.

Outward femininity is extremely important. Yet, the topic of femininity definitely gets a little deeper and more complex when we talk about having a spirit of femininity on the inside. Yet this is what Jesus talks about and what is “in His sight of great price”.

It’s vital that we learn one of the most important aspects of femininity and that is to be submissive right now to the authorities in our lives.

When and if the Lord has you marry one day it will be the key to unlocking the heart of what God intended marriage to be. If you don’t have this under Christ’s control it would be best to not get married until you do. If you can’t be obedient to your parent’s wishes now you will have major problems in marriage later. Being submissive to our authorities is God’s idea. We also see here in God’s Word that we do it in the Lord and as unto the Lord.

We also need to see the need for strong woman who will stand up against the tide of really rather weak women in today’s world. The definition of the word “Strong” is: decisively unyielding; firm or un compromising. It doesn’t take that much effort or a very strong woman to give in to her own way and to be strong willed. Yet it takes a very strong woman to take her own natural inclinations in hand and submit to her authority. Any woman can naturally be independent, strong willed and disobedient to her authorities but it takes a strong woman in the Lord to go beyond this and lovingly submit with a gracious spirit.

Hannah in the Bible is a good modal of strength in a beautiful way. You really should read about her in 1 Sam. 1 & 2 if you haven’t recently. She wanted a baby. She wanted to be a mother. She fasted, prayed and wept for God’s blessing. She was strong yet she was submissive to God’s will for her life. I love it that she didn’t give up! Her submission to the Lord was shown when she made a vow to God that if He would grant her desires and give her a baby she would give it right back to Him (1 Sam.1:11). Women who won’t give up, women who are strong “decisively unyielding, firm and uncompromising” this is what a weak world needs. Who actually do believe in something!

If you’re single it’s important that you have a clear understanding and biblical basis for femininity. You will be questioned, yes you will. You also may need to have sound advice for your married friends.

It is very important to realize before you get married that this is the man you will submit to. This is the man that you will be under and who will lead. It’s pretty important to think of questions as you go into marriage. Is this the kind of man that I would want to be obedient to and be under his authority and direction for life? Will he be a loving listener? (Of course this is something your mom and dad would be able to figure a lot better than you when your emotions are involved)

Don’t you see this is something that reaches not to just our outward selves but deeply into who we are? It will affect our future as well as the present. This is something that is if not declining almost totally lost in our day. We, as Christian woman, need to gain back and keep a standard of femininity that is pleasing to the Lord.