Sponsor for Ethiopia

All sponsorships go towards my trip to Ethiopia.

I have finally decided to accept sponsorships for The Blair Affairs. I am very excited to promote your blogs, etsy shops, and photography sites. I am thankful for how this blog has grown in the past few months and I want to use it to glorify Jesus, not only by what I write but now in sponsorships. Even after my trip, I plan on using my sponsorships for missions around the world.

Each sponsor will get a spot like the one below, and a summary post.

 

Contact me for more details at jenchristine88@gmail.com

a day with arielle

Sometimes you are lucky enough (or blessed rather) to meet a kindred spirit. It's pretty easy to know if you've ever meet one or not, because you'll realize it right away. I have met several in my lifetime and for that I am thankful. With every passing year, I am realizing more and more that life is rather meaningless apart from relationships. Part of the reason I have found a love for blogging is because of the wonderful friendships I have formed with some amazing people.

One such person is Arielle.

This past weekend, Jonathan and I had the pleasure of meeting Arielle and her husband Jay. If you would have told me that this would happen a year ago, I would have laughed. Me, meet people online? No way. It's funny how things change. It has been a huge blessing to meet other godly women who are striving after the Lord in our different walks of life. There may be a great distance between us, but we have a bond in Christ. I can't even count how many times I have been encouraged to press on because of the things I have read, because of the reality of Christ that I've seen in others...in Arielle and others like her.

I was so thrilled to find out that we'd be able to meet up. Jonathan and I seriously had a ball getting to know them better. It knew that we'd be similar, but I didn't know just how similar! Even in the midst of the scorching heat, getting lost and the long wait for food, we managed to have a little fun. :) Surprisingly, there aren't a whole lot of young married couples our age we are (or at least not that we know of), so it was a treat. (Maybe people just aren't getting married in their 20's anymore?) Anyway, it's always a blessing for us to be around people in a similar place in life and walk with the Lord. 

Well, you can't meet up with a photographer and blogger with out snapping a few pictures can you? Of course not! Ha! Arielle is a super talented photographer, so she got a few of us. She even had a polaroid camera with her! How cool is that? Here are the 2 she gave to us.

To be honest leaving was kind of sad for us, because we knew that the chances of seeing each other again in the near future isn't very likely. But then again Jonathan and I are willing to go anywhere, so who knows?

They are such a sweet and godly couple and it was an immense privilege to get to meet them!

...lover of old things...

I adore spending some of my spare time in antique stores. There are several good ones around our area...they are my frequent haunts.

I went the other day just to unwind for a bit. They relax me. I used to go during the crazy wedding planning phase of life. What is so calming about old things? I'm not sure, but here are some for you gaze upon.

Enjoy!

I hope you all have a wonderful Wednessday!

PS: Thank you Jhen Stark for featuring me the yesterday here. She is incredibly sweet. Really, go check out her inspiring blog!

100th Post!

YAY! I made it to 100! I was so excited that I bought myself a MacBook. Just kidding...I got it for Christmas. Now I can stop blogging on my husbands computer!

Confession: this is actually my 101st post. However, to celebrate this momentous occasion I revamped the blog. I have been wanting to give it a make-over for a while and tonight I finally did! I'm hoping to get it looking more and more professional as I go. I'm not nearly where I want to be, but it's a start!

Thanks to all you readers out there! I love you hear your feed back on what I write. I really enjoy reading and responding to your comments. I'm using this to experiment with different facets of my writing style and to narrow down who I am as a blogger and writer. Hopefully, you now have a blog that is more pleasing to look at than before! Oh, and to keep up more easily you can become a follower. On the right side column there is a follow button. All you need to do that is an email address. Then you can keep up with all the blogs you "follow" in Google reader. It make my life (aka my blog time) so much easier when I figured that out!

Thanks again for reading!


Stay tuned for more of my miracle story...I'm just getting started.