Giveaway at Kristina J!!!!

Kristian J. is giving away a dress from Shabby Apple! Go check it out! :-)

I'm Back :-)

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No, I didn't make those cute little cupcakes up there. But I thought they were just ADORADBLE!

Anyway, I'm not here to talk cupcakes! LOL. LurlynnCrochet has had a rather long and unplanned hiatus. There's just been a lot going on around the Crochet household, but have no fear, I'm back! Just wanted to let all ya'll know :-)

Purity Takes Precedence: Modesty Fashion Show, PTP 2011

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I'm about 3 weeks late posting this, but I got home from Polishing the Pulpit and life happened! Anyway... This year I was so blessed with to opportunity of helping organize and model in the Modesty Fashion Show at PTP! Before talking about the actual event, I'd like to rewind a few weeks and reminisce on how this opportunity even came my way.

About 3 or 4 weeks before the event, we received our PTP booklet in the mail. I was flipping through and noticed that Cindy Colley was doing a Modesty Fashion Show!
   "Why don't you send Mrs. Cindy a message and let her know you'll help out?" Moma suggested.

So that's what I did.

The basic gist of the message was, "Hey, I'd like to help out any way I can. Here's my number. Let me know what I can do." Well, Cindy and I set up a time to talk on the phone, and lo and behold, she was willing to basically hand the project over to me! For those of you who aren't familiar with the Colley family, Hannah (Glenn and Cindy's daughter) was married this summer. So of course, the Colley family had a BUSY summer! Cindy also had 16 sessions at PTP! Yes, one week, 16 sessions. Needless to say, she was one busy lady!

Back to the phone conversation... Cindy would be the final say in anything that went for the MFS, but I was the administrative assistant. Well, when she handed this honor to me, she asked, "Do you think you can handle this? Is it too much?" Well, of course when given the opportunity to help out with a fashion show, I am NOT going to say no! My answer was, "Yes, I can do this!" while the little voice inside my head was saying, "Lori Lynn, are you downright crazy? You know NOTHING about organizing a Modesty Fashion Show! And this is PTP. There are going to be a LOT of ladies there. If you mess up, you're going to make Cindy Colley look bad. You are crazy!"

Well, I told that little voice to be quite.

God uses many different opportunities to grow us. Sometimes they're thrust upon us and we have no choice but to endure, others are thrust upon us, but we have the choice to say yes or no. I am so thankful that I said yes!

The next few weeks were crazy busy! Working, babysitting on my days off, getting Rodge ready to leave for school, teaching a Wednesday night Bible class, getting ready for PTP on top of getting everything together for the MFS was very ...  interesting :-) Let's just say that those were the busiest weeks of my life! Mrs. Cindy was so great about answering my questions! I REALLY wanted to represent her well, but I didn't feel that I could do that without calling her every 5 minutes :-)

Finally, the week before PTP had arrived and it was time to put together a slide show, and I came down with a really bad I-don't-feel-like-moving sinus infection. JenBen came to my rescue! I sent Mrs. Cindy my bare bones slide show and JenBen really made it look beautiful!

Thankfully, I was well before it came time to leave for PTP. Friday night I got to meet many of the models for the first time!

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I had been keeping up with all the models on Facebook, but most of them I had never met in person. Honestly, that was probably the scariest part for me, planning something like this with people I've never met! Everyone was great! They did so much better than I could've asked!

Saturday finally came, and time was ever nearing for the MFS. We gathered in our changing station, ear to the door waiting for the runway music to begin. It was thrilling! And also a little strange. The point of the MFS was to show a "before" aka, immodest and then an "after" aka, modest. Well, my before was a too short, strapless dress. I'm not going to lie, it was very strange going up on stage in front of 300 women wearing something that covered about as much as being wrapped up in a beach towel. (**Note** There were ONLY ladies in the room while the MFS was going on). The "after" though, was much more comfortable :-)

There was so much positive response from the MFS! Here are some comments shared with me on Facebook:

Meagan (one of the models): "I really enjoy doing things that may be out of my comfort zone and that was definitely one of those things. haha. But I actually learned so much doing it.

You would think that as a model, I would always know how to dress and cover up, but the truth is that us girls are probably the worst at judging that. It really made me see that we can't always trust our judgement and sometimes the best thing to do is to ask a brother or father. The whole reason we dress modestly is to help our brothers not to stumble, so it should be THEIR opinion that matters, not ours. Girls and guys think very differently, so it makes sense that sometimes what we may think is modest may cause them to sin. That's why we have to be SO careful!"

Sharla: "I LOVED the fashion show! I learned so much! I usually cry when shopping for clothes, but not anymore! ... I now look at shopping for clothes as a fun challenge instead of punishment :) ... I was really excited about all the different things that we could make modest."

Cindy F: "I appreciate the fact that the one-piece bathing suit was shown as immodest. You wouldn't believe the number of Christian women I know who think it's modest. Anyway, loved the whole show!"

Diane: "I LOVED everything about it! And especially the finale with the wedding dress; as this is becoming an ongoing look on Facebook and an "ignorant" ?? view of thinking this is modest and appropriate for one day... I think not."

I have truly been blessed by this experience! God has helped me grow so much through this! And now, if anyone wants to put on a MFS and need help, email me, I'll gladly help you out!

After Polishing the Pulpit, I was reading in the September 2011 issue of THINK, there was a quote that really reminded me of my experience with the MFS, "General Schwarzkopf, the commander of Operation Desert Storm, was once quoted saying, 'When placed in command ... take charge!'"

When God places you in command of a situation...take charge of it!

I'd like to personally thank all the models in the MFS...

Marrisa T.

Meagan T.

Melissa C.

Marli R.

Memory R.

Mattianne S.

Miriam S.

Alyssa C.

Natalie H.

Emily A.

Holly S.

Rosa W.

Kara M.

Jessica B.

Song N.

Ya'll did a wonderful job! Thank ya'll so much for agreeing to be in the Modesty Fashion Show!

Thank you Jennifer B. for the lovely slide show! You literally rescued me!

Thank you Mattianne, Melissa, Kara, and Cindy for helping me figure out who to ask to be in the MFS.

Thank you Gratt T. for putting together the music for the MFS! It really kicked the level of greatness up a notch!

Thank you Mrs. Cindy, for overseeing and presenting the MFS! You are such a great inspiration and teacher! Thank you so much for allowing me to help out with this!

And most of all, thank you Father, for allowing us to be used by You to spread the message of the importance of modesty to any of the ladies that were able to attend the MFS.

One Lovely Blog Award!

Thank you Naomi for this award! The rules of receiving this award is to tell 7 random things about myself and award it to 15 other bloggers :-)

7 Things:
1. I love to read and crochet! I've done both from a young age.
2. I LOVE modest fashion! Can't ya tell from my blog? :-)
3. After far too long of having irregular Bible study patterns, I recently started a new Bible study method created by Cindy Colley. If you're interested in this method, you can go to her blog or the Facebook page :-)
4. I'm 20 years old and live at home with my parents and two little cousins.
5. I was recently blessed by being given the opportunity to help organize the Modest Fashion Show at Polishing the Pulpit (blogpost about it coming soon :-)
6. I love my drive to and from work. Not too long, not too short. I love blarring music from my granny car :-)
7. I aspire to follow in the footsteps of Christian women such as Cindy Colley and Shelia Butt, not only as a writer and speaker, but also as a wife and mom.

And I award...
India
Amy A.
Kristen
Melissa L.
Chelsea
Lisa
Dawn
Amber
Kris
Ashlyn
Deirdra
Lois
Julia
Jennifer
Patsy

Recap of Come Fill Your Cup Podcast

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Let me say that listening in live and participating in the chat of today's episode of "CFYC Espresso!" was not only encouraging and uplifting, it was also a ton of fun! Erynn Sprouse interviewed Mrs. Cindy Colley about the Bible study method that inspired the Facebook group "Digging Deep in God's Word." Cindy talked about the Bible study method, the Facebook group and answered questions from the chat room. I feel like I'm rambling here, but I'm just so excited about the Bible study method she's come up with, how fast the Facebook group has grown, being able to listen live and participate in the podcast! I love it!

The actual podcast was very encouraging, but so was the chat that was going on while the podcast was being recorded! One of the questions I asked was how would Cindy suggest one to get started writing and speaking. Some of the ladies in the chat room were like "Great question!" I mentioned that writing/speaking is a goal of mine, and then BAM! some of  the ladies were encouraging me, saying that they could see me speaking and suggesting ways to get your writing out. It was great! A little bit of encouragement goes a LONG way! Thank you so much ladies!

I want to share a quote from Cindy today:

"Okay, it's just a promise from me. If you do this study for a whole year, you will never again say, 'I don't know how to study the Bible. I just don't know where to start,' because you will have so many unanswered questions; and God has the answers. He has all of the answers for all the issues of life in His book."

If you aren't reading Come Fill Your Cup or Bless Your Heart you are missing out on much encouragement and blessings, so go read them :-)

Polishing the Pulpit 2011!!!!!

My friend Amy asked for feedback about PTP on her blog. My comment was long enough for a blog post so I decided to post it here! For Amy's blog go here :-)


Oh wow! There are sooooo many wonderful things about PTP!

1) Ok, so I might be playing favorites here, but I really loved the Modesty Fashion Show! Show girls and ladies that you can be modest without wearing a burlap sack is needed! On top of it all, every item (minus the wedding dress) featured was originally immodest but was made modest by adding another piece(s) of clothing! You can buy things in the store that are cute and still be modest! Ok, enough ranting on that

2) The variety of lessons/topics to choose from! Cindy Colley is one of my favorite speakers and I was able to hear her multiple times! There are just so many great lessons! The one that had the most impact on me this week was “Prayer: What to Do When God Says No” presented by Gary Hampton. Let’s just say that lesson had PERFECT timing for me personally.

3) The singing! Like you said, Mrs. Amy, when 1000 plus brothers and sisters sang “Holy, Holy, Holy” that Sunday morning, I was moved to tears! A little glimpse of what Heaven will be like.

4) The fellowship! My family wasn’t able to go this year, so I roomed with friends I met last year at PTP (it was me and 2 other families in a room)! I was able to see both families at Roundhouse last year and one of the families only lives about 2 hours away so I see them every once in a while. But I couldn’t help think throughout the week, “A year ago I didn’t know these people. Now they’re some of my closest friends!” I also couldn’t help thinking how thankful I am for Facebook because it makes it easy to keep up with all the friends I’ve made at PTP!

I agree with Kathy, PTP is like church camp! Late nights, laughter, friends, and all! You just dress a bit nicer and have the luxury of a hotel staff

If you're interested in knowing more about Polishing the Pulpit go here :-)

PS. Could ya'll keep my brother, Rodge, in yall's prayers? He's been sick off and on all summer and tonight we found out that he has mono. He's also in his first few weeks of preaching school. The people there are very understanding of this kind of thing. We're so thankful for that and the fact that we finally know why he's been sick so much.

Happy 19th Birthday Rodge!

Today is my "little" brother's birthday!

Yes, he's a year younger and a foot taller!

He hated those suspenders and for me to kiss him!

A VERY rare snow day in February 2010

After Lad's to Leaders...

My 20th birthday :-) Apparently some things never change!

Today is also Rodge's last day of living here. Tomorrow we all go to East Tennessee School of Preaching and Missions. He stays and we go home. I'm going to miss him so much but I'm so proud of him! Love you Rodge and happy birthday!

Thank You Dear Friend!

My best friend at Purposely At Home wished me happy birthday in the sweetest way :-) Thank you so much <3!!!!!

Looking For A Look-Alike

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So this isn't an informative or quite frankly very entertaining blog post. This post is a virtual sticky note for myself! I love this bedspread! It's "on sale" at Belk for $179.99. Let's just say out of my price range! But I love it! So I'm on the look out for something similar, and this is to help me remember and to let ya'll know in case ya'll see something like it :-) If you happen to see something similar, please email me :-)

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day!!!!

Music Monday: "People Watching" by Jack Johnson

I don't know about ya'll, but one of my favorite things to do when I'm in a crowd of people is to people watch! Moma and I could do it for hours! I was listening to my David Archuleta channel on Pandora and this song came on. Now I love it! It's from the "Curious George" album (super cute movie by the way!). I don't know many of Jack Johnson's songs, but the music I've heard I've liked. I think that he did all the music on the Curious George movie, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, super cute song and super cute movie!

Do ya'll like to people watch? Have you had any interesting people come to your attention while people watching?

Much To My Surprise...

I've been rather behind on my blog reading since getting home from camp. I was catching up on Flip Flops, Camera Shots, and Happy Thots, one of my best friend's blogs and saw that she gave me an award! Thank you so much! Love you muchly!

The rules after receiving this award are as follows:

1. Thank the person who gave it to you and link back to their blog.

2. Pass it along to other deserving bloggers.

3.Reveal seven things about yourself.

1. I LOVE hats!

2. I'm 20 years old and just got my driver's license.

3. I love cute pjs, especially if the have sock monkeys or owls on them.

4. Photo editing is a new hobby of mine.

5.Southern and proud of it, honey child!

6. I like  love modest fashion but really don't care what the trends are. I wear what I like whether or not it's "popular"

7. Last but not least, I am a member of the Lord's church and want to do His will in my life.

Now I get to give ya'll the award :-)



Bless Your Heart

Adventures of a Not-So-Desperate Housewife

Kristina J

A Day In The Life Of Preachman's Wife

Bringing Up Benjamin

Now go check out these great blogs :-)

The Driver's License Saga of LurlynnCrochet

                                                       





















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So, I'm almost 20 years old and I just got my driver's license. Yes, you heard right, almost 20. I know, most people go on their 16th birthday, but I just didn't like to drive. I'd get nervous. I'd have something akin to a panic attack, but not nearly that severe. I just wasn't comfortable behind the wheel. The only person I was comfortable with was my neighbor, Lacey. Yes, my neightbor was my driver's ed teacher :-)

So, about 2 months ago I decided it was time for me to be a big girl and get my license! And that is what I attempted to do last week. The key word being "attempted."

Where we live, you get there in the morning, and the first 5 people who get there for a road test will be tested that morning. Well, I was number 5. So when she called my number, Daddy and I went in and gave her the needed information and signed the needed forms, got my picture taken, and then we had 2 hours before I could take my road test.

The coffee shop where Rodge and I work is walking distance from the Driver's License office, so Daddy and I went there for some breakfast and coffee. All the regulars were asking why I wasn't working and I informed them that I was about to taking my driver's test. I had half of my small town cheering me on!

The road test was going great! I was confident. The lady conducting the test is super nice. Everything was going great!

Then it came time for the 3-point turn.

Cue the "I'm-so-much-like-Anne Shirley-that-I-can't-do-something-this-big-without-something-going-wrong" bell. Yeah. She asked me to do the 3-point and that part of my brain just flat-lined. I couldn't remember anything! I did something like a 3-point, but not exactly like one. So I had to do it again! I was in reverse...

 Then I heard the "bump!"

I asked the test administrator, "Do I get out now? Do I pull over to the side? What do you want me to do?"
   "Pull over to the side of the road and we'll see what you hit, sweetie," she instructed me. It didn't take long to see that I had knocked over a mail box!

I had to call my dad, but I was already in tears! So I handed her the phone, realizing that Daddy had forgotten his cell phone at home! So, we called my boss, she was freaking out (not realizing that I had just hit a mail box, she thought I was hurt)! By the time Daddy and Rodge had gotten there the police officer was there as well. We had to call the police incase the mail box owner wanted to file a report. I was still in tears. Daddy was so sweet and the first thing he did was give me a hug and tell me that it was ok.

We got in touch with the home owner and thankfully he didn't want to file a report since Daddy said he'd repair the mail box. That was a HUGE relief to me!!!! Do you know how embarrassing it would be to have that on my record?

The testing administrator gave me a hug and told me to come back soon! My Daddy was so sweet! The mail box was taken care of before I even got off work that day!

After that whole fiasco I went back to work. There were flowers there but I wasn't really paying that much attention to them, and my boss said they were for me. I looked at the card and almost started crying again! (Moma ordered those that morning before I took the test). I was sniffing, trying not to cry, and then my boss almost started crying (she doesn't cry easily)! I was like, "You can't start crying because if you do I will too!!!" *sighs* Sometimes it's hard working with a bunch of hormonal women!

The rest of the day went pretty smoothly, nobody made fun of me, a lot of people encouraged me to go back and try again. And that's just what I did :-)

As of Tuesday LurlynnCrochet has a driver's license! The night before Daddy took me and we practiced the 3-point about 10 times. When it came to that part of the test, I did it and did it well. The testing administrator even clapped for me:-)

You know what the Bible says about the angels in Heaven rejoicing when one sinner repents? Well that's what it felt like when I passed!

It was a good day:-)

PS. The news is on in the background and it said that if current drivers had to go back and take the test, about half of them would fail. Go figure!

LurlynnCrochet Goes to Church Camp!!!

Hey ya'll! I'll be at camp all next week! If I have time to do some blogging this weekend, I'll schedule some posts, but that isn't likely. Hope ya'll have a great week!

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Making the Movies Jealous

Check out this marriage proposal!

I know nothing about this couple, but I find this incredibly sweet! I teared up a little bit while watching :'-)
I hope they have a blessed marriage!

Royal Wedding Cinderella Spoof

This is just too funny!

HELP!!!!

I could really use some help from my more experienced blogging friends! I'm trying to figure out how to get my Amazon Affiliate Store to show up on the tab at the top of my blog, but I just can't figure it out! I'd be thankful for any help ya'll could offer :-)

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Stacey and to all you moms out there!

Please Help My Friend Who Could Use Some Help :-)

My blogging friend, Mrs. Connie, writes the Smockity Frocks blog. Anyway, her husband recently lost his job. They could use your prayers! It would also be a big help if you would read her blog :-) Mrs. Connie has a source of income from the blog because of the ads on the side bar. The more views she has to her blog, the more compensation she gets from the ads. So, please read her blog :-)

3 New Babies and Blogettes Meet!

Last weekend my mom, Grayson, Gavin, Gilbert (my new puppy:-) and I went to Mississippi to visit family. In the month of February, 3 of my cousins had babies! Since we hadn't seen any of them in person, we decided it was time for a road trip :-) This was also the first trip we've taken my new puppy, Gilbert Blythe, on (more on how he came to be a part of our family later).

Gilbert traveled surprisingly well! He didn't whine that much. Out of the four hours of travel, I only had to hold him 30 minutes of that time. And the best part of all, NO accidents!!!!!!!
















His spot, in the carrier at my feet :-)

Once we got to my Mamaw Barnett's house we visited with her for a little while and then walked next door to see little Madelyn. She is the daughter of my first cousin, Lacie and her husband, Justin, and the baby sister to 4 year old Anslie. Unfortunantly, I didn't take my camera to their house, so I don't have any picutres :-(

That afternoon we went to my Aunt Debbie and Uncle Kevin's house. Aunt Debbie and my mom aren't sisters, they're first cousins, but it would seem weird to call her just plain Debbie, or Mrs. Debbie, therefore, she's Aunt Debbie. There we got to visit with some of my cousins and one of my great aunts. My 3rd cousin, Allen, and his wife, Andria, welcomed their first child, Zachary Allen, into their family 8 weeks ago. Zachary looks JUST like his daddy!!!!

After church Sunday morning, we ate lunch with my grandmother and great-grandmother and then headed off to see yet another baby :-)

My 1st cousin, Brandon, and his wife, Nikki, welcomed their first baby into their family:-) Little Noah Michael is the first grandson for my aunt and uncle and first great-grandchild for my grandparents :-)

Once we finished visiting with Brandon, Nikki and Noah, we hit the road trying to make it to evening worship in Dempolis (it's on our way home and we have friends that worship there). While visiting, we got to meet Carl (the preacher) and his wife, Kristen and their little boy, Benjamin. I follow Kristin's blog, Bringing Up Benjamin, but had never met Kristen in person. So, me being my unique self, I had to get a picture :-)

On a random note, I saw this Bronco at a gas station and thought it was really cool! If I liked to drive, I would totally drive it!
















 I got kinda bored, so here are a couple of random shots.