We Did.

JOE AND I DID IT.

I am now Mrs. Anna Crews!

A few of my favorite photos are below, enjoy!

 

{I got my toenails done to match the girls' dresses.}

{My personal favorite of Joe.}

{I LOVE MY GIRLS.}

 

{Thank you, Pinterest!}

{Remember my top secret unity ceremony idea? A unity braid! A cord of 3 strands is not easily broken...<3}

{A few of our youth group girls that I work with!}

{Joe and I with the Powell's--a HUGE thank you to them for allowing us to use their property for our big day! We love y'all!}

 

Hope you enjoyed the brief photo summary!

Xoxo,

The Crews'



my first guest-post!

so i told you a few weeks back that i'd come across this amazing little site that i fell in love with: the small things blog. and i told you that i intended on emailing kate, blogger of all things small {and amazing and creative!}..because i was fairly certain that she and i were supposed to be friends.

amazing little thing: she asked to do a guest post! my response was, "i'm semi-new at this, and have no idea what that means, but yes!" so without further rambling from me, i give you: the guest-posting.

Hi! I'm Kate from The Small Things Blog! I have "met" Anna online through blog connections and I'm excited to be guest posting on her blog today!

She and I have a lot in common with our love for makeup, hairstyling, and fashion. But more importantly, we have been blessed to realize that our worth, our value, does not come from these things. While it is okay to enjoy them, we must not fixate on them. Or place them above our relationship with Christ.

It took me awhile to be "okay" with my job as a hairstylist. I absolutely love what I do, but I struggled with the vanity of it. "Am I doing the right thing?" was the question that forever plagued me. Through many talks with the Lord and my husband, then my boyfriend, my heart changed about my job. The Lord gave me this gift, and it would be a shame to let it go to waste. And instead of focusing on how it might look like I'm in a vain career, instead I should focus on the people I meet and the opportunity to love them!

So I want to offer a little encouragement to you: don't push away your passions because you don't understand how they fit into your life. Pursue them. Enjoy them. Use them! Don't underestimate God's ability to use them for His Glory.

Come check out my blog for hairstyle tutorials, makeup tips, and the occasional outfit post!

This is one of my favorite outfits for fall! Grey + white + denim. You can't go wrong!

Thanks Anna for letting me be a guest on your blog today!

thanks kate! your post reminds me of a tweet i read today: my favorite musician {dave barnes} re-tweeted an andy stanley quote: "God may choose to showcase His power on the stage of your weakness." just another way to look at God taking something you think he can't use, and using it to bring glory to Himself.

inner beauty.

it's no secret that i love makeup. i love doing hair, getting mine done, playing with different outfits and absolutely love shoes.
{i may not have the finances to support all of these passions, but a girl can dream!}

something i'm even MORE passionate about is having girls realize that while those things are fun and can make you very attractive on the outside, it is so much more valuable to have beauty on the inside. there's nothing wrong with having fun playing dress-up on the outside as long as you are also striving for a beautiful soul as well.

the thought of having girls and women, young and old, understand that they are beautiful, loved, and a treasure is an extremely important concept to me! i have become, and am still becoming, extremely passionate about it. it'd be my dream to organize an event where women of all ages can come and hear about their importance to Christ..how he treasures them, loves them, thinks they are beautiful.

all of this is nothing new; i've felt this way for a while. it's what drove me to name this blog "beauty inside her" and it's what drives me to work with high school girls. but seeing this little piece of art tonight just inspired a blog posting. :)

super cute hair how-to!

of course, courtesy of The Small Things Blog!

...and if you like that, click here for the how-to video.. it's so easy!

mascara monday.

my sister and i share an obsession with mascara.
some might think it's silly, but if you are a girl who likes makeup..then you totally get it.

so when she gave me a mascara sampler kit from sephora, i was in heaven.

i tried a few different kinds out..and then..i found true love.

bare escentuals buxom mascara. this stuff is AHHHHHMAZING. and it preserves itself pretty well; i have a mini-tube that you'd think would be all dried up by now, but it's still going on like its brand new--smooth and easy. never a clump. a full-size tube is $19 at sephora, but it's totally worth it, i promise.

try it, and all you'll hear me say is that i told ya so. :)