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So I wandered over to our old buddies YLCF (rebranded a while back as Kindred Grace), only to discover they've changed their layout again and now opened up a new blog called Adornabelle (adornabelle.com, as you might imagine).

Adornabelle seems like it's....um.....ah......

"Adornabelle is a community of women who are passionate about echoing inner beauty with outward adornment. We believe it is possible to be both modest and fashionable as we embrace our God-given beauty.

Our conversations center around classic styling and natural hair and body care. We have fun sharing ideas about how to adorn ourselves on a budget and at the thrift store. But all with the knowledge that the most important beauty accessories are a gentle spirit and adorable smile."

Oh sweet zombie baby Jesus. :lol:

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Methinks someone is getting a bit concerned about looking frumpy/matronly, and worried she will not be able to keep her husband's attention....

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So I wandered over to our old buddies YLCF (rebranded a while back as Kindred Grace), only to discover they've changed their layout again and now opened up a new blog called Adornabelle (adornabelle.com, as you might imagine).

Adornabelle seems like it's....um.....ah......

"Adornabelle is a community of women who are passionate about echoing inner beauty with outward adornment. We believe it is possible to be both modest and fashionable as we embrace our God-given beauty.

Our conversations center around classic styling and natural hair and body care. We have fun sharing ideas about how to adorn ourselves on a budget and at the thrift store. But all with the knowledge that the most important beauty accessories are a gentle spirit and adorable smile."

Oh sweet zombie baby Jesus. :lol:

Well, there they go again with the infantilization of women.

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"Adornabelle" sounds like a cheap make-up brand.

Yeah, or a rejected name for the Little Miss Makeup doll that came out in the late 80s/early 90s.

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Yeah, or a rejected name for the Little Miss Makeup doll that came out in the late 80s/early 90s.

or the $2 shop (dollar store) version on a Barbie hair do head from the early 90s.

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or the $2 shop (dollar store) version on a Barbie hair do head from the early 90s.

Cutesy-ing up Biblical advice that way (I'm assuming the title is a reference to 1Tim 2:9) just seems gross to me.

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Sounds to ME like the webmistress needed a place for all the ads she needs to "supplement" her family's income.

How much can a site like that generate? I know many people try to make money from ads but is it actually profitable?

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How much can a site like that generate? I know many people try to make money from ads but is it actually profitable?

I'd like to know this too. I'd think it's only the "big" blogs that actually make a decent income from the ads.

I don't "get" Adornabelle. Yeah, I love good fashion/style blogs. But aside from maybe a couple contributors that actually display good style, most of these posts seem to be from frumpy gals who think they've found high fashion at Walmart when they found a maxi skirt.

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Adornabelle sounds like a word Cuteoverload would make up for a kitten stuck in a drainpipe or something.

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I just wish they'd do something interesting. I really don't see any progression in the writing of ylcf and whatever incarnations it has. It tends to be more denial, of what the original "mission" of the site was (not that I'm pretending to really get what that was supposed to be), and there isn't any significant reflection on how the original intent has changed (if it has).

If I had said something I later realized was ignorant/narrow-minded/completely inaccurate and/or unrepresentative of how I currently felt I would be chomping at the bit to clarify how I had evolved and grown. Just so people wouldn't have the "wrong" impression of me, etc. For example: "Courtship Stories ----> Love Stories". Courtship is such a loaded term in the small world of fundamentalism that I would think they'd want to explain why they had changed it.

Anyway, I basically don't give a rip about Adornabelle because I could not care less about internet fashion/beauty advice in general, let alone some kind of fundie version of the same. But the collective unconscious of the YLCF crew? Sign me up!!! :) Not to threadjack, I'm just always curious about what they will come up with next in an attempt to be, uh, relevant.

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I can't say their thoughts on beauty and fashion are of ANY interest to me, but I'm also curious about what YLCF (well, Gretchen) will come up with next. The new design is better than the last one, which was just disastrous. And they appear to have attracted a few more decent writers. I honestly thought YLCF was on it's way out - it was badly written, badly designed, and not even worth putting in my feed reader anymore. I replaced it with Gretchen's blog, which at least doesn't offend the eye and I can hope that she'll maybe say something about how golly, it's different to LIVE the live you talked about when you were a teenager.

And not to get too personal here (ha!), but if Gretchen is really committed to the whole Quiverfull thing, there ought to be another little redheaded Acheson on the way. There doesn't seem to be. She really seemed to be panicking when she got pregnant with #3 so quickly, and I think she may have realized that she could spend the next 15-20 years of her life pregnant and nursing and popping out babies that they can't support. I suspect Jesus told her it's okay to not have a baby every year, especially when you can't support a huge family.

But will anything be published on YLCF about how it's honestly kind of hard to deal with three kids in five years and a farmer husband in a rural area? GOODNESS NO.

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I'm not sure if Gretchen is quiverfull per se -- I think she sanctions NFP-type birth control, am I right? Yeah, it would be nice if she would publicly come out and say that there are drawbacks to a lack of family planning. But I think she's afraid of alienating certain readers, so she doesn't want to write about it.

ETA: It is interesting how both Gretchen and Crystal Paine -- both at the vanguard of super-right-wing Christianity as teens and young twentysomethings -- seem to have decided to stop at 3 kids and forgo the Duggar route.

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I'm not sure if Gretchen is quiverfull per se -- I think she sanctions NFP-type birth control, am I right? Yeah, it would be nice if she would publicly come out and say that there are drawbacks to a lack of family planning. But I think she's afraid of alienating certain readers, so she doesn't want to write about it.

I don't recall Gretchen specifying that she's quiverfull or not (and I've read her blogs for over 10 yrs.). However, I think she leads people to assume she's quiverfull because of who she "hangs" with and the fact that she had 3 kids quickly.

I suspect she may sanction NFP since her 3rd child is spaced farther than her girls (and she's mentioned she doesn't do extended breastfeeding, so that's not the reason for the spacing). And of course she currently has a 2.5 yr old and no baby on the way (that we know of).

I say kuddos to her if she's actually spacing her kids for their sake and her's. But I wish she's publicly acknowledge that the quiverfull way of life is not working out and that oh yeah, maybe it's a good idea to use family planning! Why is she afraid of losing quiverfull readers? She's draw a whole new audience by changing her tune! I'd read and respect her writings a whole lot more if she was a former-quiverfull-becomes-honest-about-life writer.

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super cereal question: HOw is this not vanity?

:lol: Well, you see, it's not vanity because back when we were single and frumpy and ugly, guys were not attracted to us. So since it's God's will for us to get married and make babies, we figured out that we have to look nice to keep a man. Oh, yeah, and it might make us money to run a "fashion" site too.

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Am I the only one who has dirty thoughts when I see "beautiful within, adorned without"?

You're not the only one whose mind went straight to the porn version of the site - which would obviously be called Apornabelle. Now that's a site I'd pay to read! Oh, wait a second....

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I don't recall Gretchen specifying that she's quiverfull or not (and I've read her blogs for over 10 yrs.). However, I think she leads people to assume she's quiverfull because of who she "hangs" with and the fact that she had 3 kids quickly.

I suspect she may sanction NFP since her 3rd child is spaced farther than her girls (and she's mentioned she doesn't do extended breastfeeding, so that's not the reason for the spacing). And of course she currently has a 2.5 yr old and no baby on the way (that we know of).

I say kuddos to her if she's actually spacing her kids for their sake and her's. But I wish she's publicly acknowledge that the quiverfull way of life is not working out and that oh yeah, maybe it's a good idea to use family planning! Why is she afraid of losing quiverfull readers? She's draw a whole new audience by changing her tune! I'd read and respect her writings a whole lot more if she was a former-quiverfull-becomes-honest-about-life writer.

I recall a post by her around the time of her wedding in which she came out as NOT a quiverfull type, and also not an exclusively NFP type. Her justification for this, of course, is that having too many kids interfered with the relationship of the couple, which is so godly, it should not be overtaken by anything else except Jesus himself (or something to that effect). I'll see if I can find it when I get back to my pc from my mobile device.

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Semi-on topic for longtime YLCF followers: here's one girl's testimony of how YLCF helped lead her into the "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," courtship-centric mindset--and how it "poisoned" her thinking about relationships for years afterward: ingridgraceandaudrey.blogspot.com/2012/08/graces-story.html . I imagine there are many others like her who just haven't blogged about it. Stories like this are why Gretchen needs to disavow her polarized teenage mindset -- for the sake of future Graces.

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Can't find it, but Gretchen had a pre-marriage post about what she could do with her life - one of them was being a caterer - and her conclusion was that she could be a mom and thus fulfil all these other possibilities. There was definitely a tableful of curly-haired little ones included. So I'm pretty sure her initial vision was more than three kids.

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Can't find it, but Gretchen had a pre-marriage post about what she could do with her life - one of them was being a caterer - and her conclusion was that she could be a mom and thus fulfil all these other possibilities. There was definitely a tableful of curly-haired little ones included. So I'm pretty sure her initial vision was more than three kids.

"Tableful"--yes. Honestly though, I doubt that Gretchen ever planned to try for 10 or 20 kids a la Duggars. I believe both she and Merritt come from mid-sized families (4 and 5 children, as I recall). I envision her having a few more children down the road, but certainly not attempting for the prized dozen.

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