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     I recently won this giveaway from Tracey at Adventure Awaits .   I promised to take pictures when the items arrived, and they have! Here's the notebook. I love the ribbon! The soar bookmark... ...the adventurers bookmark... ...and the Tolkien bookmark.   This one is my favorite.   I love the beads on the string! Here's my favorite bookmark in my favorite book!   I'll be posting a spotlight on Paper Crowns next week, so stay tuned!

     Recently, my friend Lisa over at Pickle's Pen and Trinkets wrote this post, ~I am not a feminist~ .   While I am very careful with tossing around the word "feminist" in reference to myself, I wholeheartedly disagree with this post.   I requested permission from Lisa to write a counterargument to her post and she very graciously granted it.   Thank you so much for allowing me to do this, Lisa.   (((hugs)))   I'll be using some sections from Lisa's post.   They'll be in quotes and italics. "Now feminists like to scream that when women are told to stay at home and take care of the children and the household, they’re being ‘belittled’, ‘put down’, ‘suppressed’. I DO UNDERSTAND that there are circumstances where this is true. BUT AS A GENERAL RULE it is not. Woman’s place is at home, not to suppress her but to protect her. Protect her from the vicious world outside."      There were several very Godly women in the Bib...