How to travel with your jewelry in style: Avon Style Essentials

I'm alive!!! I may have missed last week with my one-blog-entry-a-week challenge, but I hope my epic Seven Churches Visitation Parts 1 and 2 entries will make up for it. Try nyo, guys! Madami akong nilagay na trivia.

Anyway, life and work life have been really exciting lately. Work had me involved in new and exciting product launches and a handful of programs for associates, customers, and Avon ladies happening in a few months, and for outside of work, I have trips planned - both with my friends and my family - making me closer to achieving my quarter goals. Yay! And of course, travel means packing light, which I must admit I am not very good at.

Good thing the company I work for understands that summer means travel and travel means keeping your things together as you jet set to your destination. Thank goodness that Avon came up with a line of travel items with the Avon Style Essentials line. Of course, being an Avon Associate, aside from getting first dibs on the best Avon products (watch out for my entry about our latest lipstick), I also get a generous employee discount. I just had take advantage of  this deal and I ended up ordering A LOT. Let me share one of my purchases.

Is it a pencil case? A brush set? Ano na!!!?

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We’re Pilgrims in an Unholy Land: Visita Iglesia (Seven Churches Visitation) with the Ruiz-Castro Confederation Part 2

Here are churches 5 to 7 of our epic Seven Churches Visitation.

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We’re Pilgrims in an Unholy Land: Visita Iglesia (Seven Churches Visitation) with the Ruiz-Castro Confederation Part 1

My mother, being the devoted Catholic that she is, has been taking us to church pilgrimage trips every time we visit a new province. Her first question right after we arrive at a new place would always be “I wonder how their church looks like.” I, my brother, and my father, being the not-so devout Catholics that we are, would always indulge her and take her to the church before anything else. I even remember having to travel to Cagayan, having to wake up at 5 AM, having to ride a van for six hours, just to visit a miraculous dark-skinned statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And yes, all because of my mother’s devotion.

So it’s no surprise that we do another pilgrimage trip this Holy Week. The last time I joined my family for a Visita Iglesia, or a Seven Churches Visitation, was some two or three years ago, and I must admit that my mother outdid herself this time.

With the help of my brother (I suppose), my mother came prepared with a list of the pilgrimage churches, or churches that pilgrims or travelers go to gain indulgence or forgiveness of sins. It’s an alien concept to modern Christians now, but what do you have to lose when you get to take road trips, learn about history, and experience great architecture?