Elephant ear growth chart. #hellohelen

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She was so excited for Mad Scientist Day that she couldn’t go to sleep last night, woke up early this morning and requested Space Jam on the way to school! #shiningchar #scientistchar #madscientist

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That confidence that comes when you know you’ve nailed your outfit. #sweetiepetey #peterpan

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It’s impossible for this girl to walk into a room unnoticed. I just love her silliness and sense of style. Right now she’s dutifully putting back on all the prisms she took off the chandelier. #hellohelen

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The girls love looking for that magic moment when the morning light casts rainbows all over the wall of the dining room.

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Picture day at the beach 🏖 #sweetiepetey

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OOTD #tiedye @umbro #hellohelen

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Daily collage with Helen #mixedmediamonday

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch: two Macs in matching @tilleyhats #sweetiepetey 📷 @scoutfinch1955

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Pool IRL @jonesvalleypool

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First time for these 4-year-olds to swim in a meet! So much spunk wrapped up in two little bodies. 📷 @katieashworthtaylor

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So excited that Ignite is now live! I’m so proud of this branding project, and @mmodernweb brought it to life on the web in a way I never thought was possible. Great visionary client + awesome web team = beautiful and beautifully functioning website! Congratulations, @ignite.properties !

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This is summer, right here. #hellohelen #bombpop

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“Wedding room,” balcony, gardens and pond. #mixedmediamonday #quiltsofinstagram @hellohelen

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Helen and I love making lakes and fields and houses and forests with wallpaper and fabric samples, and then putting all the little @fisherprice people on top.

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Giving lectures to three classes of middle and high schoolers today. I’m so excited! Trying to tap into my inner teenager and not appear totally ancient, and to show them that the term for so much of what they’re seeing around them all the time is graphic design. I’m starting the lecture with a Jessica Helfand quote that Professor Kelly Bryant used on the first day of a typography class, and it’s stuck with me ever since. Things I want them to know: 1. Design is everywhere. 2. Design is powerful. @auburnuniversitygraphicdesign

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I love painting these portraits for @hollychollon ! What a special day for a baptism. #Repost @hollychollon with @get_repost ・・・ My dear friend @sarah_robins_powell painted this precious portrait of Clementine to celebrate her baptism which was this morning. 🧡 The blessing Charlton wrote: Clementine Louise, you’re mother and I are so thankful the Lord has blessed us with you. Your name means “merciful warrior,” and our prayer for you comes from Micah 6:8: “... and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” Clemmie, we pray that early in your life God would call you to himself and that you would always walk humbly with him in ever increasing intimacy. And as Clementine Churchill stood with her husband against the evil and injustice of her day, we pray that Christ would enable you to courageously yet compassionately pursue justice heeding the call of God in Isaiah to “loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free” (Isaiah 58:6). We love you our little merciful warrior! Amen. 🧡

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Flower market breakfast with Helen Camellia, the sweetest flower of all. 🌸 #hellohelen #handpickedhelen

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Look sharp, be sharp. Protected Peter in his new fave accessory. #sweetiepetey

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Father daughter dance 2019, by the numbers: 3 Easter dresses, 4 church shoes, 2 sparkly ball shoes, 2 stick-on earrings, 1 bow, 4 braids, 2 sparkly eyelids, 3 shimmery pink smiles, 3 necklaces, 2 purses, 1 bracelet, 1 handsome dad, 1 three piece suit, 1 little boy sad he couldn’t go, 1 hairspray-fogged bathroom, 10 minutes to find shoes, 30 minutes to get out the door, many decisions made about accessories, countless flashes forward to high school. #shiningchar #farrisofthemall #hellohelen

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Hand-decorated Helen hanging ornaments on the Easter tree #hellohelen #hoppyhelen

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Routine afternoon snack: goldfish and dirt #sweetiepetey 🐠 🌱

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Time to bust out the old Chi O ❤️ AU pin! #hootiehoo

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Spotted in the ‘ham. Love seeing all the art that this account scouts around town. Birmingham is such a vibrant city, and their mural game is strong. #Repost @magiccitymurals with @get_repost ・・・ Have you seen this abstract mural on the side of the new Sidekicks store @sdkcks in Avondale? They are right next to Magic City Cookie Dough at 400 41st Street South. Mural by @sarah_robins_powell. #birmingham #birminghamalabama #birminghamal #streetart #streetartiseverywhere #mural #muralart #muralsofinstagram #muralsofbirmingham #muralsofbirminghamal #muralsofavondale #muralsofavondaleal #birminghammural #birminghammurals #magiccitymural #magiccitymurals

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Baby boy in the bluebells.

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Cool factor: 💯 Confidence factor: 💯 #hellohelen

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#farrisofthemall after her violin recital the other day. It’s a gift to hear her play. I can’t wait to see what she makes with that sharp ear and the intuition and expression to go with it.

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You know you’ve watched a lot of @bachelorabc when you think this sign at the children’s museum says “Colton’s Journey”. @coltonunderwood

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Charlotte is the embodiment of second grade and the memories I have of it. Missing teeth, forts, Boxcar Children, trampoline-induced sprained ankles, first spend-the-night parties, tallied lists, diary entries. It’s fun and amusing to see the things she experiences just like I did and the things she makes all her own. #shiningchar #secondgrade

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Gestural charcoal. So much fun. Reminds me of freshman drawing class. #mixedmediamonday

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Rolled on some pattern in the little girls’ room with a patterned paint roller from @Etsy :the look of wallpaper for $100 out the door!

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Happiest with his paci and pink toothbrush. #sweetiepetey

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She’s overwhelmed by how beautiful she is in this dance costume and can’t wait to show Luke! ❤️ 🎵 #hellohelen #heeltoehelen @solesdance

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Helen’s signature. I love those curlicue “Es”. #hellohelen #handwritinghelen #mixedmediamonday #handlettered

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Hangin’ by the tree, putting out the vibe #sweetiepetey

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Thank you to our wonderful preschool for this priceless pic! #sweetiepetey

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Fun seeing some of my work over on @thebeaufortbonnetcompany !

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Party time 🎄🥂💃

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Lately I’ve been thinking of the fullness of God: the rich and divine fullness of the Trinity, the sustaining fullness of God holding all things together, the renewing fullness of our dwelling in Christ and He in us, the sanctifying fullness of the Holy Spirit, the fullness of that earth-moving love which sent Christ to come for us, which we discover in the most still, quiet moments of wonder. Our house is lacking furniture and pictures on the wall, but the life and hope of Christmas green has clothed it and replaced any lack with abundance. “And I pray that you, firmly fixed in love yourselves, may be able to grasp (with all Christians) how wide and deep and long and high is the love of Christ—and to know for yourselves that love so far beyond our comprehension. May you be filled though all your being with God himself!” Eph. 3: 18-19

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Holiday Helen singing Away In A Manger. She looks so tall here in the zip-up pajamas she picked out, but I promise she’s just a peanut. #hellohelen

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The abstracted chore chart. 🎨 #mixedmediamonday

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Helen wuz here. #hellohelen

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Singing Lessons & Carols at IPC is one of my very favorite things, and this year was a special one: the 30th annual Lessons & Carols and the 40th anniversary of my aunt and uncle serving in music ministry. What a privilege to sing such beautiful music under their leadership—the best! This year we sang the premiere of a piece commissioned in their honor by Alice Parker. Such a full weekend filled with fun with cousins, seeing old friends and meeting new, and worshipping our Savior together. I love that God created arts which fill us up and through which we can honor him.

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Had to tickle this turkey leg for the good laughs! 🍗 #sweetiepetey

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I’m thankful for the many gifts given to me, seen, felt, known and loved.

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Baby in his daddy’s outfit on his great-grandmother’s pretty settee #sweetiepetey

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Pippi two ways! Char suggested that Farris be Mr. Nelson, but Farris wasn’t as excited about that idea. 👧🏼👧🏼🐴🐒 #pippilongstocking

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Working on something ethereal tonight. #design

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Something in the water at Big Spring is making the animals a lot bigger than normal. #intrudeexhibit

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