I suppose I've been immersed in words and images my whole life.

I remember playing around in the art department of my dad's ad agency as a little girl, ogling the elaborate marker sets and big slanty drafting tables. Later I obsessed over high school yearbook layouts, and spent my afterschool hours writing "cheesy copy" for fun.  I went on to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, where I studied newspaper design (before newspaper design was really a thing) and after working for several publications as an editor and art director, I decided to stay home to focus on our growing family.  And my work with words and images began to take new shape.

As my husband Tim pursued pastoral ministry, we found ourselves planted for seasons in places of extraordinary beauty and community —  Princeton, Oxford (UK), Charlottesville, Atlanta, even back and forth to Kenya many times. Along the way, I've helped small businesses, nonprofits and the church use words and images to communicate visually. I’ve also been welcomed into the lives of families to capture with paper and paint the fleeting, precious stages of childhood. My current work, outside of motherhood and ministry, focuses on graphic design and branding in yet another remarkably beautiful place — Colorado Springs, Colorado.

But whatever the season, whatever the work, I am above all wife to Tim, mother to Ellie, Jack, Peter and Liam and — before all — daughter of the King.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. — John 1:14

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation ... And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. — Colossians 1: 15-17