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A serendipitous redesign brings fresh color, layered character, and livable elegance to a Crestline cottage
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Tumbling Into Joy
Where a group of Birmingham women come to tumble, laugh, and cheer each other on
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Three Birmingham women helping the next generation rise higher
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At Home on Honeysuckle
A serendipitous redesign brings fresh color, layered character, and livable elegance to a Crestline cottage Article by Alice Welsh Doyle | Photography by Laurey Glenn Call it serendipity, good fortune, or sheer luck, but when Birmingham decorator Zoë Gowen received a phone call from a young couple asking for help, it was a full-circle moment. “When I was a homes editor at Southern Living, I scouted this house in Crestline and did a curb appeal makeover story, but we never photographed the...
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Tumbling Into Joy
Where a group of Birmingham women come to tumble, laugh, and cheer each other on Article by Blair Moore | Photography by Dr. Joseph Wu On Friday mornings at Magic City Cheer in Hoover, the bass carries out into the parking lot. Inside, cheers erupt — not for a kid or teenager, but for a mom in her 40s who just landed a roundoff back tuck, met with high fives and whoops from women who were strangers just months ago. It all started with a playful dare from Coach Tression “Tre” Nash to a...
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Soaring
Three Birmingham women helping the next generation rise higher Article by Blair Moore | Photography by Mary Fehr Pamela Reed Phipps Executive Director of Grace House Ministries There she stood—an 8-year-old girl holding an unusually large purse. Curious, Pamela Reed Phipps asked why she carried such a big bag. “I never know when I’m going to need to stuff things in it and leave,” the girl told her. Phipps devotes her life to helping foster girls like these at Grace House Ministries, a...
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The Art of the Swirl
Laura Penkava transforms paint, water, and silk into one-of-a-kind designs Article by Blair Moore | Photography by Mary Fehr A tray of thickened water sits on the table in Laura Penkava’s home studio, its surface dotted with drops of floating paint. With a small tool, she pulls the colors through the bath, watching them stretch and swirl into marbled ribbons of indigo, rust, and soft green. A length of silk is laid carefully across the surface. In seconds, the pattern transfers—a dreamy...
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