Harperism Design Co.

It’s the best time of year around here! 🐎

So fun to look back at all the ky products I’ve gotten to work on through the years! The 4x4 commission was one of my favorites!

Still lots of ky derby themed signs at !

Open Saturday 10-6
Sunday 12-5
Monday - Friday 10-6

Dropped off some Ky Derby signs today at ! 🐴

A few favorites and a few new ones for hosting decor or gifts to celebrate the most fun season for our city!🌹

I always feel real proud to be from Kentucky and this time of year even more so!

Check out annual derby event tomorrow from 10-6 and grab everything you need!

Each year I usually write some kind of post about how doing the right thing is typically the hard and unpopular thing. And how it’s easier to join the crowd than sit alone at the Cross.

Each year I’m reminded of how fickle people are and how the people were all in with God until they weren’t. How going with the flow is much easier than standing alone with Jesus. But am I really all that different?

It’s been a hard few years in my walk with God and I really had to ask myself if I would be any better than those people who all walked away when Jesus wasn’t what they expected and didn’t come to do what they thought He would for them?

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I always hope I’ll choose life over death. The narrow path over the wide one. His way over the world’s way. And more importantly my way. But those things are easy to write and say when life is good and things aren’t hard. It’s much harder to actually be true of you when God feels absent and worse, apathetic.

It’s not that I’ve ever wanted to walk away from God. But die to myself while living - that’s a completely different story. Laying down all that I am, desire and hope for in this life at the foot of the Cross sounds really spiritual until you actually have to do it. That part, it’s not so much fun.

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Sometimes that looks like a bad habit and other times that looks like a dream you had. Sometimes it looks like sacrificing money or walking away from a job and sometimes it looks like a complete death of all that you used to be.

But that’s the invitation to follow Jesus. Same as it was all those thousands of years ago. That’s the cost. Everything. And looking back at that first Easter, It humbles my pride to see myself in those who decided it wasn’t worth the cost but more importantly encourages me to choose differently.

And to never forget that even if we’re all alone on this narrow road, He will never not be worth it. Even if we lose every single thing on this earth we love, Jesus said we won’t lose our soul. And that is Grace poured out for us. Because He is good. 🖤

I have loved adding more hand-lettered pieces and vintage inspired frames to my collection of original wood frames!

These are available at with new drops each month!

Open Mon-Sat, 10-6 & Sun, 12-5

2 whole years ago on Christmas Eve, something shifted mentally in me in a split second that would begin a several month mental battle like I never had before.

I didn’t think I would make it out. And honestly I didn’t even want to. I prayed for God to go ahead and bring me home many of nights. Because inside my head felt like a hell I couldn’t escape.

Fast forward 2 years and as I’m still unpacking from the move, a stack of notes I found reminded me how good God has been to me in giving me people who came by to hug me, love me, sit with me and stay with me when I had nothing to give. I would wonder where God was in all of this, and this reminds me that He was right there all along through others.

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This stuff we go through - it’s not for nothin. It’s not in vein. And it’s not weakness. Well maybe it is. But what Paul says about weakness is that Gods power is made perfect in it.

I learned alot through the wrestling. To keep pursuing Jesus when I least feel like it and to keep trusting God when it’s hardest.

It’s not perfect. It’s not rosy and good all the time. But what I’ve realized the most is that the pursuit of the easy life is a life void of wrestling with God and void of all the things that produce a change in me for the better.

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I have learned that if my pursuit is to try and avoid anything hard, then I will miss out on the fruit that God is producing in my heart while I’m in the valley.

Here today by the grace of God and a lot of gracious people who held my hand and held me up through loving action.

Grateful for Jesus. +
The whole entire reason. 🎄