A few months ago, my friend
Morayo Sayles of
Piper Brown Photography and I hatched a plan that I would style the Girlie Office and she would take photos. I shared a few right away in January's
girlie office: 2015!
I assembled a pretty display of real and millinery flowers in a myriad of vessels ranging from tinkered cans, to painted jars and fabric-banded bottles, to petite china cups.
Morayo snapped nearly 160 photos and they all turned out beautifully! Admiring the images as a set, ideas for an essay began to flow.
Before long I had written a piece -- musings about my surprise-to-me style preferences -- and sent off a query along with a few photography samples to
Somerset Life.
To my delight, I received the answer right-away that every writer hopes for, that my submission was not only accepted and but would be slated to appear in the
April/May/June issue! Recently an advance copy arrived in the mail with a congratulatory note:
Stampington & Company gets it! The inclusion of this seemingly small touch of a congrats made it even more special. There's something very magical to me about seeing my work in print. Even
though I have created
two books and written many
magazine articles,
it's still as thrilling as it ever was. I know it always will be.
The issue is lovely through and through, just as they always are.
Stampington & Company has
Magazine Calls and Challenges for submissions year-round.
Maybe it will be your turn next!
Thanks for reading!
xo
elyse
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