Exciting news: the May 2020 issue of Real Simple magazine featured my piece “Keep Going 1” in the article “Let’s Hang!” written by Stephanie Sisco and Leslie Corona, and photographed by Bryan Gardner. (The online version of the article is titled 4 Smart Strategies for Creating a Stylish Gallery Wall.)

That’s the short version of the story :)

The long version is that I had no idea this was happening and I bought this issue of Real Simple somewhat randomly and had it in my house for over a week before I opened it! I wanted to wait until I could really enjoy it, which turned out to be during some late-night-me-time: everyone else in my family was asleep.

When I got to the story on buying and hanging art I was like oh cool they got some of these pieces from Artfully Walls, which is a great website I’ve worked with for a few years now. And I was looking closely at the pieces featured on the first page of the story and mentally congratulating people.

Then I turned to page two of the story and BOOM: there it was in the fricking center of the gallery wall, my piece Keep Going 1! My jaw fell open, my heart started racing, and I just sat there and stared at it for a few beats.

Then I ran into the bedroom and woke my husband up so I could a) validate that this was not a hallucination and b) freak the flip out with another human.

When I woke up the next morning I had to look at it again to make sure it was still there. It was ;) I am still in a cloud of joy and excitement over this whole thing.

Keep Going 1 is available at Artfully Walls or here on my website, where you can also find the other pieces in the series, Keep Going 2 & Keep Going 3.

Thanks so much to all of the folks at Real Simple that made this awesome article happen!