Kristin Billerbeck is a proud Californian, wife, mother of four, and connoisseur of the irrelevant. She writes Christian Chick Lit; where she finds need for most of the useless facts lulling about in her head.
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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
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Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
www.DeniseHunterBooks.com
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
www.DiannHunt.com
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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13 Comments:
Oh I have seen those programs! They look fun.
One think I do with paint is to take home a whole stack of the color chips I like and tape them together on the wall in a large enough area to tell if I'll like it.
But I'm decorate challenged too. LOL
I've been going to paint my office for two years now ... the procrastination is terror that I will paint it some disgusting color. I painted my kitchen walls brown and people stare at them like the walls collided with a mud fight. I dunno. I thought it looked cool. Maybe I'll just stick with white! :)
Oh I love brown walls! My daughter in law painted her kitchen a med brown taupy color and with the white trim, it looks awesome! I hadn't realized how great a color that really was until I saw it with my own eyes.
Sounds pretty, Jaime!
I have yellow, yes, YELLOW, walls in my living room. I used that wooly method and thought it would be a pale yellow, but I got carried away and filled in too many gaps. Now when I get up in the morning and walk in there, the room screams, GOOD MORNING!!! I just hate that before I've had my coffee.
I keep finding more similarities, Di. ;o) I'm exactly the same.
Oh I try ... hard. But I always have one too many flowers in the arrangement - hey if 4 look good, 5 should look better, right?
I told Terry we should go for the mountain vacation cabin look. You knwo the one ... worn out sofa, warm cozy fireplace. That'll work!
I don't know, missing out on all those paint mistakes seems too "Pottery Barn-ish". It took four different cans of yellow paint before I got my master bedroom right. I think I enjoy the perfect butter color all the more for my mistakes.
Kathy
www.lessonsfromthelaundry.com
LOL, Ane! That's so me! Hey,if this looks good, this will look better!! Too funny!
Good point, Kathy! That is how we stumble on the good colors, isn't it? We have a caramel-colored bedroom and love it!
I'm looking for a color to compliment my chocolate brown kitchen walls. My living butts off the kitchen and both rooms are open so I can't have clashing colors. The rooms are smallish too, (we have more of a cottage!). Suggestions??? :) I was thinking yellow, but now you scared me Diann! :)
Colleen, your daughter-in-law has great taste! :) lol
Let me amend my post above - this is how it SHOULD have read:
"my living ROOM butts off the kitchen ..."
Sounded a little freaky to me! :) LOL
ROTFLOL, Jaime!!
What if you went with a caramel in the living room? Our bedroom has caramel walls with gold, brown and cranberry accents. Very pretty. You could paint the trim white (that's what we did in the bedroom, love it!).
Then again, remember I'm decorationally-challenged.
We are putting the finishing touches on a bathroom. It went from a lavender wallpaper to coral sunset paint with orange sherbet trim. It is NOT as awful as it sounds. They are more peachy than orange. It is bright but not overwhelming. My husband and I have gone to that room several times to turn off a light only to discover it is just brighter in there now!
I am awful with colors as well. I can't picture in my head how things are going to look. Im a little afraid of color but decided Im tired of white! So I ventured into a brave new world!
I have yellow and red walls (cranberry colored). Clearly, I'm not your Pottery Barn girl. I think it's more Viva la Kristin!
I've done this for lots of my friends--helped to do the walls. (ha) They always seem happy when we are done. I love choosing paint colors--if only we all lived closer.
One thing you need to do is decide what kind of feeling you want in a room. The other is a flash of your personality/taste/style. And finally, you need to know whether you want "warm" or "cool." (And what kind of light you get also affects this.)
If I had another profession to do and a life to live over, I'd definitely want to do this kind of work.
But my own home? The one I live in now? It's EXTREMELY masculine. I have a few of my own touches, but it's a man's world there. Sigh.
Love that show, "Get Color" where she puts out a tray of things in colors and helps people find their "color." Fun!
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