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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.
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.
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.
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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I'm trying to make most of our Christmas gifts that we give to others. Hopefully no one thinks they're cheap looking or cheesy. :) Most of the married couples will be getting a homemade reusable grocery tote filled with home canned jam, relish, and other goodies.
I love handmade gifts! My kids still treasure the quilts I made them.
If someone would make me a sweater or scarf, I'd love it. IF someone makes me macrame, I'm outta there. I don't home-make things, but I think that surprises no one. LOL
That sounds like a wonderful gift, Sarah! I LOVE homemade gifts. Those mean a lot to me because a lot of thought and time goes into them.
I didn't know you did quilts, too, Colleen! WOW! I'll bet they were beautiful. I never progressed beyond a quilted pillow. :-)
ROTFLOL, Kristin!!!
There's a really easy way to quilt called strip quilting. It's really fast and easy and makes terrific quilts. I'll have to show you my book!
There's such a cool knitting shop across from where I write with the gals. I sure wish I knew how to knit, but it doesn't seem like something I'd have the patience to learn and get good at, and I'd want cashmere to work on. Camy is sure good at it, she made these beautiful gloves. I'll have to ask her to teach me one day. I could handmake that I think.
I put on my Christmas list "the ability to knit." Maybe I should check into those looms. I agree with Kristin - Camy makes some beautiful things.
Ooooo, I'd love to see Camy's knitted things! So fun! Yes, Kristin, you would love the cashmere! I won't let myself near that until I get better at knitting. I've a long ways to go yet. But I'm having such fun. I really love it!
Colleen, that strip quilting sounds interesting! Never heard of it before.
I made quilts for my daughter while pregnant with her, as well as for my younger sister and a niece by marriage who were pregnant at the same time as I. They were very pleased with the quilts and my nephew and niece, as well as my daughter, still have their quilts to this day. To me, homemade gifts are ones given with the greatest of love - a part of the gift-giver.
This year, most of my gifts are handmade.
I taught myself how to knit around Thanksgiving, so I've been making scarves. By the time the holiday is over, I'll have made a dozen scarves out of chenille yarn--so warm and cozy.
All the grandparents are getting scrapbooks this year. I've had the albums in my scrap nook for a few years, and now that our oldest is off to college, I'm doing pictures from the last 19 years. Since the books are not finished, I foresee many late nights until Christmas. LOL.
I made word book albums for my friends with pictures of us together. Those were a huge hit.
I adore handmade gifts, especially from my family. Hubby made me a cedar chest one year from old black walnut flooring. The chest is gorgeous. My older son is a fantastic poet and gave me a book of his original poetry. My brother paints and I have one of his paintings. My younger son drew me pictures. My mom crochets and I have her crocheted ornaments on our Christmas tree.
OOOh Lisa, I would love any one of those homemade gifts. They sound wonderful!
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I made quilts for my Mother and my mom in law a few years ago. My mom in law uses hers everyday at the nursing home. She's so sweet. My mom is one of those people that puts up nice things afraid to use them. :0/
I think it might be the same type of quilting Colleen is talking about. You cut all your fabric into strips and then after you sew them all together and cut them with the rotary cutter they're in block pattern. Very easy and pretty fast.
I also like the homemade towels my girlfriend makes me. The kind that they put the crochet tops on and you can hang them on your stove.
I hope to learn how to crochet soon.I want to make pretty scarves for people. :) Wish me luck, Diann.
Trust me, Sabrina, if "I" can crochet/knit, ANYONE can! :-) (Course, I didn't tell you how well I do it, only that I do it.)
I'll confess right here and right now that I just finished knitting a hat for my grandson that he'll never wear (until he's through college), but his dad will. LOL
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