Pat Sloan, Crafts and Creativity:

Pat Sloan is a master quilter and life long crafter.  With her own line of signature fabric lines, she is also a quilt designer with 20 published books of patterns.  Pat hosts two weekly radio shows on quilts and crafts at Creative Talk Network and Fave Crafts Radio, heads her own quilters online resource at PatSloan.com and gives craft advice across the board on her Blog.

Jenny Peterson, Landscape and Garden Design:

Jenny Peterson is a garden designer and freelance garden writer from Austin, Texas, where she owns J. Peterson Garden Design. Her specialty is  small-space gardening, xeriscaping, and garden projects. Jenny’s work has been featured on KLRU’s “The Central Texas Gardener,” and in Moxie! Magazine, Horticulture Magazine, and several online publications. Her current garden is an expansive and enviable 150 square-feet of windy 3^rd-floor balcony space, where she masters the art of gardening under tricky conditions!

Marcia Blake, Outdoor Living:

Marcia Blake trained at the Interior Designers Institute and honed her design sense as a manager and patio furniture buyer for Roger’s Gardens.  Today, Marcia is the president and creative director of Outdoor Interiors®, a full service design and consulting firm specializing in creating spectacular outdoor environments.  Her own line of outdoor accessories called Outdoor Couture® has garnered rave reviews.  Writing for such publications as Casual Living Magazine, Coast Magazine and Southern Home & Outdoor Magazine, Marcia’s design sense and expert writing makes her a highly sought décor authority.

Wendy Hyde, Interior Decorating:

Wendy Hyde is a busy wife and mother of four aiming to create spaces that are both beautiful and livable.  Her philosophy is that there are no interior design dilemmas, only opportunities in disguise.  With a background in fashion and interior design, Wendy uses her eye for pretty and personal creativity to decorate spaces without breaking the bank.  She contributes featured expert idea books at Houzz.com, an interior designer’s online resource.  She also loves to share her unique decorating ideas on her personal Shabby Nest Blog.

Sonja Hall: Furniture and Design:

Originally heralding from the American Midwest, Sonja has spent the past five years traveling between California, Tuscany and Barcelona as an editor for Dwell Magazine and a Fullbright Scholar for sustainable design research.  With three languages under her belt, she freelances for an international professional bicycling team and several furniture design publications. Find her international insight on all things design, French, Italian and American as well as her unique survival strategy of cycling, nutella and espresso on her Cycling Nutella blog.