Miss my boys young and trick o treating… carving pumpkins… going to pumpkin patches… BUT I have great memories…
Happy Halloween… may you make good memories or enjoy reliving fun memories!
FUN! I had time to paint an art challenge today… done with my first round of book edits… waiting to hear from a typo queen reader… I pulled out my pencils, watercolors, ink and created in my sketchbook…
This is the third book in my Foolish Hearts (standalone) series… Each book can be read out of order… no spoilers… new book with new characters that have connections to other books making it a series… Soooo FUN to write… If you haven’t read any of my books, maybe start with this one and it is FREE with Kindle Unlimited…
Missed having a kitty in our house sooooo much we stocked it with two new ones… cute little sisters… not sure how big they will get but we were told by the Cat and Comic Rescue people that they are part Maine coon…
I LOVE this pumpkin chair… I would never purchase it because it would have to be stored somewhere most of the year…
Sooooo exciting... WRONGED (& FOOLISH) is AVAILABLE for PRE-ORDER... releasing on December 29, 2023... right before New Years Eve!!!
Nice to take a break from book editing to paint some flowers and a fun mug I would happily drink coffee in… hope you had a delightful day with breaks to regroup, regenerate… important to take a little time for yourself even if your day is hectic… you owe it to your wellbeing… stop and smell or paint the flowers…
Time for another look into my romantic comedy WRONGED… and my interior design inspiration when writing about ASHTON (my main male construction business owner) competing on a design reality show… these are the inspiration photos (some from Hemingway's Home museum website) for his first challenge… Ernest Hemingway Library Suite is his theme…
UNEDITED EXCERPT from WRONGED by Fifi Flowers…
…I got a good look at my competition. Fourteen men and fourteen women... One woman was familiar. How had I gotten so lucky and at the same time unlucky when teams were selected and we weren’t on the same one?
Not to worry.
I would get my time to talk to her when we got to working on our rooms. For that moment it was time to look at the list I had create according to what I hoped to achieve:
Bookcases everywhere: one big with TV in middle and two side tables.
Two big chairs (hopefully) with a café table.
Paint walls hunter green textured like a billiard table.
Remove carpet and paint a faux hardwood floor.
Bed with massive dark headboard, bedding with dark colors.
Lots of decor items: martini bar setup, fishing rod, figurines, art.
Typewriter a must!
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Pumpkins, gourds, corn… autumn life is a lovely time of the year… a new season… change… and celebrations… today I celebrate with champagne: my return to writing books as I typed two powerful words this morning THE END… yessssss, I finished my work in progress WRONGED(& FOOLISH)… and I painted an AUTUMN CELEBRATION using two art challenges and my own champagne addition…
I LOVE my studio space… I feel inspired listening to music (a very eclectic mix)… looking at my collected items, looking out the windows at my mountain range view… looking at my photos and paintings…
J’adore this Henri Matisse painting hanging the LACMA…
Here I combined two art challenges into one painting and added chopsticks… the little red pot and cup portion of the composition looked like they needed the chopsticks… I also used parts of the separate still life setups backgrounds together…
Moving on to Book Two of my standalone Foolish Hearts series… in this book, DECEIVED, we get to know Caldwell Tate better—he was mentioned in book one… And we get to meet Daphne Chastain… loved writing their story… I might want to live in her house… it sounds amazing…
Don’t worry if you haven’t read book one ARRANGED yet—I recommend you read it too, it’s so FUN—you can start with Book Two of this series and it’s FREE wit KINDLE UNLIMITED!
Wow! I would LOVE to have this fruit plate… looks delicious… ohhhh and cheese with honey… only thing missing is a cocktail or mocktail… or wine…
I wish to be sipping bubbly at a champagne garden party… maybe nibbling delicious hand-passed appetizers too…
I’ve been working on my soonish-to-be-released romance novel—WRONGED. It’s important to get things right… today I found some photos I had gathered when writing a GIANNA (my main female interior design character) chapter about her apartment transformation… visuals are very helpful…
Chapter Four
Gianna
I had learned painting techniques and applied them to smooth out crumbling walls that my papa insisted someone fix. “Nope” I said and painted exposed brick white while the rest were streaked with lavenders, blushes and brighter whites to create the marbled look in the sitting room and kitchen area. In the bathroom I had old used mirrors installed on a wall behind a free-standing white porcelain tub. To some they looked like the mirror needed to be trashed but to me it gave the perfect antiqued mirrored look and reflected the other walls painted a pale lavender. My bedroom got a coat of blushed paint and a faux wood paneling look that was perfect with my lavender and dark midnight blue bedding. I even made a padded headboard and hung my own crystal chandeliers. Old furniture that had been in the space with a bit of refurbishing and reupholstering mixed with modern fabrics and vintage Italian damasks blended well with the walls. And lastly, I had a friend make me wood-slated shutters for window treatments.
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