Shelley Stewart:  

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by to see how I'm doing. I'm back in Birmingham now, working as a more-or-less permanent freelance writer for Southern Living's custom-publishing group and writing for Lowe's Home Improvement magazine. For the previous 12 years I lived near Des Moines, Iowa, where I had moved to take a job writing for Better Homes and Gardens publications. Among my projects were some Home Depot books and various interior-design magazines. I also wrote a weekly blog for the Remodeling Channel on BHG.com, where I was known as The Dollar-Wise Diva! I'm single now, but I have two wonderful grown daughters. My younger one lives in Atlanta. The older one lives in London, England, with my sweet little grandsons, ages 1 and 4. I have lots of friends and so many interests that I never can do all I would like. I've remodeled umpteen houses but I'm stuck in an apartment--for a while. I've also been exploring art, and some of my copper pieces are in a Des M...Expand for more