Holly Becker is the best-selling author of Decorate and Decorate Workshop. She is an award-winning journalist, stylist, and the founder of the Decor8 design blog. Holly contributes to Sweet Paul, Real Simple, and Mollie Makes, among other publications. She also runs classes on blogging, styling, photography, and running a small business. She is an American who currently resides in Hanover, Germany.

Holly blogs on a daily basis at decor8blog.com. Leslie Shewring is a photographer and stylist from Canada who has studied architecture and interior design. She works as a freelance photographer and stylist for companies such as American Greetings and Stampington & Company and lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Leslie's blog can be found at acreativemint.typepad.com.