While coming down with COVID the week before my birthday was unexpected, I couldn’t be happier that the weekend has arrived once again for a little more recovery time. Next week I happen to have my birthday off, which is…

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I first started The Avid Pen, a Charlotte based art and lifestyle blog, as a place to celebrate the artistic world. As someone who has always had a love of color, I enjoy seeing the art in everything from beauty and skincare to fashion, food or in the places I travel to. I longed to tell a story both through words and through photographs. I’ve always enjoyed making every moment special, even the most ordinary of moments, and believe that there is beauty in the everyday. Learn More...
While coming down with COVID the week before my birthday was unexpected, I couldn’t be happier that the weekend has arrived once again for a little more recovery time. Next week I happen to have my birthday off, which is…
This month’s list of books takes us from 1920s Seattle where an up-and-coming designer works to accomplish her dreams in The Roaring Days of Zora Lily to the stock market crash of 1987 where a Jewish family trades in their…
Author Q&A, Books ·
Starling House, a Southern Gothic novel by bestselling author Alix E. Harrow is a book that will keep you tucked up safely under your covers, protected from all that goes ‘bump in the night’. The novel calls to mind the…
Our littlest fairy, Charlotte just turned two, and in honor of her birthday we had a little celebration a few weeks early at our house. Planning and putting together birthday parties for littles is the absolute best. While this auntie…
Today we’re having a birthday party for our littlest fairy who is turning two. We’ve prepped the fairy garden for her arrival, found the cutest fairy hut on Amazon to set up at the end of the garden path, and…
A few Sundays ago we went up to Jeter Mountain Farm located just beyond downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina. My sister and two nieces were so excited to pick apples at the family-run farm, and we were all looking forward to…
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I first started The Avid Pen, a Charlotte based lifestyle blog, as a place to celebrate the artistic world. As someone who has always had a love of color, I enjoy seeing the art in everything from beauty and skincare to fashion, food or in the places I travel to. I longed to tell a story both through words and through photographs.
I hope through following along with me you will see the beauty in the ordinary everyday moments.
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