Since I became an Auntie for the first time in November of 2019, I’ve considered doing an Auntie gift guide. Now exactly four years later, I’ve finally compiled a list of gift ideas that most aunties out there would love….
After the Forest with Author Kell Woods
“Kell Woods’ debut takes familiar stories and tropes from the vast corpus of the Brothers Grimm and smartly weaves them into an excellent historical fantasy novel. After the Forest is poetic, evocative, and most of all, addictive… Far from the cookie-cutter characters…
The Mocktail Genius Edit // Gift Guide
While I thought about a variety of different culinary/foodie-themed gift guides for my first edit of the holiday season, I ended up going with an edit centered around one of my favorite things throughout the year, mocktails. Having a selection…
On the List
Happy Saturday everyone! Before we get into this week’s edition of On the List, I thought I’d share about a few shows I’ve discovered and one of the amazing books I’ve had the chance to read this month. There are…
Pasta Every Day with Author Meryl Feinstein
Meryl Feinstein, the creator of Pasta Social Club and pasta-making extraordinaire just released her cookbook Pasta Every Day. The book which has recipes and techniques for everyone from novice pasta makers to those who simply want to hone their craft,…
Boo Party for Littles
A boo party is a fun spook-tac-ular way to celebrate Halloween with the littles in your life. This year, one of the bakeries in Charlotte, Suarez Bakery, made the cutest little Boo cakes that made the perfect dessert for to…
Everything I Read This Month | October 2023
The first book of the month revealed A Very Inconvenient Scandal set in Cape Cod before we travel back in time to WWII where we search for the murderer and a mole in A Traitor at Whitehall. Next, we find…
Fa-boo-lus Fairy Pumpkin
This October we had a pumpkin decorating contest this October at the pediatric practice I work for. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to incorporate things from our fairy garden into the design for my pumpkin fairy house,…
On the List
Can you believe that October is nearly over? I definitely can’t. It seems like it barely started, and now we have just a little more than a week left of my birthday month. (Because why shouldn’t you celebrate your birthday…
It’s the Great Pumpkin… Charlie Brown
“Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He’s gotta pick this one. He’s got to. I don’t see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one….
Boo-tiful Fairies in the Garden
For Charlotte’s birthday back in September, we had the most beautiful fairy party at our home, with plans of taking the girls to the fairy garden (aka Jane’s Garden) at the Duke Mansion. This past Saturday we headed to the…
Rhapsody in Blue
Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound. — Edwin Curran Venturing out to the Duke Mansion on a glorious fall afternoon is a must for garden lovers in the Uptown Charlotte area. Open to…