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Inside the Goldbug Collection with Mini Hay Avant

Photo credit — Lindsey Shorter Today we meet Mini Hay Avant the designer behind the Goldbug Collection, the costume jewelry line featured at  Croghan’s Jewel Box in Charleston, SC. The Palmetto Bug, as Mini explains is a polite name for…

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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.

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