Our homes are the beating heart of the holidays. They are a sacred space of beauty, experiences, and memories; and a favorite place to gather with family and friends during this special time of year.
Online Course
Instead of treating the holidays as a checklist….let’s have FUN creating homes full of creativity, hospitality, and treasured experiences during this special season.
This class is all about creative decorating, gathering, baking, and gift-giving for the holidays! In this class you will explore how to intentionally create beauty in your home and gatherings throughout the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.
You will begin with creating simple rituals that keep your home grounded during this season that can so easily get lost in hustle and bustle. You will create lovely items for your home and table from foraged finds in nature, be inspired with unique gathering ideas and how-to’s, learn unique ways to welcome and prepare for overnight guests, create lovely meals even with takeout (no one will know!), and create beautiful handmade gifts for giving or keeping!
Instructor
Daune Pitman
Daune Pitman grew up among a family of entrepreneurs, artists, and gatherers in North Carolina. She owned her first business when she was six and created pen and ink drawings of the beach each day after school, and then went door-to-door selling them. Morning walks in the garden, markets, coffee, fresh flowers, books, a beautifully set table, delicious food, faith, family, travel, adventure, great company….these are a few of her favorite things.
Daune and her husband, Keith, are former professional ballet dancers. After spending many years performing professionally in companies nationwide she and Keith have found themselves nestled in a cottage in Eastern NC, where they love to gather people, dream, and launch adventures. After homeschooling their three children, they are new empty nesters.
She believes our homes are our most powerful place of ministry, and with a passion for home, gathering, creativity, and travel, Daune launched The Cottage Table Experience and hosts long table gatherings, live workshops on creative home + hospitality + gathering, and creative retreats abroad and in the U.S. While being very content with where she is, she is homesick for places she has never been, and believes wholeheartedly that we should seize the common occasions and make them great!