7:00 AM

IHC Meet Up at Craft City Social

Tassel Cover Up || Jack Rogers Sandals || Similar Sunglasses
Happy Thursday friends!
If you followed me on Instagram or Snapchat (@amy.pnp) then you know I had attend my second InfluenceHer Collective meet up on Saturday! I attended my first InfluenceHer meet up at the beginning of summer and it's funny that I was able to end my summer with another blogging meet up!

Our meet up was held at Craft City Social club located in the Sherton Hotel in Uptown Charlotte. If you have been following me then you know this has been one of my favorite hang out spots this summer! I attended the opening of this adult day club with my blogging friend Annaliese in June (check out the post here) and spent my 4th of July at their first annual Splash Bash event! 

I was excited to meet two new blogging friends at Saturday's event! I had a chance to meet Chloe from A Queen City Girl and Dana from Seersucker Sass! It's always so exciting to meet new blogger friends and it's crazy to think that blogging has brought us together. Also at the meet up was Cara from Caralina Style and Annaliese from Southern Belle in Training. 

Cat Clutch || Similar Sunglasses
The majority of the meet up was spent in our cabana, sipping on delicious lavender mint mojitos and chatting among each other. The weather was perfect for a day by the pool and the water was great to cool off when we got too hot. 

Here's my lavender mint mojito that I was sipping on! It was such a delicious and refreshing drink for the hot afternoon. Unfortunately I was still full from eating before I came to the event so I didn't order any food while I was there, but Annaliese, Dana and Chloe ordered from Craft City's menu and it looked SO good! Low key was eyeing Annaliese's pancakes the whole time! Definitely need to make a trip back soon to try out their brunch menu!

Seersucker Sass || Caralina Style || Southern Belle in Training || A Queen CIty Girl
Here's a photo of all of us at the event! Also special shout out to our amazing server for this photo! She was fantastic and so kind to use the whole time we were there!

 We ended the meet up with a pitcher of white peach, grapefruit and basil sangria (highly recommend!!) and a dinner at Vappiano's after we left Craft City Social. It was such a great and relaxing meet up and am excited to see what Annaliese has planned for the next one!
I hope you all have a great rest of your week and like always thank you for reading!
*Thank you Craft City Social for hosting us for this event!

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7:00 AM

4th of July Splash Bash

Happy Thursday friends!

If you follow me on Instagram (@pastelnpinkblog) or Snapchat (amy.pnp) then you know that I had spent most of my 4th of July at the Craft City Social's first annual 4th of July Splash Bash! I was at Craft City Social's grand opening last month with Annalise (see post here) and it was great to be back again for their 4th of July event. I was even able to meet up with Annalise from Southern Belle in Training and Cara from Caralina Style!

This was my second year spending 4th of July in Charlotte and I was no disappointed! As much as I love being home with my family, Charlotte just has more events and to attend and not to mention a killer fireworks show! I spent most of the day portion of 4th of July at Craft City's 4th of July event and had such a fun time.

The pool party event was the perfect way to spend the day portion of 4th of July. They even had a festive version of their sparkle pops which was made of strawberry lemonade and limeade with blueberries. I was a big fan of those. I mean, fruity popsicles and prosecco? Yes please!

I had taken R.J. (aka Mr. Camera man) as my plus one to the event and he ended up ordering a black angus burger that came with firecracker chunky salsa and southern potato salad. He reported that the food tasted as good as it looked! 

We spent majority of the day relaxing by the pool and listening to the live band. The weather was just beautiful and the water was the perfect temperature to dip your feet in! 
Fun Fact: After I had snapped this photo, RJ had gone over to my tote to look for sunscreen and I had told him it was in my pink pouch. He had gone through my tote and held up every pouch he found in there asking if it was the right one until he finally reached the last one where it had the sunscreen in it. If only I had snapchatted the whole thing for you all!  
Craft City had a variety of games to play such as a giant connect four, jenga, shuffleboard and fooseball. RJ and I decided try out a friendly competition and challenge Annalise and Cara to a game of fooseball. It was intense. And by intense I mean RJ had to play with just his left pinky to make the game fair. At least it's good to know that if I am ever in a situation where I need a good fooseball partner I know who to call, right? 

The rest of the afternoon was filled with catching up with each other, taking photos (and being photobombed!), and enjoying the beautiful view of Uptown Charlotte. Word on the street was that there was a rubber ducky fight during the event and I wish I had shown up earlier to witness it! Wouldn't that be a sight to see?

The 4th of July Splash Bash was definitly a great way to spend the 4th of July. I love hosting get togethers with friends, but I definitly do not like the stress and cleaning up afterwards so an event like this is something I would love to do again with friends for another holiday. 

After the Splash Bash, RJ and I meet up with some of our other friends to watch the Skyshow fireworks in Uptown to end the night. I had so much fun spending 4th of July with both my blogger friends and Charlotte-fam! 
What did you do for the 4th? I'd love to know! I hope you all have a great Thursday and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new post!

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7:00 AM

Pink talks V.1

Happy Saturday Friends!
Inspired by Franklin Roosevelt and his Fireside Chats, I thought it would fun to have a series on my blog where I can just catch up with you all with what has been going on, what I have been loving etc. This most likely won't be a weekly series, just when I have exciting news or life events to share with you all! 
P.S. I'm still playing around with the name for this series. If you have any suggestions please leave them down below! (: 
What I've been doing...

Wednesday night I attended the opening party of Craft City Social and City Lights Rooftop in Uptown with my new friend Annaliese from Southern Belle in Training. If you want to check out her recap on this event you can do so here.  

Craft City Social club, located into the Shertaon Hotel, is an exciting new pool and day club. This new adult playground has a full service bar, tons of cute seating as well as offer brunch on the weekends (we all know where I'm headed to now!). Craft City Social also offers complimentary game areas where you can play billiards, darts, fuse bull, life size jenga and shuffle board. The venue gives off a relaxed resort feel and would be a great place to hang out on a Sunday afternoon with friends!

The second venue was located in the Le Meredien hotel which was right next to the Shertaon. City Lights Rooftop is the largest rooftop bar in Charlotte. This rooftop bar offers some killer views of the city from every direction you look at. The night was spent listening to great music, munching on yummy popsicles, and admiring the beautiful views. If you decide to visit City Lights Rooftop I highly recommend getting a Sparkle & Pop (pictured above). It's a delicious fruit popsicle from King of Pops paired with your choice of cava, prosecco, brut, or rose. SO delicious!  I want to extend a special thank you to Annaliese for letting me accompany her to this event!

Also, yesterday was National Donut Day! I got to try my very first Krispy Kreme donut and it was SO good. What have I been doing the last 21 years? Fun fact about me is that I LOVE pretty food pictures, especially pictures of dessert. Weird? Probably. Yesterday was probably the best thing that could happen to my Instagram and Twitter feed!

Recent purchases... PSA: Victoria's Secret is having a major sale on their bathing suits right now! They have swim suits up to 60% off and if you use SAVE40SWIM you get an additional 40% off swim wear! You're welcome. I ordered this ruffle bathing suit set and The Getaway Halter in a fun pink color and cannot wait for them to come in! 
During Memorial Day weekend I managed to snag these sunflower shorts and this gorgeous bracelet from J.Crew Factory for a great price! Be on the look out for these pieces on the blog!
I also picked up this coffee graphic tee from Target the other day and it's seriously the softest shirt I own. I never want to take it off it's so soft! For $15, I recommend everyone head out to Target and purchase one ASAP!

Can we take a second and acknowledge the fact that it has been a super busy week here on Pastel N Pink? I posted 5 out of 7 days this week! Incase you need to catch up, here are this past week's posts.
Statement Earrings
Wedding Bling with Anjolee
Ultimate Alaska Cruise Packing List
Olive Green Tank Dress


That's it for this weekly wrap up! Let me know how you guys like this series and I hope you all have a fantastic weekend! (: 

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