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. Day after day the same neighbors bought those little drawings, and it planted big seeds of encouragement and confidence! 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.
With a passion for gathering, creativity, and travel, Daune launched The Cottage Table Experience and hosts long table gatherings, 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 simultaneously homesick for places she has never been, and believes wholeheartedly that we should seize the common occasions and make them great!