Lauren Finney Harden

A new spring collection, a launch at Dillard’s The Coterie, a bridal capsule, and two new retail stores are on deck for her spring.
Photograph courtesy of Abbey Glass
Atlanta-based fashion designer Abbey Glass is starting 2024 with a bang: a new spring/summer collection, a new bridal capsule, two new retail stores, and a spot in Dillard’s new concept, the Coterie. Here, she shares her inspiration and how she’s expanded her business.
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New Place to Browse: Heritage Walk at Crabapple Market
An irresistible little row of shops has popped up along Heritage Walk at Crabapple Market in Milton. First came Loveday Place/Artisans at Crabapple, a spacious gallery showcasing locally made merchandise from greeting cards to turned wood vessels and fine oil paintings. But the recent additions of Poe & Company Bookstore (with a carefully curated s...

The service lets restaurants sell food that would otherwise go to waste at discounted prices. Here's what we learned when we tried it.
July 31, 2023
Photograph by Lauren Finney Harden
Too Good to Go, a seven-year-old app designed to prevent food waste, recently launched service in Atlanta. The app connects restaurants that have a surplus supply with hungry customers in an effort to reduce the amount of food thrown in the trash.
The company says it has saved more than 200 million meals globall...

December means it鈥檚 time for Best of Atlanta, our 44th annual edition! Here are the coolest new things our editors found this year. As always, businesses were tested and selected anonymously before any winners were notified.
Pictured above: Daydream Ice Cream Sandwiches, photographed by Wedig + Laxton

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Head spas are trending on social media: the treatment is so ubiquitous it’s racked up 919 million views on the hashtag #headspa on TikTok alone. It’s no surprise, given how profitable the wellness industry is (Bloomberg estimates its total revenue in 2022 at $5.6 trillion). Business owners are constantly looking to capitalize on trends as demand grows, including new frontiers in spa treatments. I first saw a video for a head spa on TikTok almost a year ago and ...

She’s focused on supporting the needs of differently abled students
May 24, 2024
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The Howard School, which has been open since 1950 and was founded by an Agnes Scott College graduate who had cerebral palsy, provides education and resources for children with language-based learning differences. Dr. Anna Moore serves as only the fifth head of the school. “At the Howard School, students rediscover the joy of learning,” she says. “We recognize and celebrate each lear...

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The exact origins of the game of cornhole are unknown—perhaps ancient China or Germany in the 1300s—but the modern evolution of the game was created in the Midwest in the 1960s. However, cornhole is now synonymous with weddings, tailgates, backyard barbecues, beach trips and more across the South. It’s easy to see why it’s a favorite as it doesn’t take much to set it up and the game's rul...

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There's often nothing more frustrating for a parent than having to schlep a bunch of stuff around in separate bags, all of them tumbling over and things falling out of them. The Bogg Bag is the solution to every parent's pack mule issue — it works for the beach, camping, picnics, road trips — and pretty much any situation where you need to pack a lot of stuff for the family. Here's everything you need to know about this trendy bag in our Bogg Bag review.
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Reading is an important part of child development that, when fostered by parents, leads to a more advanced vocabulary, higher academic achievement, enhanced empathy, creativity skills and more. If your kid loves books, their reading habit can quickly become expensive and take up valuable shelf space at home. And when taking a voracious reader on vacation, it can be cumbersome to bring physical books along.
That's where e-readers come in. They're compact and portable, and the e-books they supp...

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If there’s one toy we wish we had growing up, it’s magnetic tiles. Sure, playing with wooden blocks was fun, but the three-dimensional builds kids can create with tiles that stick together are just amazing. Kiddos as young as 3 (and younger with some sets) can build a sphere just using squares and triangles, or create an amazing multilevel race track complete with ramps an...

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If there’s one toy we wish we had growing up, it’s magnetic tiles. Sure, playing with wooden blocks was fun, but the three-dimensional builds kids can create with tiles that stick together are just amazing. Kiddos as young as 3 (and younger with some sets) can build a sphere just using squares and triangles, or create an amazing multilevel race track complete with ramps an...

Bath time bad news: your kid's toys probably have mold on them. The good news is that you can easily fix it. Here's how.
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We’ve all been there: you go to pick up your child’s bath toy, mid-bath, and you realize there’s mold on it. (Good luck trying to hide that toy from your kid and getting through the rest of the bath!) While some bacteria exposure has been found to be good for your kid, such as building a child’s defenses against asthma and allergies, not all bacter...

As a mom, speed is just as important to me as taste when it comes to dinner. And as much as I love going hard on things like whole roasted chicken and braised short ribs for my family, these days, it’s more about what I can get on the table in under 20 minutes.
Efficiency is now the single most important thing to me in the kitchen — the quicker the prep and the less cumbersome the cleanup, the better. I’ve got a beloved tool in my arsenal to help me pull off being my most efficient, whether c...

Education: University of Georgia
Lauren Finney Harden writes about fashion and beauty products for InStyle and specializes in the entire lifestyle spectrum, from parenting to wellness to breaking trends. She's contributed to many sites such as Byrdie, Verywell Family, and Insider.
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Lauren has written for Verywell Family since 2021, and Byrdie and InStyle since 2022.
Her work has appeared in Modern Luxury, Insider, Cosmopolitan, Lonely Planet, Today, Domino, Redbook, and more.
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