Hello!
I love to travel. I love riding in the country and traipsing down city streets, seeking friendly faces, and searching out local color and flavor. But I’m also a nester, and am beyond grateful to return home to the community of old houses that, in partnership with James Askins Sr., I relocated to the countryside just outside of Athens, Georgia.
I graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from SUNY Albany, hold an M.A. in English Literature and Language from the University of Chicago, studied Interior Design at Parsons in New York City and Paris, and more recently, Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, where I was fortunate to study under Reginald McKnight. I am currently enrolled in Learn-Everyday-Land.
I’ve worked as a copy editor, copy writer, and photo stylist for clients ranging from the American Institute of Architects, The Washington Post, National Wildlife Federation and the NIH. I’ve written about local artists for Patch and have guest blogged for Women Etcetera, Design*Sponge and beauty everyday. Read my story, “The Magic of Athens,” on The Bitter Southerner.
In 1990 I founded Frontier, one of the earliest “green” gift-and-home-furnishings shops. It became a Southeastern destination, and I happily helmed it for a decade. Frontier thrived for twenty more years under different owners. I’ve spent time in product development and management at the Georgia Museum of Art’s gift shop, co-created and organized A World Away, a community market festival for artists, craftspeople, antiques dealers, and growers, and now offer my collection of art and antiques on Instagram @aworldawaynancylendved.
Where You’ll Find Me
My house was moved to Winterville from Winder, Georgia, where it was built by Richard Brevard Russell Sr. just after 1900. The structure originally served as his law office as well as the office for the stocking factory he built next door. When my dear friend Kenneth spotted the tiny Victorian, it was overgrown and abandoned. He thought I would love it, and he was right.
Judge Russell culminated his career in law as Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Georgia. Perhaps the house suits me so well because I was born under the sign of Libra, represented by the scales of justice.
