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Welcome home! It’s the place you can rewind the day and give it a happy ending, or unwind and be yourself without pretending. It’s the rattiest sweats you own and the moth-eaten
Cashmere Sweater you wear to bed. It’s setting the thermostat on My Comfort Zone, playing music you’re embarrassed to admit you love, letting the world go about its busy-ness without you.
Home is the Place you’re meaning to unclutter, the rooms you’re thinking of repainting, the weeds still waiting for uprooting. It’s the place you long for when you’re sick in a strange city, or you failed to nail a job interview, or you’re stuck on a date that was a big mistake. Home is a midnight snack standing up at the sink, a nightlight down the hall, the flashlight by your bed in a blackout. It’s intensive care when life knocks you for a loop, a place for an emergency landing, a recovery room for your soul. And no matter how far you roam, you hope the key is still under the mat. Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Mary Richardson
“Home is where my habits have a habitat.” Fiona Apple
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART
Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush
The Art of Glass August 9–November 10, 2013 The Morris Museum is FREE every Sunday! 1 Tenth St. I Augusta, GA 30901 I 706-724-7501 I www.themorris.org
Image: Richard Jolley, Flowering #2, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
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Publisher Nikki Hardin publisher@skirt.com National Art Director Caitilin McPhillips caitilin.mcphillips@skirt.com
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National Editor Margaret Pilarski margaret.pilarski@skirt.com Market Manager (Augusta/Aiken/Columbia) Kate Cooper Metts kate.metts@skirt.com Contributing Editor Columbia Jenny Maxwell jennymaxwell@mindspring.com Contributing Editor Augusta/ Aiken Gracie Shepherd gracie.shepherd@skirt.com
skirt! is all about women... their work, play, families, creativity, style, health and wealth, bodies and souls. skirt! is an attitude...spirited, independent, outspoken,
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Essays
Birds Of A Feather
Nikki Hardin.................................................................................. 11
Graphic Designer Michael Rushbrook Cher Wheeler Meaghan Pafford Photography Molly Harrell Sara Caldwell
The At Home Issue
Room for Thought
Stacy Appel.................................................................................... 13 Women make more than 80% of all purchasing decisions.
A Tale of Two Nurseries
Andrea Gallagher....................................................................... 14
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Women spend almost 2 of every 3 healthcare dollars.
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Features
Letter from the Publisher.......................................................... 6
Letter from the Editor................................................................ 6
Feel Good....................................................................................... 18
He’s So Original........................................................................... 24
Meet.................................................................................................... 26
Skirt of the Month..................................................................... 29
XOXOnikki.................................................................................... 34
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2013
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The UniTed SkirTS of AmericA
The United Skirts of America was founded on the blood, sweat
from The foUnder And nATionAl ediTor
and estrogen of our
The At Home Issue
foremothers, who
I believe the houses we grow up in shape us just as much as our families do. Until I
won us the freedom to
was 10, my parents moved us to a series of shabby rental houses in our small town.
choose...to break The
During those years I actually spent as much or more time with my grandparents, who
Rules, to wear combat
lived in an old house filled with family antiques, handmade quilts, windows with wavy
boots or high heels, to
glass and wide-planked wood floors. The front room was my grandparents’ bedroom
run for office or run a
and doubled as a sitting room because of the fireplace where everyone gathered. At
marathon, to form our
the other end of the house, the big kitchen was heated by a wood-burning stove that
own rock groups instead
turned out amazing meals I’ve never been able to duplicate. Those two sources of
of being groupies, to
heat provided the steady heartbeat of a house that was an escape from the coldness
shatter Glass Ceilings
and emotional poverty of my own family life. But I knew it wasn’t really my home,
and Glass Slippers, to
and every visit, no matter how extended, inevitably ended in my leaving and losing
ing, painting. She creates
shoot hoops instead
the warmth. For many years as an adult, the houses I lived in were always unfinished
fun and colorful artwork,
of settling for hoop
and incompletely furnished in some vital way. As if I were still mentally stuck in those
mainly featuring girls in vari-
skirts. The ones who
barren rental houses of my childhood, never trusting in permanence or allowing myself
ous settings, by using acrylic
came before us made
to get too attached. When I bought my first house long after most people have made
paints on canvas. Mary’s
it possible for our
that commitment, I began craving texture and color in my life. I started hanging art,
work is reminiscent of Eu-
daughters to dream
painting white walls aqua, apple green and buttermilk, creating little altars of keepsakes
bigger, to have the
and photos and candles. It’s my grandmother’s house by way of Frida Kahlo with a
chance to grow up to
splash of Nikki. I finally made myself at home.
Mary Richardson
Mary Richardson lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, two sons, and a cat, and she has always loved art—sketching, draw-
rope, travel, and the beach with a vintage/retro feel. Her inspirations include vintage fashion, old Hollywood movies and places she has visited. Some of her
be President and turn
Nikki
the Oval Office into
nikki.hardin@skirt.com
the Ovary Office. In
paintings are also inspired
the United Skirts of
from The ediTor
by memories of family or
America, every day is
Whenever I make a new friend, I feel like we haven’t really sealed the deal until I see
friends, and she often imag-
Independence Day!
their home. There’s just something about seeing a person’s living space that tells you
ines a story behind them.
about who they are, where they’ve been and who they want to be. I’m always impressed
You can find her paintings,
and inspired to go back to my home and paint that accent wall purple or de-clutter that
prints and cards on Etsy
corner in the spare bedroom that I like to forget about. The women featured in this issue
at helloitsmary.etsy.com.
work in some way to make living spaces more inviting and relaxing, and as I talked to them it made me want to spend more time cultivating my living space into the beautiful oasis I have visualized. I hope you love this issue as well, and that it gets your creative juices flowing in new and exciting ways!
Gracie
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THE MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ANNOUNCES
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xoxonikki Sometimes I wish I were a morning person, the kind who gets up at dawn to photograph the sunrise or writes 2,500 words before breakfast. They're the people who get things done instead of dallying in bed--the live wires, not the candles that burn at both ends. But I can't help loving the secret dark, the moon and the stars, reading till dawn, owning the night.
W h a t ’s k e e p i n g m e a w a k e a t n i g h t : Looking forward to:
Fall clothes in the stores An end to stupid summer movies 20 Feet from Stardom at The Terrace Perseid meteor shower My new reading list Making linoleum block prints I am jealous of:
ve who li PeopleLondon. in
The InstaQuote app The Over app Pierce my ears again? Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ mouth Trolling airbnb.com Where’s the leak in my roof? Where’s the roofer? Carrying concealed tampons in TX Frakking! WTF? Orange Is the New Black on Netflix
W h a t ’s o n m y i Pa d :
W h a t ’s o n m y m i n d :
Journalist Ann Friedman is feminist, fiery and witty as all get-out. Her blog at annfriedman.com (tagline “Low-maintenance ladyswagger”) is exceptional, but I’m also addicted to her pie charts on thehairpin.com. From “The Marriage Pie” to “The To-Do List Pie,” her charts are so witty they make you wonder how you ever lived without them.
I love home and I love away from home. What I don’t like anymore is getting between the two. Flying has become torturous. Walking shoeless on filthy floors. Two hours sitting on a runway. No snacks. The middle seat! Last-minute cancellations. Missing the last connecting flight. The middle seat! Paying to check a bag. Feeling like a sullen peasant as I shuffle through first class on the way to steerage. The middle seat!
Note to self: THE BEST USE OF
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”
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