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The At Home IssueTRANSCRIPT
Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Mary Richardson
“Home is where my habits have a habitat.” Fiona Apple
Cashmere Sweater
Home is the Place
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Augusta, Aiken & Columbia
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
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.
you’re meaning to unclutter, the
rooms you’re thinking of repaint-
ing, the weeds still waiting for up-
rooting. 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.
f r e e
E s c a p e t h e o r d i n a r y .
M O R R I S M U S E U M O F A R T
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about skirt!Publisher
Nikki Hardin [email protected]
National Art Director Caitilin McPhillips
National EditorMargaret Pilarski
Market Manager
(Augusta/Aiken/Columbia)
Kate Cooper Metts
Contributing Editor Columbia
Jenny Maxwell
Contributing Editor Augusta/Aiken
Gracie Shepherd [email protected]
Sales ExecutiveColumbia/Aiken/North Augusta
Libby Salvador [email protected]
Sales ExecutivesAugusta
Doressa Hawes [email protected]
Elizabeth Jones Sisson
Maidi McMurtrie [email protected]
Mary Porter Vann
Graphic Designer
Michael RushbrookCher Wheeler
Meaghan Pafford
PhotographyMolly HarrellSara Caldwell
Essays
Birds Of A Feather
Nikki Hardin ................................................................................. 11
Room for Thought
Stacy Appel ................................................................................... 13
A Tale of Two Nurseries
Andrea Gallagher ...................................................................... 14
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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The UniTed SkirTS of AmericA
The United Skirts of
America was founded
on the blood, sweat
and estrogen of our
foremothers, who
won us the freedom to
choose...to break The
Rules, to wear combat
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of being groupies, to
shatter Glass Ceilings
and Glass Slippers, to
shoot hoops instead
of settling for hoop
skirts. The ones who
came before us made
it possible for our
daughters to dream
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America, every day is
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from The ediTor
Whenever I make a new friend, I feel like we haven’t really sealed the deal until I see
their home. There’s just something about seeing a person’s living space that tells you
about who they are, where they’ve been and who they want to be. I’m always impressed
and inspired to go back to my home and paint that accent wall purple or de-clutter that
corner in the spare bedroom that I like to forget about. The women featured in this issue
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!
from The foUnder And nATionAl ediTor
Nikki [email protected]
I believe the houses we grow up in shape us just as much as our families do. Until I
was 10, my parents moved us to a series of shabby rental houses in our small town.
During those years I actually spent as much or more time with my grandparents, who
lived in an old house filled with family antiques, handmade quilts, windows with wavy
glass and wide-planked wood floors. The front room was my grandparents’ bedroom
and doubled as a sitting room because of the fireplace where everyone gathered. At
the other end of the house, the big kitchen was heated by a wood-burning stove that
turned out amazing meals I’ve never been able to duplicate. Those two sources of
heat provided the steady heartbeat of a house that was an escape from the coldness
and emotional poverty of my own family life. But I knew it wasn’t really my home,
and every visit, no matter how extended, inevitably ended in my leaving and losing
the warmth. For many years as an adult, the houses I lived in were always unfinished
and incompletely furnished in some vital way. As if I were still mentally stuck in those
barren rental houses of my childhood, never trusting in permanence or allowing myself
to get too attached. When I bought my first house long after most people have made
that commitment, I began craving texture and color in my life. I started hanging art,
painting white walls aqua, apple green and buttermilk, creating little altars of keepsakes
and photos and candles. It’s my grandmother’s house by way of Frida Kahlo with a
splash of Nikki. I finally made myself at home.
The At Home Issue
Mary Richardson
Mary Richardson lives in
Melbourne, Australia, with
her husband, two sons, and
a cat, and she has always
loved art—sketching, draw-
ing, painting. She creates
fun and colorful artwork,
mainly featuring girls in vari-
ous settings, by using acrylic
paints on canvas. Mary’s
work is reminiscent of Eu-
rope, travel, and the beach
with a vintage/retro feel.
Her inspirations include
vintage fashion, old Hol-
lywood movies and places
she has visited. Some of her
paintings are also inspired
by memories of family or
friends, and she often imag-
ines a story behind them.
You can find her paintings,
prints and cards on Etsy
at helloitsmary.etsy.com.
Gracie [email protected]
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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 fi lthy
fl oors. Two hours sitting on a runway. No snacks. The middle seat! Last-min-
ute cancellations. Missing the last connecting fl ight. The middle seat! Paying to
check a bag. Feeling like a sullen peasant as I shuffl e through fi rst class on the
way to steerage. The middle seat!
A truck like my grandfather’s
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