Join us tomorrow bright and early as we celebrate Women's History Month with an event that's sure to inspire you. Local leaders Rebecca Mann, Julie Lapham, Deena Hayes and Katie Wangelin will share their stories of personal and professional success. The newly opened International Civil Rights Center & Museum provides the perfect setting for an event that will have you ready to take on the world. RSVP via our Facebook page!

Who will win your votes in the inaugural skirt! men in skirts fashion show at our birthday party March 30? Before you decide, let me tell you a few things about our models.

Ricky Proehl is a Wake Forest grad and veteran of the NFL who has played in three Superbowls. He is the founder of Proehlific Park and his charity, First Down for Kids, supports North Carolina children who have medical and social needs that aren't being met.  

We had a great time at Artista last week! View the pictures here, courtesy of Portrait Expressions by Tammy Councilman.

Ok, I'll admit it. I'm out of gas. Cooking is something that I love to do and I know what dishes I can prepare. Not only until I began cooking more freqently did I realize...What else can I make? It's been about three weeks of me cooking full meals and I am wondering what I can repeat. I can do chicken, and I can do beef. That's about it. A lunch out with my friend Jessica helped inspire me to try to make something outside the box since we didn't order either.

It was hard to focus on the menu with cute waiters walking around. I'm so serious she looked like this almost the whole time. (0:

I would usually order a sweet tea but in my effort to hydrate and stay healthy... "water with lemon, please." The tea next to me sure looked good.

I know that there are so many questions that we ask ourselves on a daily basis.  Some of them are about our careers, or are we with the right person.  Well, I have come across a set of questions that gave me a little something to think about and I wanted to share them with you.  Hopefully, it well help answer some questions for you or better shine the light on what you really want out of your life.

1.  What are your top three heart-sinkers? 

2. Do you value things you don't actually believe in?

3.  Are you working towards the life you want-or are you putting it off?

4.  What would you do if you won the lottery?

5.  If you knew failure wasn't an option, what would you want to do in life?

6. What is your inner critic shouting at you?

7.  What would you do with an extra hour in the day?

8.  Picture a successful person you admire, How different are they from you?

9.  What is your intuition telling you?

10. How would you play out your fantasy life?

Now, answer these as honest as possible, cheating is only robbing yourself...

Enjoy

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One thing I love about the weekends, are the ones that you keep to yourself. Nothing planned, time is not an issue, and you can really focus on things that make you feel good. Magazines have to be my number one obsession. I buy them with the excitement of the weekend so I can have time to read them all.

Eating by candelight. Call me a hopeless romantic if you will, but something as casual as sushi seems so much more glamourous. Zen Sushi Bar downtown.

Ivey, who decided to join me to enjoy the beautiful Saturday we had. I complained about how cold and harsh it was outside and the next day got to enjoy sunshine and shadows! I remember how much fun it is to just go outside and enjoy the good weather.

No socks required.

February 26- February 27, 2010 at Southwest Guilford High School

Friday, February 26th 2010, Carolina ladies from across the states of North and South Carolina, ages 13-56, will arrive at the Airport Embassy Suites in Greensboro. Carolina International Pageants and the Embassy Suites will be hosting a Rock N Roll Mix and Mingle for the ladies between the hours of 6-8pm that evening and will feature appearances by the reigning Mrs., Miss and Teen North and South Carolina International, as well as several local sponsors and our 2010 contestants! The ladies will enjoy a two hour mixer that is open to the public, in the lobby area of the Embassy Suites. Media and public are encouraged and invited to attend as the ladies will be available for photos and autographs during that time!

Baby, it's cold outside.

The sky is clear and blue and the sun is functioning just like that little lightbulb in your refrigerator. Providing lots of light, but no heat. Welcome to late winter. Winter and I have always had a love/hate relationship. I love the idea of looking at freshly fallen snow and having an excuse to accessorize to the extreme. Another thing I love most about winter is the food! I indulge in ALL of my favorite comfort foods, sit back and let the warm and fuzziness take over. My only peeve about winter, is how much it dries me out. I have to slather moisturizer all over my face in neck in the mornings, and I find myself using countless bottles of hand lotion that I keep in my desk.

By the time I make it home after work, I have already forgiven Mother Nature for making me endure these freezing temps, until the next day. Dry skin, cold face...ugh. So in true Kimmie fashion I have perfected the ulitmate mix of products that help me survive the last months of winter.

P.S. I debated back in forth if I should post a pic of my morning/winter/mad face....I decided I would let you take my word for it. :0)

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My standard introduction. I'm sure anyone who blogs for the first time has the same feeling I have right now. Anxious, excited and loving the idea that your own thoughts, words, feelings, and experiences will be shared with other women like you. Moments you find significant can also be significant to someone else. But you know, I'm a blogger from way back. I mean waaaay back. Back to 1994 when I was blessed with my first diary. No buttons, no uploads. Just my own thoughts and a freshly shaved number 2 pencil. I would write about everything I saw, and how I interpreted it. I cut out pictures from magazines, passages from books, and even doodled to represent what was going on in that 9 year old mind. I kept that diary and had many others up until my senior year of high school and after filling the last page, for the first time I didn't buy another one.

Since the day I graduated from High School, I have met so many people and have seen so many things. Since things I see and hear send my mind racing, I haven't lost the urge to put those ideas on paper...or a screen. So as readers of my 2010 "diary" I welcome you to my world.

Now, I want to know who you are.

For previous related post, see: http://www.skirt.com/susan-boswell/blog/love-letters-they-paved-lyndal%E2%80%99s-house-and-put-parking-lot%E2%80%A6part-1

The year was 1992. The New Year found me VERY pregnant, expecting our first, and what was to be, our only child. Among the more prominent items on our to-do-list of preparations for the birth of our upcoming child: DECIDE ON A NAME!

I am stopping short of calling this a foot fetish, but let’s just say I have a thing for feet. NOT over Angelina Jolie’s feet… too bony! Nor , Meghan Fox’ feet , although she is HOT, from head to, well ,calf…. NOT EVEN, the Queen of Feet, Susan Sarandan, who scored a permanent position in the Foot Hall of Fame, after her famous toenail painting scene with what’s-his-name, in the movie, Bull Durham… Nope. The feet who THRILL me MOST belong to (drum roll please), ME!!!

Ok so there I was sitting at the table catching the end of the morning news, out of what appears to be no where I hear a comment on Elizabeth Edwards.  My heart goes out to her and all of her battles health/Marriage wise, but what I heard made me frown my face a little.  It is being reported that she plans to sue the young man who had the sex tapes of her husband and his mistress.  Well, to say I was a bit taken back would be a shy statement.  She is suing him for contributing to the demise of her marriage, which in my eyes is not true.  My first thought is hey Mrs. Edwards, he is not the one who slept with your husband.  Actually, he did play a role in what occurred because for a while there he claimed he was the father of the child in the situation.  You must take into consideration that he worked for Mr. Edwards and would have done what he was told to do.  There has been other issue much more pressing I am sure that are covered up by someone's aid.  Now, if she needs to sue anyone for the demise of her marriage it should be her husband and his mistress.  I am sorry to say that if anything he knew he was married and he decided to step outside his marriage regardless of what the mistress did.  So, to sum it up regardless of who holds the tapes they didn't commit the act.  Mrs.

I finally watched "Confessions of a Shopaholic" this weekend, and I can safely say that on a scale of one to Becky Bloomwood, I'm in the clear. I've never (SPOILER) been late to an interview because I was begging for money to buy a scarf, or bought a dress that cost more than one month's salary. Not even my wedding dress. 

But I have made a few questionable choices when it comes to shopping. Last Friday, when the rest of the world was buying milk and bread before The Big Snow? I went to the mall. It was the right choice -- I had a store credit burning a hole in my pocket. Milk lasts but a few weeks; cute shoes are forever (or at least till the end of the season).

The truest sign that I'm a shopaholic might be just how eager I am shop for whatever might be on the list. Need to pick out an appliance at Lowe's? Count me in. Want help buying a car? I'm there. I even enjoy grocery shopping. If I wasn't lucky enough to have this job, I could probably be perfectly happy as a Realtor or bridal consultant, a la "Say Yes to the Dress." Spending other people's money just seems like a great way to earn some of my own.

skirt! magazine Greensboro sales and marketing department is always looking for great interns that want to be a part of an award-winning magazine and learn the ropes of what goes on in the skirt! world of sales, marketing, circulation, deadlines, graphic design, public relations, internet marketing, social media marketing, community events and sponsorships.  Please e-mail Nicole, Sales & Marketing Manager if interested at, Nicole.Morrison@skirt.com. * This is a non-paying internship. College credit is accepted.

Here are our upcoming events that we will be needing assistance:

2/25/10   Artista, Feb. 25th 5:30 p.m. till 8:30 p.m. at The Marshall Art Gallery in Greensboro

3/27/10   MS Walk held at Asheboro Zoo on March 27th 8:30 a.m. till 12:00 p.m. in Asheboro

3/30/10   skirt! birthday party at R/E/F/S Restaurant on March 30  from 5:30 p.m. till 8:00 p.m.

4/23/10   Alamance Women's Resource Center Herb Festival April 23rd 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church 508 Davis Street Burlington