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Aleigh

Editor at Skirt!

I am: a doggie mom, a not-so-newlywed, a Scrabble enthusiast, a meticulous speller, a world traveler, and the editor of the Charlotte edition of skirt! (Not usually all at once.) When I'm not writing about Charlotte's coolest women, you can find me cheering on my beloved Pittsburgh Steelers, tryi...

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skirt! readers are nothing if not creative.

One of the most frequent comments I get from our readers is that they like to make things with our magazine. From the fashion student at the College of Charleston who made a dress out of skirt! to the DIY-ers who’ve made everything from tote bags to greeting cards out of the pages of skirt!, there’s something about our magazine that just makes you want to create.

Well, I love that. I’ve had people make me things out of skirt!, too – once, a friend of mine framed and decorated two essays that I had written. I’ve been given gifts that were wrapped in skirt!, seen people who have decoupaged things with skirt!, and once even had a woman tell me she uses the pages of skirt! to line the drawers in her kitchen.

Our new graphic designer, Cara, has officially received her first skirt!-made gift--a shadowbox her sister made from a collage of skirt! pages:

It makes me want to run right home and break out a fresh pair of scissors and a bottle of glue. Have you ever made anything out of skirt!? I’d love to hear all about it.