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Kelly Love Johnson

Skirt! managing editor

Writer, editor, author, independent girly feminist hipster, slightly neurotic, cynically optimistic, compassionately liberal, fiscally conservative, somewhat intellectual, and always irreverent. ...

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Every day is a lucky day...

Kelly Love Johnson

Because we’re working on our January issue (theme: “Lady Luck”), I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own “lucky” charms, talismans, and rituals. One of my favorite lucky charms is a Happy Hoi Toi (Chinese god of fortune) figurine that I have on a shelf in my living room in hopes that it will draw good fortune to my home. My friend Jeff at LimeBlue in Charleston makes them and I’ve bought four or five in different colors already as gifts for friends (housewarming mostly). He makes them in all colors, but mine is dark red.

Can a little ceramic piece sitting on my shelf bring me good luck? I don’t know, but I think it has and hope it will. At the least, it makes me happy when I look at it.