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This Watts Midi Dress is a perfect look for spring. The green mingled with the color reflects the vibrant mood of the season.

About Our Spring Shoot

Model: Adair Werley

Photographer: Tamara Gibson

Outfits: Two Friends on St. Simons Island

Hair and Makeup: Brittany Gault of Island Day Spa

Bicycle: Jekyll Wheels

Flowers: Merci Bouquet

Living well, looking good, feeling great. All fantastic goals, but what — or who — defines them? If you ask Chef Nicole Monier, and I did, the answer you get is “You do.”

“I am a huge believer in ‘pretty is as pretty does,’” Monier says.

What’s the purpose of these goals, she asks? Is it happiness? Confidence? Some people spend their entire lives in pursuit of a way to maintain these states of mind. In reality, some of the people who outwardly appear to have the most success in the realms of fitness, beauty, or confidence all have troubles of their own.

In Monier’s estimation, “it’s actually really sad because they’re missing the joy.”

We spend hours of our lives planning, preparing, waiting for, and eating meals, she says, and if you’re not enjoying being in the kitchen or eating, that’s time wasted.

That’s the point of The Mystical Kitchen, Monier’s business. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, she had a brick-and-mortar location on St. Simons Island but has since moved everything in-house — literally.