Today I am closing the doors at CAMP for good. A combination of reasons has contributed to my decision, mainly the financial burden of maintaining CAMP and new opportunities I am pursuing with my other companies.

After CAMP, I will mainly focus on building Hello Holiday, a social shopping site launching in July that I co-founded with Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik. Our goal with Hello Holiday is to introduce a charming and exuberant approach to style and the online shopping experience, and we are working to build our inventory right now–finding the right clothes to make every woman feel ready to take on the world. Our mission is to bring emerging designers into the mainstream fashion market and offer a carefully curated selection of apparel and accessories to modern women. The new Hello Holiday office will open in Benson soon.

Princess Lasertron, my bridal bouquet and project design company, will operate out of my house–like I did from the beginning–where I will be finishing my first book set for release in Spring 2014. By working at home, I’m looking forward to spending more time with my two-year-old daughter. We moved into CAMP nearly a week after she was born and she has been along for the entire ride.

CAMP was never a moneymaker–that’s the truth–and unfortunately I can no longer afford to sustain it. It’s hard to admit that things didn’t go as I wanted. Knowing when to stop is as important as knowing when to start, and it’s the right time for me to bow out.

This was a very difficult decision that I’ve been mulling over for months. I feel so lucky and honored to live in this community on the Silicon Prairie. We have an ecosystem here that is so supportive of entrepreneurship and creative culture, and coworking is a small piece of that puzzle. Although CAMP is closing, there are other spaces and venues that will fill that need and I encourage you to participate in building communities there. Coworking isn’t about space–it’s a philosophy and movement that empowers people to make their work better through collaboration, creativity, and openness. Coworking is about serving a need that people have, and that example is something that I’m glad CAMP brought to Omaha, and I’ll be glad to see it continue to spread. Thank you to everyone who has been a supporter, client, and friend of CAMP over the years. I’m excited for what’s to come.

xo
meg

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meg

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meg

We had the time of our lives. Highlights…
…Lula’s vegan ice cream shop near our apartment in the lower east side
…Drinking on the roof
…Meeting Gala Darling and her sweet husband
…Shareen Vintage off 5th Avenue
…Roaming with my husband
…Brunch at Bad Burger (I got cornflake-crusted french toast)
…Long nights spent up talking
…”Wine Product” that I bought at the corner mart. Sorry again about that, guys.
…Meeting up with author Chris Guillebeau in Central Park
…Running to the gym
…MCA memorials everywhere
…Loud pigeon roosted outside our window, and sparrows living in the wall somehow?

We brought home sunglasses with apple-shaped frames and mint green slip-on tennies for Alice.

Today I ironed these bad girls out and added them to the collection. I got them from Shareen Vintage in NYC, a diamond of a store that Gala Darling took Kat and I to a few weeks ago when we were in town. The price was right, but the amazing employees made it unforgettable. I can’t wait to take my partner Sarah there when we go for market this Fall!

1: Striped cotton dress with pockets and button back. I love the neckline and red lining on this, and the length is perfect.

2: Yellow cotton tennis romper with pockets. It looks like a shift dress, but there are shorts under there! I love the buttons down the front, too.

xx
meg

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As I arrange each bouquet after I finish the flowers, I tend to arrange them very tightly, kinda crammed in together. Once the bride receives the flowers, she can “fluff” it out as much as she wants and add some more volume to the bouquet, or leave it more densely packed as I arranged it.

Right now I’m working on a bouquet more like the ones I’ve done in the past–all one type of flower, all the same length, uniform stitching on the leaves–and one more like Janice’s except even a little bit more wild in the heights and fullness of the whole bouquet. Going back and forth between each style is fun and I love the creative challenge.

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These look like how instagrams are meant to look.

We had a small party with friends and family at our house–angel food cake, bubbles, sidewalk chalk. Tiny pizzas, round rice krispie bars, and little round cheeses–moon-shaped food. The kids played with moon dough–white homemade play-doh with gray swirls. Alice got lots of books, a moon that hangs on her wall and lights up with changing phases, and sewing cards.

That night I went to the opening party for Big Omaha, a two-day entrepreneurship conference here in town. More on that later, I think.

Happy birthday dear Alice.
Polaroids are fun.

xo
meg

You can see the original post about their flowers here.
Photos by Emil Rajkowski at the Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas.