1: Today’s outfit. (Plus gummi bears, which I was all about today. We used to buy them in bulk by color!) 2: Alice making soup in the tub. 3: My love. 4: Explaining plans for our whiteboard at CAMP to my brother so he can buy materials. 5: Alice and I at Johnny Rocket’s tonight.

See more details about today’s outfit on my Polyvore page, the best tool ever for compiling imageboards!

xo
meg

♥ 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself on Create Your Great Life
♥ Can we talk about how Robyn is the baddest lady on the planet? Still replaying her performance from SNL. Tell Your Girlfriend is my jam.
♥ Bad habits that crush your creativity and stifle success (via @copyblogger)
♥ Amen! Stop Telling Women to do Start-ups on TechCrunch
♥ Tattly: Temporary tattoos just got SO much cooler.
♥ Chris Guillebeau shares his advice on How to Write, Sell and Publish your Book. Look for me in his next book, The $100 Startup, coming out May 8th!

xo
meg

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meg

Alice: Harajuku Lovers coat, Carters leggings, Pediped shoes

I love the picture that ended up in the calendar–it’s in our bedroom shot through my vintage mirror, and shows my racks of dresses behind me. But here are a few outtakes from the shoot Dave and I did with Daniel Muller along with our cat, Turbo. He’s a four-year-old tabby cat.

The calendar also features tons of other cool people with their cats, like Rachel Jacobson, founder of Film Streams, vegan chef and author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Nate Welker from Saddle Creek Records, and more. If you want to purchase a calendar, they are available online for $20!

Me: Nanette Lapore dress, Odille blouse, FCUK sweater, Target socks
Dave: Kitty jammies

xo
meg

Highlights: Amazing interns who helped me make CAMP spectacular ♥ Alice playing with snow for the first time ♥ Alice and Turbo finally became friends

Best of PL.com: How I Handled a Wedding Disaster ♥ Window Displays and Waxed Envelopes ♥ Questions From You ♥ Let’s Visit Alice in her Room

Highlights: Wonder Woman MAC Collection ♥ Presenting at the Nebraska Summit for Entrepreneurship ♥ Full house at CAMP ♥ Speaking at Meet the Pros ♥ Speaking at Awesomecamp

Best of PL.com:  Make it Yours: How to take inspiration from others without copying their work ♥ A fun little last-minute birthday party for my mom ♥ breastfeeding in style

Highlights:  Going to Chicago with Dave and our friend Eric for a fun trip ♥ Speaking students in the UNL textiles department ♥ Speaking at UNO about new media ♥

Best of PL.com:  Karin’s flowers ♥ Five books that changed my life and my business ♥ Lisa’s flowers

Highlights:  Vegan bake sale with powerhouse author Isa Chandra Moskowitz ♥ Spending Easter with family where Alice got to meet some cute baby animals ♥ So surrounded by beauty

Best of PL.com: Marketing your personality in the design industry: things employers want that can’t be found on your resume ♥ making easter pretty: setting a friendly table ♥ my real life: ten things I’m really into ♥ my birdhouse home ♥ making handmade felt birthday hats ♥ “How do I start my business?” The first steps.

Highlights:  Our first birthday together ♥ The Signature Styles book release party ♥ Feature in Cosmo Brides UK ♥ Big Omaha

Best of PL.com:  pictures from karin and jeremy’s arbor day barn wedding ♥ alice and megan’s first birthday ♥ for the men: princess lasertron’s best boutonnieres

Highlights:  Met the editor of Kiplinger’s to talk about an Omaha story ♥ Recorded an online class for Rick Rack ♥ Went to Okoboji with Team Lasertron ♥ Dave got photographed for a father’s day feature on Esoteric Velvet

Best of PL.com:  Questions from you ♥ amy’s flowers ♥ How much is a Princess Lasertron felt flower bouquet?

Highlights:  Worked like hell getting sponsors and VIP guests for Omaha Fashion Week ♥ Met the team behind Cut Out & Keep ♥ Watched Project Runway and totally vegged out ♥ Endless photoshoots ♥ True Blood at Isa’s house

Best of PL.com:  Our tiny cupcake toppers in Inspired Ideas magazine! ♥  Bejeweled chain necklace DIY for people who can’t make jewelry ♥ Embroidered felt price tags: a fun (eco-friendly!) DIY for crafty businessowners ♥ Is it ever okay to profit from someone else’s design? ♥ Questions from you no. 29: Mr. Lasertron Edition

Highlights: Hosting a fundraiser for the Nebraska Aids Project featuring Mondo Guerra ♥ Meeting Kat Williams of Rock N Roll Bride who became my instant bff  ♥ Produced our secret spring preview show ♥ Fashion week, of course ♥ Made friends with a psychic ♥ Nonstop photoshoots ♥ Alice went swimming nonstop ♥ Got the Omaha Fashion Magazine cover

Best of PL.com:  omaha fashion week ♥ princess lasertron + rock n roll bride on KMTV’s morning blend ♥ the omaha fashion magazine cover! ♥ so you want to be a model… ♥ promises to my daughter

Highlights:  Another successful Barcamp Omaha with my main gentlemen ♥ Teaching at The Creative Connection Event/BlogHer Handmade ♥ Speaking on a Verizon panel ♥ Got all-new furniture at CAMP

Best of PL.com:  redecorating and reorganizing: on my desk ♥ Claire and Andy’s wedding flowers ♥ the lucky life: my ten favorite experiences at the creative connection event 2011 ♥ where did “make it pretty” come from?

Highlights: Krug Park opening, the best bar in Omaha ♥ Being on the Whatever Mathers podcast ♥ Reiki ♥ Filmed for a Gallup Organization video about entrepreneurship ♥ Spoke on a panel at UNO about new media ♥ got an iPhone ♥ My face on the electronic billboard downtown! ♥ Alice was a bat

Best of PL.com: magic and love at grandma camp ♥ photos from annie and sheldon’s backyard wedding ♥ emerald city: fash flood x lasertron ♥ Photos from Almudena and Quique’s beautiful and casual Spain wedding

Highlights:  Spoke at the Nebraska Broadband Conference ♥ Underwent a little blog redesign ♥ Spoke at UNO on a panel ♥ Developed some new kits and products

Best of PL.com: a letter to my husband: I am grateful for you. ♥ Fifteen things I want to do in my lifetime ♥ how-to: use your pretty magazines to make a festive ball garland

Highlights:  December was ALL Radvent ♥ I was recognized as one of Omaha’s “40 under 40″ ♥ Alice got a black eye ♥ I got a housekeeper ♥ A video about PL was featured at the Gallup Impact Summit ♥ Was filmed for a video about Omaha by AIM

Best of PL.com: How to start: a guide for procrastinators, excuse-makers, busy people, and everyone with a big scary dream ♥ brown paper packages: a quick and dirty gift wrapping tutorial ♥ waxed paper book covers: a radvent tutorial! ♥ radvent day 24: magic – ways to attract charm for a life with more magic

Best wishes, dear readers, for a safe and happy new year. See you in the year of the dragon!

xo
meg

Hope you were able to spend time with your family, close friends, and those who love you during this holiday season!
xo
meg

cutting out patterns from a new DIY kit launching on Cyber Monday // life as alice

photoshoot with the mullers for lovestruck event 2012 // awake at 4:30 am

clothing rack at an october faction photoshoot sunday // the beautiful madison riedmiller

another one of madison // alice discovered dr. pepper lip smackers

at new york chicken & gyro, my favorite restaurant with a lovely bag I just got in the mail from a bride I just did a romper & bouquet for // work on shoe clips for courtney’s upcoming wedding

xo
meg

Here’s another post brought to you by my friend Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik of Fash Flood where she shares style inspiration, hair and makeup tutorials, and images from her fantastically beautiful life. She agreed to unleash her styling expertise on some of her favorite pieces from our 2011 dress collection. Last month she showed how to style our Nicole Dress for a formal event, and this time around she is sharing how to create a more casual look with the same dress. Remember that you can order each of our dresses in your own favorite color!

Hello Lasertron readers! I’m back again wearing the Nicole dress for an easy day-to-night look.

I recently wore this dress for a day trip to Kansas City, Missouri for my second wedding anniversary. Have you ever had one of those trips when you weren’t sure what to pack because of the quickly transitioning weather? That was definitely this trip. When I packed it was bright and sunny in Omaha and barely cold at all. In Kansas City it was chilly, overcast and even a little rainy.

For this casual daytime look, I paired the Nicole dress with a sunny vintage sweater cape, swirly purple Missoni for Target tights and camel colored Leifsdottir flats. I didn’t initially plan on the wearing the tights, but I had to out of necessity since it was freezing!

This look turned out great for my day trip because I was able to wear the dress for both the daytime -when we went shopping and drank a million cups of coffee, and for dinner -I just threw on a dressier vintage beaded cardigan and heels and was good to go. In my previous post, I wore this dress with a petticoat, but this time I wore the dress alone and the skirt still had plenty of volume.

A little about our trip; we went to one of our favorite restaurants in Kansas City, the Blue Bird Bistro (lots of vegetarian/vegan options) and then ran into a Día de los Muertos themed exhibit around the corner from the restaurant. For anyone unfamiliar, November 2^nd is Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. You can read more about the history of this day here.

Nevertheless, I’m not sure exactly what this place was, as it was closed for the day but it seemed like some sort of cultural center. I loved all the traditional, multi-colored flags and had to sneak into their courtyard for a few photos. There was even a Día de los Muertos Steve Jobs shrine in the courtyard (not pictured, we thought it would be a little weird to pose by it).

All in all, this dress was great for traveling and kept me from stopping back at our hotel to re-do my entire look to go from day to night. Visit the shop at Princess Lasertron to read more about the Nicole dress!

Until next time,
Sarah of fashflood.com

P.S. Like this style? Read about another stop on our trip on my blog.

2. If you’re a podcast lover, I was recently featured in a fun talk show called Whatever Mathers. You can download it for free in iTunes–search “Whatever Mathers” and download episode two, “You don’t bring sand to the beach.” I was interviewed by Amy Mather in a conversation with my pal/wingman Steve Gordon of RDQLUS and local artist and professor Tim Guthrie.

3. This Friday we are having the first monthly Create & Bitch meeting at CAMP! If you want something cheap to do on a Friday night, bring your current crafty project, laptop, nail polish, whatever you want to work on down to CAMP and hang out with a great group of local creatives. I’m SO excited–there are already almost two dozen RSVPs. Hosted by Courtney Gill Zurcher of Inez Gill, Create & Bitch will be on the second Friday of each month at CAMP.

4. Speaking of CAMP, our first two tenants, Downs Design and Image Made, moved down the hall into their new space for their new company together, Grain & Mortar. Excited for their merger–I think with their skills combined, they really have the potential to create impactful design for their clients here, and to inspire the whole world through their expertise and beautiful portfolio. Meanwhile I’m deep-cleaning and redecorating here at CAMP. Some of the new changes include a gigantic whiteboard, wallpaper, and a beautiful black and white conference table!

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“A cage went in search of a bird.” -Franz Kafka, from The Zurau Aphorisms.
xo
meg