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Fashion Strike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This past Saturday while sitting at my desk staring blankly thru my sketch pad on my desk, my mind kept racing of thoughts of crashing waves and hot tanned surfer boys running through them. FOCUS MEGHAN!!!!!!! “What has my life become?” I asked myself, while quickly responding…… work, work, work!!! Don’t get me wrong- I live and die fashion but lately (the last 7 years) I have carved out little time for myself and it really shows!!!! It shows in my health, body, mind, attitude, EVERYTHING!!!..

So let’s go back to why I wanted to become a fashion designer and why I gave everything up for my dream. For me fashion is an amazing outlet for expression; the body a perfect canvas for experimentation. Each day a new day for discovery!!! How exciting! I love being a woman and having so many fashion choices. I want all women to appreciate this luxury, and enjoy this gift that we have. It’s fun!!! We can change ourselves everyday depending on our mood, vibe, event, and we don’t have to spend a lot of money to do it. We can use our creative juices and really get into it!!!

Lately while clocking in so many fashion hours my vision has been blurred. I am in much need of a palette cleanse!!!! My whole 7 years of owning my own business I have NEVER taken a vacation! SERIOUSLY! I just have always accepted that business owners sacrifice for the end result. Needless to say on Saturday in the office still staring blankly at my sketch pad my beautiful girlfriend happened to call me just at the right time inviting me to a long birthday weekend in Orange County………. How would I every get away with going, and explain it to my business partner Sacha??? I knew it was going to take something drastic to get time off from the confines of the office to go to the fabulous birthday bash.

Okay, so if I just go down for the day on Sunday it won’t kill me; I’m just missing work on Sunday, no big deal right?? I’ll take my Hottie trainer so I feel like I’m accomplishing more with a hardcore workout and a quick visit to my Mom in OC……

It’s so amazing down in South OC, like I’m in a different world but only one and a half hours away from LA. The view is insane and the water so clear. The cool wind softly whips at my face, I am starting to feel rejuvenated and refreshed and focused on my center. My thoughts are quickly drawn from the crazy, hectic fashion scene to the rhythm of the pounding waves, and the sounds of the seagulls flying overhead.

I am quickly reminded of my childhood dreams of fashion design, and the accomplished designers that I would look up to respecting greatly. I used to love coming down here as a kid when I grew up in the OC. I used to sit on these beaches and promise myself that when I became a “Fashion Designer” I would never forget who I was. I would always stay rooted to where I came from. This is who I am. Just Meghan, hanging out at the beach with my friends, being confident, loving life in OC (and LA!) saving the world thru fashion one babe at a time.

For the most part, 80% hasn’t changed. I just need to work on getting that 20% of ME back!!!!!! That crazed workaholic Meghan that lives in the office LITERALLY trying to save the WORLD with fabulous HAPPY fashion. But being here right now needing this detox reminds me how important it is to never lose yourself and your focus. Always find some sort of balance for yourself…….workout to relieve stress, eat healthy, surround yourself with good quality people that accept you for you and love you—the list could go on. Don’t compromise your goals for other people’s ulterior motives. Live in the moment for YOURSELF. This is your life and no one can live it but you. Ultimately, in the end you have you and only you to answer to, are you going to be happy with the results?

By the end of the day Sunday I wasn’t ready to pack up my beach blanket and head home!!! I really wanted to stay in the beach side suite that the gals had rented for the next few nights. I really had to call in something drastic. “Think Meghan, Think!!! A Fashion Strike! That’s it!!!”

I needed a cocktail to explain that one to Sacha via telephone……. He really thought I had lost it!!! I never not show up on Mondays, and even my assistant asked if I was picketing outside in the front with a sign, she didn’t get it, but sometimes a Girls gotta do what a Girls gotta do! Honestly, the fashion strike was the best 28 relaxing hours I have had in a LOOOOOOOONG time pretty sad to say but great to say!

I am encouraging any Gal out there who is desperately married to their whatever to take a Whatever Strike for how ever many hours and chill………. YOU deserve it!!!!!! Peace, love and freakin’ FASHION my fabulous Peeps! Meghan