News

If you have been hanging around here, I hope you have heard me talk about our capsule collection that launched today! There are so many reasons why I wanted to create this collection and so many reasons why I am really proud of it.  It represents a pivot in the Nine56 label away from creating just pretty and sustainable clothing and towards creating pretty and sustainable clothing that can be a starting point for wellness and actually facilitates our work.  There is a lot more to come about this shift and why it’s so important to me.  But I wanted to focus this post on our pre-sales launch and how it will work.    Today we launched pre-sales for our...

I could give you a list of a million reasons how simplifying your lifestyle is the best thing you can do for yourself.  Let’s get real, I totally go on tangents about how this lifestyle change has done wonders for my mental, physical, and emotional health and all of the other ways that it has changed my life.  But here’s the thing, it is not something that happens all at once.  It is not a magical switch that you flip and suddenly your life is an easy, breezy simplicity haven.  Nope.  The work is hard and the changes are slow.  There are still so many changes that I want to make in my lifestyle.  But I am tackling them slowly,...

If you hear the words ethical and sustainable and roll your eyes, you are not the only one.  The sad truth is that these are becoming buzz words used by brands to market their products to be attractive to the increasingly more mindful consumer.  And here’s the thing, although these companies make pretty promises, they are far less clear about how sustainability is implemented into their supply chain.  So I made this list of things that I think you should know about a brand before you support them.    And you guys, let’s get real, you probably won’t know the answers to all of these questions.  That doesn’t make you a bad consumer.  This list is definitely not meant to...

It happens to us all.  At some point or another every single one of us is going to run into overwhelm and get plain tuckered out from trying to do too much.  This is a space that I am always trying to get away from.  Some days I am better at it than others.  But for the days that I am really feeling that I don’t have enough steam to keep going, here are 5 questions I ask myself: 1. What really needs to be on my plate? If you have been on my blog before at all, you have probably heard me talk about this.  It’s kinda my soapbox issue.  And here’s why: today there is so much pressure...

We all know the routine.  The one where we try to clean out our closets.  This will be the time, we tell ourselves. We are sure that this time around we will finally clean our closets and they will become glorious havens that harbor all of our most perfect clothing.   It took a lot of trials and a lot of chats with women much smarter than me to figure out why my big closet clean-outs never actually ended up this way.  It was not for lack of effort!  I was working hard to clean out that closet of mine, time and time again.  But I wasn’t working smart.  I wasn’t digging into the WHY behind some clothing working for...

What is a studio for Meg Rohs? A cozy place to snuggle in with my cup of coffee before the sun is up.     A bright place to sprawl out my patterning supplies and perfect new styles.   A peaceful place to dig into a new blog post with the crisp breeze wafting in the screen door.   An inspiring place to dream up new ideas to build my business up. A functional place to do the hard work to bring those ideas into fruition.   A quite place to reflect on my successes and my learnings. A place that is completely my own, filled with dreams and fears, progress and set backs, peace and mania.  A place to...

Joe looked at me with a weighted gaze and said, It’s kind of like the calm after a storm when you have to go outside and start cleaning up your lawn.  I nodded.  I have been thinking about this a lot.  For me, it’s like after a really intense cardio portion of a workout when your lungs are burning but you aren’t done yet.  The instructor yells, Now it’s time for biceps!  So you have to control your breathing and keep going. Now, breath. Now, pick up the weights.  Now, bicep curl. That is the phase we are in now.  Trying to breath.  Trying to build. When we were married our pastor said something that will always stick with me. ...

This week I was going to write a post about how to simplify the way you grocery shop.  I was going to share about all of the ways I have learned to eat healthier and feel good about what I am putting into my body and the meals I am making.  But if I am being honest, I have not cooked a meal since before we moved, in June.  I also have not gone zero waste in my new kitchen like I wanted to.  I don’t remember how to create interesting and relevant content.  I don’t feel like I am leading by example in my simple lifestyle that I have worked so diligently to build.  Of course these things are...

My husband might not totally agree with this statement but here it goes: I am all about cutting the clutter out of my life.  And it’s not just the physical clutter that I am looking to get rid of.  Along with the excess clothing, repeat kitchen utensils, and knick-knacks that accumulate, decisions also clutter our lives.  Take just a second here to think of how many decisions you make in a day.  It’s a lot, right?  Sometimes these decisions are easy, like how many times to tap the snooze button or what to grab for breakfast.  But here’s the thing,  most of the time there is A LOT of stress that surrounds our decisions.  And if there is one thing...

From the very beginning, I knew that I wanted to create clothing that put good into the world.  You can check out my last post about the power that our products can have HERE.  But I wanted to dig a little deeper and share why it was the right fit for Nine56 to make our products in America and why it is something that I am really proud of.  A very important part of Nine56 is making products that serve the women who wear them and the women who create them.  Making our clothing right in Minneapolis has proven the best way for us to do that.  Here’s how: 1. Transparency - Transparency is a buzz word right now.  Which...