Join Creating 805 at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art for a conversation around creativity and entrepreneurship featuring Founders from Root Elixirs, Honeycomb Home Design, Wilde House Paper, and Idlewild Floral.

Creating 805 launched in October 2021 as a monthly speaker series highlighting tales, insights, and lessons from Central Coast entrepreneurs' small business journeys. Since then, Creating 805 has evolved with the launch of its membership, and expanded its monthly speaker series to Santa Barbara County. The Creating 805 community exists to connect and inspire entrepreneurs, business owners, and creatives across the Central Coast. By uniting homegrown innovators and giving them an opportunity to share their stories, resources, and knowledge with one another, Creating 805 is continuing to expand and strengthen the entrepreneurial lifeline of California's Central Coast.

Speaker Lineup

Dominique Gonzales, Root Elixirs

Root Elixirs is a small-batch, woman-owned sparkling soda mixer company based in San Luis Obispo. Focusing on sustainability and freshly-sourced ingredients, each bottle of Root Elixirs is intentionally crafted so that you can have 2-3 elevated cocktails or mocktails in the comfort of your home. Root Elixirs takes the hassle out of creating craft cocktails. Instead, cocktails can be made in 3 easy steps: Ice + Spirit + Root Elixirs = an elevated cocktail.

Ariana Afshar Lovato, Honeycomb Home Design

Honeycomb Home Design is an award-winning full service interior design firm located in Arroyo Grande. The firm offers full service interior design, kitchen and bath design, furnishings, and custom cabinetry for your next residential or commercial project. Honeycomb Home Design provides a truly turn-key approach to the design and construction process by bringing your vision to life, every step of the way. From design documentation, interior renderings, conceptual floor plans, and bringing together the consultants needed for your project, they are committed to making your next construction project run as smoothly as possible.

Megan Heddinger, Wilde House Paper

Wilde House Paper is a sustainable lifestyle paper goods collection created in San Luis Obispo. The brand began as an intentional space where inspired ideas have the space and potential to grow into something bigger. With sustainability at the forefront of all of their processes, Wilde House Paper set out to create something that gives back to this world that we all call home. They hope that this space can serve as a place of inspiration in your daily lives as well as a place that we can all be reminded to slow down to enjoy this journey called life.

Carla Wingett, Idlewild Floral

Idlewild Floral began in 2016 as a wedding floral studio with husband and wife team Carla and Michael. With over a decade of history working on weddings in sunny California, Carla often steered her clients in the direction of dried flowers, which wouldn't wilt on warm wedding days and would last long after the event. When events were cancelled in 2020 with COVID, the duo had time to shift to their true passion of designing with 100% dried florals, solving the eternal dilemma with the waste and ephemeral nature of fresh flowers. Idlewild now operates in a beautiful historic warehouse where a small team of designers creates each bouquet to order, shipping anywhere in the US.

Event Timeline

8:30-9am | Connect + collaborate with local business owners, entrepreneurs, and creatives. Coffee by SLO Provisions.

9-10am | Live panel interview, audience Q&A.

Giveaway

At each Creating 805 event, one (or more) lucky ticket holder(s) walk away with goods, services, and experiences from Central Coast small businesses. October’s Giveaway Sponsor is SLO General Store- we’re gifting a seasonal gift basket to one lucky Creating 805 ticket holder.

COVID-19 Safety

Masks will be required for unvaccinated attendees and encouraged for vaccinated attendees. Disposable masks will be available at the check in table upon arrival.

This event would not be possible without the support of our sponsors: San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, SLO Provisions, SLO General Store.