// CITYLINE

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17 hour day, lugging rugs up three flights of stairs, hanging with the team all day. It felt like old times! The tapping for Cityline has started. Can’t wait to see the first segment. CKD is officially a design expert for the show. Charles, Franceline and I stayed after the tapping and shot some headshots. Can’t wait to see them. The look ended up going in a much different direction, which a sign of an amazing shoot. Hope you’re keeping cool, loving this toronto weather but it’s hot hot hot.

// LATELY

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More soundchecks and all of the TV stuff has started!! So excited to tell you the news! Other than that, I’ve been working hard on some new projects that will keep me busy throughout the summer. I can’t believe it is June. I have noticed a shift in my life. It happened as quietly and as suddenly as spring turned into summer. CKD is growing up. It’s fun to watch and to be in the centre of. I feel so much change headed my way. Looking forward to finding out what it is.

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I’ve taken a break from posting on this page to process and evaluate how CKD and I will move forward regarding what is happening throughout the world. I’ve been diving into art and literature and music 🎶 Finding inspiration through voices I have never heard before. I am an idealist at heart, I have always envisioned our world with less suffering and pain. Maybe that’s naive, but I believe it’s possible. #BlackLivesMatter and I will continue to pray for a world of peace and joy and inclusion and happiness, full of colour and light and inspiration, creation and evolution. We are all connected with love, endless love. I believe love is our only constant. So I’m sending you all of mine today and forever by continuing to create and share my heart through my work. X -C💕 Artwork by: @derrick_o_boateng

// SOUND CHECK

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I am loving the new work coming out of CKD lately. I am also loving the growth I’ve been going through lately. Feeling a shift, and it feels great. So ready to start work again. So much to show you! Here are some pieces of work that I’ve been working through during quarantine. x C

// CKD TURNS FIVE YEARS OLD!!!!!

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I can’t believe my company turns 5 years old today. I started Candice Kaye Design with a couple rolls of wallpaper and vague idea of how I can make bespoke work within the hospitality industry. I kept asking myself “how can I make you look at wallpaper differently?”I documented the process because I wanted to take you on this journey with me. When I was in Morocco, I wanted you to be in Morocco. I wanted you to feel connected to the collections creation. I feel this connection is lost within the textile industry. It is also important for me to show you how personal everything I create is. I never could have imagined where ckd would take me in just 5 years. What’s to come is going to be another set of adventures and lessons and growth. But this is SO MUCH FUN, and I love expressing my creativity in unique and outside the box ways. Thanks for following along this journey with me! Cheers to 5 years!

// QUIET STUDIO MORNINGS

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Quiet mornings in the studio are my favourite. CKD has been keeping busy. So many new projects to launch this summer. It’s been a blessing to sit longer and really spend time with these projects. It is really a luxury to be able to create with time on your side. The past two months have been spent finishing up projects from January. May is already booked with new projects opening in August. It’s bizarre to hear myself speak like this. Last year this time was so different. I was returning home from Montauk’s install and starting Papi Steak. So much can change in just one year.

// POSTCARDS FROM THE COUNTRY

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Snuck away to a place that felt less like COVID. I have been taking advantage of this space where time feels infinite and creation exists from a place of peace and patience. Urgently creating under almost impossible deadlines not only stunts creativity but doesn’t allow for my mind to breathe, rest and reset. I’ve learned a lot about myself over the past two months at home. When things start to “click” for a company natural instinct isn’t to slow down, it’s to step up and learn how to operate at a new capacity. However, I am not a machine. Sometimes i wish i was. I am a human, with moods, and I get tired and have headaches. I like to have fun and laugh, I love my friendships & family and value my relationships, I like to travel and meet new people. I like to spend time by myself in my imaginary world and dream. My childlike self was suffering. I am my happiest when the child in me is nourished. Her innocence is what keeps the creativity alive. She reminds me to keep things light and have a sense of humour about life. I’ve learned that slowing down is necessary. I am reseting and revisiting, and rewriting what I would like my new normal to look like.