LIFE
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Straight from our mill in India! Take a look at CKD’s newest embroidered table napkins! Can’t wait to shoot these and sell them in our shop. We have some new products in the works as well! Can’t wait to show you!
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Since I was a kid I wrote in journals. They started with collaged images of camp pictures and dance competition inside jokes. Now my journals look like pages filled with scribbled handwriting that I can hardly read. Writing has always been an outlet for me. It’s no surprise that I have been blogging on this for the past 10 years. Still collecting pictures. I was gifted that computer from Microsoft. I am an Apple user. To be honest I didn’t know what I would do with it. I am currently writing on it right now and I love the way the keyboard feels under my fingertips. It has become my writing computer. I continue to write on “life” in hopes to one day turn all of these blog post into a book one day filled with pictures. Who knows! anything can happen.
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I like to wake up early, but that usually means I don’t speak until I have my morning coffee and move slowly from my bed to my home studio to start answering emails. Switching up my scenery with travel has been my escape and a way for me to change up the “routine”. I am affected creativity by my surroundings, the same space for almost 6 months has brought some challenges to my creative process. I found myself sleeping in longer than I usually do, I felt lazy with nowhere to go but to dinner or a friends house. Working out more wasn’t working. So I decided to start walking. I walk 30 minutes to my morning coffee and by the time I walk my 30 minutes home I am a coffee filled happier person. The first couple mornings felt annoying and hot and sticky, but as the days went on I started to notice how the light at 8 am hits the trees differently than at 9 am. Recently the corners of leaves have started to change colour. The mornings are starting to get a little colder, and the air is starting to smell like fall. It feels like I’m walking with the flow of mother nature’s cycle, noticing the slightest of changes each day that I otherwise would have never noticed. It sounds so simple, but fresh-air in the morning with just me and my thoughts sets the tone for my day. The greatest lesson I have learned this past month and a half of walking is that even though you may not see it progress and change is happening all around us constantly. It’s subtle and quiet and only when you pay attention and be present you’ll see it.
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So much newness coming to Candice Kaye Design! Here are some photos from our factory.
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CKD’s first Motel. June Motel Sauble Beach location is filled with oversized hand painted beachy waves in all double and king rooms. Working with these girls was a dream. The Motel is now taking reservations! See more Here
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I’ve been reading a lot lately, mixed with writing and setting my intentions for this new month. July was the month of filming. I’ve been working with a few different networks and I am surprisingly loving television. Have you ever done something and felt like it felt familiar? I had that feeling when I picked up a paint brush, and oddly have a similar feeling when I am getting hooked up with a microphone. Speaking into a camera feels scary, I get nervous and I know I need practice, but it oddly feels familiar to me. As a kid I had a very very heavy stutter. I hated reading out loud in class, the idea of presenting was worse than death to me, and I would be very careful with my words when hanging out with friends because I knew what words I would stutter on and words I wouldn’t. Most of the time I would just stay silent. It’s a wild thought that I would be speaking into a camera. You just never know where life can bring you. This is the energy I am bringing with me into August. Opening my heart to everything and anything allowing God more space to move in my life. Anything is possible, even if the possible feels impossible. I know this to be true. x C
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NEWEST Collection is here!!! CKD’s most detailed collection yet!! Inspired by my recent trips to Colombia, Cabo, Miami & LA. I miss traveling so much, it felt nice to relive these memories and get inspired by moments that at the time could never imagine be my last for a while. I will forever look at travel and the opportunity to travel differently. Cherish every sunset and sunrise just a little more. Each print has been designed to be printed on our Gold reflective paper. However, feel free to change up the ground if you wish! Just contact our team. xx C
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CKD’s first episode with Cityline aired Friday. It was strange to see myself on a show I watched growing up. The print with Unika Swim is in sampling phase. Planta family is growing, the newest install went up in Coconut Grove Miami. A new collection launches next Wed. This is the most detailed collection we’ve launched yet.
It’s a rainy Sunday. My favourite kind of Sunday. On the couch, window open getting work done for next week. I hope you’re having a great weekend. x C
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I went to bed the night of my birthday early and sober. Maybe it was the full moon, maybe it’s covid, but I didn’t really feel like doing anything. Normally I have all my closest friends in my backyard, I put the lights up, we drink and talk and slowly get tipsy.
I have learned a lot about myself during the lockdown. I loved the ability to create from a place of peace, where time felt infinite. I loved the feeling of moving at my own pace. I’ve learned it’s important for me to take breaks. From the moment I crossed the border to Canada after living in NY, I’ve committed myself fully to my business. Four years of non-stop building. Within those four years I have also discovered myself. It’s as if I needed to discover whatever it was that was inside of me and manifest it into real life in order to fully understand how I move through society. My creativity is so much of who I am. How I look at the world, how I treat people, who I choose to spend my time with, how I make my decisions. It’s all connected. This lockdown allowed me to slow down and brought all of this hard work to the surface to analyze. I’ve realized energies really affect me. Gossip is not a form of conversation. Jealously is not love. Judging the way someone lives and how they choose to move through their life is non of anyone’s business. Never before have I been so in tuned with what is happening around me. As a result I feel like I am moving closer to the centre of myself. At the highest level, my intention has moved towards creating my own work of art, my life. What the future holds, where my next step will be, my next big decision - they operate from a place of intuition, faith and complete open mind and flexibility. Anything is possible and dreams do come true, but I’ve learned greater invitations beyond ones wildest dreams are also real, but those will get missed with a tunnel vision view. I will no longer shrink myself to fit into someone else’s insecurities, they are not mine to carry anyways. I feel like I am stepping into the fullness of who I am. and it feels powerful. So much has changed since last year. I feel stronger and more ready than ever for the next season in my life.
I woke up on July 7th (the day after my birthday) and felt at peace. I didn’t feel like doing anything for my birthday and yet the people I love already had it all planned. That is the beautiful thing about keeping those who truly love you around you, they will lift you up when you’re low without even realizing they are doing it. I am excited about 32. Cheers to another year!! x C