LIFE
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I think what I’m learning now is how to keep the magic, the serendipity, all of the things that make me, me while still looking at life and all of its complexities straight in the eye. Not needing to change it. Not needing to run from it. And not needing to romanticize it into something it isn’t. I’m really proud of this little life I’ve built for myself. A life I can call my own. Just mine.
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I created this blue rose in 2014. I didn’t know then that it would become the marker of CKD. The watercolor style that started it all. The mark that became a signature. And somehow, the mark that made me believe it was all going to be okay.
Photos: @stan.islaw
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It’s a new look. This summer has been a season of transformation for the brand. For me. And somewhere in between it all I caught my second wind.
Summer on the east coast has been a dream. I’m ready to go back to LA, but also not ready to go back to LA. I’m currently curled up in my studio in Richmond Hill, I’m watching the DVF doc. on Disney and it’s just a nice cozy night. I love it here, it brings me back to my centre of where this all started. I celebrated my birthday with my boyfriend, my best friend Aleks, my family and in Montreal with my atelier - my second family.
This year wasn't about achievements. It was about my mind. My mental and emotional space. How I think. What I know I deserve. The perspective I've gained. The difference is that I'm no longer keeping these thoughts to myself I'm saying them out loud instead of quietly carrying them. I've also been writing in my journal more than I have in a long time, and I'm loving it. More thoughts. More manifestation. More dreaming. More pouring into the things that genuinely excite me. It feels like I've stepped into a new alignment one that makes me feel more grounded, more intentional, and more powerful than ever before. For the first time in a while, it feels like I've caught my second wind.
And I'm genuinely excited for what's next.
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Hard lessons have a way of creating space for something new. I've started to believe that new lows are often what make room for new highs. But for me, these highs haven't been external. They've been alignment. Confidence. Standing in my decisions without wavering back and forth.
I don't think it's a coincidence that I've spent most of the last two months on the East Coast, spending time in the country, back in New York, surrounded by nature. It feels like coming back to the things that have always felt like me. Not because I was ever lost, but because I've remembered what it feels like to trust myself completely.
I've realized that when you move through life in true alignment with yourself, the external world slowly begins to mirror it. The conversations you have become different. The people you choose to keep close become different. The opportunities that find you become different. I've also realized that alignment sometimes means quietly letting go. No more being the one who is always reaching out. No more saying yes when what I really want is to stay home, work, or enjoy my own company.
When I was in New York, I saw friends I hadn't seen in years. It felt exactly like old times - the old me. Familiar. Easy. Real.
I also have so much gratitude for that chapter of my life. It stretched me. I saw places I never would have seen. I met people I never would have met. I experienced things I never would have experienced if I hadn't kept saying yes. And maybe that's exactly what that season was for to explore, to learn, to say yes to it all. Sometimes you have to become a few different versions of yourself before you recognize the one that feels like home. I love being in LA. I love the beach. I love the life I'm creating, and I love the people I'm creating it with.
And that's enough. Actually, it's more than enough. It's everything.
Newest bespoke work for Bambola in Boston
Hand painted mural in Martha’s Vineyard
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Sunrises and sunsets have always been my constant when everything else felt messy. No matter what was happening, the sun always set with beauty and rose with hope. I arrived in Mattituck at sunset. As I walked into the farmhouse I was staying in, the sunlight streamed through the spindles, I knew it was going to be an incredible week.
Brittany from House of One and I collaborated on a bespoke print that was hand-painted onto the walls of the soon-to-be Vines on Mill. The quiet mornings in the country brought me back to early drives through the country when I lived in Richmond Hill, and long hours spent in my studio in complete silence. Just me, no distractions. No fancy LA nights out, no constant movement just the work. Live painting has a way of keeping me present. There is no rushing it. Every brushstroke asks you to slow down, and pay attention. See the full vid here!
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I’ve always been drawn to the way Virgil Abloh and Pharrell Williams built their careers. It was never about staying in one lane it was always one system.
Virgil moved from architecture to graphic design to fashion to furniture to music. Pharrell moved from music into fashion, product, and cultural direction. Different mediums, same language. For me, textiles were always the entry point the door that opened everything else. Wallpaper, fabrics, rugs… that was just the beginning.
I’m not interested in stopping there. Furniture is next. Our collaboration with AFC Toronto pushed my work into sport. A jersey became another surface but this time, it moved. And beyond that music, scent, taste. It all connects.
Moving to Los Angeles opened me up to entirely new worlds new people, new ways of thinking, new perspectives on what a practice can be. It clarified something I had always felt: this was never just about textiles. It’s about building a world and everything that can exist within it. The only limitation is not seeing that it does, and choosing to stay inside a box that was never meant to hold you.
Some photos of life lately. x C
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When AFC Toronto approached me to design their 2026 away kit, the answer was immediate a full yes. I love sports, I’ve worked in sports, and I love my city.
I spent Thursday morning at the Toronto Eaton Centre hand-painting the newest AFC Toronto away kit in real time. Hand-drawn watercolor forms move across the jersey each one individual, but coming together as a system.
I wanted this piece to feel intentional. To carry movement. But more than anything, I wanted the girls to feel good in it confident, cool, and completely themselves the moment they put it on.
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Does this next choice come from chaos or from peace? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself with every decision lately.
There’s something deeply calming that happens when you choose yourself. It doesn’t always make things easier in the moment, sometimes it actually makes them harder, but it makes them clearer. And in the long run, it makes everything lighter. Something shifts when you fully decide to choose yourself. Not halfway. Not conditionally. Fully. Beyond what’s expected. Beyond giving endless second chances. Yes, there’s grace in that but there are also moments where you have to step away from chaos, from drama, from anything that pulls you out of alignment. And instead, you move toward what feels like a full-body yes. The kind that feels grounded. I’m learning to pause. To take a moment before I respond, before I decide and ask myself:
Is this peace, or is this chaos?