LIFE
// Collection N Eleven
Collection N Eleven custom wallpaper is available now! It's all made-to-order 100 % custom to your space. If you're interested, email me at any time [kayecandice@gmail.com] and we can get a strike off in the works so you can test it and make sure the colors work well. If not, colors can be changed as well as the scale :) x-C
// Airport bound
Back in the T.dot this weekend. I've got a very important wedding to catch! See ya Monday x -C
// Coolest show I've seen in New York yet.
As a birthday gift Dan surprised me with two tickets to Fuerza Bruta. An off broadway show he saw an ad for in a taxi a while back. He knows me well because I loved it, how could you not. One of the coolest shows I've seen in New York yet. For Valentines Day he took me to Sleep No More [seeing a trend here?] a very cool concept, but nothing as creative as this. From a man running on a treadmill with doors thrown at him, to ladies playing in a huge water tub on top of you, to the dancers swinging and yelling from the ceiling, it gives you a 360 degrees experience. If you're in New York for the weekend and are looking for a cool night out, I highly recommend getting yourself a ticket. On another note, this show smartened me right up. I'm in New York to create cool shit, thanks for the reminder Fuerza Bruta. Happy TGIF x -C
// ckayedesign
I'm on that snapchat, and I'm not too sure how I feel about it. Maybe it's the constant being on your phone that turns me off. I enjoy taking a photo and then saving it for when I'm laying in bed so I can edit it and post it on my time. I'll give it a go though. Everyone else that I follow seems to have fun with it. And I can draw hearts around my boy crushes like Cody Simpson [sorry Dan]. And pop tarts are always a good idea. Ok, that's all I got. x -C
// Blue baby
Candice Kaye Design summer collection launches next week. And there are new horoscopes up [peace sign]
[photo by: Jake Rosenberg]
// Location: First Canadian Place
It's here, and it's opened, and it fabulous. Of course. Maman Cafe has hit King street. A brand new Candice Kaye Design custom print was created just for this location. Can you spot the new design? Congrats to the Maman team!! I hope for nothing more than more Maman's to come. x -C
// "work hard, then work harder, breathe, enjoy the rewards, dirty martinis are delicious but sneaky, sleep, repeat."
I opened my eyes this morning feeling sleepier than usual. I rolled over to the view of New York City outside my bedroom window, and then smiled at the thought of coffee. My coffee addiction has gotten worse in my older age. I need at least two cups to bypass my caffeine deficient headache. My plane got in late last night from Toronto. The trains from Newark airport weren't the fastest either. It's summer in the city, which means things [and by things I mean the city] start to slow down, the subways start to make them harder to take due to their gross sticky-ness, and when Friday hits I would like to be on a train with Dan to somewhere with a beach - all this just in time for my birthday. Which is today [hence the collage above, bts from my last year]. Twenty Seven. Can you even believe it. Life as a 26 year old has taught me a few very important things, work hard, then work harder, breathe, enjoy the rewards, dirty martinis are delicious but sneaky, sleep, repeat.
Life at 26 was all about work. Launching my first collection, the opportunities I've had with sick collaborations, being apart of a growing family, and meeting the most incredible people who have been not only interested in my work, but unbelievably supportive- I feel lucky. I've laid down a foundation that is all ready for the tiles to be put down [Candice Kaye Designed tiles of course]. I've spent two years away from my family [and missing home], two years of chasing sleep, and zero trips to Soho to shop for new clothes, so cheers to more shopping trips and more sleep for 27 [insert Fight Song by Rachel Platten] Happy Monday x -C
// Location: Backyard, Canada
Nothing better than Tim Hortons, backyard hang out, sunshine, and working on the summer collection that should be launching this week. Fingers crossed! Happy weekend, see you soon New York [takes a sip of her coffee] x-C
// From the studio
Texture, getting back into it! [takes out her paints] This is very much available for custom work if you're interested in jazzing up your walls aside from Collection N Eleven. Happy July 4th weekend to all my fellow Americans! x -C