// MAMAN TRIBECA

// 211 Broadway 

It's one of those places that makes me smile every time I walk in. Maman TriBeCa is my favourite location yet, I say yet because there are many more locations to come. I stole these photos off of Elisa. Photographer Morgan Light worked her magic at the opening of the TriBeCa location. I'm putting together a little book for an up coming meeting this weekend, so I thought I was share some of these lovely photos. Thanks for the photos Morgan! xx -C

// EMBROIDERY

// New things are coming

Finally, it's time for embroidery. I've taken inspiration from Collection N Eleven and Collection N Twelve for the embroidery samples, I'm excited to see what they look like. Hopefully it's perfect on the first try, haha wishful thinking. Here's a page out of the sketchbook! x -C

// MY MORNING READ

// The Coveteur

Every morning I sit down in front of my computer with my coffee say good morning on Facebook & Twitter, think about what to write to you, and while I'm thinking head over to The Coveteur. I've been reading The Coveteur for some time now. My fascination started after reading a "closet" interview with Casey Neistat. The "Closet" interview is exactly as it sounds, The Coveteur team goes into your home and photographs you, your closet and then decorates your home with your closet. It's the creativity with the photographs that got me. Which is why I follow the photographer (Jake Rosenberg) on instagram. What a stalkerish world we live in :). Anyway, thought I'd share. x-C

// IRA GLASS

// Coffee talk

I had this posted on my instagram when I first got to New York. I loved it then, and love it even more now. This quote holds so much relevance to my work today - it's there but not quite where I would like it to be. This quote reminds me to continue to produce work even if I'm not 100% happy with it. The more work the more likely I'll finally produce something that I really really like [like Floyd]. All of this work has proven to me that things don't happen right away, if they did there would be no story. The journey would be boring. No stories of only having $100.00 in my account to last me half the month, or interning at a fashion development company which required me to run around new york city in and out of subways with garment bags full of clothes, clean out closets, restock toilet paper, do the dishes, sweep the floors, and steam every single piece of clothing as only some of my duties, or spending my Fridays in my beautiful Greenwich Village apartment taking 100 individual photos for the "Meet Candice" section, and teaching myself how to build my own website while living off pop-tarts and refillable instant coffee. Every new door presented required work behind it. I'm excited to reach my next new door, I know I have of a lot work to do, but I have a good feeling Collection N Fifteen is going to be something really special.

New horoscopes are up also. Happy Wednesday x -C

// HIS SHIRT

// Location: My old New York apartment 

Photos from Jose have come in! I love the way some of these have turned out! Great way to say goodbye to the apartment. Take me back to that day please :) I hope you're enjoying the day. xx -C  

// I DON'T THINK WE'RE IN KANSAS ANYMORE

// Woke up in Hokoben

The craziness of December has made it's way well into January. January 18th to be exact. Dan and I had the pleasure of meeting Ralph, our nickname for the bedbugs we found in our boxspring. Yes, you read that correctly, bed bugs in our boxspring [remember back when I talked about hotel living, well hotel living wasn't by choice, and hardly glamorous we lived out a little weekend bag for about a month]. Ralph and his friends literally took over our beautiful New York apartment making us sleep on a really comfortable blow up mattress [sarcasm] on the floor in our living room. That lasted a month before they kicked us out of our apartment completely. Well that's a lie, there was an opportunity to break our lease so we took it. We spent the weekend moving to Hoboken! It's a town just across the water, which holds the most beautiful view of New York City. It's a temp location for now until we figure our lives out. It's definetly very different than the City. Firstly, everyone is young or is young and has cute babies. I feel like I'm walking around a college town, which is actually really fun - doesn't make life feel so real. The streets are old, and the buildings are pretty [I'll update you with photos tomorrow]. The bars are apparently really fun as well - those I haven't tested out yet, excited for the weekend. It's also extremely quiet which is going to be fantastic for painting days . Life is slower and calmer across the water. Living in the city can make you feel like you need to get outside. Ralph might have actually been a blessing in disguise. I'm excited for this new living adventure. Everything happens for a reason, ready to see what this one was for. I'm also ready to start really digging into Collection N Fifteen, you can see now why my work life has been on hold for the last little while. Damn Ralph was a real inconvenience. Happy Monday guys x -C