LIFE
// Summer 2016
In the next couple weeks you'll be seeing a new website, new prints added to the CKD Summer Collection, the launch of Collection N Fifteen, and nothing left of me or my brain. Here's a sneak of whats to come for this summer. Very excited about this new pink color. I hope you had a good weekend guys! x -C
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I've been living in these jeans. Not literally. I'm having one of those days when working out seems like the best idea in the whole world. Translation, my creative flow is not flowing. I just made myself another coffee - didn't help. Ok time to put on the running shoes and blast some Kanye and envision myself working on my hotel in Dubai. x -C
// From the studio
I never thought I would enjoy designing plates so much. Here's the newest one! [sips on her coffee]
ps. new horoscopes are up. x -C
// Life Lately
Ah man, what a week. I've been working hard over here in Candice Kaye Design land. My web developer and I are putting together a dope new template for the NEW CKD website, I've just received a little glimpse at the motion graphics from Antony and they are looking incredible, and I've been dressing like a 70's chick to my meetings. I'm also really enjoying this weather. My skin is so white that it reflects the sunshine. Summer I feel you, and you feel glorious. Happy Friday guys. x -C
// From the studio
I just spilled my coffee. More upset at the fact that I no longer have a fresh Tim Hortons coffee than the clean up. Anyway, there is country blasting in the studio this morning. My only wakeup music before it hits around 11 am - Beyonce takes over. When I lived in Hoboken country music was the only thing that mentally prepared me for my hour commute into the city. It has stuck months later. The artwork above is a mock up for plates! Yup, we are getting loads of new products in. It's going to be fun couple months. Monday guys - let's get it. x -C
// Candice Kaye Design's One Year Anniversary
A year ago today I was sitting at my desk in New York, my hair a little shorter, CK a little younger, and nervous for 5:30 pm. It was the Launch Party of Collection N Eleven at Maman in Soho. I had a change of clothes resting on the back of my chair, I remember my hair wasn't as straight as I wanted it to be. The damn water in New York never washed the shampoo out of my hair properly. I was sweating by the time I made it to the subway from running. My party started at 7. After the launch all I remember is exhaustion. I started something that I've completely fallen in love with. There was no turning back. I sit now still at a desk, just my own. I'm blasting Views in my ears, and I just finished writing an email to a supplier in India. My embroidery samples are ready to be shipped. My hair is much longer and blonder, and I'm filled with life lessons that have made me smarter. Today Candice Kaye Design turns one year old and I'm very proud with how far it has come since May 5th of 2015. I am a hopeless romantic who believes magic and fairytales are real. How? Well you're looking at them. This is my magic. I'm hopelessly in love with what I've created. These fairytales are what kept me standing through the hard times. They kept me from drowning when reality felt too heavy and real. They pushed me to keep moving forward when it was time to move on. CKD is going nowhere but up and I couldn't be more confident with that feeling. This is just our beginning. The pavement has been set, smoothed out, and fully dried. It's time to start building on top of it. CKD and I want to do major things. Life can keep throwing curve balls, I've got the glove fitted. Changing the game one year at a time ;) x -C
// Studio Flow
Collection N Fifteen, the new website, the new company, the new projects, the new life change, the new blond I put in my hair - has put me on a strict schedule. My bedtime is anytime before 10 pm, and I've become - do I even say it - a morning person? And I don't mean the morning person that starts singing right when she wakes up, silence until coffee. I decided I wanted to do big things with my life a long time ago. Candice Kaye Design will be one years old tomorrow. I feel like I've come as far as I can on my own until this point. I've been investing in new products and new ideas. May is going to be a month of work work work which is why it's a blessing Drake and Beyonce both dropped a new album [repeat all day]. I apologize if these posts aren't everyday, I'll be updating. What's to come is going to be SO GOOD. Can't wait to show you everything.
Meantime, it's Wednesday. Click your horoscope yo.
// Studio vibes
Hold up, they don't love you like I love you. I'm singing to my coffee. I'm not over exaggerating when I say I don't talk much before my morning coffee. I need a good two-three sips before I put the headphones on loud and open my computer. Album of choice lately is Lemonade which forces me to sing out-loud accompanied with dance moves. And it's Beyonce, so dance moves are always full-out. Anyway - there are couple things I haven't told you. The last two months have forced me to make some major decisions that have ultimately turned my world upside down. I'm not going to get into detail, but it's definitely been a change. I'm leaning right into this change which is often accompanied with fear. I'm still standing, it requires a third cup of coffee, but I'm still standing. May is going to be a good month guys, I felt different when I woke up this morning. Anyone else? It's time to fight forward. x -C
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When things get weird - weird as in my brain needs to work out a couple things in order for it to sleep at night, I come here. It's my thinking place. This or music so loud in my ears that it drains out my thoughts and fills them with visions of me as Rihanna. I would be a really good Rihanna. I got lost on the hamster wheel (new york) for the last few years that I forgot out this place and what fresh air smelled like. Anyway - it's Wednesday which means her horoscopes are up. x -C