// COE HILL, ON

// Weekend 

Beers flow in at around 11 am after two refills of coffee. Food of choice is usually hot dogs or hamburgers, and my hair and skin smell like lake water for the entire weekend. I'm currently sitting in my studio - skin burnt and filled with mosquito bites. Canadian cottage weekends my friends. How I've missed these. Thank you Brittany and Evan for having me!

Today we are installing Olivia's wallpaper! Follow along on Snap [ckayedesign] for all the updates. Happy Monday x -C

// FROM THE STUDIO

// "Birds" from Collection N Fifteen

From Collection N Eleven, to Twelve and now to Fifteen it's been fun watching CKD grow. Today we are installing Birds from our newest collection on the studio walls. Monday morning is going to feel glorious. TGIF - go out and have a beer or something. x -C

// TEAMS ALL HERE

// Location: My mom's kitchen

When you have an afternoon off and your wallpaper has yet to be installed you invite your friends over and get creative. In yesterday's case - in my mom's kitchen. Singer/song writer Aleesia, Makeup artist Jasmine Duffey [we call her Jas], and my favourite photographer Valter Mendes  [I have talented friends] and Collection N Fifteen "Birds" enjoyed an afternoon catching up, putting on makeup and taking photos. Aleesia looked like a super star. I can't wait to see how the photos turn out. 

CKD has two installs this week! Keep updated on snapchat: ckayedesign to see the finished rooms. x -C

// POSE

// Location: Photo booth 

Mia was getting another drink, so I decided I would get into the photo booth alone. I was only a couple old fashions deep... Maybe that's why I'm trying to kiss the top of the photo booth. In the mix of all of the collection launching, mural making, and meetings I've made sure to get dressed up put on lipstick and see my closest friends. Life is meant to have fun, regardless if the studio is how I want to spend my days and nights. 

This week we will be installing Olivia's wallpaper, and "Birds" from Collection N Fifteen on the studio walls. I also have a fun shoot scheduled Wednesday AND the ckd custom mural I'm doing for a powder room in Toronto comes in either tomorrow or Wednesday. Follow along on this crazy week on snap: ckayedesign x -C 

// COLLECTION N FIFTEEN IS HERE

// Collection N Fifteen

The full video, all six prints, and Antony's motion graphics. Let me know what you think! Click here to see Collection N Fifteen. x -C

// PIECES OF FIFTEEN

// Location: Studio

Pieces from Collection N Fifteen - a collection that I started in January. I'm happy with the way this collection came out - a finished product so far away from my initial thoughts of it when I started sketching birds, waves, wings, flowers, and leaves in total confusion of what they meant, and how they would work in a collection. Which actually mimics the past couple months of my life. That's the beauty of starting something new, where that new beginning will take you is unknown. To be OK with the unknown - that's the part I always had a hard time getting my head around. This collection taught me I didn't have to be OK with anything, just letting 'it' be was the answer. Which is why birds, wings, flowers, waves, and leaves separately were confusing until I put them all together and painted a delicate vine to connect them. Because I have also learned separately things might seem very confusing, but in the end they all connect - even if it connects with something as bizarre as a delicately painted green vine. Tomorrow Collection N Fifteen will be LIVE and available for inquires.  x -C 

// BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS

// Fresh from the printers 

Two days old and Baby O is already taking over our lives. Pit stops at IKEA to buy her a 'fancier' chandelier, and fresh curtains. I even changed my morning country music - two coffee refills - email answering morning to walk over to Tina and David's house to see the little human. David, Teenz and I put together a CKD custom wallpaper for her room [because I'm her favourite Teta]. It came in yesterday from Rob and it looks beautiful. Maybe I should put together a baby line? Installation is going up next week! Follow along on snap for updates [ckayedesign] x-C

// OLIVIA

// 06.07.16

Ladies we have a baby. We got to the hospital at around 11:30 Monday night in hopes the baby would arrive between 2:00 am -3:00 am. I finished Wild [my latest read, which I highly recommend - now I can finally watch the movie], pinned about 1 million photos on Pinterest, by 4:00 am I decided I would take a nap on the most comfortable bench in the waiting room #sarcasm, I got myself a second coffee by 9:00 am, and finally at around 10:00 am we got the message Olivia was here and perfectly healthy. She has my lips and oddly perfectly shaped eyebrows. I can't wait to teach her how to finger paint all over the mom and dad's white walls. David and Tina you're superstars. 

// NEW LOOK

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I woke up this morning in the same bed, put on the same country playlist, made the same coffee in the same french press - yet I felt different. I spent my rainy Sunday putting together the finishing touches to the updated website. What do you think? Antony Rush - the genius behind all of the motion graphics [more to come once we launch Collection N Fifteen] and website - and I worked hard on getting this up and running. I really didn't do much, just updated the images that went into the templates he made for me. Maybe that's why I feel different, all of the changes in the last couple months and this was the last to happen. And now it's here and I feel complete. And now for new beginnings like Collection N Fifteen which will launch in the next couple days. Happy Monday guys! x -C