Incendiary Artists of FSU

Check out this awesome video one of the poi spinners made on the club we are trying to start at FSU. It came out super awesome! :D I really hope our club gets picked up, the only thing we are missing right now is the signature of an adviser which has proven to be more difficult then we anticipated. I really love our club we meet almost every single night at 10:00PM on Landis Green at the FSU campus. We've started training people in poi and hoop. We even just picked up a performance spot at Alladin's Hookah Lounge every two weeks so things are looking pretty good.




Hope you enjoyed!
xoxo, LauraLove <3 :3

KandiKreations at MICA 9/21/09

Today I had the pleasure of spreading KandiKreations hoop love to a Freshman Elements of Visual Thinking class held by Kirsten Hollander. Kirsten and I met on the trip to Nicaragua, she is an Amazing artist, woman, mother, yoga master, individual (the list goes on.) She invited me to bring some hoops and teach her 20 students how to hoop, she stresses the importance of not only the art on paper but the artist's body awareness throughout the creative process. Hooping is a great way to become aware of one's own body and balance. I taught the very basics of how to keep the hoop spinning and then the students were encouraged to experiment and really play with the relationship of the hoop to their own body. It's amazing how much fun everyone had just playing in the lawn with a whole bunch of hoops.






The hoops acts as a window to one's body. It allows one the understand their own body as it moves through space. This concept probably sounds pretty silly to people who haven't hooped since they were very young so please go out and try it, really practice and see how long it takes before you can toss the hoop from one hand to another or spin around in the hoop with it gliding around you. We think it's a feeling that everyone should experience.
Lots of love to everyone out there
Kandi Kreations

KandiKreations Spreading Hoop love to NIcaragua July-August 09

In the Summer of 2009 Ingrid Schindall of KandiKreations went on a wonderful and eye opening journey to Nicaragua to practice the Art of Solidarity. I travelled well equipped with a KandiKreations Collapsible Hoop Nicaragua edition. After staying in Esteli for about 10 days the group taveled to a rural town in NorthWest Nicaragua called San Juan de Limay. We were greeted with open arms and on our first night we were lucky enough to meet the Mayor. He was so excited to meet us and eager to give the KK Hoop a try :)


After sitting in a bus for almost 4 hours I had to do a little bit of hooping myself.



Every night that we spent in Limay I would go out and teach the children how to hula hoop and they would always come up with new tricks and have a blast. We would all laugh and get a little silly while hooping in the middle of the dirt roads. On the last day of our stay we had an Inauguration for the Mural Project that we worked on for the 12 days of our stay. At the Inauguration the Participants were encouraged to perform any talents that they had to make the night something really special that the town would never forget. The principal of the local high school sang a beautiful song to us, a young muralist named Yubelka danced a traditional Nicaraguan dance and you guessed it, I took my last opportunity to perform with the Nica Hoop.I left the hoop with my homestay family so that the children could continue to play with it and learn new moves.




My experience in Nicaragua is one I will not soon forget, it changed the way that I look at the world around me. I can only hope to be blessed with more opportunities to spread the magic of hooping! This is in fact the main goal of the gypsy trip and by golly we are going to make it happen.
Spread the Love!
Kandi Kreations
<3<3<3

New Merchandise-Learner Hoops!

Ingrid has come up with a genius idea for new hoopers! Learning new tricks or learning how to hoop at all pretty much means destroying all of the pretty shiny tape your hoop came wrapped with. But fear not! The custom starter hoop will allow new hoopers to experience the joy of hooping without having worry about an extravagantly taped hoop that could get scuffed and scraped in the learning process. Kandi Kreations is offering to make a custom color hoop, lightly wrapped in gaff tape for grip for beginners to start on. Check out http://www.blogger.com/profile/10103273079009290840 if you are interested!



Love&Peace
Forever&Always,
KANDI KREATIONS
hooop hoop hooop <3

The Goal

Kandi Kreations has an idea. A goal in which all of our profits are going to. We are going on a gypsy trip. This trip is the first significant thing that we plan to complete in our lives. The trip has a beginning and an ending but no plans in between. We will start at our homes in south Florida and end up at Burning Man in the end of the summer. Our mode of transportation will be the plur-mobile. A large van that we will live in, travel in, and work from. It will be painted along the way with all of the people we meet. To fund our trip we are going to work purely from the fund that we make from selling hula hoops. We want to spread the joy and love of hooping across America. Our trip is still heavily in the works but with the power of awesomeness we will and MUST make it happen. This blog is to document the entire trip and all of our events leading up to it. If you want to learn more check out our etsy page or keeping reading for more posts. Also contact us at kandikreations@gmail.com

Peace&Love
Forever&Always,
KANDI KREATIONS <3
HOOOOOOOP ON! :D