Hey Girl, I'm Ashlea! 👋🏾
The artist, professional overthinker, and woman behind Kiiing & Co. Designs!
Let Me Tell You How We Got Here!
I've been creating since I was 3 years old. Yep, THREE! While other kids were probably eating crayons, I was busy putting mine to work 😉. Art has always been my happy place, my creative outlet, and the one thing I could count on to make sense of life's shenanigans.
Fast-forward to 2021, when I decided to turn that lifelong love of creating into a business. And girl…when I tell you it's been a JOURNEY! The wins? Amazing. The failures? Whew, let's not even get started 😂. But every lesson, setback, and unexpected plot twist has taught me something about business, creativity, and myself.
Now, here's where things get REAL.
I'm a wife, a mom, a coach, and a business owner who recently found herself back in the full-time 9–5 life to help fund this entrepreneurial dream.
And girl…that 9–5? It's been testing every ounce of my patience and my last remaining nerve. 😩
Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to have a job, but working full-time while trying to build the life you actually want? That's a whole different level of tired!
Somewhere between being everybody's everything, meeting deadlines, and trying to remember what I walked into the kitchen for, I realized something.
I needed a space where I could just be ME.
No expectations. No pretending I have it all together. No trying to make everything look pretty when life is out here doing the absolute MOST.
And that's what Kiiing & Co. Designs has become.
I've always created art, but I haven't always allowed my own personality, humor, and unfiltered thoughts to take center stage. For a long time, I was creating things without fully letting my voice speak through them.
Well, girl, those days are OVER! 😂
And the best part? You're getting a front-row seat to this creative journey as it unfolds. The experiments, the wins, the occasional “Girl, what was I thinking?!” moments…all of it.
Because I don't have everything figured out, and I'm not about to get on the internet pretending I do.
But here's what I DO know.
I'm a girls' girl through and through. I love being surrounded by women who are real, raw, unapologetically themselves, and aren't afraid to speak their minds. The kind of women who can laugh at life's messiness, celebrate each other's wins, and have an entire conversation with nothing but a facial expression or a perfectly timed meme. 😂
That's the energy I want you to feel every time you visit Kiiing & Co.
And it's why we're all about being D.O.P.E.:
Do life your way. Own who you are. Protect your peace. Enjoy the dang ride!
So whether you're here for the goodies, the laughs or because your facial expressions have gotten you into trouble one too many times…
Girl, I'm glad you're here! ❤️
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a business to build, a 9–5 to survive, and approximately 37 ideas running through my head at once.
Be D.O.P.E.,
Ashlea ✌🏾