About Us

Built while learning to walk again.

Can't Wait to Cre8 started in recovery. After a spinal cord injury, I was relearning how to move, one step at a time. I needed something to pour my focus into while my body did the slow work of healing. So I started creating.

Keith Simmonds Jr., founder of Can't Wait to Cre8
Keith Simmonds Jr., founder
Keith walking with a walker and neck brace during spinal cord injury rehab
Rehab, one step at a time
Our Story

Creation kept me moving

Recovery is a lot of waiting. Waiting for strength to come back, for balance to return, for the next small win. I wanted something that moved forward every day, even on the days my body did not.

Making things gave me that. A design on a screen became a shirt in my hands. A name became an engraving someone would keep for years. Every finished piece was proof that something new could still come out of a hard season.

That is where the name comes from. I could not wait to create. I still can't.

"I believe creation is the essence of what it means to be alive. I want to help people rediscover what it means to live a full life."Keith Simmonds Jr.
The Journey

From a walker to a print shop

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    The injury

    A spinal cord injury and surgery meant starting over, including learning to walk again.

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    Finding a focus

    While rebuilding physically, creating gave the mind something to build too.

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    Can't Wait to Cre8

    The first shirts and engravings turned into orders for friends, families and local businesses.

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    Today

    Printing, embroidery, laser engraving and full color work in Leonardo, NJ, helping you make the things that matter to you.

What We Stand For

Why we make things

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Create to feel alive

Making something with your own idea is one of the most human things there is. We help you do it.

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Your idea, respected

You get a proof before anything is made, and we do not print until it is right.

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Fast, and honest about it

3 days on orders of 5 pieces or fewer. Bigger orders get a firm date with your quote.

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More of Our Work

Made locally

Can't wait to create yours

Tell us your idea today. Orders of 5 pieces or fewer are in your hands in 3 days.

Call or text 732-720-9211

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