enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

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Thoughts:

I turn 23 in one week. Which is great. Because birthdays always feel like fresh starts to me. Sort of like New Years, only about 1/365 of the planet actually celebrates with you.

I am making Paul a steak dinner tonight. He says I can do it. I say it is likely we will waste $19 worth of meat.

The new Cupcake Scrapshop kit arrived yesterday. This is the March one. I love it. It is inspiring me to cut photos. So that is lovely.

On the lookout for a 4×6 photo album. It has to have a lot of pages. And it has to have room for only one photo per side. Thoughts? Suggestions? I am making a photo album of my favorite photos. Because printed photos trump digitally stored photos.

I bought Polaroid film at Target today. And yes, I heard the Polaroid film company was going to stop making film + cameras. I cannot figure out if it is good or bad that I jumped on the bandwagon last month.

I have a little 3 1/2 x 5 5/8 mini book in progress. It is celebrating the month of February. I need the month to end so I can start gluing.

My tulips smell fantastic. Like roses, actually.

Lost is insane. I would like to be inside the writer’s heads so I could do a little tap dance and demand the plot details.

I have this theory that spring is going to come soon.

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10 responses to “i love bananas.”

  1. mandydake Avatar
    mandydake

    no more polaroid film, say it ain’t so? i better check in to this..

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  2. Jodi Avatar

    I vote you fashion your own 4×6 and get it bound, then its all you. And all you is pretty rad.

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  3. Nicole Avatar

    hey there.
    we have a cute 4×6 album we are giving away for a photo blog challenge…
    http://ispychallenge.blogspot.com/
    it can also be found here
    http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=770437&navAction=jump&search=true

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  4. JoAnn Avatar

    Kodak is having a print sale…150 prints for $15.00. Delivered to a local store (CVS here in the OC), not same day is $1.49- soooooo all that equals a pretty cheap set of goodness to fill an album for under $20! I bought the 2 up 4 X 6 albums from Costco.com recently that I was told to use last year in Stacy Julian’s Library of Memories class but was too cheap to use. The cheap ones I bought fell apart. So- the moral is, whatever you use, don’t buy the cheap ones instead, they’ll just need to be replaced in a year.

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  5. Amy Tangerine Avatar

    oh no! polaroids cannot go away!

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  6. Molly Avatar

    Elise, i found 4×6 (horizontal) spiral-bound, mini albums with craft + black covers, craft archival pages @ Target yesterday on clearance: 3/$5. Yes … it’s true. You may be more of a purist than I, but to me I’d rather spend $$$ inside the book and start with an inexpensive shell. I’m doing something similar, using them for my “mornings” project. Good luck. – M

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  7. Molly Avatar

    forgot to mention – those 3 for $5 spiral bound books – they have 30, 2-sided pages – to hold 60 pages worth of goodness. Now that I’m talking it up, I wish I had bought six of them.

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  8. sc Avatar
    sc

    hey elise
    i’m not a scrapbooker but i love your blog…just stumbled across it and seriously spent an hour skimming the whole thing!!
    i’m in medical school and as of late i am feeling consumed by it…your blog was so refreshing =)
    i am trying to find my own passions – scrapbooking is definitely not one of them, but yoga is something i’d like to try more
    in any case your blog is a new inspiration to find more balance…just to find areas outside of medicine to direct my energy…new hobbies, discover a different side of me
    thanks for the read!

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  9. sc Avatar
    sc

    actually before i write off scrapbooking as a potential passion, let me try to understand it
    what does it mean to scrapbook? why do you do it? what is the purpose of a scrapbook? what defines a scrapbook?
    i worry because i am not that crafty, per se

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  10. michelle Avatar

    good luck with the dinner. you are a braver girl than I. And if you do get some lost info, pass it this way !

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