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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

I am embarking on a mission to clean out my craft area and it looks like I have a big box of NEW paper and letter stickers and rubons and ribbons and stamps and everything to give away. Leave a comment with your plans for the weekend and I will randomly pick a name tomorrow morning.
Happy Friday!

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97 responses to “summer cleaning.”

  1. tara pollard pakosta Avatar

    scrapping!
    birthday party!
    flea market + some shops!
    friend coming to visit!
    pool!
    tara

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  2. Kathy Reid Avatar
    Kathy Reid

    This weekend is my birthday, which I hope will include Strawberry pie, a walk in the woods and chillin with the fam.

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  3. jen Avatar

    What a wonderful idea. This weekend I will be hanging out with my mom and stepdad- they are coming to visit. Should be much of the fun. They helped my husband and I move into our new place, but they haven’t seen it all put together. so, yeah.
    I hope that you have a wonderful weekend and much fun cleaning and organizing crafty goodness.
    jen

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  4. jen Avatar

    What a wonderful idea. This weekend I will be hanging out with my mom and stepdad- they are coming to visit. Should be much of the fun. They helped my husband and I move into our new place, but they haven’t seen it all put together. so, yeah.
    I hope that you have a wonderful weekend and much fun cleaning and organizing crafty goodness.
    jen

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  5. tracy rizzo Avatar
    tracy rizzo

    My plan for the weekend is to clean up, cook ,and go to the library. If I win something for that nerdy list of mine I will be super happy

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  6. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    My weekend will involve me heading down to the bank nice and early to give them an ass-kicking over screwing up my student bank account grrrr…followed by some serious ice-cream eating down on plymouth hoe. Unless it rains. Then said ice-cream eating will take place in bed :). I’m also half way through writing a palliative care case study, which I hope to give some attention, as well as reflecting on the amazingly inspiring cancer patients I’ve had the pleasure to meet and treat in the last 2 weeks. Ice-cream and tears. Thats my weekend! xx

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  7. Carrie K Avatar

    Yah for summer cleaning 🙂
    im off for a girls weekend this weekend…celebrating birthdays with shopping eating drinking and lots of laughing!!
    i cant wait!!!

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  8. isabel hummel Avatar
    isabel hummel

    So cool, thankssss!!!!!
    I plan to talk to my husband online and over the phone for the FIRST TIME after 6 weeks…. He was in Basic Training for 6 weeks, and the only way to talk to him, was via letters….. I miss him, and I can’t wait to hear his voice again – after 6 weeks…
    That might be nothing – talking to him over the phone and via web cam., but it means the world to me.
    Have a great weekend!
    Hugs,
    Isabel

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  9. Lupita Avatar
    Lupita

    This weekend my 2 little boys, there aunt and myself will be taking a class at the Scrabook Oasis. So much fun it is to be able to share something I love to do with my little ones. Of course I can forget about cleaning house as well.

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  10. Sage Avatar
    Sage

    i should definitely be doing the same thing but in stead I shall spend the weekend petsitting for my mom and going to an arts festival in my college town. yay!
    i love your blog! very inspiring!

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  11. sarah Avatar
    sarah

    this weekend, i am watching my little brother run the “grandma’s marathon” in Duluth minnesota!! it should be fun!

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  12. Stephanie Wheeler Avatar

    I am gonna craft, craft, craft!

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  13. colleen Avatar

    I am cleaning too…trying to decide what to move and what not to.
    But more importantly…tomorrow we are going to an advanced screening of Wall-E!!!! WOO HOO!

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  14. Deborah Avatar

    This weekend we’re having a summer party for my little girl, whose 2. Her birthday is just a few days before Christmas, so we decided we would also give her a summer (birthday) celebration- just like the Queen 🙂 This will include lots of strawberries and cream, hand-made bunting, pink balloons and a lovely afternoon spending time with family.

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  15. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    I have spent the week at jr. high church camp so I plan on catching up on sleep this weekend 🙂

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  16. Dianna Avatar
    Dianna

    Ohhhh, I would love some stuff from you! I dont think I have ever commented on your blog. But I love your scrapbooking! 🙂
    This weekend we have some local stuff going on. The Secret City Festival. IT should be fun outdoorsy stuff. We live in OAk Ridge,TN and our little town used to be a secret because they were working on the Atomic Bomb. Shhh dont tell 🙂 Here is a linky
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
    Thanks for the offering! 🙂 dianna

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  17. Frances Avatar

    Cleaning and organizing — that has been on my to-do list for, like, ever. This weekend, I mean it!
    Good luck–post pictures to inspire the rest of us!

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  18. lindsey Avatar

    you are one of the few blogs I read every word. because every word brings inspiration and a new outlook. thanks elise.
    i have no plans with Saturday or Sunday – goodie this means I can do whatever moves me!

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  19. indigorchid Avatar

    I am organizing/purging the contents of my college-years-living-accumulation into my childhood bedroom. Oh, and I’m attending the opening of an exhibition which I’m actually in! One of about 15 “young, local and promising artists”. Should be nice!

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  20. Tammy Avatar

    Both kids gone tonight- woot!
    Cutting up some mags(Creativity and Deliver, love them!) for a scrap project for myself.
    Drinking some beer and vino by our fire pit tomorrow with my sisters and their hubbies.
    Life back to normal on Sunday.

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  21. Michelle B Avatar
    Michelle B

    i just came across you blog today! Great Stuff! Weekend plans includ starting to pack for our family vacation to Estes Park, CO!

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  22. lily Avatar

    Tonight I have a date..and tomorrow me and my best friend are taking a road trip to Rosarito…Can’t wait for iced cold beers on the beach…Good luck cleaning!!!

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  23. Diane Avatar

    The usual array of cleaning, washing, groceries (all blah!) but I’m going to make myself a new dress which I’m super excited about! Fingers crossed its as good in real life as it is in my head!

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  24. Veronica Avatar
    Veronica

    sah-weet!!
    I have a scrap party to attend tomorrow and the hubs is going fishing. 🙂 Sunday we are just hanging out, might scrap some more with the bff. Very low-key weekend! YAY!!

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  25. Kim Langston Avatar

    My weekend plans are:
    SAT) All-day crop with a new group of ladies that have just formed.
    SUN) Clean house and purge. I am hoping to get a new job which will mean a move and I seriously need to get to purging… like six months ago!

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  26. Kathleen Bing Avatar

    o awesome!! my weekend? well, my summer classes are killing me and decided that eight hours each weekday is not enough…so i will be spending the majority of my weekend reading, taking online exams, researching and o yea a little project thrown in there! see you later, summer!

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  27. Heather Green Avatar
    Heather Green

    This weekend I will be: attending a funeral tomorrow, hopefully going to sit in the Jones Beach parking lot tomorrow night to listen to James Taylor, and lots of cleaning on Sunday. Nothing too interesting.

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  28. Geralyn S. Avatar
    Geralyn S.

    I’ll be studying like crazy this weekend for a History exam next week. Not very fun, but I’m looking forward to freedom after that! 🙂

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  29. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    I love your blog Elise!
    I will be packing and getting ready for my dream vacation to Prince Edward Island. I’ve dreampt of going for 18 years and I finally leave at last next week.

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  30. Tiffany Avatar
    Tiffany

    My weekend may kill me. Tonight I am driving 2 kids to a sleepover across town. On the way back, I’m purchasing football cleats for kid #3. Tonight, I’ll picking up kid #4, plus two buddies, from a summer pool party around midnight, and encouraging them to go direclty to bed. (yea, uh, maybe not). Saturday we are up at 5am to head out for a track meet with reporting time at 6. Track meet ensues until 3 pm, then kid #4, and his two buddies and I are off to pick up kid #3 from a football camp. I then drive kids 3 and 4 to their dad’s house, to join #s 1 and 2, and then drop the two buddies off at their home. I am then driving home to colapse and maybe breathe. Have a wonderful weekend! 😉

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  31. EE K Avatar

    love raks – thanks so much!
    this weekend we are throwing a cocktail baby shower for a good friend of mine 🙂 (no games, just drinks for all except the baby mama of course!)
    have a great weekend!

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  32. Vanessa Avatar
    Vanessa

    hello there lovely! no big plans for the weekend, though i should follow in your footsteps and clean out my craft space too!
    ~

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  33. Beth D Avatar
    Beth D

    Funny! My plans this weekend are to help my dh clean out our garage, and then get my crafting space organized! Maybe then I can actually CREATE something there!
    PS Glad to hear the plant is doing better!

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  34. Kirsten Williamson Avatar

    We’re taking baby boy (7 weeks old) out for dinner at a nice restaurant tonight. Hoping he cooperates and sleeps or just looks cute.
    The rest of the weekend I’m going to attempt some yardwork and rebuild my info. on my laptop (just got a new harddrive as my last one died and I lost pretty much everything :()
    Good luck with your organizing!

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  35. addie Avatar

    hi! just found your blog tonight & am enjoying browsing. hmmmmmm… this weekend i’ll be celebrating my dad’s birthday and hanging out with my hubby and daughter. =)

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  36. Kirsten Avatar

    Just found out my brother and his wife and my sweet little niece are coming up from Oregon tomorrow…so amongst a few playdates for the kids, we’re having dinner with the family Sat and Sun – yay!

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  37. Jenn Avatar
    Jenn

    Ohh how exciting!! My weekend consists of recuperating since I spent yesterday in the hospital for a back injury…fun! (At least I have a new book to read)
    Hopefully if I feel better I’ll get in some pool time and scrapbooking time.
    Jenn

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  38. Sandy Burns Avatar

    I’ll be at Wrigley Field for the Crosstown Classic–it’ll be awesome since the Sox and Cubs are both in first!

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  39. Sheree Cleveland Avatar

    how fun 🙂
    umm..no real set plans. probably some exercising at Curves with my mom and cleaning. hopefully some scrapping in there. yayy.

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  40. nicole Avatar
    nicole

    oh man! i hope it’s me!
    i just got a job at a paper source opening up near me and you are one of the reasons i thought to apply so thanks!!

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  41. elizabeth wickland Avatar

    How fun!! My plans for the weekend include teaching a class at the LSS and watching a friend’s daughter… and hopefully enjoying some sunshine and getting some crafting in!

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  42. Sandra Avatar

    Unfortunately I have to work…means I have to write on an essay for university…has to be finished the coming week and I’m really far behind, so…no swimming for me, even if the weather would be SO good! sigh But after this coming week I’ll finally have the time to scrap again! wohooo Love summer!! 🙂
    Hugs, Sandra

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  43. thursday Avatar

    Let’s see… looks like purging and organizing for me, too! Apparently I have to get rid of all flammable craft substances before moving halfway across the country. And all meltable stuff (like that 1 lb of beeswax I bought for who knows what)! So, of course, I can’t have any more paper/crafty stuff until after I move. sigh

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  44. Lisa O Avatar

    hehe my weekend looks alot like yours the other day = i am preforming CPR on my outside plants 🙂

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  45. k. glover Avatar
    k. glover

    ohhh —i would LOVE to win!!! anycase, i plan to go to a women’s breakfast and then get my hair done. and the big one —RELAX!!!

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  46. Sharma Avatar
    Sharma

    how lovely – my weekend, relaxing and trying to keep warm – watching Chronicles of Narnia at the movies on Sat…enjoy your weekend!

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  47. Tanja Avatar

    For sure I want some goodies Too!!! My weekend will be relaxing cause I did the cleaning on Friday!!!

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