an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Farmer’s market flowers and asparagus, chicken and vegetable lasagna, finishing up wedding stationery to another “e&p”, coffee, thank you notes and bill paying, sewing closet curtains, a looong walk through Balboa Park, a trip to the art store, peanut butter cookies, mojitos and carving rubber stamps.
I live in L.A. area but took the same Balboa Park pic this weekend too! How great is the weather there!?!?
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Gorgeous pics! I like how you use the bamboo board for rolling your paint. Clever.
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Ohhh I want to try carving a stamp now! Also, I totally forgot about making Nachos (in the oven!) until I read your blog the other day, so last night I got the ingredients to make some this week- excited! =)
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what is the name of your nail polish?
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I love the curtains! Looks like it was a great weekend.
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its essie mint candy apple with opi glitter polish on top.
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I love the lily pads at Balboa, too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cara_mia/4553472497/
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lovely round-up. looks like a great weekend!
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Love the curtains, and the photos from your walk. Looks like you had a great weekend.
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omg! I love those curtains. Did you buy that fabric?
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wow busy weekend elise. loving the beautiful lilypads and the colour of the sky there. we have had english sunshine and showers here in somerset. would love to see a tutorial on making stamps
Jo xxxx
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Love the curtains!
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love the curtains. looks like you had a great weekend 🙂
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Yes, I bought it as a tapestry from Urban Outfitters and will be talking more about them soon. 🙂
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Love how the curtains turned out along with the stamp carving!
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OHHH, those curtains! I can’t wait to hear more about those!
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Gorgeous photos, love the captures and perspective on them! It looks like you had a wonderful weekend.
That lasagna looks soooo yummy 🙂 Love the curtains too and the place mat/napkin. Thank you for sharing your weekend with us, Elise.
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looks like a most lovely weekend! great job on carving that stamp!!
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love love the stamp! i’m going to be a 4 initial girl after i get married too and i love how beautiful the long initials look 🙂
i know you are busy, but any chance you are going to start doing custom invites soon? just wondering b/c i’m trying to design mine myself to save $$ but i’m realizing that i don’t have the skills to make it happen!
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Wow I love the curtains. I MUST HAVE THEM!
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hi Kim, I am totally available for custom wedding invitations. Email me with your plan so far and we can get started. Thanks for your interest!
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LOVE how the curtains turned out!! They look awesome. Looks like you were a busy busy bee over the weekend 🙂
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Those curtains are awesome! Nice handy work there! And how fun to use a tapestry for your fabric! I’ve been having trouble managing all the sewing projects I want to complete on the weekends. So many things to be made!
Congrats on your new initials stamp 😉
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Love those lilypads! I like how you’ve organised your blog into topics too, Elise. Makes things easier to find like your fabulous Christmas projects.
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I want to start carving stamps too but I can’t seem to find the rubber anywhere. Any suggestions on where to start?
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LOVE the curtains!
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I would try any major art store. Dickblick.com or amazon might carry the rubber as well. The brand I bought is speedball. Good luck!
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fantastic way to show what’s going on in life 🙂
random…but do you remember back in the day when you did the 1+1+1? do you ever look back and read it? are you amazed at the journey you have taken? 🙂
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I did read it on the the right date. I was pretty on target, surprisingly! I should do that again…
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asparagus, chicken and vegetable lasagna looks REALLY good. RECIPE? thanks! 🙂
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we got it from a cookbook – giadas kitchen. I am sure there is something similar on foodtv.com. Ours used asparagus.
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i purchased giada’s kitchen cookbook and i seem can’t find the recipe of chicken and vegetable lasagna? i must have missed it somewhere in that book. what page? thanks! 🙂
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hi Amanda, its page 105 : asparagus lasagna. we made it as is, but added cooked pieces of chicken breast within the layers. 🙂 have fun!
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many thanks! 🙂 i love to cook and am always looking for new recipes to play with. you NEED to share all of your cookbooks/recipes on here that you’ve made lately. they all look DELICIOUS! thanks again.
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enJOY it 
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