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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Newblog

Welcome to the "new" blog!

If you click through you'll see it's changed – but really it's not too different! It was important to me to keep things simple and very easy to navigate. And the sidebars & banner were always pretty photo focused and I enjoyed that aspect so they remained, just became more current.

But I did make some upgrades – for example, if you hover your mouse over the navigation bar up top or on the left sidebar links, you'll see the image change. (I was over the top excited to get this small adjustment working correctly.) And I created a new about page, updated my FAQs and perhaps most exciting : I created a tutorials shortcut page. That's right – all the tutorials I shared here are now easy to find and can be accessed through the navigation bar.

I hope you like the upgrade. I do. It still feels like me, just a bit fancier. Thank you, as always, for reading.

EDIT : Thanks so much for the encourangement so far. If things are looking wonky – I'm sorry. Please try a hard refresh (COMMAND + SHIFT + R) on a mac (Ctrl + F5) on PC. If you are seeing oddly spaced letters in the body of the posts, it's a problem with Internet Explorer and should not be happening. I have a call out to typepad to get it fixed but you can also upgrade to the newest version (IE9) and it will look normal. Thank you!!

And I still have big plans for my website (including a self-hosted web store) but those changes will be happening in September.

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115 responses to “blog upgrade.”

  1. Sherry Cartwright Avatar

    Beautiful new blog design!

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  2. Kelly Cree Avatar
    Kelly Cree

    love it! thanks for your hard work. it paid off!

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  3. molly Avatar

    Yay! It looks so amazing, Elise!

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  4. Krystal Avatar

    I love it, elise!

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  5. christen Avatar
    christen

    it looks great!

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  6. Vanessa Avatar
    Vanessa

    i looks so messy 😦

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  7. Elizabeth Rosemond Avatar

    FANTASTIC!! Very clean and easy on the eyes 🙂

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  8. Becca Groves Avatar

    Your site is stunning. I love, love, love your style and this new blog update feels very you. Thanks for working so hard to keep things fresh for faithful followers like me…it’s so fun to see what you’re up to.

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  9. Chris Avatar

    LOVE! Beautifully done!

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  10. Molls Avatar

    I love it! It’s eye catching!

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  11. Nat Avatar

    Looks awesome!

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  12. Amanda Avatar

    Wonderful! I just spent the better part of an hour exploring! I ended up re-discovering some favourite posts 🙂 I think my 2 favourite parts are the new banner and about page!

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  13. Patty Avatar

    Elise, this looks amazing!! I think its easy to navigate and I just love how fresh it looks

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  14. Megan P Avatar

    I LOVE it it looks fantastic!!!

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  15. Lauren Avatar

    It looks great Elise!

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  16. kate Avatar

    looks great love the use of the photos in the header.

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  17. jen Avatar

    love it … congrats on the new blog!

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  18. Bekah Avatar
    Bekah

    I love the new upgrade!!! 🙂

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  19. Katie Avatar

    It looks AWESOME – well done! Love the image changing when you hover over the links! Looking forward to seeing the website!

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  20. liz eaton Avatar

    loving it!! you do any amazing job on coding!! impressed.

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  21. Jennifer D Avatar
    Jennifer D

    I love your blog, it’s pretty much the first blog I check every day. As someone who reads blogs direct (no feed readers here), I wanted to make two suggestions.
    First, if possible, it would help to have the center column with the actual posts be wider. With what seems like larger photos on each side (and the large typeface on those photos), the blog post type seems to get a bit lost and it’s not quite as easily readable as before. And second, the white typeface on some of the photos, such as “I take too many photos” and “I blog everyday” gets a bit lost in the image, and it makes it a bit hard to read.
    These are things that don’t make much difference at all in feed readers, but for those who click through to read a post, or who read all your posts directly on the blog, these adjustments can really help the readability of the posts. 🙂
    I’m sure this update took a lot of work and your creativity and fun design elements shine through, as always. 🙂

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  22. Jenn Avatar

    it looks AMAZING! I like all of the categories and the fun updated photos. well done lady! well done.

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  23. elise blaha Avatar

    Hey! Thanks so much for reading and for the feedback. I definitely design for people who read here, not in reader. But all of the changes I made were well thought out for what I wanted things to look like. Because all the archives have been coded with a 500 pixel center column I will never be making the main column wider. It is a bummer that it cannot be bigger, but it is important to me that old posts still look right. I hope over time, it gets easier to see, I have been looking at it for the past month and am really pleased. I hear you on the sidebar images – I wanted everything to have white text so that might mean changing photos down the road. 🙂

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  24. Kelly R Avatar
    Kelly R

    love it…such gorgeous pics!

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  25. Nora Avatar

    The update looks fantastic…love every single detail!

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  26. Michelle Avatar

    I’ve been so curious to see what was up your sleeve. I LOVE that you stayed true to you with a flair of fancy. It’s fabulous!!!!

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  27. Shannon Avatar

    It looks wonderful! So bright and happy and full of color. Great job 🙂

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  28. Ashlee Avatar

    I’m absolutely loving the upgrade! At first I barely noticed things had changed. The new version is so fun and clean. Lovely job! ❤

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  29. Koko Avatar

    Gorgeous! It looks so beautiful Elise, great job!

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  30. Jessica at Kids Napping? I'm Scrapping! Avatar

    You are so creative! Great look, Elise!

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    andrea.

    i love your new about me page with your story + pictures from the beginning!

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  32. kristen Avatar

    Wow, it looks awesome, Elise!! LOVE the new header design and how the images change when you hover over the buttons.
    It looks fantastic, and it’s so you! Great job!
    xo

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  33. Tequila b Avatar
    Tequila b

    Loving it so far!

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  34. Linda Avatar

    I just realized that I never read your blog in reader anymore. I always come straight to your page. I love the changes, I’m a big black and white girl with lots of color, meaning, that color scheme really appeals to me. I love all the whimsical touches and the extra bits such as the roll over details! Well done. I’m sure you spent a lot of time making it just right and it shows. It looks great and I totally appreciate the fun, creative space to come read and be inspired. You’re awesome!

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  35. elise blaha Avatar

    GOOD! that was the goal. just a bit fancier. 🙂 thank you.

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  36. marta Avatar

    gorgeous. and i love those pics of you. it makes the whole thing so YOU. well done elise!!

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  37. Satomi82.blogspot.com Avatar

    Beautiful! Very simple, but I think it reflects who you are wonderfully!

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  38. moxiemandie Avatar

    Looks great & SO fun! 🙂

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  39. julie Avatar
    julie

    I love it! Clean, simple and fun!
    just two things:
    the left sidebar is not fully visible for me (although I have a huge monitor!!)
    also “workshops and tutorials” in the heading are in a second row.

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  40. Laura Avatar

    Nice work! Love that the tutorials have their own page!

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  41. sophie Avatar

    LOVE how everything came to together so beautifully. the redo is amazing and looks SO you…classic! congratulations Elise!

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  42. Angela Avatar
    Angela

    VERY fancy! Love the new photos, fonts, colours and the swirly lines. I feel like your blog just went from being a teenager to an adult!

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  43. Tameeka Avatar
    Tameeka

    love it!!!! 🙂

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  44. Kate Avatar

    Hi Elise,
    your new blog looks great. I love this handwritten topics. I currently work on my own blog and therefore I know how difficult it is to work through the html-code. You did a great job.
    Please go on with your blog in this way. I love it.

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  45. Sarah Gilmour Avatar

    Congratulations, Elise! Your blog looks great (as always, of course, but the new update is great too!). Isn’t it fun to have a nice & shiny new layout?!

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  46. Kathy Avatar

    Exciting changes for you and your readers….. Don’t take this too personally however I was just wondering about the capital letters in the font. I know in emails when people use capital letters it’s like shouting and it does seem very busy to read paragraph after paragraph in when it’s all in caps. Anything you do is wonderful but I just thought I would throw it out there to see what you think. Don’t want to appear negative in any way, just maybe some food for thought. Regards Kathy A, Brisbane, Australia

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  47. Amanda Avatar

    I thought you may like to know that your new look has gone a bit funny at this end. The new header is missing (old one is still there) and the left hand column is half cut off. I love your blog and just thought you might like to know, dont know if others are having the same issues or if its just me?
    BTW recently bought your pdf for mini books – thank you, loved it, and mentioned you on my blog today.
    Amanda xxx

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  48. Amy K Avatar
    Amy K

    Very nice Elise!

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  49. melissa Avatar

    lovin’ the new pad!
    good job elise!

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