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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: 26 projects

  • project 7 of 26 / hand-stamped stationery.

    I technically started this project last summer when I carved this stamp. Somewhere along the line, the project lost steam and I never got around to making a bunch of cards. Yesterday, I was digging through some craft boxes and found it. This time, I decided to grab some paper before I forgot about it…

  • project 6 of 26 : “new” chairs.

    I'm rolling with the green. There are some things that we can do in this apartment (like build a new coffee table) and somethings that we can't (like build a new dining table). I've got a plan for what I would like our new one to look like, but with the small space we have,…

  • project 5 of 26 / a decorative ampersand.

    Do you remember that I am having a love affair with staining? Of course you do! I have been dreaming of a project like this since before Christmas. I really wanted to hammer nails into small wooden pieces and wrap string in the shape of a star for decorations. But then one thing led to…

  • project 4 of 26 / a coffee table!

    Almost daily, I yammer at Paul about a new DIY project I’ve cooked up. Almost weekly, I decide to follow through on the project. And almost monthly do we actually complete one of these projects. I had seen the coolest DIY desk ever on For Me, For You a few weeks ago and from there,…

  • project 3 of 26 / a striped pillow.

    I cannot figure out if this pillow idea came to me in a dream or if I saw it while scanning blogs sometime last week. But the pattern and color scheme was very set in my head before I even entered a fabric store. It's different than the colors I am usually drawn to, that…

  • project 2 / a finger painting.

    This project was inspired by a post on Black Eiffel last week. I loved Yolanda Sanchez's beautiful paintings so much and though they looked a bit like finger paintings. (Amazing ones.) I had a large canvas and I painted it completely yellow. After it dried, I added finger painted swipes in five colors over and…

  • project 1 / a table lamp.

    For awhile now, I have been lusting after this beautiful painted lamp. I woke up on my birthday with a vision of how I could DIY something that would create a similar effect. At first I thought I could decoupage painted paper around the outside of a lamp base, but a little hunting online produced…

  • this year’s plan.

    And here we go. My plan came to me yesterday while on the treadmill. I now have a goal for the next year and I am calling it "26 Projects." (So far making the logo was the most fun part.) I am going to be tackling 26 medium to big craft projects before my 27th…