enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: baby cripe
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Last week, I had a chance to wander my favorite fabric store in the world. It's local and called Superbuzzy. They have fabrics that I see online and dream about – except in real life so I can touch them, play with them and eventually buy them right there (feels like magic). I went in…
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I've had this blanket on my mind for years. Ever since I saw the Super Easy Baby Blanket from the Purl Bee, I knew I'd be making my own for our little one. And once I knew she was a she it was fun to pick colors. I ended up making mine bigger than the…
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Of course! 😉 What a total joy! Seriously. What a joy. At our ultrasound yesterday we learned Baby Cripe is developing right on schedule with four heart chambers and four very active limbs. Baby looks healthy and she has the cutest profile ever. I had yet to cry at an ultrasound and this one brought…
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So, this adventure is a good one. I am in awe of the feeling. In awe of my blooming belly. In awe that there is the beginnings of a human in there. It felt real at 15 weeks when we saw the tiny one moving around on the ultrasound screen so actively. It's arms! It's…
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This rocking chair is a family heirloom in more ways than one. In August, Paul's great aunt passed away. Weeks later, Paul's mom texted to see if we wanted her wooden rocking chair. "Tell her sure!" I said. "Tell her we'd love it for baby Cripe." It was sort of a joke, but sort of…
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Very early on in my pregnancy…. maybe 7 weeks? I decided I was going to stop into our local yarn store to "just feel and look at the yarn" which sounds odd, until you do it and then you finally get why people always walk out of pet stores or shelters with a new puppy.…
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SO YAY! That was fun! It's so nice to be able to SHARE out loud. Though I am miserable at secrets so if we spoke in real life or on the phone in the past few weeks, you were already well aware. Thank you, thank you, for sharing in our excitement. We are really excited.…
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