enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: DIY decor

  • project 15 of 26 / new quilt.

    Remember when I went insane trying to finish a queen size quilt before I left town? I can't tell you how glad I am that I got that accomplished. This month is flying by and November is shaping up to be even crazier. Now that I am home, I had a chance to throw it…

  • project 14 of 26 / metallic paintbrush vase.

    I saw this flower vase on Pinterest awhile back and loved it. I figured a DIY version was worth a shot and while it didn't turn out nearly as rad, it's still pretty cute. This is exactly the type of project that I had to be at my parent's house to try. I needed the…

  • getting started on the quilt.

    I had to make a choice this week about which fall project to tackle first. And the quilt won. Mostly because I am going to be traveling for a lot of October and figured the sweater would be a good adventure for while I am up with my parents in Sacramento. I am hoping to…

  • project 13 of 26 / text art.

    I saw this on pinterest the other day and immediately wanted to scrawl it across every wall in my apartment with black paint. In some ways, I felt like this statement had become my mantra. But the ironic thing is, I painted this over the weekend while I was feeling great about things and confident…

  • project 12 of 26 / a pinwheel painting.

    I have been dying to try a pinwheel painting since I saw this on pinterest ages ago. Then I really got serious over the weekend after seeing a similar project on Oh Joy. I bought a birch 18×24 canvas at Blick and marked the center with a pencil. Then I used painter’s tape to create…

  • tree stump table.

    I'm sneaking another post in this morning to share the side table my sister-in-law, Kristen, made for our apartment. How cute is that?! When I decided to redo our living room last spring, I wanted something different so we replaced a lot of our old box store stuff with handmade and antique. This table was…

  • new office wall.

    The strangest part of this deployment is that we will probably move to a new place before Paul gets home. It's a bummer because I adore this apartment, but sort of nice because I can make things work for just one person for the rest of the time I'm here. Until yesterday, this meant I…

  • project 11 of 26 : wooden frames.

    While I was up in Sacramento, I was able to make a few frames out of old fence wood. My dad recently replaced the redwood fence in our backyard. When I heard the plan, I asked him to hang on to some of the old weathered wood so we could make some frames. My dad…

  • new living room & dining nook.

    Okay. I've hyped this room to no end. If you're curious as to what this room looked like before, click here. Basically, it was fun and cute, but nothing too original. And it's not that things are "original" now, but at least you can't find everything online. To me, it feels like it has a…

  • 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,…