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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: DIY decor
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I shared a peek of our painting plan last weekend & am happy to announce… …we now have stripes! Gray & white ones! They extend along the wall behind our TV and then around the dining table nook. You might be thinking, "Elise, you're an idiot. You'll be moving soon, this was a lot of…
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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…
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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,…
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In early March, I bought a big antique trunk with the hope that it could serve as a coffee table in our living room. When I got it home, I realized it's way too tall for that purpose, but instead is going to work as a new TV console. The old lining was in pretty…
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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…
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TA-DA! We got our trunk home. It was pretty high tech : we pushed it four blocks on a rolling dolly. This trunk is HUGE. Much bigger that I realized. I figured it would make a good coffee table until it was in our living room next to our current coffee table and it stood…
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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…
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You guys. I don't blame you if cannot believe it took me eight months to get this room together. I mean really. It still looks pretty empty. But I should have snapped some before photos. Back when we had mismatched bedside tables and nothing on the walls. Because, at least now, I have put some…
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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…
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