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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: DIY decor
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I finished up the binding this morning (and now this blog and my life will go back to normal as Quilt Watch 2011 is officially over). Thank you for your suggestions and sweet comments along the way. I wanted to share the inspiration for this quilt. It's a picture from one of my favorite books,…
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The top of my quilt is done. I worked on that thing from 8:30AM to 3:30PM yesterday. Whew. My back and neck are sore and my sewing machine is going to spend the rest of the week mad at me for making it overheat. But I love how it turned out. And after some thought…
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We went from a perfectly fine gray dresser with boring knobs, to gray with exciting white knobs (from Anthropologie), to turquoise with the same exciting knobs. And in true Elise fashion, I rushed right into this project without sanding the wood on the drawers or the top and I can already tell we are…
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… I bit the bullet and we started painting. I think this might be just the jump start of color that I needed to get our bedroom DONE and AWESOME. More Monday. Have a great weekend!
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Have you heard of Project Restyle by Elsie & Rachel? The plan is to take something old, broken or used and turn it into something new – once a week in 2011. I am never going to make it happen once a week, but I am hoping to do 10 before and afters. Above is…
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I've shared pieces of this wall as it's come together, but I'm pretty sure it's finished now. I wanted to hang different strands of red handmade garland around our window. Festive enough, but super simple. And I will probably save these to string around a tree the next time we get one. The sun made…
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My holiday decorating ideas have changed a lot since my original sketches. Funny how that works. Yesterday, I used left over felt from my banner to make simple circle strands. Just turn on your sewing machine and stitch circles one after another to form a chain. I have seen these all over blogland and oh,…
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It was crazy : I dropped my parents off at the airport on Saturday morning and when I got home was completely over the yellow and orange and general Thanksgiving-ness that has dominated our apartment for the last month. I was surprised at how quickly I went from loving it to needing a change. I…
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Better right? Here's what I realized : Before our "office" was a home office. Like the kind of place were you keep your computer and all your books. The place that you work in after you come home from your real job. Totally great. Except that this is my real job. Our home office needed…
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