enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
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Once a year, around my birthday, I do a round-up of the (corresponding to my age) things that made the year great. I try to think about the new stuff I discovered that I really loved. I try to think about the things that in five, ten, twenty years, I might still love or appreciate.…
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my office bulletin board. highlights include Emily McDowell's business card, the original ELISEJOY mission statement, an expired polaroid of E, all the photobooth strips, and a "let that shit go" print from Your Joyologist. I shared last month that one of the ways I keep my work tasks manageable is by saying "No" a lot.…
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around here I'm in MAKE&GIVE30 mode. This was not the plan. I thought I'd wait until after my birthday to really get started. But turns out, I just needed a new creative goal to feel a new creative burst of energy. It's funny – I thought the reason I felt so zapped creatively from small…
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It's birthday month! I'm kind of obsessed with birthday month because my blog posts tend to write themselves. In three weeks, I'll turn 30 which means today I've got a round-up of the 20 biggest lessons I learned while in my twenties. While I could have gone on (and on and on) about each, I…
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Last Wednesday I moved the mail app on my iPhone and iPad to the back page of apps and vowed to not check email via my devices for one week. I was trying to see if I felt more or less efficient and more or less happy when I only read and dealt with email…
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this photo sequence has nothing to do with today's post except that it kept me busy. Yarn is by Madeline Tosh and the sock pattern is from Made by Hand. There is a lot of chatter about "busy" these days. On the one hand I hear a lot of "I'm so busy!" and then on…
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Something interesting happens when you have a kid. I mean, obviously, MANY interesting (and a few boring) things happen when you have a kid. But one of these things is people – friends, family and mostly total strangers – start to engage in conversations with you about this child. Usually you go back and forth,…
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taking a self-portrait a day in 2015. This is a quiet project which means no hashtag (gasp!) and not all are getting shared on Instagram (what?!?!). We'll see how it goes. Could burn out. Could succeed. Like everything I do. feeling OH SO WORDY these days. I have way too much to say. I think…
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I'm not a resolution person, but I am a "goal" person. I like something actionable (obviously) and I'm a big fan of to do lists (you already know all this). At the start of each year, I like to come up with something things to "complete" in the next 365 days. Here's last years's list.…
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I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed (ashamed for sure) that my guiding word for 2015 is inspired by a Taylor Swift song. But I'd be lying if I said I pulled this one out of thin air. The first time I heard that song I was like, "oh, for sure." (Please note…
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