enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: ellerie
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Watching Ellerie make stuff will always be near the top of my happiest parenthood moments. I've talked about this a bit before…toddler crafting time is a lesson in patience more than anything else. But the fact that she is taking interest (and starting to take interest for longer) is so fun and exciting to me.…
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I remember when Ellerie was six months old I wrote somewhere (blog post? IG?) that we were reading to her more often and someone commented that they had been reading to their kiddo since the day they were born. Like a crazy person, who was in desperate need of a social media break, I felt…
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September 2014 October 2014 November 2014 December 2014 March 2015 April 2015 May 2015 June 2015 July 2015 August 2015 Last week, as I was prepping my August film post, I thought about all the photos I have taken of Ellerie in her crib this past year (turns out I only missed it two of…
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When Ellerie was nine months old, I shared nine books we were loving. It's crazy to think back on that time. Now, my two year old READS me the books. Based half on memory, half on pictures, she says the words as she turns the pages and my heart grows seven or eight sizes. All…
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Ellerie LOVES books. We're getting to the good part too – when she will actually SIT and LISTEN to a full story from beginning to end (I used to have to cliff notes the story in order to keep up with her attention span). She also likes to "read" them to us too. My favorite…
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Kid crafting is my favorite crafting. Especially projects like this, that come together in 30 minutes with supplies I already own. I really wanted to make some sort of a birthday crown for Ellerie to wear at her rainbow party this coming weekend. Originally I thought I would go with felt (but since that involved…
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Stop me if I’ve said this before (just kidding, I have said it 600 times) but I’ve got a new favorite family keepsake. Remember the E&e photo project?! Somehow a year has passed since I started that. Somehow twelve months have gone by and each one is captured in five side-by-side photos of mama &…
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Over the years I have shared many a memory keeping method on the blog. Traditional scrapbooking, minibooks, Project Life, bound photo books, art journals, framed collages, photo albums…even this blog is a memory keeping method. I LOVE photos. I LOVE words. I love taking photos and writing words and then looking back and reading through.…
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The film project (offically started in October) continues! My goal is to take one roll of Ellerie a month. Generally trying for a photo or two a day. In my short time doing this I have learned (and re-learned) that film just brings it. It provides the magic that I can't seem to filter in…
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Wednesdays and Fridays are my "off-work" days which means they are my "on-mama" days. Both are challenging and inspiring in their own ways. Ellerie is now a full-fledged toddler which means there's no "One sec!" where I can dash out of the room to send an email or move the laundry. (She comes with and…
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