enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: e&p
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I could seriously write a long love letter to the city – specifically Little Italy where we lived right after we got married. (Our apartment was behind those two non-blurry windows in the photo above!) I won't though. That's boring. Instead, I will just say this… spending a few days in San Diego makes me…
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It's been a pretty great trip. This week, post the wedding, it's just been the two of us and we've been able to visit all our favorite places. Once again, I marveled at the letterpress man and his collection of wooden letters at Eastern Market (the "C" came home with us). We hung out twice…
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This past weekend was probably the nicest, warmest, sunniest couple days we're going to get this month. I figured it was now or never if we were going to cross "swim in the ocean" off our summer manifesto, so before lunch on Sunday we headed down to the beach. I think Paul (and all the…
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We were up in Kirkwood (near Tahoe!) this past weekend for the wedding of one of Paul's college friends. It was stunningly beautiful. Weddings are always amazing, but for this one they did such a wonderful job on the details. Fortune cookies with custom sayings? Blue mason jars? The wooden arch? THAT SKY?!? Loved it.…
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We had a fantastic little getaway to The Saguaro in Palm Springs. I have been sort of obsessed with checking this place out since we drove by it the last time we were in the desert. That rainbow paint isn't exactly subtle. The colors (and the fantastic restaurants – both Tinto and El Jefe were…
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I am never in a million years going to be a real painter. I can't make paint look like anything other than paint. So landscapes, portraits, animals? All out. And abstract painting is incredibly difficult. I look at gorgeous abstracts and think to myself, "Oh, I can do that…" Then two hours later I have…
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Summer is absolutely my favorite. I love the fresh fruit. The colors. The heat. The bonus daylight. I don't know that I feel more inspired in summer, but I absolutely feel like more is possible. I'm thrilled that this season, I'll have Paul home – with no training or deployments on the agenda. We have…
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We scheduled this trip in mid-April when work was crazy for us both and when we just were not connecting as a couple. It was really frustrating and having a short weekend getaway on the calendar was something nice to look forward to. (Paul had Memorial Day + Tuesday off of work so we were…
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Since our trip through Big Sur at the beginning of March, Paul and I have been trying to work more hikes into our weekend routine. We have never had "weekends" together in the traditional sense (first I worked retail and then Paul's intern schedule often had him at the hospital for weekend shifts) and we're…
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I loved this post on Summer's blog last week and I thought I'd do something similar. Stuff we've learned over the past nearly five years of living together. I can't believe it's been five years. I can't believe I graduated college five years ago. Paul can't either. We were recently talking about a song and…
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