enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: e&p

  • Tomorrow we will have been married for a year. I have some thoughts to share about the first year of marriage. (And I am going to ask Paul to write down his too.) But right now I wanted to answer a fun question I got when I asked for blog topic ideas. Would love to…

  • 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,…

  • We are coming up on our one year anniversary. Which obviously coincides with the one year anniversary of our honeymoon. Which coincides with the one year mark of when we first tried Poisson Cru. The image above is our first dish of it while in Bora Bora. We've been trying to think of a good…

  • This is the sign that greets you at our favorite Mexican food place. That right there should be enough to convince you of it's awesomeness. Okay, well did the food photos get you? This restaurant is close-ish to our place, but we never knew about it until our car was in the shop and Hertz…

  • I saw this post at Oh Happy Day on Monday and loved it. Jordan made big dream statements and three years later is almost there. OH MAN, HOW COOL. Paul and I have been talking a lot about our own BIG LIST recently and I jotted our main items down. It will take a bit…

  • We drove up to LA to celebrate 2011 with some of my college girlfriends and their boys. My photos are lame and I failed to capture many people…but if you need about 30 photos of sequins covering a table, I've got you covered. And to the sequin twins, I love you both. And then bright…

  • They got their Christmas cards out this month with way too much fanfare. She realized early in the month that newly-married couples are quick to get cute holiday cards mailed out. And they like to share wedding photos on them. But alas, she had already decided their cards would be neither early nor with photos.…

  • Growing up, we had a few holiday traditions. One of our favorites was filling in and reading through the family Christmas book that my parents had received as a wedding gift in 1981. The book has 25 two page spreads which have a place to share a family photo from Christmas eve or day, a…

  • And about three hours north we go! Last year, at this time, we found out we would be moving from Maryland to San Diego. And today Paul got a call that his first choice for his GMO tour is available. And so : next we will be living in Ventura, California. A bit of background…