enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: family adventures
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I partnered with Minted.com for our Christmas cards again this year. They offered to help me make them and thanks to those gorgeous gold foil options I said "YES, PLEASE". I picked my favorite photo from our Goodness photos and a holiday sentiment to match. (There were so many good options though – this was…
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Paul worked Thursday so our family celebrated Thanksgiving this year on Friday. We baked bread (much to Ellerie's joy), read books, watched some football, made more than enough food, grilled a turkey for the first time, sang the itsy-bitsy spider (on repeat, while wearing all of mama's bangles), enjoyed crazy warm weather and finished with…
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On Sunday we were up in Sacramento and able to meet with Geoff and Lisa to take a few family photos. If you've been here awhile, you know Geoff and Lisa are our friends and have photographed our engagement, wedding, some headshots and then (more recently) our friend's wedding. I vividly remember at our engagement…
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I have said this before, but I have like seven tricks for taking photos. (See them here.) I do the same few things over and over again because I love the results that I get. One thing I haven’t written too much about is another favorite technique… THE ART OF THE CROP. I’m giving it…
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Do you want to know something HILAROUS? On my July editorial calendar I had planned to post a WDS recap on Tuesday 7/15. I thought I would be able to sum it all up in a post. HA! I'm in the middle of sharing the behind the scenes of actually speaking (hopefully the final two…
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Last weekend we took our much anticipated trip to Palm Springs. I brought along three cameras… (I'm dropping off my film to be developed today!) and these are the photos I took with my DSLR and iPhone. For the first time, we splurged on a stay at the Parker. It was gorgeous. They've done an…
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We were gone for four days and then we were home for two and now today Paul and I are headed to Palm Springs while my parents hang out with Ellerie. It was a busy few days at home (if busy = fussing with the plants, doing six loads of laundry, mixing cocktails and getting…
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This is what yesterday, May 4, 2014, looked like at our house in San Diego, California. I am going to make a point to get out my big camera more often on the rare days we get to spend together just the three of us. Taking photos – capturing us as we are, now –…
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Paul gets two weeks of leave time each year (which for him goes from July-June, not January-December). We used the first one last week to head up to Sacramento to visit family and celebrate Ellerie's baptism. We arrived Saturday, dropped Ellerie off with Grandma and Grandpa and went down to the Citizen Hotel (where we…
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