enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: get crafty

  • our new quilt.

    I finished up the binding this morning (and now this blog and my life will go back to normal as Quilt Watch 2011 is officially over). Thank you for your suggestions and sweet comments along the way. I wanted to share the inspiration for this quilt. It's a picture from one of my favorite books,…

  • sewing hangover.

    The top of my quilt is done. I worked on that thing from 8:30AM to 3:30PM yesterday. Whew. My back and neck are sore and my sewing machine is going to spend the rest of the week mad at me for making it overheat. But I love how it turned out. And after some thought…

  • monday + washi tape.

    HEY-YO. Happy Monday? We had a blast in Disneyland this past weekend and now it's my favorite part of vacationing – getting back into the routine. (No joke.) I have a list of things I want to get done this week including lots of outdoor runs and a big chunk of the blog design workshop…

  • around here in january.

  • in progress…

    … I bit the bullet and we started painting. I think this might be just the jump start of color that I needed to get our bedroom DONE and AWESOME. More Monday. Have a great weekend!

  • PDFs for past online workshops now available.

    I have finally gotten my act together and have made the PDFs of past classes available for sale. These are three classes that I ran in 2009 and 2010. All three are packed with information, samples and tutorials. These PDFs offer all the text from the classes in an easy-to-read and easy-to-print format. More information…

  • DIY copper art.

    Have you heard of Project Restyle by Elsie & Rachel? The plan is to take something old, broken or used and turn it into something new – once a week in 2011. I am never going to make it happen once a week, but I am hoping to do 10 before and afters. Above is…

  • experimenting.

    I've been playing around with paint today and "practicing" my handwriting. Getting a paint brush to work like a pen is much harder than it looks.

  • washi tape gift tags.

    I was working on something completely different this afternoon when I came up with an idea for our presents this year. Super simple gift tags – and best ever, I had everything on hand. I choose colors that match the wrapping paper I am going to use. I wrapped strips of washi tape around a…

  • my first craft fair.

    This weekend was my first attempt at hosting a table at a craft fair. After 24 hours, I feel like I have started to figure out what I loved about it and what I did completely wrong. While it would be easy to share a few photos and say "it was great!", I would like…