enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: get crafty
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I've been experimenting with painting abstracts for the past few months. Peeks have been showing up in "around here" posts or on Instagram (one, two, three, four, five). If I get 29 that I absolutely love painted and I get up the guts to list them, my plan is for these to be one of…
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It's been a LONG time since I've made something just for fun for the house. This jade ampersand was the last official project. (PS, thanks to my new archive pages that post was SO easy to find). The podcast and MAKE29 have me in a bit more of a "business" mindset mode than craft project…
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It's no secret, I SUPER LOVE TO MAKE STUFF. And after many years of DIY (do-it-yourself) projects, I have learned a few things. This, fellow DIYers, is what I know to be true: Would I buy this? This is the question I am constantly asking myself throughout a project. If the item I am attempting to…
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So, it's quite likely that a few of you are going to read this and think "WTF, Elise. How do you have time to sew a top?" And the answer to that is, "I am not sure that I do." But something I have learned over the past months and years of making a career…
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l had the pleasure of spending four days on the Oregon Coast this past week, wearing my collection of humongous scarves and teaching at the Your Story Retreat. I said this to the women attending at the very beginning and I say it again here: my job, while awesome, can be very isolating. It's just…
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One of my bestfriends, Erin, is having a baby girl in April. I'm so excited to be co-hosting her shower at my house in the beginning of March. Early in the process, when we asked Erin what she wanted the shower to be like she responded, "I'm feeling earthtones." So "earthtones" it is. We're going…
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I was pretty pleased with how my marbled cards turned out, but it wasn't until I had cleaned up all the supplies that I had the idea to try on some 3D objects. I got everything back out and sacraficed a few white vases (bought on Target clearance last fall) to the cause. Figuring, per…
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Have you ever gotten lost on Instagram? It starts by clicking on the popular page and the next thing you know, an hour has passed and you're wrapped up in some drama involving two thirteen year old girls, a boyband and a heavy use of emojis. It's never good but always enthralling. This is how…
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one / it's cheap; I get to use up all my leftover yarn. two / it's easy; I pick it up when I have time and let it sit when I don't. three / it's flexible; sections can easily be pulled out or added in. four / it's experimental; I can play around with various…
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So remember when I shared this awesome candle holder from A Subtle Revelry? I finally made my own version. I'm a little annoyed at myself that it took so long, this was easier than I thought it would be. My "challenge" was that I wanted the candles to be a bit larger than normal birthday…
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