enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: get crafty
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My June goals list wants me to accomplish three "just for fun" projects. This is the first. I saw this awesome DIY taped table from ladycroissant.com on Thursday and couldn't stop thinking about it. Literally, in Vegas, I was thinking about that table. On Sunday, I went to Target because rumor has it they have…
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No Project Life update today (I am heading home from a bachelorette adventure in Vegas this morning), but I wanted to share some progress peeks from my Palm Springs minibook that I was working on before I left. I am loving how this book is coming together and it's been fun to play around on…
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Good week, busy week. Busy like a bee, you could say. And guess what : we have bees! Well, our wall has bees. Tough to tell if it's an actual new hive or if it's just scout bees (I am learning more and more about bees by the day). I woke up yesterday to a…
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The garden is thriving with tomato plant cages. We are BBQing more often & fruit has become a meal. The days are getting longer and longer and I am so grateful for extra sunlight. Stamps are out the door and I am back to normal "as promised" delivery times. My little office is bustling and…
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Summer books launch tomorrow and I am so excited about them. I originally planned on NOT making my own this year because of Project Life and all the other stuff I have going on. But then the papers I ordered arrived. And they looked so much radder together in person than they had on my…
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As mentioned in my Project Life update post this week, alllll the cards I sent to Paul while he was deployed in Afghanistan for nearly seven months, finally arrived back at home. It's a terribly long story about why they took so long, but the point is the post office came through and they are…
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My parent's recently had to have a redwood tree cut down in their backyard. It had grown too large for the space and was a risk if a big storm came through. (Don't worry, they planted a new one in it's place.) When I heard about it, I asked them to have the tree guy…
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Sometimes I think about my blog (or my Instagram feed) and how much I bounce around from project to project and I have to laugh. It's a giant ping-pong table of crafts. I am a baker. I am a knitter. I am a quilter. I am designer. But I am never going to be an…
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I was NOT planning on doing a big birthday project this year. I spent the past few months thinking about it and just couldn't settle on something that was inspiring to me. The last thing I wanted to do was launch "27 projects" and start the whole thing over again just like 26. But obviously,…
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Last week, I said I was going to try to make this cowl. I went to a fancy yarn shop. I talked so some very sweet ladies that worked there. I picked out stunning yarn and circular needles. I watched lots of videos and learned how to purl and slip stitches. I emailed back and…
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