enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: girlfriend adventures
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On Labor Day weekend, Paul and I headed to the Santa Cruz area to celebrate the wedding of our friends, Bart and Veronica. I have like 15 stories to share about this wedding and SO MANY GREAT PHOTOS, so feel free to pull up a chair and pour yourself a cocktail/cup of tea (depending on…
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Next month a few of my girlfriends are headed to Austin for a bachelorette party. Invitations for this event were not exactly necessary (we'd already booked our flights) but that has never stopped me before. We decided early on that the theme would be neon and I brainstormed the best way to get neon onto…
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This past weekend, my high school girlfriends got together to shower our friend Erin with love before her baby girl Lucy is born in April. There were just six of us and it was much more about being together and chatting than anything else. We've been friends for nearly two decades and it's unreal that…
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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 never would have guessed when I added "ink" to the materials list that I'd be having t-shirts printed. But now that I have, nothing else seems to make sense for this material. As mentioned 100 times, the wedding weekend in DC was a reunion for my college girlfriends. In one email over the summer,…
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On Sunday, we attended my college friend Jenny's wedding in DC. The ceremony was held at Holy Rosary Church and the reception was at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Weddings are always magic, but this one… this one was spectacular. As mentioned, it was also a reunion for my college girlfriends and…
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I got a question yesterday about whether or not Paul and I have made friends in this new town and then that reminded me of another question from awhile back about how I keep up long-distance friendships. I thought I'd use today's post to address both. The answer to the first question is yes, we…
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This last little bit of waiting for Paul to get home has been painful. Not painful in the it's-January-so-close-but-yet-so-far way. But painful in the it's-February-so-close-I-am-losing my-mind-way. I sent a "woe is me" email to my girlfriends yesterday and veronica (my partner in birthday crime since we turned 21) suggested I take on the task of…
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I played host to four sweet friends over the weekend. I love showing off my town. I love laughing until I cry. I love drinking wine. I love cooking up a giant batch of spaghetti. I love having someone to run with. I love having someone to collect rocks with. I love talking about the…
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I spent the weekend in St. Louis visiting a friend from high school that is in her second year of med school in the city. It was rad seeing a new town but even better catching up in real life. I hate the phone. And while email is my right hand man, nothing compares to…
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