enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: handmade holiday
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When I pulled out our decorations in November, I felt like my walls could use a few more Christmas pieces. The first idea was easy, fill the hallway frames with printable art. The second was a bit more tedious…cross-stitch…something. I spent a hour or two looking for patterns before feeling very excited about the folk…
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In 2016 and 2017 I sewed two 45×60 inch Christmas quilts! I love pulling them out each year and wanted to share more photos and details here in case they may inspire your own quilting this season. My 2016 quilt is a standard equilateral triangle quilt. My triangles were 5 inches high. There are 11…
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'Tis the season for Christmas projects! I am so excited to share a simple felted leaf garland tutorial with you today. Supplies: wool felt in one or two (or more!) colors. I used this dark green and then a lighter green I found in store, not on the website. I made two 8 foot garlands…
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This is our second year in our house but the first year I have spent nine months mostly at home, staring at the same few walls. It's not even Thanksgiving but I was so excited to get out our decorations and change things up this month. After everything was out of storage, I realized I…
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I had the best time last week making simple Valentine's cards using my digital stamps. I'm not sure if you've noticed but LOVE is a big theme of these digital stamps. Which meant coming up with some sweet card concepts was way too easy. using ELISEJOY digital stamps to create valentines from elise blaha on…
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I have shared this recipe before (at least twice) but it's been five years and I think I read somewhere (probably on Reddit) that you get to start recycling blog content every five years (false). These are really worth it though. They're so good. Almost good enough to make you not hate the hassle that…
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Right after Thanksgiving we picked up our tree and I got the decorations out from the garage. We don't have much – just two small bins, mostly of candles. It's always fun to set everything out though and since I tend to buy all my decorations on sale on December 26th then pack them away…
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It took me until mid-November to finally do any decorating around here. Which this year meant getting out my felt wreath, a few twig stars I bought last season, my quilted table runner and some candles. We will wait until the weekend after Thanksgiving to get our tree and pull out the rest of the…
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This year, my mom sewed up three Christmas stockings. One for each of us. I picked basic red and white fabrics (stripes, dots & a mod branch) from Joann's and she used a McCall's pattern (Crafts M5778). The stocking shape that came with the pattern was a little wonky (too high of arch!) and so…
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'tis the season around here. I love that little corners of our home are filling up. I love that this is just the first of at least four Christmases we'll spend in this house. I love that my mailbox is a hotspot for season's greetings. I love wrapping presents (super inexpensive paper from target and…
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