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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: kiddo crafts
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Watching Ellerie make stuff will always be near the top of my happiest parenthood moments. I've talked about this a bit before…toddler crafting time is a lesson in patience more than anything else. But the fact that she is taking interest (and starting to take interest for longer) is so fun and exciting to me.…
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Ellerie LOVES books. We're getting to the good part too – when she will actually SIT and LISTEN to a full story from beginning to end (I used to have to cliff notes the story in order to keep up with her attention span). She also likes to "read" them to us too. My favorite…
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Everything I do with Ellerie these days (besides our book reading routine or trips to the park) feels about five minutes long. Her attention span is growing, but…she's two. I wanted to share a cute and simple project we made over the weekend… a wooden E for her wall and a few tips for painting…
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Kid crafting is my favorite crafting. Especially projects like this, that come together in 30 minutes with supplies I already own. I really wanted to make some sort of a birthday crown for Ellerie to wear at her rainbow party this coming weekend. Originally I thought I would go with felt (but since that involved…
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Today I'm sharing my last post in collaboration with Canon USA and their photo printers. I have loved working with them. The printers are great and these varied projects have been so fun to dream up and execute. Since the beginning, I planned to make Ellerie a photo memory game with pictures of our family…
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Wednesdays and Fridays are my "off-work" days which means they are my "on-mama" days. Both are challenging and inspiring in their own ways. Ellerie is now a full-fledged toddler which means there's no "One sec!" where I can dash out of the room to send an email or move the laundry. (She comes with and…
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If you've been here awhile, you know my handwritten Thanksgiving invites have become somewhat of a tradition. Here's 2010, 2012, & 2013 (Paul was deployed in 2011 and I went home instead). We just invite our families and really they all know they are coming long before these arrive in their mailbox, but it's still…
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Ellerie and I had our first mama-baby craft project adventure last week when we made Thanksgiving place cards. My plan was to have her stamp her little hand print eight times on various Project Life cards in Thankgiving colors (these are from the Sunshine and Midnight kits). I grabbed non-toxic craft paint in orange and…
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