enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: life

  • I love doing these annual posts so much. This is my tenth round up, and it's still fun to think about a year in terms of cool stuff I tried. Some of the links below are affiliate. Most are not. Cripe Cottage | The most obvious one. We are so thrilled we found it and…

  • I have been making this favorite things list for EIGHT YEARS. Here is the first one when I was TWENTY-SIX. The gist is I try to share a number of "things" that were new to me/made me happy/bettered my life/etc over the year. I am turning 36 next week. Here are 35 things I found…

  • For the past year I have been paying more attention to my skin care routine. I have always had very dry, fairly sensitive skin on my face. I wanted to see what would happen if I spent a few extra minutes taking care of it each day. It’s worked! My skin is now more even,…

  • I took a break for two years from writing these posts, but I am so happy to be back sharing 33 things that I have recently discovered and loved. I like to share a list of favorite things around my birthday and I often find that when I go back and read past lists SO…

  • CRIPE 2017 1SE from elise blaha cripe on Vimeo. Another year in seconds using the 1 Second Everyday app (with music I downloaded from pond5 and edited together in iMovie) I shared my 2016 video here last year and I am happy to have completed another full year using this documentation method. I was even…

  • 108 days ago, I joined in on the public creative challenge #the100dayproject. The annual project is hosted by artist Elle Luna and takes place over 100 days. This year we started on April 4th and ended on July 12th. The idea is to pick something creative, work on it every day for 100 days and…

  • Last summer I read the Harry Potter play (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and loved it. You can't compare it to the series because it's a play, not a novel but it was great. Right after I finished, I googled and found out tickets for the play in London were about to go on…

  • CRIPE 1SE 2016 from elise blaha on Vimeo. Late last December I set a goal to document our year though one second a day videos. I planned to use the app 1 Second Everyday. I have shared some of the clips, thoughts and tips about this project (here and here) but since it’s been a…

  • cripe family : 1 second everyday JAN-JUN2016 from elise blaha on Vimeo. I've been using the 1 second everyday app for six months! It's the easiest form of memory keeping I have found yet. If you want to see the past six months (and the girls growing up!!) in just three minutes, here it is.…

  • around here I am still not exactly sure what my plan is for the blog. Right now, I plan to update on occasion when I have something to say or something to share. It's funny – I blogged near daily for almost ten years. And when I took a break? I didn't miss it. I…