enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: life
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Tossing out the plans and the post ideas and the photo walk today. I'm feeling so good about August that I flipped my calendar over last week. (Yep, I still know we're two days out.) I adore August, this final month of summer (not scientifically, or technically, but in every other sense of the word).…
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Friday already. I've got to say, doing these "around here" updates makes me feel like the weeks fly by. Somehow it's always Thursday afternoon again and I am looking through my iPhoto for photos OR wandering my house looking for things to snap. It was a good week. I wrote (and wrote and wrote) and…
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My very first home-grown tomato. Planted, watered, fussed over, waited on, cheered for, plucked, cut, sprinkled with salt & pepper, enjoyed today for lunch. By far, the greatest tomato I have ever eaten. HOORAY!
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An extremely organized office, red tomatoes, new plants & so much top-secret project process. Yes, that sums up my week nicely. We're racing through July and I'm not wishing away a day. Check back this afternoon for a fun summer cocktail recipe.
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For the past few months, I have shared photos of our Chemex coffee maker here and on Instagram and I've been getting a few questions about it. I have been putting off writing this post because I am so not an expert on coffee OR methods of brewing. So first and foremost, if you're curious…
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cartwheeling on the beach at sunset. relieved to have the very last of the stamps out the door. racing through The Night Circus. preparing a book report because the reading has been amazing this summer. smiling every time I walk into our decorated bedroom. enjoying how much free time Paul and I have together. making…
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(This post will make much more sense if you read this one from summer 2007.) Once upon a time, the shoe on the left looked like the shoe on the right. It was a replacement shoe, for the first pair had been worn mighty thin after a few years in college. The shoe was honored…
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Big one this month is we're committing to eating only local fruits & veggies. If I can't buy it at the farmer's market, we can't eat it. I recently had my world rocked (in a good way!) by Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. If we can't eat local in July in Southern California, than something…
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Sending June out the door & ushering in the crazy that is July. There is a lot on my list this next month and I'm arming myself with lots of scratch paper, Pandora, coffee & water to tackle it. (I keep telling myself things will calm down in August and then I remember that that's…
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Over the weekend, we celebrated our friends' wedding in Humboldt County, California. We left Thursday, spent the night in San Francisco, then drove the rest of the way Friday. Sunday, the day after the wedding, we drove back to Berkeley, spent another night and finished the drive home on Monday. I didn't get great photos…
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