enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: life
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Oh man, I have found my new hobby. When I first shared my garden at the end of March, I had a bunch of basil, various herbs and five tomato plants. I got a lot of encouragement and suggestions in the comments and was very grateful for all of them. The first piece of advice…
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captured on Instagram. And I would like to take a second to introduce you to and welcome back some wonderful small businesses that help support me and this blog by advertising on my sidebar. Please take a second to click through and see what they are up to!
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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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Above are a few more photos I have been able to grab this week, mostly all from yesterday. Our week days are pretty similar right now, so I figured I would just jot down the gist and stick it in the album with the daily photos spreads. This is the gist : Paul wakes up…
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Weekends are quickly becoming my favorite thing. I know that's strange – who doesn't love weekends? But before this year – I didn't. I was either working (retail never sleeps) or Paul was (medical interns never sleep). And then Paul was deployed and weekends always made me sad because everywhere I went it seemed to…
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The garden is flourishing – especially now with a little gnome to watch over it (Thanks, Lauren!). I replaced the bulletin board by my desk with a magnet board from Paper Miniskirt and I love it. Papers have been ordered and summer minibook production will be starting soon. I am always working on that crazy…
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captured on instagram. Life feels fuller with Paul home.
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I went to a local nursery yesterday and picked up a 42 lb bag of soil, a cart-full of herbs and a few tomato plants. After a lot of discussion, Paul and I agreed to start small with our little patio garden and see how things go. We have had herbs before, but always planted…
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We had a quiet, lazy, boring weekend. Probably the very best kind there is. I am looking forward to hitting the ground running this week – lots to be done! Happy, happy Monday & thank you so much for your sweet comments on my posts last week.
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