enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: life
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We spent the weekend in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, celebrating a wedding. I met Stephanie while I worked at Paper Source in Georgetown. We first bonded while putting together hundreds of paper flowers for this massive project. And then we strengthened our bond over numerous half price wine happy hours. And then we made our boys bond…
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wearing white nail polish (from high school) on my fingers and toes. excited about getting creative with the summer book over the next few months. convinced the iPad + Kindle app is a winner. working on this week's blog posts and PDFs of the blog 2.0 workshop. practicing being more flexible. feeling better about my…
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E : helllllllooooooooo Paul! If it's cool with you, I am going to ask you some questions and type furiously to get your answers. As you know, we tried video, and the awkwardness that was us together on video almost wiped out Planet Earth. So now we're back to a good old fashioned text interview.…
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first : Thank you so much for the encouragement and thoughts on "making a home feel like home" on my wall painting post. It was so nice that so many can relate and I was happy to hear how many military people read this blog. It's something I don't talk about a lot, but something…
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my iPad anniversary gift, the kindle app (you were right!), finishing The Hunger Games in one night, staying up late to read as opposed to stress, artichokes, finding three mile runs to be downright easy (though six mile ones still make me want to cry), using a powerful paper trimmer, gray stripes on the wall,…
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Thanks for the love on the new table! We're still obsessed. Maybe more today than yesterday. Small Q&A : The wood is 1 inch pine. It was the right width, but we had the length cut down to 50 inches. The stain is Minwax color and sealer in one and it was called American Chestnut…
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…relieved to be done with the lesson portion of the blog workshop. …overwhelmed with the next task of prepping for this craft fair. …thankful that my parents are going to visit that weekend and help me. …happy to be healing. …learning that healing is a process you cannot rush. …thrilled that we got the big…
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Real Food: What to Eat and Why, Lottery, Born to Run It's been awhile since I have shared what I'm reading. Truth be told, I have just been re-reading (and re-reading) a lot of books that I have around here lately. Very boring. But the books above are coming soon to an iPad near me.…
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