enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: life

  • elise takes a sick day.

    Great news! I have returned to the land of the living. (Well, if you consider sitting in a t-shirt amidst a pile of tissues and empty Gatorade bottles the land of the living.) I have been "under-the-weather" for about two weeks with a cold that Paul picked up. But then Wednesday morning I awoke in…

  • in my bag.

    Paul gave me a gold j.crew bag two birthdays ago and I have been using it everyday ever since. I love the size, but I am excited for something different. Nothing I've seen lately has been perfect though. Right now, I am carrying around : my phone, tape measurer (because I have been at home…

  • our favorite mexican restaurant in san diego.

    This is the sign that greets you at our favorite Mexican food place. That right there should be enough to convince you of it's awesomeness. Okay, well did the food photos get you? This restaurant is close-ish to our place, but we never knew about it until our car was in the shop and Hertz…

  • a change of pace.

    My new laptop arrived on Monday. And after I got my application icons in rainbow order, I spent yesterday working quickly. What a difference all that extra memory and power makes. And I don't think it hurt that I also upgraded from Photoshop Elements 4 to PSE 9. It took me a while to get…

  • a visit to the flower fields.

    My parents were in town this past weekend. On Sunday, we drove up to Carlsbad to see the flower fields. For some reason I thought we’d be looking at tulips. I was thrilled to find ranunculus instead. We were a bit early in the season and only one field had pretty blooms peeking through. I…

  • how my days roll.

    A couple days ago, I was asked in the comments what my days are like. None of my days are really the same. They change a lot based on Paul's schedule or if I have any really important projects to take care of. But this is one of them. It's Wednesday, to be specific. 8:15ish…

  • around here in january.

  • happy day.

    Paul had yesterday off and we used that and the perfect weather (80* on January 17) as excuses to drive to Temecula to go wine tasting. We haven't been to this area before and were excited to try some new places. As mentioned a million times, we're a bit obsessed with red wine and slowly…

  • a bit of an adventure.

    So we have lived in downtown San Diego for about six and a half months now. And for the past six and a half months, I have been driving by this interesting shop a few times a week. Every. Single. Time. I pass by I think to myself "I should walk down here." But then…

  • this weekend i…

    …took a photo with a smiling wall. …picked up pretty white flowers at the farmer's market. …finished reading "the girl who kicked the hornet's nest" for the second time. …thought about new paint colors for our dresser. …taught p how to work the camera.