enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: life

  • take more photos. of you. of Paul. of what you two do. your iPhoto storage now? is a whole lotta work shots and very few memories. change it up.

  • The flower stand at our farmer's market has been selling sticks with little pumpkins attached for the past few weeks. I haven't seen anything like them before. They look fake they're so cute. We bought a branch this weekend and I hope they'll last the rest of the month. I made a practice apple pie…

  • Last night, we went to a ball to celebrate the Navy's 235th birthday. I wore the dress I wore to my homecoming dance junior year of high school. (I loved that dress.) Paul wore his fancy whites. Sometimes being a military wife is terrifying and frustrating. Most of the time it is humbling and makes…

  • I have a sketch book page filled with holiday decorations. I acknowledge that it's only early October, but can't help it. I'm going with metallics and white and wood accents, just like my West Elm obsession. It's going to be as DIY as I can make it… we'll see what happens in November. When we…

  • We drove north for about an hour this morning to check out a pumpkin patch. They run a few craft fairs each fall and I wanted to see if this was something I would want to sell my own shop goods at. (survey says : probably not.) We came home with six awesome little pumpkins.…

  • October feels like the right time to get making stuff. On my list this year : something to wear something to hang something to eat something to give something to carry What's on your list?

  • 1. we hopped an early flight and landed around 8pm. checked into our hotel & rolled out to meet the rest of the crew. 2. dinner & drinks. 3. 4. & 5. little finds around shops on 2nd street. 6. a far away photo of Paul as a groomsman. 7. & 8. what I wore…

  • It's a holiday weekend here & due to magic, Paul has three days off from the hospital. We're going to drink coffee and visit the farmer's market this morning.  Then for lunch we get to see my brother & meet his girlfriend. As of Wednesday, Robbie is living right next door in Los Angeles and…

  • Our favorite weekend activity.

  • Expect a bit of radio silence for the rest of the week. Excessive computer work as I've been preparing for the workshop left me with a very sore right hand. Super annoying. But super cool : I have a friend flying in to spend the next 48 hours. So my time away from the laptop…