enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: lovely

  • josie maran body & face sunscreen (newly discovered natural sunscreen), essie Ole Caliente polish (with this as a non-toxic base and top coat), SMASH date stamp, anthropologie painted mugs, blowfish nordie flats, tarte lights, camera, lashes! non-toxic mascara (this stuff is fantastic), david's tea alpine punch & forever nuts, OXO tea kettle. Super random round-up, I…

  • DIY wine cork herb labels, jcrew striped sweatshirt (I joked that this had "elise" written all over it. it's so me.), weber charcoal grill (this isn't the one we have – but you can't go wrong with a charcoal weber), poshlocket bangle (I have this in black and love it, but the teal is so…

  • …go through your photos looking for similarities. Love the comparison. Love that I appear to have a weakness for beverages of all kinds, yarn and beach rocks. And as I learned from my adventures in running shoe photos, once pulled into a grid, the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. all…

  • I am closing in on my birthday (the 22nd!) and wanted to take a second to celebrate 26 things that have made being twenty-six great. I use "things" literally. This is the stuff that I discovered and loved over the past year. Bar Method / best workout ever. I will be an unpaid spokesman for…

  • Crate & Barrel ampersand pillow, piecedpapers printable journalling cards, ModCloth love ballad top (that shirt is already out of stock again, I got on the waiting list last time and finally scored it),  StyleMint striped T dress (save 25% off your first StyleMint T credit with code "EJOY"), marc johns ampersand art print, Ariel Gordon…

  • I'm tired of deployment. But I'll never be tired of the town where we're stationed. Not sure if "even trade" is the correct expression, but the year we'll actually spend here together is going to be rad. p.s. I am loving those leopard flats c/o Blowfish shoes. Super cute and comfortable for walking around. Double…

  • I posted last fall about transitioning to natural skincare products. (You can read more about why I started making the switch in that post.) Four months later and I am still going pretty strong. I have stuck with some stuff, fallen in love with some stuff and added some new products to the mix. I…

  • A few months ago, I was asked to write an article about my blogging story for Artful Blogging. I wrote it while on a plane, read through it once & sent it off. When I saw it in print and realized it was a few pages and included so many photos too, I was beyond…

  • athropologie necklace, ampersand screenprint, paper source twill ribbon, hanging plant (tutorial), LNA nightingale maxi dress, peg & awl wooden candle holders, fujifilm Instax MINI, odette new york arrow bracelet. all images from their respective linked sites. Sooo, other than that twill ribbon, this is all just an amazing wishlist. (Luckily my birthday is next month.) (Also luckily,…