enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: lovely

  • original Falling Whistle necklace $34, Michael Kors rose gold watch $250, Lotta Jansdotter's Handmade Living $20, Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day $20, Ikea mini planters $2, Helena de Natalio envelope clutch $152, j.crew silk-cashmere wrap $75, Moleskine Color a Month 2011 planner $36, Claudia Pearson buy local calendar $24 These are a few of…

  • We are lucky enough to have a great farmer's market with three flower stands just down the street from us. (It was a huge selling point when we picked our apartment.) Since the first time we went, I have been excited about buying flowers in November for Thankgiving. Usually, I just get a $3 premade…

  • glittery white dishes : love that these (and these) are festive, yet subtle. Now we just need a larger kitchen so I would have somewhere to store them. red baker's twine : after going through about 20 small rolls of the stuff, I finally bit the bullet and ordered over 3000 yards. That should keep…

  • I am newly obsessed with pinterest. The perfect place to save favorite images, products, links, photos, art & ideas from the whole internet. A virtual inspiration board. See my pins & boards here.

  • I took a field trip this morning to West Elm. I can't help but be inspired in there. Makes me want to redecorate my house, throw a party and make some metallic and white books. I am so glad we are hosting Thanksgiving this year so I can play with table settings. Weird, I know.…

  • Shiny, thick & colorful. Just perfect. From MOO.com.* Moo lets you mix up what the front of the cards look like and I took advantage of that. I used five different colors and simple descriptions of what I do on the front and then backed them all with the gray side & contact details. I…

  • Okay, so I love photobooths. And Paul is pretty chill about most things involving cameras and my random obsessions. Our Austin wedding over the weekend featured (in addition to love, cake and country music) a photobooth. The wedding guestbook was a scrapbook album and the idea was to take a strip and leave a photo…

  • Ali blogged last week about a few great books and I was excited to get my Amazon delivery with my own copies on Saturday. Keri Smith's Mess is awesome. I'm not good at this mess concept. The idea of burying the book or putting moldy food on it makes me nervous. (So nervous that I'm…

  • After quite a hunt and a lot of disappointing results, I finally found the perfect kraft cardstock. It's from Kraft Outlet. If you want something that looks & feels like genuine paper bag (except even better), you want this.  Thicker cover weight is the Lunch Bag Kraft at the bottom of this page ($2.75 for…