enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: making me happy
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I love doing these annual posts so much. This is my tenth round up, and it's still fun to think about a year in terms of cool stuff I tried. Some of the links below are affiliate. Most are not. Cripe Cottage | The most obvious one. We are so thrilled we found it and…
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framed vintage embroidery art! $22 in san diego So, I realize many people got on this train years ago and me writing a post about it now is the opposite of cutting edge. But hello! I am still going to talk about Facebook Marketplace because wow, I am finding good things. Whenever I mention FB…
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I became hooked on Instagram in fall of 2011. Paul was deployed and I was on a trip to New York with some of my college girlfriends. We were killing time while waiting out Irene, the tropical storm that never hit the city as dramatically anticipated. I had seen people linking to their Instagram photos,…
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photo by Tara Whitney This is an exercise that I started doing after a bummer of a week last May. It's a great way to focus on the good. Hoping to bring it back once a month or so to share the things that are making life easier and keeping me happy. stamps.com. This site…
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Loving, loving, LOVING the quiet this week. Online. In the house. In my brain. So good. And so appreciated. I had a few girlfriends in town this past weekend and it was a reminder that I adore having my house full. It's so easy, when alone and decorating, to get caught up in how a…
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I spent the beginning of the week in funk. Like a normal funk, it was totally exhausting and frustrating. Unlike a normal funk, I knew exactly what the issue was. I miss Paul. And that is an understatement. I physically hurt for Paul. Before deployments entered our lives, I am not sure I fully understood…