enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: motherhood
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Something interesting happens when you have a kid. I mean, obviously, MANY interesting (and a few boring) things happen when you have a kid. But one of these things is people – friends, family and mostly total strangers – start to engage in conversations with you about this child. Usually you go back and forth,…
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Over the years I have shared many a memory keeping method on the blog. Traditional scrapbooking, minibooks, Project Life, bound photo books, art journals, framed collages, photo albums…even this blog is a memory keeping method. I LOVE photos. I LOVE words. I love taking photos and writing words and then looking back and reading through.…
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Thanksgiving Day 2014 I've been thinking a lot lately about the two different times zones that I live in: Elise Standard Time and Ellerie Standard Time. Every day for sure and sometimes many times throughout each day I shuffle back and forth between the two. Recognizing (and celebrating!) their differences is how I have figured out…
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These past few months I have talked about my attempt (and so far success) with the capsule wardrobe plan. I've also talked about how I don't care to organize my digital archives. And I have mentioned that there is nothing quite like film. All of these things have been on my mind. Less stuff ……
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read part nine here. One of the greatest mistakes that I have ever made was assuming that I could do it all at the same time. I planned to take a two month "maternity leave" when I had Ellerie. But what I didn't come up with was a plan for after the maternity leave ended.…
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My "one little word" this year is WHOLE. (read more about olw here.) And for the most part it doesn't feel as "active" in my life as CHOOSE and BRAVE did the years prior. I think this is because "whole" feels like less of an action word. The definition is broad and I am not…
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After Ellerie was born I started having a lot more fun taking photos. Don't get me wrong. I have always LOVED taking photos. But I am learning that, for me, it's more fun when my subject moves. And it's more fun when my subject grows. (No offense, potted plants and cups of coffee.) I also…
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I know. June 1st is not the start of summer if you want to get technical about it. But the thing about summer is "technical" goes out the window. I'm so happy we made it to June. June is when Ellerie turns one. June is when my tomatoes turn red. June is when the days…
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Really this post could be called my favorite tricks for photographing anything. I have about seven techniques (not included here are holding an object in my fingers against a clean wall (example!) or holding an object in my palm against a cool patterned ground (example!)) that I just cycle through over and over and over…
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We were very lucky: my mom saved my entire baby book collection and we were gifted many beautiful books so when Ellerie was born she had a full library at her disposal. For this post, I wanted to share some of the non-classics that were totally new to me and we are loving. I've starred…
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