enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: new home

  • peeks at our new place.

    So…good news! We are currently in Escrow on a house we LOVE in San Diego. In a few weeks, when the Escrow is closed, I have the keys and things are starting to settle, I would love to share the looong and crazy story of how this place came to be ours, but the short…

  • our bedroom is decorated.

    Oh man, this room. It's been the item on my to-do list that I pushed back and back and back until finally, it started to look like we'd move again before this space became anything but a dumping ground for extra frames, curtain rods in boxes, random storage pieces and, obviously, dirty clothes. The number…

  • changing it up / clipboard inspiration.

    When I moved in last December, I set up fancy little inspiration boards in my office. And then when I embarked on Project Life and started – gasp – making stuff again, I began pinning embellishments and labels on to the boards so they were accessible. It worked, but I was ready for a change.…

  • project 19 of 26 / recovering the built-in couches.

    Remember how I didn't see our townhouse until move in day? I signed a lease based on photos and videos and then was thrilled the day I moved and realized it was 10x better than I imagined. Seriously. I'm obsessed. But one thing I knew right from the beginning that I would want to change…

  • new office / still in progress.

    I say in progress because this room seriously needs some stuff on the walls. But it's been re-painted (it was a crazy brown/purple color before) and the furniture arrangement is settled. Here are two before photos taken the day I moved in : (Remember that ladder goes up to the storage space/hideout.) I am using…

  • ready, set, tour.

    Welcome to our house! This is what you see when you enter (if your view is carefully edited into a 4×6 inch image). Let's refresh a bit. Below are some before (Thursday, December 1st) photos and some after photos. To be clear, I would be very pleased if the only thing I'd done is replace…

  • a peek at the progress.

    I have to say, the most exciting part of this adventure so far has been playing with the double-sided bookshelf display. I realized the full extent of my nerdiness while creating “jokes” out of the side-by-side book titles. Much more information about the shelf (and everything else) to come in the next few weeks.

  • magic monday.

    Magic is realizing my new place is so close to the beach. Magic is getting in my first beach run. Magic is toasting the new home with a beer. Magic is walking down the street for coffee. Magic is the ocean in the morning. Magic is laughing about a bathroom full of mirrors. Magic is…

  • the new place.

    I am over the moon. The packing and moving day were not the greatest. But the driving to the new place day totally made up for it. I took the 1/Pacific Coast Highway for the last 42 miles. It's the scenic route for sure. I wish I had photos but I was too busy keeping…

  • i have an insane need to document everything.

    Including our current apartment. I loved it. I love it. And it changed a lot over the past 16-ish months. I decided to make a small book to share photos of the space. I didn’t take any new ones for this at all, just went through my iPhoto archives and flickr stream to find ones…