enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: small business
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Fun week! For sure. Thank you again for sharing in my excitement with the launch of the Seafoam edition. Returning to normal around here means lots of writing & website coding. (And sewing when all the writing goes well.) The "new" elisejoy.com is live and kicking. Hooray! Feels good to give her a facelift. For…
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I am honored and thrilled to share with you today that I designed the 2013 Seafoam kit for Project Life! This is my big secret project that I have been keeping since early February. I have so much to say about this kit, including how we got from step #1: a phone call from Becky…
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Making lots of progress this week. Crossing stuff off my list like it's my job. I gotta be honest though, I am currently struggling to bring a better work / life balance into our normal weeks. The trouble with traveling on the weekends (when I usually put in a decent amount of computer time) is…
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Sometimes, I take photos throughout the week and then have a healthy assortment to share here on Fridays. Other times, I take all my photos around the house on Thursday afternoon in a few minutes. This week, I took them over a few hours in my office on Wednesday. They absolutely were not supposed to…
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It felt like a short week. Must have been all the Olympics watching. How about that Missy Franklin? I love her. I also love every inch of every event. Makes for fantastic e&p bonding and the couch-side commentary is too good. I made progress on my website (nothing new is up yet, but soon!) and…
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I frequently get questions about how I organize my blog post ideas and generate new content. I've hemmed and hawed over how to answer them because, although it's not a big trade secret, it's somewhat awkward to share. This is absolutely going to remove the mystery of how a post pops up every weekday at…
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I spent today and yesterday in major reorganization mode. Not a box, drawer or shelf in my office was safe. I went through and recycled, trashed and piled for donations. I'd say I cut the "stuff" down by at least 30%. Biggest achievements – putting 600 old 4×6 photos into albums, removing the rug that…
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Sending June out the door & ushering in the crazy that is July. There is a lot on my list this next month and I'm arming myself with lots of scratch paper, Pandora, coffee & water to tackle it. (I keep telling myself things will calm down in August and then I remember that that's…
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I'm planning on bringing another new monthly(ish) feature to the blog this summer… Three different tips from both Paul and me on the same topic. It started because I wanted to do a post on productivity but realize how different my work situation is from so many others. I also started thinking about how differently…
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There were a couple requests last week to explain how I keep my paper products and craft storage organized. I figured the easiest way to share would just be a video tour of my office. I use this room for work (writing posts, making product, packaging product) and play (Project Life, decor projects) so it…
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