enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: small business

  • what to do when you have no ideas.

    Last week I shared a suggestion for what to do when your brain is over-flowing with ideas. Today I want to talk about the opposite problem… No ideas. I wish this one had a simple solution. But it's a harder one to fix because you can't just narrow it down or force something to work.…

  • what to do when you have “too many ideas.”

    I recorded a podcast episode on this topic last fall but some variation of "I have so many ideas, but don't know where to start" continues to be one of the phrases that pops up in my email inbox most often. So I figured I would write it out in blog post form. Sometimes hearing…

  • let’s talk GET TO WORK BOOK packaging.

    I am finally coming up for air with GTWB shipping. To say it's been intense would be an understatement. To say I don't love every second of it would be a lie. This sort of stuff – organizing, spreadsheeting, list-making, high-lighting, cranking it all out – is absolutely my jam. I signed up for this.…

  • around here.

    Around here, life is all about getting GET TO WORK BOOK packaged up as best I can and sending them out the door. It's like an adventure that I don't have to leave my house to go on (and I have the fitbit steps to prove it). But progress is being made. On Monday, I…

  • GET TO WORK BOOK : it’s becoming real!

    I was so excited to get some behind the scenes photos from Jolby + Friends who did press checks up in Portland on Monday. GET TO WORK BOOK™ is in production. Covers are being printed this week, insides next week and then a there will be few weeks of binding and they'll be out the…

  • on collaboration.

    I have mentioned a few times that GET TO WORK BOOK™ was designed by Jolby and Friends out of Portland, Oregon. I came to them with the beginnings of a plan and the start of a vision. And they turned around the book design. It was about six months of working together and without a…

  • how my work days roll

    I have been meaning to get a post like this together for ages. It's taken forever because the act of "documenting my days" leaves less time to actually "do the work" of my days. There is a huge difference between our daycare days (currently T/Th) and my mama days (currently MWF). This is what a…

  • insert celebration emoji here.

    When I woke up yesterday morning (at 4am after a nightmare that the website had crashed and the Internet was yelling at me on IG) (yikes!) I had no idea what today's blog post would be. Originally, my editorial calendar had said "backyard garden" which would have been a good idea except I can't follow…

  • IT’S HERE!

    I’m excited to be opening GET TO WORK BOOK™ for pre-order! This has been BY FAR my longest runway to launch but it’s also miles more legit than anything I’ve done. Even the prototype that I shot for this pre-order is amazing. The real book?! It’s going to be spectacular. You can head over to…

  • Confessions of an Entrepreneur

    photo by @daisyfaydesigns and shared with permission. Last weekend I had the pleasure of speaking at Craftcation. I sat on a few different panels and listened to a few and eventually would love to share a post (or maybe podcast) about some of my takeaways. Today I wanted to share my answers to the Confessions…