enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: small business
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I still can't get a post together about MAKE29. That was such a big project that I don't know where to begin (or end), but I thought it would be helpful to just talk generally about why I think that long-term project (it was about 15 months if you include the planning period) worked. No…
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around here it's 11:10am on Thursday. Daycare was cancelled due to a staff development day and Ellerie just went down for a nap. It's been awhile since I've written up a random dump of thoughts and since I've got the time, I'm going for it. around here we are spending that beautiful, extra light-filled 4…
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One of my favorite "extra" parts of Get To Work Book™ (learn more here!) are the tear out calendar pages. There are 12, one for each month, and while you could totally leave them in the book, they are a bit thicker paper stock and perforated to be torn out and hung on the wall…
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my office bulletin board. highlights include Emily McDowell's business card, the original ELISEJOY mission statement, an expired polaroid of E, all the photobooth strips, and a "let that shit go" print from Your Joyologist. I shared last month that one of the ways I keep my work tasks manageable is by saying "No" a lot.…
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I wrote a post on this topic in 2012, but it was on my mind again this morning so I recorded a short podcast episode. Subscribe or stream here!
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around here I'm in MAKE&GIVE30 mode. This was not the plan. I thought I'd wait until after my birthday to really get started. But turns out, I just needed a new creative goal to feel a new creative burst of energy. It's funny – I thought the reason I felt so zapped creatively from small…
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You know how sometimes you see photos of an artist's workspace and it's just crammed with awesome layers, textures and colors? You feel like you could spend hours in there, uncovering treasures and magic? You feel like you're looking into their creative brain and it's amazing? It's a great feeling. But I have found I…
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Last Wednesday I moved the mail app on my iPhone and iPad to the back page of apps and vowed to not check email via my devices for one week. I was trying to see if I felt more or less efficient and more or less happy when I only read and dealt with email…
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Every six months to a year, I get find myself ready to order new business cards (from overnightprints.com). Sometimes I've ran out and so I need more. Other times I just feel like a new design. This time around, I actually had something to change on the cards. I recently bought the domain name enjoyitblog.com…
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this photo sequence has nothing to do with today's post except that it kept me busy. Yarn is by Madeline Tosh and the sock pattern is from Made by Hand. There is a lot of chatter about "busy" these days. On the one hand I hear a lot of "I'm so busy!" and then on…
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