enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

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  • 1. two new e’s for my collection, 2. made with love, 3. Capturing breakfast sunlight., 4. just something about you, 5. breakfast-before, 6. silhouette#2, 7. thank you, 8. The last three. I am buried. Not in snow (thank goodness), but in covers. Four layers worth. Plus sweatpants. Also metaphorically buried. (How dramatic). But seriously. I…

  • Whew. I made it home. It pretty much snowed all day. And a lot of it stuck. I kept myself and those around me very aware of what was happening outside. And when we left work, I told my co-workers to be careful of snow drifts. And when I got off the bus, I told…

  • I do not believe in Blog Categories. But if I did, this post would be filed under "Things I did not know I was terrified of until today." I walked out of the apartment today at 8:25 and saw SNOW. Not like "Oh, cute, a snowflake" snow, but "I could be on a ski lift…

  • At work today, the newest issue of ReadyMade arrived like magic in the mail. And on the cover: "Print your own season’s greetings." Inside are INSTRUCTIONS on how to BUILD YOUR OWN LETTERPRESS. I almost fell over. But then I realized that I need some sort of a garage to house this machine. And unfortunately,…

  • I keep my mini books in a stuffed to the gills cube basket from Ikea. They fall into a few categories: 1: event type – when I have a bunch of photos from a single trip or event 2: idea type – when I have a bunch of thoughts about the same thing & 3:…

  • No. 01: All supplies (except jumprings) from the December Cupcake Scrapshop kit. Super easy 4×6 minibook. Paul and I took about 15 photos on MacSis on November 6. I printed them all, backed them in cool papers, and typed a little story on the typewriter. Not all the story is included in the photo –…

  • This morning, leaving Staples: E: Do you like office supply stores?P: I love them. When I was little, my mom used to get these fat office supply catalogs and I would look through them for hours and pick out what I wanted to buy.

  • the season finale of West Wing Season 2. this post on decor8. this post by marta. my growing pile of completed + ready for mail handmade Christmas cards. green paint.

  • In no particular order: Because I love mail. I love it. And recently there has been a bit of a slew. It collected from last night in a great pile. Because I want to thank Jamaica for sending me books to read. (The Queen’s Fool is my last of the three and then they will…