enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: week in the life

  • I was NOT super active camera wise last week. Really only Wednesday, did I make a major effort to take a bunch of photos. But that's the beauty of my plan to only include seven photos a day. My favorites got in and I threw the pressure out the window. Below are the full pages.…

  • Above are a few more photos I have been able to grab this week, mostly all from yesterday. Our week days are pretty similar right now, so I figured I would just jot down the gist and stick it in the album with the daily photos spreads. This is the gist : Paul wakes up…

  • I am so excited to document a week in the life this year. This is a concept created by Ali Edwards (you can read more about it here) that focuses on capturing a detailed account of one week. I did this project for the first time last summer while Paul was away training in Mississippi…

  • It’s two months later, but I finally have my Week in the Life album to share. I took a pretty minimalist approach to the documentation process and just focused on taking a lot of photos and writing a blurb about what I did Monday – Friday. (You can see all the posts here : M,…

  • FRIDAY : wake up at 7:30 after a rough nights sleep. too much anticipation for Paul to get home and way too much HTML code in my head, I think. cereal & blueberries for breakfast. get right back to work on the new blog design. more progress! am a fan of how it is starting…

  • THURSDAY : wake up @ 8am. check email and flipboard on iPad in bed. microwave oatmeal. oatmeal explodes. toss it and start over. remember to make coffee! add honey and blueberries to oatmeal. enjoy while responding to emails. software wants to update. let computer do it's thing and clean the kitchen. work on a blog…

  • WEDNESDAY : wake up @ 8:00. breakfast of oatmeal, banana and honey. social media check. get dressed for Bar Method. drive to 9am class. drive home. take a shower. take photos of a minibook and work on some blog posts for next week. put together some fall books (coming in mid-August). make lunch : sandwich…

  • TUESDAY : wake up @ 8:10. stay in bed and check email & twitter on my iPad. get up. microwave some oatmeal. toss in some honey & banana. reheat the coffee in the pot from yesterday. pour coffee into my favorite mug ever (a gift from Marta.) respond to emails at the computer while drinking…

  • MONDAY : wake up @ 7:50. eat cereal and check email, twitter & blogs. drive to a 9am Bar Method class. get through it, but just barely. stop at Trader Joe's to buy fruit & greek yogurt. drive home. start the coffee machine and hop in the shower. get dressed, drink coffee and look over…