an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Bread no. 17: naan
Adjustments : I used about a cup of whole wheat flour and two cups white flour.
Notes : I got about 13 dough balls out of the recipe and ended up brushing these with butter on the "uncooked" side while they were on the skillet and then sprinkling with garlic salt.
Review : SUPER good. I wish Paul was home to help me eat them all. The garlic salt was a nice (and simple) touch.
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 today's to-do list. it's short; with Paul gone, I worked all weekend. respond to emails and comments. cook eggs for lunch. sort of a scramble plus bread. messy but satisfying. decide to drive up to Carlsbad to pick up some envelopes from Paper Source. stop by Athropologie, Urban Outfitters and Lululemon in addition to Paper Source. resist buying a pair of green jeans at Anthro, find nothing at Urban and score on some sale items at Lulu. drive home. remember that I hate the drive to Carlsbad. check & respond to emails while snacking on watermelon. take a one hour nap. (have I mentioned I worked all weekend?) video chat with Paul in Mississippi. am in a very odd mood. work for a few hours on a photo album project. (I'll be sharing soon.) cook dinner : potatoes & a spinach salad. eat dinner while watching season two of Arrested Development on netflix. open a bottle of wine. keep watching Arrested. decide to get started on this post.
While I was up in Sacramento, I was able to make a few frames out of old fence wood.
My dad recently replaced the redwood fence in our backyard. When I heard the plan, I asked him to hang on to some of the old weathered wood so we could make some frames.
My dad liked the idea and he actually figured out how to make them and created a few before I got home.
We used a Miter saw to make pieces with 45 degree angle cuts on either end. Then we used wood glue and U-shaped nails to join the corners together. My parents used their frames to hang some large prints and I made a 5×7 and 11×14 frame to hang in our apartment.
The frames do not have a routed ledge on the backside for dropping in glass and art, so we used plexi-glass to protect the front of the prints. The plexi-glass is held into place with a few staples from a staple gun and the art is carefully secured behind that with paper and tape. The print in the photo directly above is from Little Brown Pen and it’s a new favorite.
Both of the pieces above are going to fit into a gallery wall that I am making in my office (since Paul is deploying and we will be moving as soon as he gets back, the office will soon be rearranged to make it better suited for one). I’ll share once it’s done!
This is project 11 of 26.
I am attempting to tackle 26 personal craft projects before I turn 27 on 02.22.12. You can follow my progress here on the blog, on pinterest or on flickr.
I'm super excited to join in with Ali Edwards' Week in the Life this time around. I am going to take lots of photos (hoping for 15-20 good ones each day) Monday through Friday this week. I'll be sharing the photos and some text here on the blog every evening. (Every morning there will still be a regular/non-week in the life post.)
As of right now, I don't have a plan for how this will all fit into an album, but I figure photos and text are the first step. I'll worry about putting it all together in the weeks to come.
I'm excited! Especially since this is a pretty non-traditional week since Paul is still out of town. I even cleaned the apartment really well so Future Elise thinks Present Day Elise had it all together.
Are you joining in?
I have done a terrible job keeping these bonus paper packs for the summer minibooks in stock. I am out of one of the papers in the original kit and can't source it again. So for now, my plan is to make them as they get ordered. These ones will not be identical (so I am not sharing a photo) but will include similar papers in the same color scheme. Each pack comes in an orange envelope and includes a piece of fabric and 11 paper pieces. Hopefully everyone who wants one will get one this round. Thank you!
bonus paper packs / $10 (includes shipping)
My absolutely-no-straighter-this-summer plan is going swimmingly. So swimmingly, in fact, I had to purchase this fun print.
Back again! And actually the exact same as last time.
SOLD OUT. THANK YOU!
On our recent vacations to Hot New Orleans and Very Hot Palm Desert, the hotels each had a pretty dispenser full of fruit infused ice water available to prohibit people from passing out in the lobby.
Yesterday, determined to carry on the vacation vibe and stay hydrated, I picked up a bunch of lemons and limes to add to my own ice water. And then I figured I might as well go all out and fill up a giant pitcher to encourage the flavor infusing and to make refills all day long simple.
Paul would absolutely laugh at me (and the photos I took of the process) but he's not home so I'm rolling with it. Besides, he'd totally pour a glass or six too.
p.s. loved Angela's photo of the same idea.
p.p.s. I'm making a pitcher of strawberry infused water today.
I'm back in San Diego! With access to my own printer! Quick book update with photos and text from NOLA and a little blurb about HP7. Which, by the way, was the greatest ever and my favorite of the series.
Yep, typos. Should read summers and fifteen but rolling with it…
Simple enough.
I turned the NOLA adventure into six pages – three with photos and three with text. The text came directly from this post. I printed the text right on to three pieces of 4×6 cardstock that I had cut down from an 8.5×11 sheet. I am pretty certain that I will be making an additional album about our trip to New Orleans which is why I was fine just using the iPhone photos for this summer book.
RELATED : I am going to be making more summer book BONUS PAPER PACKS. They will be similar to the first batch that I sold two weeks ago and will be for sale here on the blog at 10am PST on Friday. Just wanted to give a heads up in case you missed them last time!
Questions? Holler in the comments. Still need a summer book? Get one here. Want to see more of this album? Go here. Are you working on your own summer book? Add photos to the flickr group or upload a badge to your blog or website.
enJOY it 