enJOY it by Elise Blaha Cripe

michael phelps would be proud.

I see you guys are big fans of the "just under the wire" plan. Which I fully support in a crafter.

The Craft Olympics are now closed. Please imagine the torch going out.

I am going to grab some food & more importantly wine and then come back for the judging. Winners will be posted later this evening.

Thank you for joining in...pretty fun, no?

still time.

You still have today to enter a project in the Craft Olympics. Winners will be picked and announced at 8pm EST, OR whenever I get home from work if it is after 8pm.

Thanks for playing + Happy Sunday

a half/full of a day.

Today is my half birthday. I am twenty three and a half. Paul doesn't think half birthday's are real. To that I say, "HA!" because they are. And also, I have only six months to get my to-do list accomplished. To be serious, I am doing pretty well. Except for the whole yoga part. I am still sitting somewhere around THREE. Or maybe TWO. It is odd, though, I very much want to be a yoga girl. I just need some time to make that part of my life again. I have six months.

And anyways, I feel like what I am lacking in yoga, I am making up in letterpressing. Fo sho.

Today was also a full day. I woke up and made a spreadsheet to determine my "in's and out's" or profits and expenses for my letterpress shop. Can you believe I have not tracked it in the least? I know. At least twelve of my USC business professors (who obviously read this blog) just fainted. Turns out, thankfully, I am in the green. But please, find relief in the fact that if you have purchased something you are not supporting "Big Business" in the least.

After spreadsheeting, I letterpressed.
New little baby letterpress, and a couple other custom and wholesale (eek!) projects. Plus the "SHE" prints above from a new art journal kit which will be released tomorrow along with FIVE fairy tale kits.

After letterpress land, Paul and I cleaned the bathroom and the kitchen. Good cleaned. Like scrubbing on your knees kind. Vern, we are ready for you to visit now. Get excited.

The night is winding down with wine and spaghetti and Dexter Season 2 on DVD.

My half birthday + my full day = very good.

last night.

Yesterday was good.

Today is busy.

Tomorrow, if I get everything on my list done, will go down as the most productive day in history.

fact : one must carry a little book.

I carry this around with me everywhere. It keeps my daily, weekly, and monthly craft to do lists. Who needs craft to do lists? Me. Because they keep me happy. Also inside are my ideas for letterpress, my random thoughts, my journal of sorts for the stuff that is too awkward to slap up on the blog. (I know...I should have kept the hair to myself.)

Right now the back of the book is filling up with "sketches" for my book. The real one that I am planning to release in December. The thing about self-publishing, is that you do not have to get approval from someone who knows about book releases. So instead I am relying on the biased excellent opinions of Paul and my mom. This will be interesting.