enJOY it by Elise Blaha Cripe

summer minibook update #5.

Hooray! More progress! I talk about this a bit at the beginning of the video, but I want to mention it again : I am putting no emphasis on "daily updates" to this album. Whatever says "SUMMER" (in all caps) gets in. And whatever doesn't say "SUMMER" stays out. This is keeping the pressure off and this project fun. Keep in mind, there are a million ways to collect a season in a book, this one just works for me.

I ended up building the last couple pages shown above on video to walk you through the process. Spoiler alert : I made (and make) a few errors during production and show you how I work around them.

real time book update from elise blaha on Vimeo.

Hoping to do some fun stuff and get another video update together by the end of the week.

LINKS :

• summer book!
• paper trimmer
• pretty BUY LOCAL calendar

New to this project? Check out this page for alllll the summer book information you never knew you wanted.

i'm doing some late spring cleaning.

And some things were just too nice and meaningful to just give away.

So I have a few (emphasis on a few) items listed here. All prices include US shipping. Please email me (elise.blaha AT gmail.com) if you are interested or have questions!

thanks so much. elise

summer story number one.

When I was about four or five, I remember measuring summers by the number of scabs and scars on my knees. I remember thinking "I fell down nine times this summer." I also remember loosing track of all the big tear-jerking tumbles I took down the driveway. I had scrapes on top of scrapes and they all represented that I had spent time outside after the long Minnesota* winters. And then I grew up. And spent many, many summers without knee scrapes, scabs or band-aids. Then today, on Front and Grape, I wiped out hard on a run. I stood up, embarrassed and shaky, and cried all the way home. I cleaned and bandaged my new someday-scar and remembered all those little girl summers where it was all worth it, just to be outside.

*yep, we lived in MN until 1992 when my dad's job brought us out to California.

hands at work.

inspired by this pretty post.

inspired by :

This is as random as it gets.* But I was so inspired by this image of crewcuts kids tees from the June J.Crew catalog. Not inspired to have kids. Or to buy t-shirts. Or even to make t-shirts.

BUT TO TURN THESE T-SHIRTS INTO PAPER PROJECTS.

Expect a black and white high contrast photo to be printed on neon paper in the near future. And a loose sketch filled in with watercolors. And let's not forget some paint stamped stars. And obviously my summer minibook needs a sequined exclamation point.

So inspiring. Tacking this page up on the wall for sure.

*That's a lie. Have you seen the college year archives?