I'm Elise Blaha Cripe and I make stuff.

I started a blog in 2005 because I wanted to share my thoughts with the Internet. A year later, I began sharing craft projects and tutorials. In 2008, I opened my first online shop and since then, I have made and sold everything from letterpress prints to wooden plant stands to cross-stitch kits to wheel thrown ceramics.

A big part of my online presence centered around making and working toward big goals. In 2015, I launched the brand GET TO WORK BOOK® which provided tools to help people get their goals organized and do the work to reach them.

I am the author of Big Dreams, Daily Joys, an empowering guide to establishing healthy productivity habits so that it's easy (and fun!) to accomplish long-term goals. The book was published by Chronicle Books in 2019 and filled with everything I had learned about creating space for what I love.

At the end of 2023, I closed all of my online businesses and chose to step away from the Internet. It’s been 18 years(!) and I am ready to push pause for a bit and see what my creativity looks like when I am not sharing my life and work so publicly.

I cannot wait to see what happens next.