I'm Elise Blaha Cripe and I make stuff.

Once upon a time, I started an online blog called enJOY it. The year was 2005 and I was 20 and a junior in college. I used HTML coding to make the sidebars fancy and wrote about everything I found interesting. I kept sharing through graduation, finding a job, marrying my husband, launching my own business and having my kids. I wrote about crafts, goals, deployments and moves. Over the past 20 years, I grew and changed and the Internet did too. My work evolved to fit new online platforms and new life seasons, but at the core, I was always doing the same thing — trying my best to follow my interests and share authentically.

At the end of 2023, after 18 years online, I stepped back completely from creating and consuming content on the Internet. 2024 felt quiet as I slowly found my way through burnout. Without the overwhelm that comes from the constant scroll and content churn, I found it much easier to access creative flow state. And as a result, 2025 has felt expansive. I launched my newsletter Scattering Seeds to be a new home for this creative expanse.

I live in Northern California with my husband, our two tween daughters and our two perfect orange cats. We live in a overly-wallpapered cottage style home on a one acre property that came with an art house, a hobby vineyard and so much space for my epic cut flower garden. I love to read, knit, quilt, sew, throw pottery, and paint. I am not an expert at any one craft but I am absolutely an expert at trying all the crafts. For eight years I ran a planner business called Get to Work Book and in 2019 I published a book on goal-setting called Big Dreams, Daily Joys. You can get in touch by emailing elise[at]elisejoy.com.