thoughts on being a beginner.

just Elise this season chatting crafts, hobbies and life. This episode is about being a beginner and how important it is to understand how you learn best (and then lean into it instead of trying to fight it).

SHOWNOTES:

• Hygge and West wallpaper tutorials

• my blog post on what I learned about wallpapering

• my book

• Elyse Meyer’s instagram

• Urban Farmstead’s youtube channel

• my “epic garden” pinterest board

• The Power of Moments

• my blog

This week’s craft books:

• Groundbreaking Food Gardens by Niki Jaboor

• Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Hyping:

• REMINDER: the Get To Work Book shop will be temporarily closed from 6/15-7/11 while my family moves. Place your orders now! (Or at least before Wednesday, June 15.)

let's talk summer crafting.

just Elise this season chatting crafts, hobbies and life. This episode is about summer crafting. I share some of my favorites from past years and a few of my goals (crafting and otherwise) for this upcoming summer.

SHOWNOTES:

• cyanotype MAKE36 episode

• cyanotype solution kit via Blick, via Amazon, via Etsy

• sun printing paper

• HonestlyWTF ice-dying

• here’s the sheets I ice-dyed in summer 2020

• blog post about nail polish marbling on dishes

• blog post about nail polish marbling on notecards

• Oh Joy’s marbling reels

• marbling art kit

• DIY sewn robe baskets

• speedball stamp carving rubber

• Fresh as a Daisy quilt pattern

• Pretty Basic Ruffle Raglan by Homebody Fibers pattern

This week’s craft books:

• The Modern Natural Dyer by Kristine Vejar

• Journeys in Natural Dying by Kristine Vejar & Adrienne Rodriguez

Hyping:

• REMINDER: the Get To Work Book shop will be temporarily closed from 6/15-7/11 while my family moves. Place your orders now! (Or at least before Wednesday, June 15.)

thoughts on "style shifts."

just Elise this season chatting crafts, hobbies and life. This episode is about the big and small personal style changes I have been drifting toward lately. Includes why I think I am gravitating toward such a different look AND how I find inspiration for new projects.

SHOWNOTES:

• here’s some photos of our San Diego house on Instagram

• Big Dreams Daily Joys (my book!)

• here’s a video tour of Cripe Cottage

• here’s my San Diego house inspiration pinterest board vs. Cripe Cottage inspiration pinterest board

• (also for fun, here is the pinterest board I am building for the actual house — not the inspiration photos, so I can see it all together.)

• stripes in the girls' rooms

• green marble table

• hoop canopies for the girls

Book of the week:

• The Body by Bill Bryson

This week’s (semi) craft book:

• New Country Style

Hyping:

• The Get To Work Book shop will be temporarily closed from 6/15-7/11 while my family moves. Place your orders now! (Or at least before Wednesday, June 15.)