{"id":13923,"date":"2011-07-30T23:53:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T03:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=13923"},"modified":"2012-05-07T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T02:23:28","slug":"freebie-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/freebie-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Freebie Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13927\" title=\"Life-is-a-bowl-full-of-cher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Life-is-a-bowl-full-of-cher.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do not carry any printables<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/LoraleeLewis\"> in my store<\/a>.\u00a0 I only offer finished products that are shipped to your door.\u00a0 I wanted to give my clients a no fuss solution to fabulous parties.\u00a0 Hence, \u00a0no printables.\u00a0 No fuss.\u00a0 No running to Kinkos, no\u00a0pulling out the scissors or pulling out hair while trying to get your $200 printer to\u00a0print like a $2,000 printer. \u00a0 Just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/LoraleeLewis\">fabulous products <\/a>shipped to your door in beautiful packaging.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>That being said<\/em><\/strong>, I love DIY-ers.\u00a0 I consider myself a DIY-er at heart.\u00a0 Well, maybe more like a DIY-er<em>-ish <\/em>at heart.\u00a0\u00a0 Ladies, I&#8217;ll be honest. \u00a0I choose my battles.\u00a0 I may not make\u00a0ALL the\u00a0\u00a0h&#8217;orderves from scratch, but I&#8217;ll do the main dish and a\u00a0dessert served with a scoop of\u00a0homemade ice cream.\u00a0 It depends on the event, but generally I like to put my heart and soul into two or three things and then let the economy take care of the rest &#8211; just so I can look presentable at the\u00a0actual event.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried to do it all before and it&#8217;s always ended badly to be honest.\u00a0 My guests who were at those events and reading this know of what I am talking.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I digress.<\/p>\n<p>So for all those DIY-ers and DIY-er-ishs at heart out there, I am introducing Freebie Friday.\u00a0 A day where I give a free printable away here on the blog to DIY or DIY-ish.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And yes, today is Saturday.\u00a0 But there is no better time to start a tradition than the present, right?\u00a0 So here is my very first Freebie Friday&#8230; on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Life-is-a-bowl-full-of-cher.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13944\" title=\"Bowl-full-of-cherries-Loral\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bowl-full-of-cherries-Loral1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tag I created to attach to a little bowl full of cherries for\u00a0the ladies I\u00a0visit teach.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know what a visiting teacher is, I tell you about it later.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the many Mormon things that I do.\u00a0 It&#8217;s actually quite lovely.\u00a0\u00a0 You may have something very similar at your church.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, \u00a0 I purchased the little glass bowls at Walmart for a little over one dollar each.\u00a0 I then placed\u00a0three large\u00a0handfuls of cherries inside the bowl, threw some cellophane wrap over it all, and\u00a0tied it all together\u00a0with\u00a0some ribbon I had in my craft room.\u00a0 It turned out adorable in real life.\u00a0 The photos do not do it justice.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, if only I were a real photographer.\u00a0\u00a0 You would all be swooning.\u00a0\u00a0 Make your own, leave it on your mother-in-law&#8217;s doorstep,\u00a0and watch her swoon over you\u00a0&#8230; well, maybe that is\u00a0a step too far.\u00a0 But\u00a0we can all dream, can&#8217;t we?\u00a0 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 The whole project I estimate cost less than five dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4shared.com\/document\/AwSYjfWh\/Bowl_full_of_Cherries_Summer_F.html\">download the tag here in pdf format<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blog to you soon!\u00a0 Happy Freebie Friday on Saturday,<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" class=\"mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; top: 0px; left: -10000px;\">\ufeff<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylivesignature.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0 !important; background: transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/signatures.mylivesignature.com\/54489\/84\/CA43CE42B1A78F3D39348BC6A8DE1E18.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not carry any printables in my store.\u00a0 I only offer finished products that are shipped to your door.\u00a0 I wanted to give my clients a no fuss solution to fabulous parties.\u00a0 Hence, \u00a0no printables.\u00a0 No fuss.\u00a0 No running to Kinkos, no\u00a0pulling out the scissors or pulling out hair while trying to get your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052],"tags":[1568,1209,1567,1569,1297,1570],"class_list":["post-13923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorialsrecipes","tag-a-bowl-full-of-cherries","tag-buffet-labels","tag-cherries","tag-cherry-theme","tag-food-labels","tag-may-your-summer-be-a-bowl-full-of-cherries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}