{"id":15196,"date":"2011-10-10T01:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T05:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2012-05-07T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:22:41","slug":"announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ladies I have a few announcements I have wanted to share! \u00a0And I know I should break them up like a good Blogger, \u00a0but ya’ll know me better than that. \u00a0When I have good news and I am in the mood to share – I just let all the cats out of the bag. \u00a0So here it goes…<\/span><\/p>\n

1) \u00a0\u00a0Mr. Lewis and I are adopting another little girl.<\/strong><\/em> (Of course, I am tearing up while I type this. \u00a0I swear adopted mothers are spiritually injected with pregnancy hormones right before their children come home! I happy cry at the drop of a hat these days!) \u00a0Our new daughter (unexpectedly) fell in our laps several weeks back and now we are in the middle of adopting her from The Congo. \u00a0She is three years old. \u00a0To put it bluntly, we are beyond overjoyed! \u00a0Of course, there is always new-mom jitters. \u00a0I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t nervously eating more cookies than usual. \u00a0But whenever I get nervous about the whole thing, I just pull out her picture, set down the\u00a0 bag of cookies<\/del> cookie, \u00a0and a peace comes over me. Then I don’t worry anymore. \u00a0But I generally do finish the cookie(s) I set down. \u00a0 It is so wonderful how God plans families. \u00a0He knows when a piece is missing and He knows where each piece belongs. \u00a0 And as I trust in His plan for me, it always seems to work out. \u00a0A post about me learning these lessons can be found here<\/a>! \u00a0I will keep you posted as we get closer to bringing her home.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) With the announcement of our new 3 year old baby girl, I wanted to show you a sneak peek into my new custom Baby and Christmas Cards that I am offering. \u00a0To be completely honest with you, I have shied away from photo cards for some time now. \u00a0I have always felt that you cannot design a photo card without seeing the client’s photo first. There are hundreds of photo card templates out there that look stunning with a sample photo inside them. \u00a0But very few people’s photos coordinate as beautifully with the template as the sample photo it was created with! That is why I personally, will be adjusting and tweaking each photo card to coordinate perfectly with your photos. \u00a0There is no “plop in the photo” and print over here. \u00a0All Birth Announcement and Greeting cards will be customized around your personal photos. \u00a0 <\/em> So send me your photos and I will send you a little fabulous back. \u00a0Below is a sneak peek of one I just did for a client. \u00a0This one is fun because it’s double sided. \u00a0 If you like this, you are going to love the Christmas photo cards I have up my sleeve with timelines on the back!<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>3) With our new little girl on her way and me realizing that I will now have a 5, 4, 3, and 2 year old \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0 I not only bulked up on sleeping aides, but also employees! \u00a0After the Emmys kicked my patootie, I buckled down and hired a slew of talented and cute-as-can-be employees that are A-mAzing! \u00a0So now I have TRIPLE the staff<\/em><\/strong> I used to! \u00a0Fantastic<\/em>. Now if I could only get them to do floors. \u00a0Floors are my kryptonite. \u00a0 As of this past week, almost all orders are being shipped within four to five days of payment being received! \u00a0I don’t know about you, but I love a quick turnaround. \u00a0So this was definitely announcement worthy. \u00a0 If you haven’t ordered for Halloween – there is now still plenty of time!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4) Here are a few things to look forward to this week, as well: \u00a0Baby Max’s 1st Birthday, Babiekins Magazine Winter Party Photo Shoot Sneak Peeks, \u00a0and a How To on baking Pumpkin Cupcakes inside mini Pumpkin Shells! \u00a0Ladies, the pumpkin shell cupcakes are so cute, I almost died when they came out of the oven. \u00a0 Here’s a teaser of Max’s Birthday…<\/p>\n

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Ladies I have a few announcements I have wanted to share! \u00a0And I know I should break them up like a good Blogger, \u00a0but ya’ll know me better than that. \u00a0When I have good news and I am in the mood to share – I just let all the cats out of the bag. \u00a0So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018,20,1027,1034,1035],"tags":[1409,1406,1408,1154,1143,1141,1138,1410,1142,1140,1139,1153,1137,1407,1358,1359,1360],"class_list":["post-15196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption-catharsis","category-babyshowers","category-birthdays","category-lewis-family-2","category-invitation-collections","tag-adoption-announcements","tag-baby-announcements","tag-birth-announcements","tag-birthday-invitations","tag-childrens-birthday","tag-childrens-party","tag-childrens-party-invitations","tag-circus-birthday-party","tag-kids-birthday","tag-kids-party","tag-kids-party-invitations","tag-loralee-lewis-design","tag-party-invitations","tag-photo-cards","tag-themed-party-invitations","tag-vintage-birthday-invitations","tag-vintage-party-invitations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196","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=15196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}