{"id":705,"date":"2014-02-12T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T15:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/?p=705"},"modified":"2014-08-25T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:15:26","slug":"downloadables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/downloadables\/","title":{"rendered":"Downloadables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I quite enjoy whiling away the odd bit of free time creating my own templates, page layouts, and the like. It&#8217;s a side effect of the whole tech comms thing. But an odd bit of free time doesn&#8217;t tend to coincide with an urgent need for a printable resource.<\/p>\n<p>The internet, though, is a mad place of infinite wonder and abundent with lovely printables\/downloadables that someone else has needed, created, and been gracious enough to share.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples below &#8211; some of which I&#8217;ve used, and some I&#8217;ve just found now to illustrate a point! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stuck for a piece of graph paper &#8211; bog standard, or wildly unusual &#8211; don&#8217;t have time to go visit a stationers, and lack the patience to spend your evening trying to draw your own? A quick search for &#8220;free downloadable graph paper&#8221; should point you at sites like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/incompetech.com\/graphpaper\/\" target=\"_blank\">incompetech.com\/graphpaper\/.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kids learning to write and need extra sheets from those weird copy books with the extra lines showing you were the rising and falling bits of their letters should end? Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printablepaper.net\/category\/penmanship\" target=\"_blank\">printablepaper.net\/category\/penmanship<\/a><br \/>\n(I did actually spend too much time with Excel trying to reinvent the wheel before finding that one!)<\/li>\n<li>How about handwriting sheets with letters\/words ready to trace? How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handwritingworksheets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">handwritingworksheets.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worksheetworks.com\/english\/writing\/handwriting.html\" target=\"_blank\">worksheetworks.com\/english\/writing\/handwriting.html<\/a>. Both of these sites will even let you specify what practice text you want on the sheet.<\/li>\n<li>And it doesn&#8217;t have to be all about academic stuff. How about a printable garden planner, so that you can make the most of your outside space? Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/frugalliving.about.com\/od\/gardening\/ss\/Printable-Garden-Notebook.htm\" target=\"_blank\">frugalliving.about.com\/od\/gardening\/ss\/Printable-Garden-Notebook.htm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Or tracking household stuff, like family schedules, memberships\/subscriptions, meal plans, and the like. There are sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenesteffect.com\/p\/free-printables.html\" target=\"_blank\">thenesteffect.com\/p\/free-printables.html<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The resources out there really are endless. Many are free, some ask for a contribution if you find them useful, and if you go looking you can find paid for offerings too &#8211; often, but not always, of a superior quality.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve stumbled across a gem the world deserves to know about, do give it a shout out in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I quite enjoy whiling away the odd bit of free time creating my own templates, page layouts, and the like. It&#8217;s a side effect of the whole tech comms thing. But an odd bit of free time doesn&#8217;t tend to coincide with an urgent need for a printable resource. The internet, though, is a mad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/downloadables\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Downloadables&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,12,34],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-productivity","tag-search","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}