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I am a Victorian Soul, who lives in a small townhouse that was built in the mid 1970's, not a huge Mega Mansion!! I just recently lost my Hubby Joe, who was a Retired Letter Carrier. I worked night shift as an RN on a Hospital based Rehabilitation( Physical Medicine) Unit for 37 years before I had Knee Replacement Surgery and officially Retired in 2019 after 41 years working in Direct Patient Care ... I am so glad that we retired at 62 years of age and got to spend that time together before he passed....I still do love Retirement!!!!

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George Eliot was actually a pen name for a woman named Mary Anne Evans......

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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Winter Woodland in the Den, Part 1, 2025

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

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Blogging has always been a stress reliever for me along with an avenue to share my passions which are my home and my garden.....

I feel it is a personal Journal that, hopefully, someday, my Twin Granddaughters will be able to look back on to learn about who I was....

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In my last post, I shared that I have checked off a few Goals on my list for January...

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

I want to Thank Julie, over at My Wee Abode, for featuring my post, One Little Word & Theme for the Year, from last week's Tuesday Turn About Link Party!!

Thanks so much, Julie!

Also Thanks to Becky, over at Vixen's Den Studio, for choosing my post, Good Bye 2024, Hello 2025, New Year's Celebration, as one of her features from last week's Whimsy Home Wednesday Link Party...

Thanks again, Becky!!

Please stop by and link up to these charming parties!!

Well, I finally got my decorating Mo Jo back.....

And I finally started to pack away Christmas inside the house....

I did so outside in front of the house in the first week of January before the snow and frigid weather hit...

But with high temps. only in the 20's for 9 days straight, I was in no mood to go up into that frozen attic to bring the tubs down...

We had a short 3 day break of temps. actually above 32 degrees so I hauled all the tubs I needed down to change over the Den to Winter...

I also was able to cross another Quarterly Goal off my list....

Change over Den to Winter.....FINISHED!!

So today, I am going to share half of the Den decorated for Winter....

We will start to the left side when you walk into the room from the Kitchen.....

The first door is to a storage room and the other one is the Pantry closet.....

Today, I updated 3 Winter wreaths that I made for the Den several years ago....

I added some snowballs and mitten ornaments to this one that I made using a Dollar Tree sign....

The one on the storage room door....

I added Dollar Tree owls to this one....

And hung 2 snowmen face ornaments from Dollar Tree on each side of it.....

Along with a large snowflake that I bought in Penney's many years ago....

My Cynthia Hart Victorian calendar, that my friend Anne Marie gifted me, hangs on the Pantry closet door....

Anne Marie is still in the hospital.....

Please kindly remember her in your prayers...

My corner of the Den.....

This is where I always sat when Joe was watching Hockey in the Living Room....

When he became ill, I stopped sitting in here and really have not sat in here since then....

But I decided to change that as I forgot how much I enjoyed this little corner....

For Winter, I like to decorate the Den with Owls, Birds and Snowmen.....

I shopped my own home as the flocked swag came out of my Powder Room....

I received these owls as a gift from my neighbor a few years ago....

The small flocked trees were in the Living Room for Christmas.....

Another owl and a birdhouse....

I love how you can see the reflection of the flocked tree in the mirror....

On the side of the TV.....

On the reproduction oak Ice Chest that I bought at an estate sale for $15 and use as a TV stand......

Trying to disguise the DVD player and the Roku for streaming...

A hand made wooden sled that Joe bought for me from the Amish Farmer.....

The Snowman Collector slate was my late neighbor Elly's...

In the corner....

Since this was once part of a storage room, that is the electrical box which my Dad build a cover for....

I will be having it replaced in the Spring as it is a no longer up to code Federal Pacific box that is known to cause fires......

Along with the old phone box which is next to it....

2 Thomas Kinkade Winter scenes that I framed....

The end table in the corner....

I left the tin pocket filled with the greenery that I had placed in it for Christmas....

I placed one of my late neighbor Elly's snowmen from her collection on top of the vintage phone.....

I left some of the thing here on the table from Christmas.....

I recently bought 2 of these plates, for only 50 cents each, at Hobby Lobby using a gift card I had...

They both had chips on the left side.....

I knew what I wanted to use them for and that I could easily disguise those chips for a mere 50 cents, down from $12.99 originally....

I simply added the plate here, placing a bottle brush tree in front of the chip in the plate.......

I took away a Santa that matched the snowman under the glass dome and replaced it with a tree.....

I also added the snowman sign "Wanted...One Magic Hat"

I bought the tree throw on the ottoman last year....

I have enjoyed sitting in this chair again over the last few days....

Above my chair...

I did do things a bit differently here this year from previous years....

On the shelf up by the ceiling.....

I placed 2 bottle brush trees inside a blue transferware creamer and sugar bowl, along with 2 Winter birds....

Which I bought a few years back in Gabes with 2 of these plates....

This year, I moved this picture, which lights up, from the hall where I had it for Christmas, here...

I placed white snowflake ornaments behind the sconces and added a pine cone clip and 2 more snowman face ornaments from Dollar General....

I kept out a light post that I used on top of the china cupboard for Christmas, added the other plate, another bird and another flocked tree to the shelf under the picture....

The pine cones were picked from the side of our road last year....

On top of the chair.....

One Magic Hat and a dapper looking snowman....

I kept out the Christmas pillow as it goes well with the lighted picture....

The "Snuggle" on the arm of the chair is nice and warm around my neck when sitting here....

The back door....

A "Let it Snow" sign above the door....

I hung a snowflake garland and snowflakes on the valance...

And a Winter wreath that I made on the door....

I added the more snowflakes and snowballs to it....

On the side of the door....

On the shelf below the Thomas Kinkade 4 Seasons clock.....

The owl was bought in Gabes and I placed a flocked tree in a container I bought at a church flea market last year...

And this is where I will leave off for today.....

In my next post on SATURDAY, I will be sharing the rest of the Den decorated for Winter including 3 Trees....

So I hope you will stop by to visit again on SATURDAY.....

Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!

Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

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