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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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" IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN"
George Eliot

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

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Monday, August 3, 2026

"Under the Sea" Tree and Beach, Coastal/Nautical Living Room, 2026

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

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....

I will be posting 3 times a week on MONDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS....

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In my last post, I shared how I decorated the entry in the Living Room in a Coastal/Nautical theme....

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

And now for a few Personal Notes...

For the New Year, I am trying something different with my 3 times weekly posts....

On THURSDAYS, I will feature what I cooked and ate during the week, showcasing local cuisine and a few recipes for things that I actually made...

I decided that on SATURDAYS, I will showcase What I Have Been Up To in the past week, sharing events and places I went to, if any....

On MONDAYS, I will be featuring What I Have Bought or Been Gifted Recently, if anything...

Well, what did I buy recently since it is MONDAY???

I have been stocking up on rechargeable batteries as I do go through large quantities of batteries and they add up in price pretty quickly.....

Last year, I ordered the charger from Walmart so I have stuck with the same brand of batteries.....

I have both AA and AAA.....

I also ordered these disc batteries for the candles that I have for my chandy that hangs above my bed and in a few votive cups in the sconces in the hallway upstairs.....

If you order over $35 of merchandise from Walmart that they themselves ship, you are not charged any shipping fees......

And you do not need to apply for the membership....

UPDATE on my CRAFT ROOM

I mentioned in Saturday's post that I have been working in my Craft Room...

Well,,,,,the end is finally near....

Every tub, box, drawer has been gone through, purged and reorganized....

The Craft Room and the Sitting Room closets are cleaned out and reorganized,....

The Craft Room furniture has been rearranged, everything is now labeled with new stickers, everything has been cleaned and you will laugh at this one.....

The room has been redecorated for Christmas!

I decided not to take everything down and pack it away, only to have to bring it all out and put it up in 2 months again...

I did have to change how I decorated for Christmas as I was able to remove a shelf unit from the room and lost the top of it as a display area...

I plan on sharing all that in an August Rudolph Day post on my Christmas Blog, A Debbie-Dabble Christmas....

And the rest of the Craft Room at the end of August...

Today, on Day 8, I still have some things to go through, take down a folding table that I use as an extra work space that has been up for 3 years and run the sweeper before calling this massive project DONE!!!!!

I will be sharing how my "new" Craft Room looks at the end of this month...

I will be sharing Sneak Peeks on my Face Book Page...

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Today, I will be continuing my tour of the Living Room decorated in a Coastal/Nautical theme and will be sharing my Seasonal Tree in the Living Room.....

But first I want to go back to my last post when I shared that I moved the chandy that once hung here somewhere else in the Living Room......

You can see it in this picture taken earlier in the Summer.....

I seldom even turned it on when it was here....

I replaced it with an air plant as I did not want to obstruct the view of my Fur Babies portrait that was painted and gifted to me by a reader of my Blogs.........

This is where I moved it to.......

You may remember the I recently "aged" the faux brick wall in my Living Room.....

I wanted to lighten it up a bit and I am really happy with the way it looks.....

So to brighten it up even more, I realized that I had another Hook in the ceiling above the Tree where a swag lamp once hung about 40 years ago....

When I moved it over to this corner, at first I was not sure about it.....

Because I was not sure how it would work with the Tree decorated.....

I bought this about 20 years ago at 75% off for $10.....

I decided that I would leave it there and live with it and I could always take it down when I decorate for Autumn....

I then started to decorate the Tree in my Coastal/Nautical theme for late Summer....

I started with the aqua deco mesh that I made into a garland....

Next I added a rope that came right out of my storage room.....

I pretty much decorated the Tree like I have in the past ...

With many ornaments which I made from shells picked on Miami Beach by my late neighbor Elly....

She meticulously cleaned them and separated them when she lived in Miami during the Winters when her husband was still alive....

And her sons were going to throw them out so I rescued them and made ornaments out of them!!!!!

I also made other ornaments to decorate this Tree in an "Under the Sea" theme....

I also bought some and was gifted some over the last few years....

I am going to let the pictures of the Tree do the talking......

And now we get to the Beach under the Tree which is different this year....

The tablecloth that I used for several years saw it's last day last year.....

My late husband Joe bought this vinyl tablecloth for $1 on clearance and I was about to donate it to a church flea market when I thought the color of it looks like sand!!!

So I used it as the sand on my beach....

This was half of a mailbox cover that Joe also bought but I decided to use as a background....

I cut the other half of it to fit as a background for these lanterns that I shared in a previous post.....

I have changed up a few things on the Beach too....

To the left of the Tree.....

I added this white branch tree that I bought at Ollie's this past year.....

Wood pilings that I made from Pringles cans and shells that I decorated......

A close up taken a few years ago....

The seahorse was gifted to me by my late friend Anne Marie ....

Joe bought the mermaid in Big Lot's and I bought the sign in Dollar Tree and embellished it....

To the right of the Tree.....

One of 2 lighthouses I made from clay pots for myself....

I made another one like this one on my front porch and gifted it to my niece Renae....

Instead of a solar light, I placed a battery operated candle on top of the indoor one...

I am very happy with the way this decorated Tree looks with the "new" Beach and the chandy above it...

My son Joey likes the light there too because he agrees that it does light this corner of the Living Room up as it was a dark corner with just the Tree there....

I do want to mention that I have had an uplight behind the Tree for a few years now.....

And I want to finish by sharing something I usually do not get to see......

A Sunrise from my front porch!!

I was up early one day last week so these pictures where taken between 5:30 am and 5:45 am.....

The Sun rises in the mornings over the woods on the one side of me and sets over the Shopping Center on the other side of me....

I hope you will stop by to visit again on THURSDAY for my next post in which I will be finishing up my tour of the Living Room decorated for late Summer in a Coastal/Nautical theme...

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

And try to find JOY in every single day!

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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