DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: March 2016

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!!!!

I DABBLE IN A BIT OF THIS AND THAT!!!!

" 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......

BLOGGING FOR FUN AND FRIENDSHIP!!!!!!

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter in the Kitchen, Part 2, 2016

Happy Easter to you!!!!

I wanted to get in all my Easter posts before Easter and I made it with this being my last Easter post for this year!!

However, I will not be linking this post up to my weekly parties until later in the week.......

I am off and will be enjoying Dinner with my family today!

I will be serving Turkey, Ham, Keilbasi, Mashed Potatoes and Turkey Gravy, Sausage Stuffing and Corn!!

I hope you get to spend Easter with those that you love!!

First, I want to Thank Laurie ,over at My Husband Has Too Many Hobbies, for featuring my post, Easter "Mantle", from last week's Snickerdoodle Sunday Party!!

Thanks so much , Laurie!!

Please stop by and link up to this great party!!

In my last post, I shared the hutch in our Kitchen decorated for Easter.......

If you missed it , please click HERE ......

In this post, I am sharing the rest of the Easter decorations in the Kitchen......

Where the Kitchen window once was......

Something new here is the Galley sign........

It used to hang above the counter bar.......

You can see that I have my summer garland and rose lights hanging .......

And bird houses......

I hung a bunny and some eggs from the tea cup chandy.....

Again, I tried to keep the Easter decorations in the same color theme as the Kitchen....red, green and yellow......

Looking out into the Den........

On the "window sill"........

Bunnies, a chick and a Pysanky Egg.....

Click HERE if you would like to read about Pysanky Eggs......

A tree and chicks......

Since I have a lot of copper pieces in the kitchen , I thought these 2 copper colored eggs would be perfect here.......

The chicks were bought at Michael's for 90% off along with the tree.......

Another Pysanky Egg......

On top of the refrigerator......

Some jars filled with green and yellow eggs and one filled with jelly beans......

The yellow Bunny was mine as a child......

This was gifted to me by a friend.......

Over above the counter bar........

I hung an egg wreath that already had a yellow ribbon bow and I added red ribbon to it.......

My Summer garland and sugar and flour sack garland......

I will be showing you more of this area in my next post as I did something different to the counter bar area.......

Shutters!!!

So I hope you will come by and visit again!!

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

If you do not have a blog, PLEASE give me some way to reply to your comment, maybe by including your email in your comment. If I can not find a way to reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check back......

Hugs,
Debbie

I am linking up to this Easter party.......

Easter Inspirations Linky Party

I am linking up to these weekly parties:

THURSDAY
The Homemaking Party
It's a Party
Share Your Style Thursday Link Up Party

Treasure Hunt Thursdays

Home and Garden Party Thursday
Share Your Cup Thursday
Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop
Inspired Creations Linky Party
My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday
Idea Box- Thursday Linky Party
Thoughts of Home on Thursday
Grace at Home Party
Vintage Charm

FRIDAY
Simple and Sweet Fridays
The Creative Exchange
Home Sweet Home Friday
Friday Features Linky Party
Foodie Friday and Everything Else
Home Matters Linky Party
Funtastic Friday
Friday Favorites
Welcome to the Weekend Blog Hop
What To Do Weekends
Friday's Five Features Party
Flaunt It Fridays
Five Star Frou Frou Party

SATURDAY
Pink Saturday
Best of the Weekend Party
The Creative Collection Link Party
Simple Saturdays Blog Hop
Saturday Sparks

SUNDAY
Share It One More Time Sundays
DIY SHowcase
Snickerdoodle Sunday
Sundays at Home
Share It Sunday
Bouquet of Talent Linky Party
Silver Pennies Sunday
Happiness is Homemade Linky Party

MONDAY
Inspiration Mondays
Busy Monday

Amaze Me Mondays
Creative Mondays
Inspire Me Monday
Merry Monday Linky Party

The Art of Making Home- Making Mondays

What'd You Do This Weekend?
Cooking and Crafting with J & J
Metamorphosis Monday
Make It Pretty Monday
Tea Time,Cottage and Garden Blog Party

TUESDAY
Show and Share Party
No Place Like Home Party

Tuesdays At Our Home
Tweak It Tuesdays
Inspire Me Tuesdays
The Scoop

Lou Lou Girl's Linky Party
Tips and Tricks Linky Party
You're Gonna Love It Tuesdays

Tuesdays with a Twist

Brag About It Tuesday Linky Party

Let's Talk Vintage

WEDNESDAY

Fluster's Creative Muster Wednesday's

Wake Up Wednesdays
Ducks in a Row Wonderful Wednesdays Blog Hop
Wow Us Wednesday
Sizzle into Summer Party
Talk of the Town Party
Party in Your PJ's
Dream Create Inspire Link

Please take some time to visit these terrific hosts and all those joining in on the fun!

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Easter in the Kitchen, Part 1, 2016

Today, I would like to share my Easter decorations in the Kitchen..........

I am doing this in 2 posts with this being Part 1.......

I always call this my Focal Wall in the Kitchen.......

In this post, I will be sharing my hutch......

I like to decorate this hutch for the different Holidays and Seasons.....

The shelves in the hutch are now displaying my "regular" Kitchen stuff!!

But I wanted to add a bit of Easter so I hung a few things on the hutch........

I hung an Easter plaque and a set of Easter dishes on a rack.......

My Kitchen is decorated in red, green and yellow so I tried to look for Easter things in those colors......

The yellow plaque was bought at Michael's.......

And the Easter rack and dishes were a gift........

I used red and yellow ribbons to hang the rack.......

This hutch is actually a desk and top of a piece of bedroom furniture that I married together many years ago.

I mainly use the desk area for my Seasonal and Holiday displays.......

Again, trying to keep with the red and yellow Easter color theme.......

I thought that yellow Easter chicks would work well......

Vintage style paper eggs in a container bought at Michaels......

A green Easter egg plaque.......

This egg was made by my MIL in ceramics class many years ago........

The words are Polish and mean "Happy Easter"!

I was lucky enough to find a bag of Pysanky Eggs at a Flea Market several years ago......

Pysanky Eggs were made by the Eastern Europeans, such as the Polish ( of which we are descendants of ), the Russians, the Lithuanians and the Slovaks who settled in this area in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Click HERE if you would like to read about Pysanky Eggs......

Joe always comments on spending most of his time in Catholic School around Easter, being taught to make Pysanky Eggs by the nuns!!!

The Catholic School he went to was run by the "Russian" Greek Orthodox Church that is laterally in his parent's back yard. The "Polish" Church that his family actually belonged to , did not have a school so most of the children in the town went to the "Russian" Church's School.

This is the same church where the women of the parish make and sell home made Pierogies weekly through out the year!!

They sell them already cooked , with butter and onions in these nice containers for a mere $6.00 a dozen. We usually stock up on about 10 dozen and pop them in the freezer and just pop them in the microwave for a quick meal.

They taste just like the ones my Mother used to make!!

The cute chick dish was bought at Michael's for 90% off on Clearance in Michael's.....

The cabbage bowl came from a neighbor.......

Another vintage style paper egg.....

Bunnies, Chicks and a Lamp......

Underneath the desk........

An Easter bottle bought at The Christmas Tree Shop.......

And a few eggs......

On the side of the hutch......

Again, my feeble attempt at chalkboard art for Easter........

And that ends this post on Part 1 of my Easter decorations in the Kitchen......

In my next post, I will be sharing Part 2 of my Easter decorations in the Kitchen......

So I hope you will come by and visit again!!

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

If you do not have a blog, PLEASE give me some way to reply to your comment, maybe by including your email in your comment. If I can not find a way to reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check back......

Hugs,
Debbie

I am linking up to this Easter party.......