DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: July 2017

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!!!!!!

Monday, July 24, 2017

Summer Kitchen, Part 3, 2017

Welcome!!

Today, I will be sharing Part 3 of my Summer Kitchen Series!!

But first, I want to Thank Karren, over at Oh My Heartsie Girl, for featuring my post, Summer Kitchen, Part 1, from last week's Friday Feature Linky Party!!

Thanks so much, Karren!!!

In previous posts, I have been sharing how my Kitchen looks this Summer.........

In Part 1, I shared this area of the Kitchen.......

Click HERE if you missed it........

In Part 2, I shared this area of the Kitchen........

If you missed this post, please click HERE........

Today, I will be sharing what's on top of the refrigerator and the shelf above the counter bar........

Let's start with the top of the refrigerator........

I do have a lot of vintage Kitchen items including a lot of canning jars.......

A vintage cherry pie plate........

A green handled egg beater hangs from the shelf....

A reproduction vintage style clock is on the wall in the corner........

A vintage looking ceramic plaque hangs below the clock.......

Now we will move over to the wall that borders the Dining Room........

This is the area above the counter bar......

On this long shelf, I have displayed a few vintage and reproduction Kitchen pieces........

I'll give you a closer look........

I recently added some vintage syl spice bottles to the shelf......

The vintage style canisters were bought at The Christmas Tree Shop a few years ago......

A vintage egg plate with matching salt and pepper shakers......

A vintage pitcher......

More vintage pieces........ A tole tray, roosters and an egg cup!!!

An Uncle Ben's can from a neighbor........

A vintage sifter and a martini shaker filler with pasta!!!!

A neighbor gave me this vintage Chlorox bottle!!! How cool is that!!!!!

The vintage Beer Tray from Standard Brewing Co, here in Scranton was my Dad's......

I bought the rooster salt and pepper shakers at a yard sale......

The starch canister was bought at The Christmas Tree Shop.......

And more vintage style items on this end of the shelf.......

This shelf is above the pass through to the dining room which I have blocked by creating a fake window with a piece of stained glass, shutters and a valance.......

3 different garland is hung on the valance.........

A floral garland, a feed sack garland and an apple garland........

In the center, hangs an egg wreath that I actually bought a few years ago at Micheal's after Easter one year for 90% off!!!!

I'll keep this up until the Fall......

A white valance provides a nice back drop for the garlands and wreath.......

I hope you enjoyed seeing some of my vintage Kitchen treasures.......

In future posts, I will be sharing a few more vintage items in my Kitchen....

And I will also be sharing what I have been crafting to use to decorate the 6 foot white Tree in our Living Room for the remainder of the Summer.......

So I hope you will be back to visit again soon.......

I am linking up to these parties:

TUESDAY
Show and Share Party
Tuesdays At Our Home
Inspire Me Tuesdays

The Scoop

Tuesdays with a Twist

Brag About It Tuesday Linky Party
Let's Talk Vintage

WEDNESDAY

Fluster's Creative Muster Wednesday's

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
Moonlight and Mason Jars Link Party
Dagmar's Home Linky Party
Wednesday AIM Linky Party
Waste Not Wednesday

THURSDAY
Home and Garden Party Thursday
Share Your Cup Thursday
Share Your Style Thursday Link Up Party
Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop
  Inspired Creations Linky Party
Vintage Charm
Grace at Home Party
The Homemaking Party
Create and Celebrate Blog Party

FRIDAY
Home Sweet Home Friday
Friday Features Linky Party
Foodie Friday and Everything Else
Funtastic Friday
Friday Favorites
Home Matters Linky Party
What To Do Weekends
  Friday's Five Features Party
  Flaunt It Fridays
Sweet Inspirations Link Party

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

SUNDAY
Snickerdoodle Sunday
Bouquet of Talent Linky Party
Sundays at Home
Silver Pennies Sunday
Happiness is Homemade Linky Party

MONDAY
Inspire Me Monday
Inspiration Mondays
Dishing It and Digging It Link Party
Busy Monday

Amaze Me Mondays
Creative Mondays
Over the Moon Linky Party
Merry Monday Linky Party
You Are The Star Blog Hop
The Art of Making Home- Making Mondays

What'd You Do This Weekend?
Cooking and Crafting with J & J
Metamorphosis Monday
Lou Lou Girl's Linky Party
Make It Pretty Monday

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

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Newly Crafted Patriotic Ornaments, 2017

Welcome!!

I wanted to share with you some ornaments that I made and some that I embellished to use for my Patriotic Summer Tree in the Living Room!!

I have been going through all my Craft supplies and creating things for myself since I decided to no longer be a Crafter at local craft fairs for now......

So when I found a small tub of things that could be used for Patriotic ornaments, I thought I better do some "dabbling" with them before I take down my Patriotic Summer Tree!!

I will be linking up this post to the Christmas in July Party because it shows how you can decorate a "Tree" for other seasons and Holidays!!

I bought these paper mache stars when our local A.C.Moore store went out of business and closed......

I spray painted them blue.........

I had some patriotic flag toothpicks left over from when I used them to decorate my Victorian doll house......

I cut the flags off the toothpicks and then decoupaged them on to the stars......

I then glued a red tinsel trim, white beads and red and silver stars to the ornaments.......

I used blue velvet ribbon to create the ornament hanger.......

I did not have enough flags for the last blue star so I used some white paint to highlight the star and then glued on the red tinsel trim, white beads and red and silver stars......

I also had 2 flat paper mache stars.......

So I painted them white and added the trim and beads and stars........

I also glued vintage looking Patriotic tags onto each one........

I had 3 bags of stars....red, blue and silvers ones so I decided to embellish a few plain ornaments that I already had on the Tree......

I also had a blue felt star trim in my stash so I embellished a few more ornaments using the trim........

Joe received these 2 Patriotic coasters through the mail for donating to a Veteran's group so I decided to make them into ornaments!!

You can see how the one on the left looked before I embellished it.......

So here are some of the ornaments that I "dabbled" with.......

And here they are on the Tree.........

Let's take a closer look........

I will probably be "un-decorating" this Tree at the end of July and decorating it differently for the remainder of the Summer but I am going to leave that a secret until I finish it.......

In my next post, I will continue with my Summer Kitchen Series.......