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Friday, January 31, 2020

3 Red and Gold Valentine's Trees in the Living Room, 2020 and Why I Am Celebrating Today

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!
I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

Today, I will be sharing the 3 Valentine's Trees in our Living Room which is decorated in red and gold for Valentine's Day and the month of February which is America Heart Month.....

But before I go any further, I want to mention something that I have usually kept to myself other years here on the Blog as I do not like making a big deal about it....

Today is my Birthday........

I may have mentioned it in briefly here on my blog in past years but always after it was already over....

For the past 33 years, after my Mother sold the house that I grew up in 3 months after my Dad passed away, I have chosen to forego the big Birthday family celebration that my Mother had insisted upon which consisted of a family dinner that included my sister and her whole family with everyone singing Happy Birthday and a big spectacle of opening presents....
I hated this type of the thing since I was a kid......I always felt silly and on display...

32 years ago, I chose to celebrate it very quietly, usually always working on my Birthday unless it fell on a regularly scheduled day off, with just a nice Take Home dinner from a favorite restaurant, at home, with Joe and our sons......

Can I tell you how this annoyed my Mother when she was alive????  She hated how I chose to celebrate my Birthday and that it did not include her...

Joe and I stopped exchanging gifts about 2 decades ago....

Now please do not interpret this as some sort of Rebellion against Aging or anything like that....

 In fact, as a cancer survivor, I have been very grateful to celebrate one more year of being alive....
 And I embrace getting older and am not fearful of it.......

But I believe in doing it with grace and dignity.....

It is just not my "Thing" to make a big splash, especially in public, about it being my Birthday......

I told Joe when we first started dating if he ever took me to dinner on my Birthday and had them sing to me or ever threw me a party, especially a surprise party, that I would walk out and leave him sitting there.....

He never did because he knew without a doubt that that is exactly what I would do.....

So why am I telling you all of this today, on my Birthday, you must be wondering??????

Because Today is my 62nd BIRTHDAY!!
THIS is the Birthday that I have looked forward to and anxiously waited for over the last 42 years!!!!

42 years ago, when I became a Nurse and started working in a profession that was chosen for me by my Mother, I dreamed of the day that I could  RETIRE!!!!

Being a Nurse was NEVER what I wanted do in life.....

And even though fate would have it that I ended up resigning this past August, TODAY, on January 31st, 2020, when I turn 62 years old and will shortly start to receive my Social Security benefits, was supposed to be my official Retirement date!!
And THAT is cause for Celebration of this Birthday!!!

I NOW get to do what I want to do!!!

We will have a little celebration....

We are going to a Hockey game tonight with our nieces and celebrating tomorrow with our usual pizza party with our sons and daughter-in-law, at home, quietly......

Again, nothing big and showy but that is just how I like it!!

And I can not tell you how happy I am to be 62 years old and now officially RETIRED!!!!!

Okay, enough of that......

I have decorated the Living Room in red and gold for Valentine's Day and the month of February.....

I have decorated 3 Trees in the Living Room for Valentine's Day......

Let's take a look at the 7 foot Tree in the corner.......
I decided to combine 2 different beaded garlands.....
And I added a heart garland....
I topped the Tree with some heart picks tucked into the top of the Tree
And I made a bow out of red velvet ribbon embossed with flowers.....

I started to decorate the Tree with red and gold rose ornaments that I bought at Big Lot's a few years back.....
I have amassed a huge collection of ornaments that could be used for Valentine's Day.....
And I also made a few too.....
I hung a heart mobile from a hook in the ceiling above the Tree that once held a hanging lamp.....
I am going to let the pictures do the talking......
I wrapped red heart wired garland around the Tree......
I decided that this Tree will stay up year round and will be decorated for the different Holidays and Seasons.....

As will the platform underneath it......
 I covered the platform with a vintage tablecloth.....
And then I decorated the platform.....
In the left corner, is a bouquet of red velvet roses and gold leaves inside of a crystal vase.....
A heart shaped candy box that I embellished.....

A Valentine's Bearington Bear.........
Thief of Hearts.....
Another embellished heart shaped candy box.......
In the center.....
More Bearington Bears......
And a Bearington Squirrel who is " Nuts about You"
One more embellished heart candy box........
Lover Boy Valentine's Bear.....
And one more candy box......
Another bouquet of red velvet roses and gold leaves in a peach bowl and pitcher.....
A Valentine's card......
A "Love" sign and a cute cherub.....
So that is the first Valentine's Tree in the Living Room.....
The next Tree is the gold tinsel Tree on the top of the TV Entertainment Center......
I decorated it with red and gold heart ornaments....
I topped it off with a bow made from red and gold ribbon......
I will share the rest of the top of the TV Entertainment Center in my next post......
In the corner by the stairs......
Is the 3rd Tree......
My LED Branch Tree.......
 That I decorated with red and gold ornaments......
Garland with red velvet roses and gold roses tucked into it wrapped around the bottom of the Tree..........
 I will share more of this area in my next post along with the rest of the Living Room decorated for Valentine's Day in red and gold.......

I hope you enjoyed seeing my 3 red and gold Valentine's Trees in the Living Room.....
 And I hope you will stop by to visit again soon!!

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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