DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: June 2020

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Today, since the Fourth of July is only a few days away, I will be sharing more Patriotic crafts that I have made....

But first, I want to Thank Linda, over at Life and Linda, for choosing my post, Small Yard Transformation and a Graduation, as one of her features from last week's Love Your Creativity Link Party!!

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On a Personal Note, not much new.....

I made Stuffed Peppers from peppers I bought at the Amish Farmer's Market at the conveince store....

Before going into the oven......

I forgot to take a picture after taking them out of the oven but one was left over.......

And I also made zucchini bread from the zucchini bought from the Amish Farmer.....

This is one of 3 loaves that I made......

In a previous post, I shared what I thought was a frog in my back yard Cottage Garden.....

One morning, when I opened up the back door after putting the coffee on, there he was on the Patio!!!

My son, Joey, was intrigued so he did a bit of research and it turns out that my friend is not a frog but rather a toad.....

In fact, he is a Garden Toad who helps the Garden by eating insects, slugs and all kinds of things!!!

Click HERE to read about Garden Toads if you are interested!!

So he is quite welcome in my garden......

In a previous post, I shared that I made these Angel ornaments.....

And these from cards......

For my Patriotic Tree......

In 2018 when a Tornado touched down not far from our home and destroyed most of the shopping district located right by our townhouse development, a furniture and decor store held a damage sale.....

When they finally were going to tear down the buildings, they let everything go for FREE!!!

Joe, of course, had to check it out and brought home 4 of these.......

I have no idea what they are.......

There is a hole in the top.......Maybe a leg to something....

Initially, I envisioned Snow Men until I started thinking about making a Patriotic Angel and began to look through my stash......

I decided to use one to make my angel so I painted it red and blue......

I used tape to pull off some of the red paint, exposing the gold paint underneath....

I found I had 4 angel heads with gold halos......

So this is what I came up with........

I glued white angel wings that are actually ornaments to the "body' of the Angel.........

I enhanced the wings by adding a piece of blue deco mesh ribbon and red ribbon roses....

And made a bow out of trim, adding red ribbon roses to the ends........

I glued a piece of Patriotic ribbon to the "body" of the angel....

Since Joe donates to every Veteran's group that I think there is, he receives all kinds of Freebies in the mail......

A Veteran's group sent what was a Star that was removed from a flag before it was burned and a piece of paper explaining such....

This is the Star.......

And I glued the paper on with a spray adhesive......

And there you have it.....

My Patriotic Angel......

Made from whatever this might have been.......

I also made some Fire Crackers......

Made out of paper towel rolls and toilet paper rolls.......

I covered them with flag fabric.....

Gluing them together.......

Finishing them off with trim......

And making the tops out of wired ribbon....

And this is where I decided to use them......

On the stairs......

In my next post, I will be posting my Patriotic Home Tour......

So I hope you will stop by to visit again soon!!

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Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

In a previous post, I shared Part 1 of my Kitchen decorated for Summer......

Click HERE if you missed that post......

This is the only time of year that the Kitchen is not decorated for any Holidays.......

So it is pretty "normal", whatever that may be, right now.....

I will change some things around during the Summer but not too much....

But first, I want to share the amazing food that we got for Take Out on Friday for dinner.......

Well, actually that our son, Joey, treated us to.....

Mission BBQ was only open for around 2 months when restaurants were ordered to only do Take Out here in NEPA.....

We had ordered from them before and really enjoyed their food but we were supporting local owned businesses during the Stay at Home phase ( notice I do not say Quarantine because no one is in Quarantine unless they were directly exposed to someone who tested positive as per the CDC) to do our little part in trying to keep them afloat during this time.....

Now that our County is in the Green Phase which means the least restrictions in place right now in Pa., we decided to order from there again!!

This was Joey's chicken sandwich with Alabama white sauce that he put on it....

The fries came with the sandwiches......

This is my turkey sandwich which had so much meat on it that I gave both Joe and Joey a slice of turkey to eat!!!

And this was Joe's pulled pork sandwich that he already took a bite out of......

Joey had to get a quart of their Mac and Cheese which is to die for......

And they give you several containers of their different sauces to try which ones you like....

Everything was so good!!

Mission BBQ has donated food and money to local Police, Fire departments, hospitals and to many Veteran's organizations including the local VA hospital which is right up the rode from their location here......

Now back to my Kitchen.....

This wall is the area that gets decorated the most for different Holidays.....

I consider this the focal wall in the Kitchen.....

I have decorated the Kitchen with a lot of vintage and vintage styled Kitchen ware......

My Dad made these red shelves for me out of scrap wood that he had about 40 years ago.......

Most of the items in the Kitchen were bought at yard sales, estate sales and flea markets.....

This phone was my neighbor Elly's......

And if I had a land line hooked up, it would actually work!!!

Hanging on a hook to the side of the shelf, is a vintage sifter.....

A vintage apron.....

This also was my neighbor Elly's.....

Since September of last year, there was a Tree here in the corner that I decorated for Fall/Halloween, Christmas, Winter and then Easter......

I packed the Tree up and hauled it up the attic and brought back down this yellow mlk can that I bought at a church flea market......

A chalkboard hangs on the wall next to the milk can.....

Last year, I painted these milk bottles from a local Dairy.....

A floral arrangment that I made along with LED lighted branches fills the milk can.......

I made this hutch by marrying a book case from a bedroom set with a desk.....

The bookcase was $5.00 at a church flea market and the desk was $10 at a yard sale that I went to 2 weeks after buying the book case.......

The top of the hutch....

The Kitchen is decorated in a color theme of red, yellow and green.....

The first shelf......

The second shelf.....

On the side of the hutch.....

The desk area of the hutch........

Since strawberries are in Season now, I set up a tea vignette featuring strawberries......

An old Home Interiors strawberry candle ring....

Battery operated strawberry scented candles were placed inside of the tea cups.....

The strawberry tea pot and the 2 tea and toast plates and tea cups were bought at The Christmas Tree Shop.....

A vintage strawberry tray.....

The tea pot sets on top of a tin of strawberry preserves....

Faux desserts.....

Even a faux cherry pie...did not have a strawberry one...

The milk glass hurricane lamp sits inside of a vintage yellow fiestaware bowl......

Underneath the desk.....

A vintage yellow fiestaware platter rests on top of a metal plaid picnic basket.....

A vintage Mason jar and a copper lantern..........

More Mason jars inside of a vintage wooden cheese box.....

On the right side of the wall....

The other shelf that my Dad made.......

An old Home Interiors shelf hangs above the door way to the Den.....

Vintage hens, roosters and vasoline glass goblets....

I bought the metal tray in the middle at Salvation Army for $1.99......

Another vintage sifter.....

A vintage apron, broom and pot holder....

Our Niece and Great Nieces gifted Joe these Pittsburgh Steeler knives and pizza cutter for Christmas

On a vintage style hook, hangs a rug beater and an enamelware sign.....

I painted this bread board in a grain sack style....

This wall will pretty much stay this way until the Fall but I may switch some things on the desk area around as the Summer progresses......

I do like my ambient lighting in the evening....

In a future post, I will be sharing Part 3 on my Summer Kitchen Tour, the counter bar area....

In my last post, I shared some Patriotic crafts I made......

Click HERE if you missed that post....

And in my next post, I will be sharing a bit more crafting that I did and what I made using these things that I have no idea what they are......

Along with a craft using toilet paper and paper towel rolls.....

So I hope you will stop by to visit again soon!!

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!!

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......

I am linking up to these parties:

SUNDAY
Snickerdoodle Sunday
Silver Pennies Sunday
Happiness is Homemade Linky Party

MONDAY
Inspire Me Monday
Love Your Creativity Link Party
Busy Monday

Over the Moon Linky Party
Handmade Monday
You Are The Star Blog Hop
Metamorphosis Monday
Little Cottage Link Party
Make It Pretty Monday

TUESDAY
Inspire Me Tuesdays
Lou Lou Girl's Linky Party
All About Home Party
Tuesdays with a Twist
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Celebrate Your Story Link Party!!
Tuesday Turn About Link Party

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