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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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

More Easter..... Crafts, Decorations, Buys and Nelson Crest!








 

 Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

 
I am so happy you decided to stop by!!
 
Just a reminder, I will be posting on Wednesdays and Sundays every week so be sure to check back on those days to see a new post...... 
 
 
 Today, I will be sharing Nelson Crest all decked out for Easter and a few more Easter Crafts that I have worked on, along with a few Garden Buys.....

I originally planned on sharing my Easter/Spring Home Tour in this post but I got confused with when I will be participating in the Easter on a Tray Blog Tour that Katherine, over at Katherine's Corner will be hosting on the 12th of April!!!!
 
 

 I am excited about being invited to participate in another Tray Tour by Katherine!!!
 
 I will be changing when I post up a bit for Easter week and doing 3 posts....
 
On Sunday, April 10th, I will be sharing my Easter/Spring Home Tour
 
 On Tuesday, April 12th, I will be participating in the Easter on a Tray Blog Tour.....

I will be moving my normal Wednesday post to Thursday and sharing my friend Anne Marie's Easter Home Tour with you.....
 
So please remember to stop by as there will be a lot of Easter goodies to share!!!
 

In my last post, I shared the rest of my Kitchen decorated for Easter!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Click HERE if you missed that post!!

 

And now for a few Personal Notes...
 

 Food of the Week.....

I realized that I still had a ring of Kielbasi in the freezer from Christmas...

After watching our Local TV show Home and Back Yard where they featured a Food Truck that specialized in Polish food, I decided to make Kielbasi Hoagies like they showed on the program....
 
This was Joe's, with mozzarella cheese and fried onions....

 
He only wanted one for his dinner before he went to work.....

Joey had 2 for dinner, minus the onions as he will not eat them because of the texture......


 I can no longer eat kielbasi so I heated up a ground chuck burger that was left from Sunday's dinner and topped it with bacon cheese that Joe bought from the Amish Farmer, mushrooms and like a White House Slider, fried onions.....
 
 
 
 I topped it off with a bit of MayoChup!!



Joe went to Sam's Club and came home with a case of this....


Cheetos Mac" N Cheese!!!!


Joey and I had this and it was really very good!!

Who knew!!!


We did not get the Reheat and Eat Dinners this week from the Wilkes barre Scranton Pens Food Service as there was nothing that really caught our interest and we will be treating my Niece and Great Nieces to the Hockey Game tonight so that means that I do not eat before I go out anywhere or while I am out anywhere.....

The Joy of having IBS....
 
Joe did bring home a dinner that Chef Steve made for the Team.....
 
General Tso's Chicken and Lo Mein Noodles.....
 

 This will be Joey's dinner on Thursday!!


I love that the Sun has finally swung around to the front of our house in the evenings because I am now able to get some pictures of the Sunset again.....

This was the other evening....








 
Without the leaves on the trees, I can see the actual Sunset over on the mountains.....
 

I had planned on starting my paver project in the back yard this week but it has been and will remain, a rainy week here so I tabled it until next week when we are predicted to have temps. in the 60's and maybe reaching 70....

I can do without the 70's if I will be doing hard scaping and probably I will then be sweating like a pig!!

I will be enlarging our patio and refiguring the walkway to our shed in the back of the yard.....
 
Right now , the back yard looks terrible as there are holes all over because the squirrels are digging it apart!! 

So here is my plan....

This walkway will be straightened out instead of being staggered the way it is now....


I have tripped too many times on my way to the shed...
 
The area to the right will be dug out and the patio extended with pavers that I got from my neighbor last year.....
 
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Pavers will be placed on each side of where this umbrella base is, extending the Patio....

 
And I will lay pavers to the left so that this umbrella base will be on pavers instead of in the mulch..


I am sure my back will be broken , along with every fingernail I have, when I am finished ,,,,

Which is why I don't, and never will, get a manicure....

Any perennials that I have to dig up in this process will be transplanted down in the flower bed where our mail boxes are at the entrance to our Court where they removed the large arborvitae last year....


Looks like I have my work cut out for me!!


We are finally getting to see some signs of Spring.....

The forsythias in my neighbor Khalid's yard, and the small one in my yard, have buds on them that are starting to open....


 
The small one in my yard...


You can still see the back of Lowe's to the left in the picture as the trees have no leaves on them yet....


As I mentioned in my previous posts, I have been going through and cleaning and organizing my Craft Room and closets in the Craft Room, Sitting Room and my Bedroom....

I already went through my 3 closets of clothes , realizing that I have more clothes than I will ever wear in my life time , even after donating 3 bags to the Soup Kitchen last Fall.....

What I was thinking is beyond me especially since I wore Scrubs every day to work.....

I am embarrassed by it and realize what a waste of money it was....


I did also realize that even though I went through all of my stash of crafts last year, I still have things that I do not see me using and I also have doubles and triples of things...

Yesterday, I was on FB with my friend Angela, who I sent 3 boxes of craft supplies to last year, and showed her a few things that I thought she could use....
 
I will be shipping another box of fabric, small woods and other goodies to her once again.....
 
 

 I have to wrap things up nicely and get it all packaged before shipping it out to Ohio...
 
I would rather gift it to someone who will use it and appreciate it than sell or donate it.....
 
 
Speaking of Crafts.....
 
I have been working on a few things up in my Craft Room... 
 
What I  have finished thus far is this Can of Carrots....
 
 
I can not claim credit for this as I was inspired by a picture on Pinterest.....
 

 Source: Pinterest

My version.... 

I painted a tin can orange and adhered a piece of burlap that I wrote on with a marker to the can using spray adhesive....

 
I made carrots out of clothes pins and mini holly garland that I had...

 
I used the same mini garland on my "Carrot" Eggs that I shared in my last post....
 
 
 
 I made Bunny "Ears" out of wire...

 
I used a styrofoam ball, covered it with cotton balls to create the Bunny "Butt"and made paws out of felt....


 I also added flowers from my stash....


This cost me nothing as I had everything in my stash...


I also saw the carrots made from clothes pins on Pinterest.....

What would bloggers do without Pinterest??????

I am working on a few more Carrot projects so stay tuned....

I also made anther Easter wreath which started out as an epic FAIL.....

I wanted to use up an abundance of Easter ribbon that I had left over when I made wreaths to sell so I thought I would do another wreath like this one I made in the Fall......


Well, I guess I did not have enough ribbon because there were spaces all over....

So I took it all apart and tried it on a smaller grave vine type wreath.....

Failed again....

Not enough ribbon....

Even though I used 8 rolls...

So I put my Thinking Cap on, as my mother used to say, and remembered that I had a Bunny Face in my stash left over from when I sold wreaths....

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

 
The Bunny Face, bought years ago at Dollar Tree, fit perfectly inside the wreath....

 
And after moving all the ribbon to the bottom, the ears fit nicely in the empty space!!
 

 
 I used Easter ribbon and solid orchid and yellow ribbon.....



I hung it in the hall way....


I will be sharing more of this area in my next post.....

You may remember that I had Joe buy this Easter Cross made from palms....

 
 I added some ribbon roses from my stash to it and displayed it here.....

 
The Bunny was gifted to me by my Mother many years ago....



And you also may remember that I changed this sign that Joe bought on Clearance in Big Lot's for 90% off.....
 
 
 
 In to this to go with my Kitchen Easter colors of red, orange and yellow.....
 
 
 
Well, he had bought 2!!

I dabbled just a little bit with the second one.....



More in my next post when I share my Home Tour.....


I also have some New Buys to share.....

After seeing these signs advertised on FB in Ollie's, I sent Joe down to buy them!!

Ollies is also right down the road from us....

 
I loved the shovel motiff....

 
Not sure if I will use them inside or outside yet....


They were only $4.99....

And since I do use a lot of mini flags and some of mine were fading from the Sun, I told Joe to buy a few more at $3.99 each!!

I think he did a good job!!!
 



 These are nice and bright!!!
 
 
 
I mentioned in my last post that I would be sharing my Easter/Spring Home tour......

I lied!!

Well, not really.....

I am sharing Nelson Crest, my Victorian Doll House, all decked out for Spring and Easter!!!!

 
 If you have visited here before, you know I love to decorate the outside of Nelson Crest for the different Holidays and Seasons, just like I do with the rest of my house!!
 
 
 Bunny Land has arrived at Nelson Crest....
 

 
 And so has Spring with the bushes in the side yards blooming....
 
 
   
 
 


 



 


The balcony off the Master Bedroom.....


Bunnies and Eggs on the railing...




I also did a bit of crafting for Nelson Crest and made Easter wreaths for the doors.....



I used mini garland and glued a bunny figure, a bow and a ribbon flower to it.....





 
 
 
On the left side.......



Bunnies and eggs....
 


The Front Porch...
 


Fresh milk and eggs have just been delivered....


I also made this wreath for the front door....



Bunnies and lanterns on the steps....



Even an Easter basket has been left for Rose, the Nelson's daughter....



Eggs do grow on trees here at Nelson Crest....



The right side of the yard....







The right side yard...
 
 
 
 


I hope you enjoyed seeing Nelson Crest and the crafting I did as much as I enjoyed decorating and making them!!




I hope you will come back on Sunday when I will be sharing my annual Easter/ Spring home Tour!!!

For sure this time!!



 I hope to see you on Sunday!!

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!!

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14 comments:

  1. Miss MerryApril 6, 2022 at 9:17 PM

    You know I love the Nelson Crest holiday updates! It is such a beautiful doll house. Your kielbasa looks delicious. I am not too sure about the mac and cheese, lol. You sure do find great crafting values! I keep dumping old barely worn work clothing too. I swear it just multiplies in my closet.

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  2. Melisa- pinkernpunkinquilting April 7, 2022 at 1:43 AM

    Deb, I look forward to seeing your back patio area revamp. I have pavers in mine too and have thought about taking them up and repositioning them. Your canned carrots is too stinking cute. I love seeing your crafts and Nelson Crest looks fabulous.Have a great day. Hugs

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  3. Dee | GrammysGrid.comApril 7, 2022 at 8:23 AM

    Just perfect for spring and Easter! Thanks so much for linking up at the Crafty Creators Link Party 13. Pinned.

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  4. RajApril 8, 2022 at 12:49 AM

    So beautiful decorated kitchen. Wonderful all decoration crafts. I like. Beautiful your yard place. 👌

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    1. Debbie-Dabble Blog and A Debbie-Dabble ChristmasApril 9, 2022 at 10:05 PM

      Raj,
      Thanks so much for stopping by and for all your kind words!!!
      Hugs,
      Debbie!!!

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  5. JeanieApril 8, 2022 at 12:23 PM

    Looks like you're eating good in your neighborhood! And I love that your forsythia are starting. I think they are here, too -- with all the rain,you can't say they are dried out! It'll be interesting to follow the patio. Have a wonderful weekend!

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  6. Judy at GoldCountryCottageApril 8, 2022 at 5:22 PM

    Debbie: You sure are planning a big job, but it will look so nice when you are through. Everything looks so festive and pretty as usual. That is so nice of you to gift your extra craft stuff to your friend. Be careful about who you ship it with. I had a box between small and medium that didn't weigh too much and I took it to UPS to ship to Illinois. They wanted to charge me $99 for shipping. I about fell off my feet! I finally took it to the post office and it was $12, which was still a little much but better. They are making it hard to survive in this world now..Happy Weekend..xxoJudy

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  7. Joanne April 8, 2022 at 8:09 PM

    Oh I can not wait to see how the yard/patio looks when you are done. I am in awe of all the hard work you always seem to do.

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  8. Amy JohnsonApril 9, 2022 at 8:38 AM

    Such a lovely dollhouse, and beautiful forsythia blooms.

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  9. My thrift store addictionApril 9, 2022 at 6:07 PM

    Hi Debbie, I always enjoy seeing your dollhouse and your sunset photos are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing at Vintage Charm!

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  10. Dee | GrammysGrid.comApril 10, 2022 at 1:32 PM

    Visiting again to say thanks so much for linking up at the Unlimited Link Party 74. Pinned.

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  11. Kim April 13, 2022 at 8:11 PM

    Your dollhouse is just darling, Debbie! Too bad we don't live closer, because I have an old one just waiting to be refurbished in my basement and I could use your decorating touch!!

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  12. Stone Cottage AdventuresApril 15, 2022 at 3:46 PM

    Your posts always inspire me! Thank you for sharing this one at Tuesdays with a Twist. I especially love the garden gnome flag. 'So cute! Your dollhouse looks amazing with all those darling bunnies! -Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures

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  13. Linda @ Life and LindaApril 17, 2022 at 11:16 AM

    Debbie, your collections always amaze me. Your dollhouse is a piece of art. Love it all decked out for Easter. I am happy to feature your sweet Easter decor at Love Your Creativity. Easter blessings. Hugs

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