DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: January 2023

I am a Victorian Soul, live in a small townhouse that was built in the mid 1970's, not a huge Mega Mansion, with my Hubby Joe, who is 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 LOVING 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......

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Winter Red Cardinal and Snowman Kitchen with a Touch of Valentine's, 2023

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

I am now posting 3 times a week !!!

I will be posting on TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY

As always, click on each picture if you would like to enlarge it....

Today, I will be finishing my Tour of the Kitchen decorated for Winter.....

In my last post, I shared my Winter Beverage Bar in the Kitchen!!!

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

I want to Thank ALL the hosts of the You're the Star Blog Hop for choosing my post, More Gingerbread and Candy in the Kitchen as one of the features from Extra Feature week of last month's party!!

Thanks so much!!

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

And now for a few Personal Notes...

A few pictures from one of my Morning Walks with the Grand Pups last week....

And on my Morning Exercise walk.....

This is a pic of the woods across from the last row of townhouses in our development.....

You can see how close Interstate 81 is to the back of our development....

Squirrel nests in the Trees in the woods by us....

And a view of the Shopping Centers on the side of our development as I walk down the Court of the row of townhouses in back of us...

The view from the side of our road...

Hobby Lobby is being built between Wren Kitchens and Barnes & Nobles....

The back of Michael's, which I have to go to as I have $75 in gift cards to use there......

It was quite the pleasant surprise this morning as we woke up to this!!!!

A coating of SNOW!!!!

It was a surprise as no one really called for it!!

Hopefully, we will get a lot more in February/March because with no Snow Melt from the Winter, our water supplies may be in jeopardy and there may be water restrictions come the Spring!!

I am pleased to say that last week, I finally finished packing away all of Christmas in the downstairs and decorating it for Winter/ Valentine's!!!

Some sneak peeks for the Living Room.....

And the Dining Room....

I will be doing posts on these rooms in the future!!

I will start packing away Christmas upstairs the second week of February as I want to enjoy it a bit longer!!!!

Today, I will be completing my Tour of the Kitchen, decorated for Winter with a bit of Valentine's....

I also shared this wall in the Kitchen, which I call my focal wall, in a previous post....

Click HERE if you missed that post!!!

We will pick up where I left off in that post.....

On the side of the Stove....

Winter pot holders and oven mitts....

The grater planter that I made a few years ago.....

A bird ornament is clipped to the floral arrangement and an initial ornament, a D with red cardinals on it!

Valentine's towels hang on the side of the stove!!

My rolling pin collection in my vintage Planter's Peanuts canister which was my Mother's....

Above the stove....

I framed a picture from a calendar.....

Ornaments and magnets that I crocheted a long time ago....

Winter towels....

More towels....

On the side of the stove.....

A large red snowflake cookie cutter and a Winter pot holder....

A "Let it Snow" sign....

We took the Kitchen window out when my Dad made the enclosed Porch into another room....

I still decorate it like a window.....

A Snowman Cookie Cutter hangs on the other side.....

Last year, I made a new Winter swag to hang above the sink.....

I changed the valance to one I made from a tablecloth, hung bird houses from the fretwork and decorated the tea cup chandy that I made for Valentine's.......

I left up the Hot Cocoa signs, bought in Dollar General, at Christmas on each side of the cabinets....

The window sill is decorated with Snowmen and Red Cardinals which is the theme for the Kitchen for Winter....

Snowmen that I made out of clay pots last year....

A Jim Shore angel with a red cardinal ornament.....

A crackle glass Red Cardinal Hurricane light with a red bird house on top of it....

The red house and red barn are ornaments bought years ago at Walmart.....

A Snowman holding a basket of hearts....

In the corner.....

I already shared this area and my Beverage Bar in my previous post....

On top of the fridge.....

This year, I used the rag rug that I used on the counter bar in previous years here on the top of the fridge....

I bought the tea pot at a flea market many years ago....

I kept out a few tins that I bought in Dollar General for Christmas for elevation....

My friend Anne Marie gifted me this adorable Snowman a few years ago.....

Notice that there are red Cardinals on the bottle brush tree in the back ground....

I just realized that the Red Cardinal on the lamp shade is taking a nose dive!!!

The Cute Snowman with the Red Cardinals was a Christmas gift this year from my friend Anne Marie.....

The counter bar......

I left the garland up after Christmas and decorated it for Winter.....

Owls and Snowflakes....

A bow made from the same plaid and Red Cardinal ribbon hangs in the center that I used through out the Kitchen.....

Icicles, bird houses and reindeer.....

Before Christmas, I bought 2 Red Cardinal place mats at Ollies and used them as a runner on the counter bar....

On the left side.....

Mason jars with Red Cardinals and bottle brush trees inside of them on top of the red mercury candle holders......

The small Snowman tea pot is filled with peppermint candy.....

I left out the Snowman tea pot after Christmas.....

On the other side....

I left out one of the reindeer mugs that I bought in Big Lot's before Christmas and filled it with cough drops....

I made the cafe curtain from a tablecloth and I bought the Red Cardinal rug in Ollies.....

Joe puts his "Goodies" in the basket that was gifted to my by Trish, who owns the house next to us....

On the side of the counter bar......

"Baby! It's Cold Outside"

I moved this Tree that I had on the window sill for Christmas into this Red Cardinal basket....

And that completes my Tour of the Kitchen decorated for Winter with Red Cardinals and Snowmen with a touch of Valentine's.....

I hope you enjoyed the Tour!!!

It took me 3 days to change over the Kitchen from Christmas to Winter....

I hope you will come back on THURSDAY when I will be sharing the first part of my Tour of the Dining room decorated for Valentine's including anew Candy and Hot Cocoa Bar on the buffet.....

So I hope you will stop by to visit again on

THURSDAY!!!!

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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