DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: February 2025

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!!!!!!

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Winter Beverage Bar and Counter Bar in the Kitchen, 2025

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

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Blogging has always been a stress reliever for me along with an avenue to share my passions which are my home and my garden.....

I feel it is a personal Journal that, hopefully, someday, my Twin Granddaughters will be able to look back on to learn about who I was....

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HAPPY FEBRUARY!!!

In my last post, I shared more of how I decorated the Kitchen for Winter with a bit of Valentine's.....

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

I want to Thank Andrea, over at the Cottage Market, for choosing my post, Winter/Valentine's Powder Room, as one of her features from last week's Morning Cup of Joe Link Party!!

Thanks so much, Andrea!!

Especially for your kind and encouraging words....

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

And now for a few Personal Notes...

I made this super simple casserole for dinner the other day...

I used ground sausage instead of hamburg.....

My Son Joey gave it a bug thumbs up....

Again, I found the recipe on Pinterest....

Click HERE for the recipe...

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

In my last post, I skipped over my Beverage Bar....

This is what it looked like at Christmas....

This is what it looks like now decorated for Winter....

I made this wreath a few years back....

I hung pot holders with snowmen and red cardinals on them....

I hung a Hot Cocoa Bar sign....

I placed a Sit Sip and Enjoy sign in front to the coffee canister.....

My Dad always sprinkled a little salt on top of his coffee grounds....

The red cardinal mug holds my sweetener packets.....

Flavored tea bags are stored in a red enamelware container under the shelf.....

Coffee sweet cream creamers are stored in a Dollar Tree snowman mug......

Along with rock candy sticks....

The snowmen mugs, filled with flavored creamers, were gifted to me by my nieces......

The Cozy mug was a gift from a neighbor......

I placed the marble turntable, that was my late neighbor Elly's, on top of a quilted place mat with birds on it.....

On the top shelf, in the reindeer mug are coffee wafers and Instant Coffee is in the glass container....

On the black shelf, are small glass containers filled with flavored coffees....

The vintage Cocoa container was my late neighbor Elly's....

I placed peppermint sticks and spoons in the snowman mugs....

Also on this shelf are bottles of Hot Cocoa mix from a gift set.....

And packets of Swiss Miss in the Hot Cocoa mug....

I was gifted these pretty Winter mugs by my friend Mary....

And I bought this nice mug at a yard sale for 25 cents......

So this is my Winter Beverage Bar for this year....

I have this red cardinal rug in front of the fridge.....

Now let's take a look at the counter bar....

I redid the garland above the counter bar....

I decorated it for Winter....

Using snowballs, red cardinals and other birds, snowflakes, hot cocoa mug ornaments, owls and deer....

And bird houses along with hanging a snowman in the center of it....

Bows made from ribbon with cardinals on it were also added to the garland...

I hung snowman head ornaments from the sconces on each side......

On top of the counter bar.....

I hung snowflakes I made on the shutters.....

Joe bought the white trees on Clearance last year...

I bought the red berry candle rings before Christmas in Gabes....

A mason jar with red cardinals inside, topped with a red house ornament...

I bought deer plates this year to match the deer mugs that I bought last year.....

This mug is filled with peppermint candy which eases any stomach distress due to my IBS..

I placed 2 red cardinal place mats on each side of the stained glass lamp which also was my late neighbor Elly's.....

A figurine of snowmen in the center behind the lamp along with a red cardinal.....

Another snowman head on this side....

Pretty much the same on this side.....

Another snowflake and white tree....

And another mason jar with a red cardinal inside of it, topped with a red barn ornament....

A reindeer big mouth candy jar filled with granola bars...

And another deer mug and plate filled with cough drops....

I hung a Winter plaid cafe curtain, that I made from a tablecloth, below the microwave....

And I kept out these holly berry rugs from Christmas....

On the side of the counter bar....

A snow man sign from Dollar Tree and a Coffee and Hot Cocoa Bar sign from Gabes.......

Another snow man sign from Dollar Tree.....

I simply placed this pretty Winter scene card on top of this berry tin....

I bought the bird house at a church flea market.....

And that ends my tour of the Kitchen all decked out for Winter with mainly red cardinals and snowmen....

In my next post on MONDAY, I will be starting my Tour of the Dining Room decorated for Valentine's...

So I hope you will stop by to visit again on MONDAY!

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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