DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: April 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, April 5, 2025

A Paint Project, Birthday Celebration & Easter Doll House, 2025

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

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....

I will be posting 3 times a week on MONDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS....

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In my last post, I shared my Pink Easter Tree in the Dining Room.....

And more bunnies....

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

I want to Thank the hosts of the Funtastic Friday Link Party, Michelle over at the Coastal Bohemian, Donna and Staci over at Two Chicks and a Mom and Heidi over at Building Our Hive, for choosing my post, Easter Bunny Tea Buffet in the Dining Room , as one of their features from last week's party!!

Thanks again, Michelle, Donna and Staci and Heidi!!!

I also want to Thank Andrea, over at The Cottage Market, for choosing my post, Another Easter Tree & More in the Living Room, as one of her features from last week's A Morning Cup of Joe Link Party!!

I get a kick out of her calling me "our personal Queen of Seasons" for her link party!!

Thanks so much, Andrea!!

Please stop by and link up to these lovely parties!!

And now for a few Personal Notes...

I wanted to share this amazing soup that I ordered from my great niece Carly as a Fund Raiser for her Senior Class Trip.....

It is home made from a local Farm.....

It was more like a stew rather than a soup......

And was absolutely delicious....

I also ordered a Loaded Baked Potato Soup and it was definitely loaded....

If she is ever selling these again, I will definitely order again...

I know in my last post, I mentioned that I would be sharing the Kitchen decorated for Easter but instead, I want to share an unplanned project I did along with a family Birthday celebration.....

The other day, I was doing something in my storage room and noticed that I really have a lot of cans of spray paint, including 4 cans of a periwinkle blue.....

I then went out back to clean out the dryer vent and noticed just how rusted my set of wrought iron chairs and table were from being out in the elements for several years....

Since it was still March at the time, I had not done a single thing to clean up the back yard and patio...

And truthfully, I still haven't done any Spring clean up.....

So I took advantage of everything being covered with tarps and nothing out in the yard....

And since it was in the high 60's, I decided to take advantage of that and spray painted the table and chairs.....

I laid down a plastic tablecloth as a drop cloth......

The 4 cans were exactly enough to do the entire set....

I really like the color on these....

I really like how the flowers stand out with the new paint color....

I also had enough paint to touch up 2 other things that I painted a few years back in the same color.....

This watering can....

And this planter.....

This was an unplanned spur of the moment project.....

And I am really happy with how this set looks after painting them.....

My DIL Danielle's Birthday was on March 23rd....

We finally got to celebrate her Birthday this past Tuesday, on April 1st...

The twins had not taken a nap and were a bit tired by the evening...

Danielle with Gigi.....

She liked this bunny that I had made a few years ago....

Jim and Lily

Lily was more tired and a bit shy....

Lily enjoying some cake....

Lily finally discovered the bunny that her sister had....

Uncle Joey

Faye

Azumi

I love this picture of this sweet family.....

Jim, Lily, Azumi, Danielle, Gigi and Faye...

We had a wonderful evening and I am so happy that we celebrated on April 1st...

21 years ago, on April 1st, was my Mother's Funeral....

The day I said good bye to my only remaining parent.....

1 year ago, 20 years after my Mom's Funeral, I sat in the Emergency Room with Joe listening to the diagnosis that I feared....

Pancreatic Cancer that spread to the liver...

Joe looked at me and grabbed my hand and said " I will beat this, Honey"!

But I knew in my heart that was not going to happen...

It was such a joy to see the babies, the pups and my sons and daughter-in-law, replacing those past painful memories of that day with happy ones.....

I couldn't help but think that Joe's spirit was there with us....

Lily was holding onto the eye on the teddy bear that Hospice made from Joe's Wilkes Barre Scranton Penguin's Sweatshirt for quite some time...

And later on, she was holding onto Joe's ID badge on the bear....

Just holding on as if it comforted her...

Gigi picked up one of the dog toys that Azumi was playing with....

A Pittsburgh Penguins hockey stick, that Joe bought in Pittsburgh for the pups, and was walking around with it .....

I know Joe was up there smiling.....

Nelson Crest is all decked out for Easter.....

I am going to let the pictures do the talking....

Left side yard....

The balcony....

The left front yard.....

Front porch.....

Right front yard....

Right side yard....

In my next post on MONDAY, I will be starting my tour of the Kitchen decorated for Easter....

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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