DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: Just a Few Hearts & a Tree in the Living Room, 2026

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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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Just a Few Hearts & a Tree in the Living Room, 2026

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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In my last post, I shared how I decorated the top of the TV Entertainment Center in more of a Winter theme this year....

And the area around it....

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

And now for a few Personal Notes...

For the New Year, I am trying something different with my 3 times weekly posts....

On THURSDAYS, I will feature what I cooked and ate during the week, showcasing local cuisine and a few recipes for things that I actually made...

I decided that on SATURDAYS, I will showcase What I Have Been Up To in the past week, sharing events and places I went to, if any....

On MONDAYS, I will be featuring What I Have Bought or Been Gifted Recently, if anything...

Since it is Saturday, I should be sharing where I have gone and what I have been up to....

Honestly, I only went to the grocery store this week because it is still very cold but we actually did make it into the 20's.......

Because of that and the Sun that actually came out, my next door neighbor's sidewalk was a sheet of ice as our gutters are directing over the sidewalks....

Yes, we have huge Icicles , which I like to call Stalactites!!

Since they are still away and I have to walk over their sidewalk, which looked like a skating rink, I got my trusty Ice Chopper out and went to work.....

My late husband Joe bought 2 of these, one for the front and one for the back, because we deal with this pretty much every Winter...

The blade, which would take your finger off, does have a cover as it is so sharp...

I first put Ice Melt, with Calcium Chloride in it as it will work in -20 below temps., down to loosen the ice and then chopped away...

Finally, I got the ice off the sidewalk...

I was afraid of someone falling as I was getting a Sam's Club delivery that day...

I also run into the same problem with my awning over my patio in the back...

I did not shovel any of the 12 inches of snow that fell the week before ...

So I did that and then had to repeat the same process out back with the Ice Chopper and Ice Melt...

If I do not do this and leave the ice there, when it really starts to melt off the awning, water can build up and come close to flooding my Den which almost happened one year...

We have so much snow around here that the contractor who plows the Courts in my townhouse development came to remove some of the snow...

This is where my car was parked on the road during the storm....

I was the only one who thought to shovel a tiny path to the dumpsters and I had also shoveled out our mailboxes....

They now cleared out our dumpsters...

Thank goodness as my son Joey takes my garbage out for me and almost killed himself doing so the other evening....

And they were removing the large snow banks at the top of our courts by the woods...

Before it starts to melt and runs down our courts, causing deterioration of the pavement...

I will not be leaving the house this weekend....

It was 14 degrees when I got up at 5:30 am this morning and now at 8am, it is down to 3 degrees....

And it is snowing again....

An inch is predicted....

Wind chill factors today are supposed to be -20 and it is going to be below zero tomorrow...

And then we finally may get above 30 for the first time in almost 3 weeks.....

I like Winter but this has really been a rough one...

My sister Barb came to visit on Thursday morning for my Birthday...

We had a nice visit and I will be sharing what she gifted me on MONDAY.....

Today, I will be continuing the tour of my Living Room decorated for Winter/Heart Month....

We never made a big deal out of Valentine's Day and because I am now a widow, instead of calling it Valentine's decor, I prefer to call it Heart Month decor...

February is designated as American Heart month and to honor my Dad, who passed away from a massive heart attack in February 39 years ago at the age of 67 years old, I leave up

my Winter/Heart Month decor until the last week of February or the first week of March....

Easter is April 5th this year so I will definitely be waiting until the end of February as there will be no hurry to decorate for Easter/Spring...

Today, I will be sharing one of the Trees in the Living Room along with a few vignettes....

I already shared the Entry and other side of the stairs in a previous post....

The corner by the stairs...

I love to decorate this chair for all the Holidays and different Seasons...

I bought these velvet heart candy boxes, that were filled with candy, many years ago in Target at 75% off....

I then embellished them....

I draped a vintage pearl necklace over the back of the chair...

Gold roses and heart boxes...

Underneath the chair....

I filled the lanterns with red and gold ornaments and Winter decor.....

Next to the chair, on a marble topped cherub planter, is a Tree that I left up after Christmas....

This is how this 4 foot Tree was decorated at Christmas with vintage Snihy Brite ornaments....

I left the gold tinsel garland and the candle lights on the Tree....

I decorated the Tree for Heart Month in white and red heart ornaments...

I topped the Tree off with a bow made from a beautiful red velvet rose embossed ribbon with gold backing...

I tucked red heart picks into the top of the Tree....

Many of the ornaments on this Tree, I made...

I decorate all around this Tree as it can be seen from every angle....

I also added red candle ornaments...

There are also a lot of small red and gold heart ornaments...

I wrapped a red heart wire garland around it...

Two bottles from the Christmas Tree Shop that I embellished....

And a beautiful Mother's Day gift from my son Jim and his family..

An evergreen swag with red velvet roses on top of the curio.....

I kept out this antique plate, which was gifted to me by my late friend Anne Marie, after Christmas, hanging it here...

Since it is over 100 years old, it qualifies as an antique....

On the side of the curio.......

I left out this Angel after Christmas ....

And placed this pretty Christmas card with a red cardinal on it at it's base...

And this is what this corner looks like this year.....

I want to share what I call the stereo table, across from this corner.....

Joe found this table, which is actually a cart as it has wheels, in an antique co op , and it was perfect for me to put my Nostalgic Stereo system on....

I do not use the turntable even though I did save some of my albums....

I brought back out some of my normal Victorian style decor.....

This vintage Valentine was my late neighbor Elly's....

Since I usually sit in the chair by this table, I use the vintage tea cup to store my eye glass wipes, chap stick, nasal spray ( sinus issues) , etc. in....

I love the cubby holes on the piece...

On the side is a piece that came with a Cynthia Hart Victorian Calendar.....

I brought back my regular decor and added Valentine's decor to it including some vintage Valentine's....

A Seraphine Angel....

My mother gifted me the heart box.....

A Lenox Victorian Lady....

This is where I sit in the evenings and sometimes in the morning.....

I left out the red throws after Christmas....

My MIMI throw that was gifted to me by my son Jim and his family....

The Serenity Prayer pillow....

I bought this Winter tree throw in Big Lot's.....

On the soffit between the Living Room and Dining Room....

A swag above the cherub plaque....

I left the bells up on each side .....

Replacing the green velvet bows from Christmas with these red tassels....

Bells were a big thing this past Christmas and I think they still will be especially with Patriotic decor this Summer celebrating our Country's 250th Birthday.....

And this is where I will leave off today......

I hope you will stop by to visit again on MONDAY for my next post....

Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!

And try to find JOY in every single day!

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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