DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG

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......

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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Celebrating the 4th of July with a Tablescape!!!

ATTENTION: MY MAIN BLOG, DEBBIE-DABBLE, WAS HAVING MAJOR ISSUES AND I HAD LOST ACCESS TO CHANGE ANYTHING IN THE LAYOUT OF THE BLOG USING THE TEMPLATE DESIGNER, SO I DECIDED TO START A NEW BLOG BECAUSE I FEEL THE ISSUE WITH MY FORMER BLOG MAY NEVER HAVE BEEN RESOLVED.

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

If you followed me on my other Blog, I would so appreciate it if you will follow me on this blog too!!!!

Links are on my Side Bar!!

Now it is not often, I get to do a tablescape.......

The reason is because we eat in our Dining Room every day.......

And where would Joe spread out the newspaper all over the table to read it in the morning??????

LOL!!

It started when Joe bought this vinyl tablecloth at Big Lot's for $4.00!!

I decided that I would do Patriotic Tablescape to celebrate the 4th of July!!

I wanted to use some of my red and blue transferware dishes......

I used a Patriotic place mat in the center of the table.....

A Tea Set for the center piece......

A blue transferware tea pot and red transferware sugar bowl and creamer........

The Cobalt Blue goblet with a red ornament and flag in it is from Avon......

George Washington is on this one......

A Patriotic Card.......

George Washington!!

Betsy Ross is also from Avon...........

Blue and red star votives.......

Another goblet on this side of the table......

Martha Washington on this goblet....

Another Patriotic Card........

Thomas Jefferson.....

The Place Settings......

I started with this dinner plate......

Then this dessert plate......

The flatware was bought on clearance several years ago at Wegman's......

Tea Cup and Saucer.....

Vintage glassware

Candy from Dollar Tree on plates and scattered about the table.......

Joe bought the Flag in the center of the table at Boscov's for $1.99....

When turned on, it "waves in the wind.........

And plays 2 Patriotic Songs, "My Country Tis of Thee" and "The Star Spangled Banner"!!!

Joe is all ready to celebrate the Holiday!!!

Then I started to laugh while taking the pictures!!!!

And he got silly, more than we already were, and started to wave the flags.......

Okay, enough of that!! It was definitely time to quit!!

LOL!!

This is what our Front Porch and Yard looked like decorated for Memorial Day......

If you missed that post, please click HERE

This is what our front porch and yard looks like now, decorated for the 4th of July.....

If you would like to see how all my flowers have been growing in the front of the house, please click HERE

This is my Patriotic Tree which has been decorated since the beginning of May.....

If you missed that post, please click HERE

This is how I decorated the top of our TV Entertainment Center........

And what the Trees look like lit up in the evening.....

Please click HERE if you missed that post.....

I think this tablecloth says it all when it comes to celebrating our Country's Independence.......

Home of the Brave

Independence

Stars and Stripes

Pride

Celebrate

USA

Justice

Faith

Fireworks

Land of the Free

America

4th of July

I hope you are spending the Holiday with those that you love!!

We celebrated on Sunday with the kids since I had to work the night of the 4th. Hospitals don't shut down for Holidays!!

I hope you will take some time to visit my Christmas Blog, A Debbie-Dabble Christmas, where I am posting celebrating Christmas in July!!

Click HERE to see my post, The Spirit of Christmas Books, 1-4!

I hope you will be back to visit soon!!

And thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

If you do not have a blog, PLEASE give me some way to reply to your comment, maybe by including your email in your comment. If I can not find a way to reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check back......

Hugs,
Debbie

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Friday, July 1, 2016

Our Bright and Colorful Patio, Part 1, 2016

ATTENTION: MY MAIN BLOG, DEBBIE-DABBLE, IS HAVING MAJOR ISSUES AND I HAVE LOST ACCESS TO CHANGE ANYTHING IN THE LAYOUT OF THE BLOG SO I HAVE DECIDED TO START A NEW BLOG BECAUSE I FEEL THE ISSUE WITH MY FORMER BLOG MAY NEVER BE RESOLVED.

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

If you followed me on my other Blog, I would so appreciate it if you will follow me on this blog too!!!!

Links are on my Side Bar!!

I want to thank everyone for their support and encouragement after my regular blog that I had for almost 6 years was hacked.

It was hacked through my Debbie-Dabble Face Book Page which I have now taken down and deleted.

At the end of this post, I will explain what exactly happened.......

I am finally posting about our Patio.......

I just want to explain about the concrete. I painted it to look like brick several years ago but after 2 very bad Winters and not getting around to painting it again, it looks the way it does. We have not decided what we are going to do with it and will probably wait until the Spring to decide.......

I am going to break this up into 2 posts , starting with this side for today......

We have a very small concrete block that was poured by my Dad off the back of our townhouse......

It is covered by an awning......

The lattice provides privacy even though our yard is about 3 feet higher than our neighbor's yard on this side.......

I extended the patio using pavers several years ago because our electric lines are under ground and we can not lay cement over them.....

My Fairy Garden sits on the pavers......

If you missed the post about my Fairy Garden, please click HERE

I have Alberta Spruce Trees planted in large pots on each side of the Patio......

A few potted plants sit on a bright blue plant stand and around it......

A wreath hangs on the lattice........

I do not plant anything in this pot in the corner because this is where the morning doves will build their nests and have heir babies..........

We have already had 2 sets of babies this season........

In the corner.........

On a plant stand......

The table that I recently painted yellow after it was white......

Click HERE if you missed that post.......

One of several little stepping stones that were bought at Dollar Tree sits on the table........

I also spray painted the wicker furniture using Valspar Plastic Coat Spray Paint for resin furniture.......

I am please with how the wicker looks now......

Between the windows of the Den.......

Flameless candles are used in the lantern......

Unfortunately , we do not have central air conditioning.......

Under the air conditioner.......

A pant stand and a pot planted with marigold seeds that I am waiting to transplant when they get a bit bigger.........

I painted this table and the bird cage........

Another stepping stone from Dollar Tree.......

Next to the table is a chair that I bought at a yard sale, took the seat off and placed a pot in.......

I recently re-painted this chair pink and planted a pretty geranium in the pot.....

Below it is a pot planted with impatiens......

Next to the door......

I treat the back of our house as if it was a wall inside the house......

I had repainted these several years ago using bright colors......

I made the Garden Wreath on the back door........

In my last post, I shared the wreath after a bird had built a nest in it a few days ago.......

They have not returned so far to rebuild their nest........

And that is what this side of the Patio looks like for this Summer season......

Soon, I will share the other side of the Patio.........

So I hope you will be back to visit soon!!

And as promised, this is how I knew my blog was hacked.......

On my home computers, everything looked fine. I do use the computer at work during slow times and I noticed a huge space of nothing from my header down to my first post. When I went into Lay Out, I noticed under Cross Column 2, there was a HMTL JAVA SCRIPT Gadget with a code from a Thrid Party that had Face Book mentioned in it. I did NOT add this gadget. There were numerous gadgets under Cross Column 2, all the same with this same code. This caused the large space between my header and my first post. I could not delete them and I could not move them no matter what I did and the numbers of this same gadget seemed to multiply, causing this space to get larger and larger.
I also noticed on my Debbie-Dabble Face Book page that the title said Debbie-Dabble and underneath it was "@ Debbie-Dabble". When you clicked on "@ Debbie-Dabble", you were taken directly to my blog. I did not do this. I figured out that this link , when clicked on, installed that same gadget every time it was clicked on. I also noticed that it also disabled my template and I could not do anything to change the look of my blog. I could post but unless some one scrolled to the bottom of my blog through an increasing amount of space between the Header and my posts, that was the only way they would find the post. Several people told me that they could not go pass the header.
So I decided to just create a new blog and yes, I did it all myself. My son, who is an IT Specialist with the company Web.Com, did NOT help me and is quite proud of his Mom!! LOL!! I am fairly computer savvy. I decided to just create a new blog and start fresh. I went through almost 800 posts and picked the ones that I wanted to move over. The only thing is that I lost all my Followers, 738 of them on Google Connect. I was able to transfer my Bloglovin ones over to the new Blog. And my Google + follow me and not a specific blog.
So that is the story!! I figured I would show the hacker that I could come back even better and not be helpless after being hacked!! LOL!!
Thanks so much for all your encouragement and concern!!

And thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

If you do not have a blog, PLEASE give me some way to reply to your comment, maybe by including your email in your comment. If I can not find a way to reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check back......

Hugs,
Debbie

I will be linking up to these parties!!