Spring Home Tour

 Hello, Dear Ones! Here's a little Spring Home Walk Tour and I hope you enjoy it.

 

The Entry

Living Room

 

Dining Room

 

Den Mantel

Kitchen

Breakfast Room

Thanks for popping in to see me.

Be a bunch of Sweeties,                                                                                                                                Shelia ;)

I'll leave you with a little Note Song ~

I Can See Clearly Now

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

Oh, yes I can make it now the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for

It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

look all around, there's nothing but blue skies
Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for

It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

Bri-ri-ri-ri', bright, (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day, yeah, eh
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day, yeah, na
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
Bri-ri-ri-ri', bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny...

~ sung by Johnny Nash

A Late Easter Tablescape

 Hello, Dear Ones! Well, I'm late in sharing my Easter table. We attended the early service for Easter at our church and had invited some friends to come over for lunch. We got home in time for me to heat everything up - ham and all the goodies that go with it!

Let me share my table...

I am so blessed, y'all! My neighbor was cleaning out her linen closet and just happened upon a couple of tablecloths she didn't use. So...she thought of me! How marvelous and this beautiful white tablecloth is one she gave me! Just perfect for my Easter table.

I used my Blue Garland dishes with a Cadberry egg on each plate, of course.

Battenburg lace napkins in sparkly napkin rings.

My centerpiece was fun to put together.

I used a low rectangle piece of Milk Glass and put a little bunny in the center.

Then I poked in Spring blooms and some greenery and I was a happy chick. Or should I say a happy bunny? Just so you know, the big glass bowl at the end of the table was for my salad, just sayin'.

I sprinkled some Hershey's milk chocolate Easter eggs in the center of the table and a few more bunny. In my glass bunnies with lids, I placed a colored Easter egg in their bellies!

Unfortunately the pretty didn't last long. You know how that goes.

Hope I'm forgiven for being late!

Be a bunch of sweeties,                                                                                                                           Shelia ;)

I'll leave you with a little Note Song ~

It's Too Late

Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time
There's somethin' wrong here, there can be no denyin'
One of us is changin', or maybe we've just stopped tryin'

And it's too late, baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Somethin' inside has died
And I can't hide and I just can't fake it
Oh, no, no, no, no, no
(No, no, no, no)

It used to be so easy, livin' here with you
You were light and breezy, and I knew just what to do
Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool

And it's too late, baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it (we can't make it)
Somethin' inside has died
And I can't hide and I just can't fake it
Oh, no, no

There'll be good times again for me and you
But we just can't stay together, don't you feel it, too?
Still I'm glad for what we had and how I once loved you

But it's too late, baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it (we can't make it)
Somethin' inside has died
And I can't hide and I just can't fake it
Oh, no, no, no, no

It's too late, baby
It's too late now, darling
It's too late

~ sung by Carole King

 

Come Into My Kitchen

 Hello, Dear Ones! I pray you all had a lovely blessed Easter! Well, I did clean my house and that included my kitchen so what a great time to show you! Come on in...

We've lived in our little house now almost three years and here's my little kitchen.  It's little but I've adjusted to it! Our home was built in 1993 and our little kitchen really showed it. The cabinets are oak and sturdy but they were the orangey looking oak - so we had them painted. I had the island painted this pretty blue but I don't remember what color it was!

The backsplash looked like a cream and orangey colored argyle sock! Truly! So that got removed and we had some simple white subway tile put up. As you can see there isn't much backsplash. The cooktop is on the island and there is a little bit of back splash underneath the granite.

Here you can see how the kitchen relates to the living room on the other side of the half wall. I love that wall as it helps hide my kitchen when it's messy. Not that it ever is! :) You can see Charlotte sitting at the end of the island. She holds my tablecloths.

Another odd thing is - there are no knobs on my cabinet doors! Horror, right!?! I keep telling myself - I'll drill the holes and I'll put on the knobs but I haven't yet. You can see all of the appliances in the corner left of the fridge. They belong to Mr. Precious - coffee maker, his keurig and an air fryer. I am not loving that air fryer. Anything I've cooked in there just didn't turn out very good.                                If you have one, do you like it?

I still have my little bunnies out too!

Now you can see where my little breakfast room is, really it's just a breakfast area.

The island has an area where we could put bar stools but since it's just Mr. Precious and me, we have just left it alone. I would really love some narrow cabinets under there. Maybe one day.

On the far left is my pantry and it's little too! So much little in here. I do love white kitchens and along with white cabinets I wanted white appliances. Did you know it's very hard any more to get white appliances? We had to order everything.

I love plates on the wall and this little area of wall was perfect for four plates. I had the Currier and Ives four seasons plates hanging up here and they had a special hanger on the back. Well, when the freeze happened a couple of years ago and we were without power - three of the plates fell off the wall! The hanger just squeezed up and they fell and broke! I recently found these pretty little hand painted fruit plates! They are very colorful and I love them.

Just a warning to you. We ordered this fridge to get a white one. Well, it is absolutely a lemon! It's a Samsung and I didn't do my research before we purchased to see what the reviews were. The ice maker is total poop! And...water leaks down from the back of the fridge somehow and it collects under the meat drawer and every few days we have to pull the drawer out and clean up the water! When I finally looked up the reviews they were just horrible! We called Samsung customer service and they were nice enough to bring out a new ice maker and they guy put it in but it's already beginning to do the same thing! They know it's a lemon. So don't ever buy this model!

Well, enough whining! See the cute cow platter on top of my fridge? A friend gave her to me and I named her Lainie. Isn't she the cutest? She's the queen of the top of my fridge along with my blue hen, scale and a little dish (it's either a covered butter or cheese dish) - Roosters and Roses pattern.

Since it was Easter last weekend, I placed these cute little tea towels on my oven door handle. I bought these at Kroger's two years ago and added a little lace on the bottoms to fancy them up a bit.

Frilly frilly is fine with me.

Hope you've enjoyed visiting my little kitchen with me today. Sit down and I'll get us some peach tea!

Be a bunch of sweeties,                                                                                                                          Shelia :)

I'll leave you with a little Note Song ~

Come On-A My House

Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you candy.

Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you
apple and a plum and an apricot or two, ah!

Come on-a my house, my house come on.
Come on-a my house, my house-a come on.
Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you
figs and dates and grapes and a cake, ah!

Come on-a my house, my house-a come on.
Come on-a my house, my house come on.
Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you candy.
Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you everything.

Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you Christmas tree.
Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you
marriage ring and a pomegranate, too, ah!

Come on-a my house, my house come on.
Come on-a my house, my house come on.
Come on-a my house, my house I'm-a gonna give a you
peach and a pear and I love your hair, ah!

Come on-a my house, my house-a come on.
Come on-a my house, my house-a come on.
Come on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you an Easter egg.
Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you
everything, everything, everything.
Come on-a my house!  

~sung by Rosemary Clooney

Eastering on the Dining Room Buffet

 Hello, Dear Ones! Don't you just love this time of year? It's so exciting to see the new green growth on the trees and the little heads of plants popping up out of the ground. But the most wonderful thing about this time of year - we celebrate our Risen Savior Jesus Christ! 

Okay, back to decorating...

Here is the top of my little vintage buffet in my dining room.

And she is all decked out for Easter with blooms and bunnies!

First of all I'll show you my floral in my tureen. I love to use my tureens to make flower arrangements in.

I love my beautiful vintage Fostoria cake stand and of course my tureen had to sit atop of it!

Like I said in an earlier post, these blooms are old. I do try to take care of them and arrange them in tubs according to the season and just go get what I need. Sometimes I'll have six tubs of flowers in the house going back and forth til I find just what I'm looking for. I'm talented like that! :)

On this side everything you see is old. Honey, I mean "OLD"!

This is just the sweetest little dish with little bunnies. See the little tiny bunny on the right scooting through the hole in the log?

Look how precious he is with that little bunny tail! I smile every time I look at it.

This is the other side with a lovely plate my sister-in-law gave me and two more little bunnies - one is a creamer and one a sugar bowl. Their eggs are really a salt and pepper set.

Aren't they sweet all dressed up in flowers and look at those darling little faces.

Okie dokie pokies...hope you've enjoyed seeing my little buffet today.

Be a bunch of sweeties,                                                                                                                         Shelia ;)

I'll leave you with a little Note Song ~

 Hokey Pokey

You put your one hand in
You put your one hand out
You put your one hand in
And you shake it all about

You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about

Oh, hokey, hokey pokey
Oh, hokey, hokey pokey
Oh, hokey, hokey pokey
That's what it's all about

You put your one foot in
You put your one foot out
You put your one foot in
And you shake it all about

You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about

Oh, hokey, hokey pokey
Oh, hokey, hokey pokey
Oh, hokey, hokey pokey
That's what it's all about

~ sung by my bunnies