Welcome to my Christmas Blog, A Debbie-Dabble Christmas!!
I am so happy you decided to stop by my Christmas Blog!!
Every room in our townhouse has a different Christmas Theme and Color Scheme!!
I prove that you do not have to live in a large home to have several Trees, over 20, in all shapes and sizes!!
The
majority of my Christmas decorations are placed in the same room every
year and I know that this is not what most Decorator's care for but to
me, it like seeing old friends again when I decorate each year for
Christmas as many of my decorations were gifts from family and
friends...........
I do try to add a few new things and change up
things a bit but for the most part, these decorations are part of my
Christmas Traditions and bring back a lot of treasured memories.....
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In my last post, I shared Christmas, Birthday and New Year's celebrations and a few tablescapes....
Click HERE if you missed that post...
And now for a few Personal Notes...
I'm tired!!
It has been a very busy Holiday Season for me....
I view the Holidays Season as starting back in October with Fall and Halloween events....
In October, I was Trunk and Treated out, having gone to 4 events, 3 with my family and granddaughters....
I loved every minute of it!!
Then it was also a busy and festive Christmas Season with a few parties and family visits!!
But I am Holidayed out right now!!
It was a cold and snowy December here in NEPA!!
The coldest and snowiest in quite a few years....
Thank God I am on PPL Electric Company's monthly Budget plan where I pay the same amount every month because I can only imagine what January's Bill will be as my house is all electric, including my heat....
I finally was able to cancel the 2 year contract that my late husband Joe entered right before he passed away with Constellation Energy, using that as our supplier...
Here in PA, we are able to search for lower rates among suppliers instead of automatically just using PPL...
Right after he entered that 2 year contract, PPL dropped their rates and now even with the projected increase in PPL's rates, it was less expensive per kWh to go back to PPL...
We have been below average, which is in the mid 30's for December, almost all month and have not gotten out of the 20's for a high in well over a week but a warm up is on the way this coming week!!
We have also been waking up to an inch or two of snow from snow squalls almost every morning!!
With all that being said, I will be waiting til that warm up into the 40's to change the front of my house over to Winter decorations.....
I will also wait to go up the attic and start to pack away Christmas in the Den and start decorating it for Winter until maybe Tuesday when it does get a bit warmer....
I am in no hurry to get rid of Christmas because I have really enjoyed how my house looked this Holiday Season.....
For today post, I want to showcase a few gifts I received and a Christmas Clearance Haul......
GIFTS
My son Jim's family gifted me this wonderful Butterfly.....
You Are
Beautiful Amazing
Eccl. 3.11 Ps. 139 ;14
Victorious Capable
Rom 8:37 Mark 10:27
Enough Chosen
2 Cor. 12:9 1 Thess.1;6
Strong Created
Phil. 4:13 Gen. 1:31
Never Alone Always Loved
Matt 28:20 Rom. 8:38
Sorry as I try to line up what is written on the butterfly but I see I did not do so well....
I LOVE it!!
They also gifted me this......
And it lights up, which I adore!!!
My son Joey gifted me a Boscov's Gift Card which I will definitely use!!
Thanks so much, Joey, Jim, Danielle, Lily, Gigi, Faye and Azumi.....
A CHRISTMAS CLEARANCE HAUL
I did do a bit of Christmas Clearance shopping BUT no where near what Joe and I used to do....
You may remember that my niece Renae and great nieces Carly and Caitlin gifted me this beautiful Red Cardinal Tea for One Teapot....
Well, look what I bought in Boscov's!!!
I found a matching Tea Pot!!!
And you may also remember that my sister, Barb, gifted me this Hallmark Snowman with Red Cardinals on it....
So I added the tea pot to my current Dining Room tablescape!!
I do Red Cardinals in my Kitchen for the Winter so these will definitely be used in the Kitchen soon....
I love this!!
I also bought these pretty fish ornaments in Boscov's for my late Summer "Under the Sea" Tree in the Living Room.....
And I bought 4 sets of these lights that I will be using next year on all 3 of my Living Room Christmas Trees.....
Most of these were 75% off in Boscov's....
I had a $25 Crazy Deal Gift Card from Ocean State Job Lot
Christmas was 50% off.....
These ski's were bought to add to my outside Winter decor.....
I may do a bit of "dabbling" with these....
I also bought 2 more sets of these candle lights and I am thinking of using these on my Living Room Valentine's Tree....
These ornaments were only $1.00 each and will be used on my Den Americana Tree with other toile and blue transferware ornaments....
And after having enough Christmas Cards for MANY years because Joe would buy them on clearance or get them for free from all the organizations that he donated to, I have finally run out of Christmas cards...
So I bought some for nest year...
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However, I am thinking that my Christmas Card next year might look something similar to this sweet picture!!
LOL!!
After using the Crazy Deal Gift Card, I payed 52 cents for all of this.along with a few non Christmas items that I bought....
When I went to J.C. Penney's for my monthly hair cut, I checked out their Holiday Merch....
I had had my eye on these lovely bells for quite some time as bells were the BIG thing this Christmas, especially on all the You Tube Decorating videos....
They were $36 originally.....
They were marked down to $8.99 so I grabbed 2 of them....
Only to be wonderfully surprised when both were further marked down to $8.99 for BOTH of them!!
I also plan on using them as part of my Living Room Patriotic decorations this Summer.....
I earned $20 in Rewards from Penney's so I ordered one of these....
The colors will be perfect in my Living Room and you can not beat FREE!!
I still had a gift card from Hobby Lobby from last year as I try to stay away from that store because I would bring the entire store home with me if I kept going there!!
LOL!!
I happened to stop in the day everything went to 90% off....
Thank God they were pretty picked out because heaven knows what I would have come home with!
I could not resist these pink felt reindeer.....
Original price.....
I bought these to use in my Den year round....
I loved these white nutcracker ornaments....
And I bought all of the musical ornaments they had left...
After using my gift card, all I paid was $1.32 for all of this!!
I really did not buy a lot of things this year and what I did buy are either useful, like the lights, or I can use for other Seasons, Holidays and throughout the year...
I am still on the look out for some greenery and garlands but they are probably already gone by now....
I may check out Michael's as it takes them awhile to drop prices on Christmas Merch.....
I hope you will stop by to visit again on MONDAY for my last post on this, my Christmas Blog, A Debbie-Dabble Christmas, for this Holiday Season before I return back to my regular Blog, Debbie-Dabble Blog....
Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!
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The girls are adorable, Deb! Looks like you got a lot of great stuff...and yes, stay warm! It's so cold here, too. Brrrr!!
ReplyDeleteYou had a much different experience at Hobby Lobby than I did. I was there when they marked down to 90% and it was a worse riot than the Cabbage Patch Dolls in the 80's! My husband and I moved back an aisle and watched. Women were just grabbing and filling carts past the brim -higher than Walmart on grocery day! After it died down, I wandered over and every item left had been damaged - reindeer with a missing antler or leg, broken snowflakes, smashed ornaments, every china plate or cup chipped, houses with broken chimneys. It was a junkyard!
ReplyDeleteYou are an expert at finding good deals, Deb! What holiday hauls you made! And, your gifts from your family were so sweet, too! I love anything cardinal and those tea pots are beautiful!
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