Decorating On The Prairie: Down The Hall

~Decorating On The Prairie~

Staying busy with thoughts of what I'd like to do 
to this 'ole place, the Hallway comes to mind.

This part of the house is original to the 1885 four rooms.  
Painted solid wood door with a white enameled door knob.
Pretty sure BABIES were born on the other side of this door.

 We have essentially done NOTHING
to 'the ole upstairs Hallway. 

She is the way she was the day we bought her, 
except for changing light bulbs, dusting, hanging Senior Portraits 
of my children and a Eastlake Mirror.

HOME HAVEN has an untouched Hallway that is aching for some attention.  She will just have to be appreciated for the way she is at the present time.  Other projects are a priority.  

Still thinking about what we should do to her before it is all said and done.

When we first moved into this two story native limestone palace....the rustic appearance of this place was what it was and I started thinking on the lines of what needed spruced up.   

Mistake?  I was thinking like freshen everything up and didn't realize that there are people on the planet that LOVE the old appearance of things.  The rougher the better.  I may be becoming one of these creatures that admires the rustic. 

The wood steps will remain worn and dated...but the Hallway will be revamped as time marches on.  If I revamp this Hallway into a Formal looking Victorian room, what would that look like?

 Peek of the Hallway as it is.

 Think the white painted wood under the railing needs stripped, stained and varnished to return it to the way it use to be.  Not sure why it was painted in the first place.  Wish they had left it alone....oh well.....if wishes were fishes, the ocean would be full of them.  Wait, that is the way it already is.  Corny.

Over on the ledge, is a art easel where oil paintings will be created or suppose to be painted for lack of an Art Studio.  

Make whatever space you have available to you, 
work for you.  

A reflection of my attention.

This Eastlake Mirror was purchased in Tomball, Texas umpteen years ago.  It was originally a dresser mirror.  Glad to get it and have pleasantly admired her in 6 other houses now.

Happy Home to you and may all your decorating adventures be good ones.

God bless,

d 
decorating on the prairie

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Design and Decorate

The Teapot Lady

Almost 6 years ago I had a rummage sale to thin out some of my pretties.  I was new to this Flint Hills Community that I now call HOME.  The Autumn October day was gorgeous.  The kind of day that I wished I could freeze frame and visit often.  Walk into a 3D room and be right there soaking in the day.  More than a memory...an actual place.

One of the community Ladies stopped by and purchased all the Teapots I had available for someone to GET A STEAL.  She did and she knew it.  Very friendly.  I started calling her THE  TEAPOT LADY.  One Christmas Season, she opened her HOME for a Christmas Tour to raise funds for the Historic Society in the area.  I visited and we chatted about the Teapots she had displayed in her lovely and cozy home.  She remembered that she hit the Mother Lobe at my sale.  We giggled.  She had spruced up her HOME to be really comfortable and inviting.  I think her personality was well represented by how she decked out her territory.  Her HOME was her own and it showed.



 She'd later relocate to where her newly widowed son with children were living to help raise the Grandchildren.  Her Daughter-In-Law had died due to having Cancer.  I hate cancer.  The Teapot Lady and her Husband had owned the local Grocery Store.  She was also a Pastor's Wife as her Husband was a Preacher.

After school on Wednesday, I took Lil Miss to the Grocery Store with me to pick up a few items for snack and supper.  Before I left the store, I purchased a local newspaper.  As we sat in the car, Lil Miss munched on some cheese curls and got her hands bright orange.  I sat behind the driver's wheel and thumbed through the newspaper.  The weather was cool and sitting still in the car was just what the doctor ordered.  Window down.

Odd...as I sat there outside the Grocery Store that the Teapot Lady once owned, I was reading her Obituary in the newspaper.  The Teapot Lady had passed away following a short illness. 

Passed away.

  
The obituary said that she was a LOVING Mother and Grandmother; she was always full of life and a very giving person.

I sat there in the car and stared at the building in front of me.

I believe that The Teapot Lady knew the LORD and is in Heaven.  She is in her heavenly home now.  May her Family be comforted and have peace. 

   
If I were to pass away today, my Family would have to 
go through my messes and decide 
what to do with it all.  This thought 
gives me courage to downsize and continue to organize.

 

Dear Lord,
Thank you for LIFE and LIFE more abundantly.
Thank you for   e v e r l a s t i n g   life in Heaven.
Your Child,
dd


John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Not sure what people will say about me after I am gone.  Will it matter?  I hope favorable things will be said.  What truly matters is that God tells me, well done good and faithful servant.

Life is short.  Where will we spend eternity?
With Christ as my Savior, I am Heaven bound.  May each one of my days be fruitful and lived well.

The week-end is upon us.  Have a good one.  

God bless you.  
We love you,

d

The Toilet Paper Dilemma

 

NOT earth shattering.
 Which way do you hang the roll 
of toilet paper?

HOW MANY RELATIONSHIPS HAVE BROKEN UP 
OR SPLIT INTO OVER THIS SUBJECT MATTER?
KIND OF LIKE....do you leave the toilet lid up or lower it when finished using the toilet?
Do you squeeze the tube of toothpaste in the middle or at the bottom of the tube?
Throw the empty milk carton away.  Don't put it back in the 'fridge when empty.
Were you born in a barn?  Shut the door.
Pick up your undies and put them in the clothes hamper.

I've wondered...which way the toilet paper is suppose to hang 
on the toilet paper roller. 

 Know what I mean?  Have you wondered? 

Is it suppose to be positioned where the pieces of tissue are closest to the user (over the roller) or is the tissue suppose to hang to where it rolls off the back of the roll of toilet paper???

Not a bad dilemma......just wondering.

WHAT'S THE PROPER WAY? 

If ANN LANDERS said that this was the most controversial issue in her column's history, than I am in pretty good company.   

Well Eppie....you did well.   

Ann Landers was Eppie Lederer.

 


Eppie Lederer

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Eppie Lederer
Publicity photo in 1961
Born	Esther Pauline Friedman July 4, 1918 Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Died	June 22, 2002 (aged 83) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Pen name	Ann Landers
Occupation	Personal advice columnist, author, radio host
Alma mater	Morningside College
Spouse(s)	Julius Lederer (m. 1939–1975)
Children	Margo Lederer (b. 1940)
Relative(s)	Pauline Phillips (twin sister)

Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), better known by the pen name Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity who began her career writing the 'Ask Ann Landers' column in 1955. She wrote the column for 47 years, by which time its readership was 90 million people. A 1978 World Almanac survey named her the most influential woman in the United States.^[1] She was the twin sister to Pauline Phillips, aka Abigail Van Buren, known for writing the 'Dear Abby' column.
She was a profile-raiser for several medical charities, and in 1977 President Carter appointed her to a six-year term on a cancer advisory board.

In her later years, Lederer wrote her column at home, sometimes while in the bathtub. She had numerous friends and was a regular part of the Chicago social scene.

di·lem·ma

noun \də-ˈle-mə also dī-\

Definition of DILEMMA

1

: an argument presenting two or more equally conclusive alternatives against an opponent

2

a : a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice dilemma

: raise interest rates and slow the economy or lower them and risk serious inflation>

b : a situation involving such a choice dilemma; I must commit murder or commit matrimony — George Farquhar>; broadly : predicament dilemma — G. M. Trevelyan>

3

a : a problem involving a difficult choice dilemma

of “liberty versus order” — J. M. Burns>

b : a difficult or persistent problem dilemma of our advancing technology — August Heckscher>

— dil·em·mat·ic adjective

Toilet paper orientation

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The over orientation		The under orientation

Toilet paper when used with a toilet roll holder with a horizontal axle parallel to the wall has two possible orientations: the toilet paper may hang over (in front of) or under (behind) the roll. The choice is largely a matter of personal preference, dictated by habit. In surveys of American consumers and of bath and kitchen specialists, 60–70% of respondents prefer over.^[1]
Despite its being an apparently trivial topic, some people hold strong opinions on the matter. Advice columnist Ann Landers said that the subject was the most controversial issue in her column's history. Defenders of either position cite advantages ranging from aesthetics, hospitality, and cleanliness to paper conservation, the ease of detaching individual squares, and compatibility with a recreational vehicle or a cat. Celebrities and experts are found on both sides. Some writers have proposed connections to age, sex, or political philosophy; and survey evidence has shown a correlation with socioeconomic status.^[2]
Solutions range from compromise, to using separate dispensers or separate bathrooms entirely^{[citation needed]}, or simply ignoring the issue altogether. One man advocates a plan under which his country will standardize on a single forced orientation, and at least one inventor hopes to popularize a new kind of toilet roll holder which swivels from one orientation to the other.^[3]

Okay....what do you think?  

I decided from this day forward, 

I will be using the OVER the roll method.

Next dilemma...what do you do 

with the cardboard rollers???

That's fodder for a different post.

Do you throw them away or flatten them out for keeping and use for fireplace starters?  Save for Craft Projects?  Use for extension cord holders?  Scarf holders?  Use for package stuffers like mailing peanuts? 

Enough for today.

So glad we have TOILET PAPER,

d

Home Happening and A Beautiful Sight

~A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT~

I crave ORDER.

My home right now isn't in the best of order and that bothers me.

Steals my peace and robs my joy.

This pic of the Ladies with the canned goods
 is beautiful to me.

I have never canned before, but feel a sense of satisfaction 

when there are canned goods sitting on the shelves in my Kitchen.

I have hopes of having shelves in our cellar by FALL

so I can have a stash.

Common sense tells us to be prepared and store up.  

Makes great sense to me.

I delight in being orderly.

Working on this.

My week has gone really well.

It helps that the skies are blue and I can hear the birds chirping.

I do believe that they think it's already Spring.

One morning it was in the 20s and I could hear a Red Robin chirping in the front yard Red Bud Tree.

He was a chunky one and I wondered how he had kept from freezing to death in this bitter temp.

Today, it is suppose to reach high 50s or low 60s.

That will be pleasant.

I'm thinning out closets while Hubby paints 

the final coat on the stairwell area where it is bead boarded.

This week-end, I WILL BE PAINTING.

I WILL THAT I WILL BE PAINTING.

I will be painting.

Lord, please help me to get this done 

and there be no interruptions that get in the way of the painting.

Please.

Last week-end, I went to Joyland in Topeka with my Daughter and Lil Miss.

  It was a first for me.  Flea Market. 

Elvis, the cat was in a cage.  

I wondered if they let him out at night to catch mice.  
Elvis has left the building.

A Little Red Riding Hood Doll stood beside a stuffed Wolf 

that was larger than our Airedales.

I hadn't realized that wolves can be bigger than a LARGE dog.

We didn't spend much time there and I was alright with this.

They had some order to the place, but it was j u n k y inside to say the least.

G r u n g y.

My JUNKIN' didn't happen. 

As Hubby and I shopped SAM's this week, I decided to get a crystal beverage dispenser that I have been eyeballing since before Christmas.  It really is a LUXURY ITEM that I may only use occasionally, but still.....I have wanted one for a few years.  She was marked down to under $30 so into the basket she went.  We spend more on dog food than $30 and I'm worth more than doggy fuud.

It was when we were in the dog food aisle that I witnessed something that was awful.

A very unhappy 30ish woman was raising her voice to the man that was with her.  I supposed that he was her significant other.  There was an older couple with them.  As this woman shopped she loaded a couple of large bags of dog food onto a cart.  A little blonde headed boy that was maybe 3 or so wanted to help his dad push the over sized cart.  She raised her voice at the little guy, said she'd had enough then picked him up and threw him into a different shopping cart.

I mean T H R E W him into it.  

There was no picking him up and placing him into the shopping cart....it was her throwing him into the cart.  He hit his head and of course started to cry.  

The man did nothing.  The older couple with them, did nothing.

Out of my belly came a LOUD CRY.  "HEY LADY, 

THAT'S JUST WRONG!"

She went on her merry way and the man looked at me with a smirk on his face.

This didn't rest with me.  When I saw a Sam's Worker, I asked her if this mean woman could be observed.   She called the manager which shook my hand.  I explained what the gal had done.  

He said he'd observe her.  From there I'm not sure where it went.

If a grown woman will treat a young innocent child like this in a public place, what is she doing in private to this little boy?  Dear God, help the child and help the woman stop this.  Get help.

From now on....if I witness some actions in a store that are wrong, I will go directly to the MANAGER and alert them to it.  I had no desire to get into a physical confrontation with a total stranger.  I just imagine if I witnessed a woman beating up a little child in front of my eyes that I would have to scream at her to stop and then do my best to stop her 

even if it meant pulling her off of the child or hitting her over the head with my purse....something.  

Anything...to get her to stop.

  

Somber.

The world isn't perfect.  We all have challenges.

Please, if you feel like you are losing it,

Take a deep breath and splash some water on your face.

Call a prayer line or a friend, if you have one. 

Please don't take it out on an innocent child.

Please.........please. 

 

Today, I read that the US Post Office will not be delivering Saturday mail 

except to postal boxes come this August.

Giving enough time to allow people to get use to the idea.

Supposedly will save Billions of dollars.

Yesterday, I bought VALENTINES for my grandchildren.  

I need to get them a little something as well and get that in the mail.  Also have a grandson that has a VALENTINE'S DAY BIRTHDAY.  We saw him about three weeks ago.  He is talking quite a bit.  He copies what you say.  Really sweet.  I was so glad to be able to see him.  

We spent nearly 9 hours with him.  

 His mom and dad are going through a divorce and this breaks my heart.

Still, I must live life and get on with it.

Not sure when this chunk of broken heart 

will mend.....if ever.

I had best run.  

Laundry to do and more tidying to get done before Lil Miss comes home from school.

Need to put some eggs on to BOIL for Salad tonight.

There's a few things on the Dining room Table that have got to go.

Taking a DEEP BREATH.

The wind is picking up and I need to do the same.

God bless and if you need someone to talk to... BLOG me,

d

p.s.

This is a beautiful sight.  Gorgeous.

Oh, to have this in my home.

Will have to make this happen.

Tea Time

                

 Tea For Two and Two For Tea

Green hair and all. 

Welcome to my world on the Kansas Prairie.
Glad you're here.
Won't you have a cup of Tea?

 

 I'm more of a Coffee Drinker than a Tea Totaler [sic],

but I could one day start sippin' Tea and say, "I'm onto something here and I LIKE IT!"

I love the beauty and elegance of Tea Cups and Saucers.

Dishes.

I AM A FAN.

Daughter gave me a Mz LuLu for Christmas 

and I loved her so much that I kidnapped another one of her creations from a Fund Raiser.  

Instead of giving her away....i kept her for myself.  Hehe.

These gals are easy to love.

Fashioned after French Rag Dolls.

The tiny cups and saucers have

Princesses on them.

We actually are royalty, 

so it won't be difficult

filling those shoes and sipping from the miniature cups. 

  

BLESSINGS.

If you could wear neon green hair....would you? 

I might for one day. 

 

  

We're having a PARTY.  

Won't you join us?

Thanx for stopping by.  

I do love hearing from you.

Sweet Blessings to you,

d

Joining Sandi's Tuesday Tea!
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Late Winter Snow Fades

~SNOW and HOME HAVEN~

 Green pushing through the ground. 

a m a z i n g

Early SPRING coming.

 Can't wait.

In need of milder temps and blue skies.

 d on the prairie

DANIEL 7:9
"I watched till thrones were put in place,
And the ancient of days was seated;
His garment was white as snow,
And the hair of His head was like pure wool.
His throne was a fiery flame,
Its wheels a burning fire;

Ram Trucks Super Bowl Commercial "Farmer"

Hear Me Roar....

Want to hear my Southwest Kansas ACCENT?

O my goodness.....i forgot about this lil talkie.  
Hear me roar.  This was from about a year and a half ago.  
I didn't have Pink Eye.  

It was a membrane that flared up.  

Anywhoooooooooo.

I pretty much sound like this.

Hope it doesn't burst your bubble.
Your Friend,

 d  

Home Sweet Home

~Welcome to Home Haven~

Be it ever so humble there's no place like home.

Your Home is like no other place on the planet,

because you LIVE there.

Home Sweet Home,

~Deanna~

Decorating On The Prairie: Seeing Red

Decorating On The Prairie Bedding is RED for now.

PILLOWS on the bed add something....but I'm not sure what.

Maybe some character?

 They aren't practical.

Can you believe I said that?

Pillows..........what can i say.  They have a way of taking over.

Quite a few years ago, I wanted to decorate the Master Bedroom in REDS.

Mission accomplished.

Sam's had a Bedroom Assemble In A Bag 
and I fell for it.

Fantastic buy.

Comforter

Bed Skirt

2 European Pillow Shams

2 Standard Size Pillow Shams

 2 Standard Throw Pillows

Rectangular Throw Pillow 

A Neck Pillow

Sheets Set

By the time I make up the bed, 
gather all the throw pillows and place them on the comforter,

I have had my morning work-out.

This is a work out for lil 'ole me that has trouble stretching 
and reaching, but what a great way to get one's exercise.
Making the bed.

 

THANKFUL for a HOME
that has beds and bedding.

I really like electricity and natural gas for heating and cooling.
I love my home with flushing toilets and running water.
I like having a bathtub, washer and dryer, micro-wave, 
fridge and soon to be stove that works in my remodeled Kitchen.
A place to watch television, surf on the web, that has furniture.
A place to visit with family and relax 
or sit in the quiet to think and pray.
My life on the Prairie is a blessing.

My HOME is a blessing.

As for the RED BEDDING...after I washed it, 
the comforter took a nose drive and didn't recover very well. 
 She shrunk and has a well loved look to her.

For now, I'm enjoying seeing RED,
but have plans in the near future to switch to BROWNS, 
ECRU plus WHITE.

I like all the PILLOWS for now.

 So glad you stopped by for a visit!
Hope you're doing well,
d

Our ceiling is waiting to be textured and painted.  Crown molding will go up.  That will be a happy day for sure.  The Chandy is our $5 TREASURE that my sweet Hubby pieced back together, polished and hung in our Dining room a year ago and then relocated it to our Master Bedroom.  Not sure what color I will paint the walls.  Will post about it when it comes together.

Above the bed hangs framed scripture.

Another THRIFT buy that I cherish.

I cherish my Husband.  He wasn't a THRIFT buy...grins.

Believe that it is important to remember that MARRIAGE  

is an extra special COVENANT 

that God created where two become one.

 

Contributing this Post to THE CHRISTIAN HOME MAGAZINE 

at Laura's www.daybydayinourworld.com

Thanx Laura for Hosting this Blog Magazine.

When looking around the room,

you'll see a little of this and a little of that.

$5 Williamsburg Chandelier

Are you a Queen, 

King, Princess, Prince?