Garden Sitting Room, The Library Area

 

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Personal notes:

On Friday, our son, Joey, treated us to Dinner from Mission BBQ....

Joe had the pulled chicken sandwich.....

Joey and I had the turkey sandwich.....

And we also got a quart of their delicious Mac and cheese!!!

Joe ate the fries as he does not like mac and cheese and there was some left over for the next day...

Look at the amount of meat on those sandwiches!!

I finished reading the first book in Sue Grafton's Series......

It was a nice weekend filled with family......

On Saturday evening, we were visited by our Niece Renae and great nieces Caitlin and Carly.....

I had finally gotten around to going through all my jewelry which filled a jewelry armoire and 2 jewelry boxes....

Over the years, I had collected vintage jewelry and vintage styled jewelry along with vintage costume jewelry....

More jewelry than I could ever wear in the rest of my life time.....

So I condensed down to just my jewelry armoire and an earring box......

I decided to pass on the jewelry that I no longer wanted to my nieces if they wanted it....

I was thrilled that they liked all of it and we also enjoyed a nice evening together!!!

We celebrated Joe's 66th Birthday, which actually is today on the 17th, on Sunday with our traditional pizza dinner with Joey, Jim and Danielle....

We went with a Carvel ice cream cake as his birthday cake!!

It was a big hit!!

Joe was gifted a card with money and a lottery ticket from Jim and Danielle......

No, he did not win anything....

And this from Joey.....

I think he may find a place for it up in Joe's Pittsburgh corner instead of outside......

So Happy Birthday to Joe!!!

The one thing I say to him every year is that he will ALWAYS be older than me!!!

LOL!!

 

 

 

You can see that the TV fit nicely on top and it is angled a bit so it can easily be seen from the rocker/recliner....

For now, I chose to keep some "Pretties" on these shelves......

When I converted this room over to a Sitting Room for reading, I did not want a TV in this room and only wanted to be able to listen to music when reading so since I am still "Old School" and have a lot of CD's, I have a portable CD player/radio in this room.......

The wall above the shelves.......

The scarf on top of the book case that my Dad made was tatted and embroidered by my maternal grandmother......

I have several different types of books and magazines in this book case......

And all Christmas decorating books.....

In this cute little red wagon is all my sons' childhood Christmas books including some vintage Golden books that were mine as a child!!!

And all of their other childhood Golden Books, many of which are vintage.....

On top of a smaller book case that I bought for $10 in Tamaqua on our way home from Vanity Fair in Reading many years ago......

You can see that the TV antenna fits nicely here and is by the window which brings in 26 channels for me when our son only gets 16 with his which he has as a back should our cable ever go out.....

This book case is filled with mostly fiction books......

And my Collection of Classic Novels and Anne Perry Victorian Crime series......

In a wooden basket which I have yet to decide on how I will finish it that I bought from the Amish Farmer who sets up produce stands every Summer at the convenience store down the road from us....

I put most of all the new paperback books I bought from the Library sales.....

In the corner is one of the 3 curios that I took from my neighbor Elly's house when cleaning it out for her sons.....

On top of the curio.......

I debated about also painting this corner curio white but I decided not to make anymore work for myself.....

I have my Mother's yellow depression glass and a collection of Angles that joe bought for me in this curio.......

 

Both back bedrooms are only 8' by 10' which is crazy as the Master Bedroom is 16' by 20', the same size of our Living Room!!!

I bought this swag lamp at the estate sale of a neighbor who passed away for $20.....

I originally had shelving on each side of the window.....

I bought this wicker dress form in a consignment shop and I found the lace dress in a Costume shop on Clearance for $10!!!

Minerva is decked out in Victorian finery.....

Back in 2012, Minerva was part of my Halloween decorations in our Living Room.....

But then I decided to move all the Halloween decorations into the Dining Room and decorate the Living Room only for Autumn.....

So now Minerva's home is here in my Sitting Room, next to my faux fire place.....

On the floor in a container is all my Garden, Porch and Patio magazines for the Summer.....

And I already shared where I keep the rest of all my decorating magazines.......

Unfortunately, I have not spent the amount of time in this room that I had hoped to, reading.....

Because of the small windows, it is impossible to put an air conditioner in this room without having to first pop the window out and Joe standing on the roof of the Den outside to do so......

I do use a fan in here but with the record breaking heat we have had this Summer, it was still too hot.....

I hope you enjoyed seeing my Garden Themed Sitting Room......

It will stay like this until I decorate it for Christmas in October as I do the entire upstairs at that time.... 

In future post, I will be sharing some of my tea cup and tea pot collection......

Many of which I have on display in this room.....

I take back everything good I said about the new Blogger interface being easier as I had such trouble doing this post....

Uploads were slow and it kept doubling pictures when I tried to move them around!!!

That is why it took me so long to get this post up!!

It was a real pain in the you know hat!!!!!

I hope Blogger gets this fixed soon!!!

I hope you will stop by to visit again soon!!

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

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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