" Nose To The Grindstone "

I hope " you all " have missed me as much as I've missed you! We have had our nose to the grindstone for a solid week now, daylight to dark! The dining room is almost done! Here's a peek!
I can now fix the curtain right as I'm not trying to HIDE what was on the other side of the door! HA!





First the window had to be cleaned so I could see how to clean the room! NO pictures of that as I'm too embarrassed to show how the table and floor was full of stuff that is now all carefully packed and in the storage room.

This is one of the projects I tackled. This old chest was in the garage store room. I washed it down with Murphy's Oil Soap, had Hubby add some wood decoration to it. The left door had a place to hang clothes. The right side has three drawers and a door on the bottom. It had wood knobs but I found the original glass knobs in the top drawer.

I had him add two shelves to the left side..................

Then I stained it with Bombay Mahogany stain...............added the glass knobs.

It then went in the dining room...............
I know the wood doesn't match but I like the darker!

It now holds my small kitchen appliances and the drawers are for storing linens & things!

This Curio Cabinet is cleaned and holding collectibles...............

A view of my clean dining room. We are going to repaint but that is for down the road. I will leave the tray ceiling the same which is the color of the walls now but will paint the lower part white, add white chair rail , the upper wall will be Dusty Rose.

We added the extra leaf so the table now requires a 114' table cloth which I ordered. Right now I have mine and mother's combined crystal collection, in the middle. Those are roses from my garden!

The China Cabinet now has my China in it................

This China is the Moss Rose Japan pattern. It started with my Grandmother, it then passed to my Mother who added some and now I'm adding to it. Inow have a service for 12. It also has both the Tea and Coffee Service for 12.

The Crystal in here is all mine..........as is the hammered aluminum casserole dish.

I went to EBay last week and found some pieces to add, here are the pieces I added.

A Salt & Pepper set.

A Gravy Boat.................

A covered Casserole Dish.................

I made an offer on this Platter. This is the picture from the EBay seller . The description claimed it was Moss Rose Japan with the marking on the back. I paid with shipping a total of $ 29.02 for it.

THIS IS THE DISH I RECEIVED! It has no marking on it , it's round, it is made of rainbow colored glass! I'm pi**ed ! I wrote her an e-mail to complain but got no response! I'm filing a complaint with EBay against her today! The dish is not that bad even though it really doesn't match my set but I hate to be the victim of fraud and this was fraud in my book!

I have several old plates I've collected for display purpose, so Hubby is building me a display shelf. Well it was going to be one long one but half would be behind the door, so he cut it in half to make two out of it. I'll show pictures when it is on the wall!

Let me end with some pics I took one day last week of our Sunset. We have been working daylight to dark and we are always bone tired, so I have no idea what day this was. HA!

I've tried not to miss my sunrise and sunset views each day............

It makes my day to see them...............

Welcome to my new followers and I'll try to get around to visit soon! I miss seeing all your antics! :)