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China cabinet in my kitchen.

I also love gravy boats, serving platters and serving bowls!
I need more dishes now!
You women are a really bad influence on me! You know who you are too!
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My next post will be Foodie Friday!!!
I am having my surgery in the morning and then I will be on some really good drugs when I come home! So if I leave any comments and they don't make sense, it was the drugs!
I will catch up with everyone tonight, I have to clean my house!

The China Closet!

Now remember, this is a closet that no one sees!

There are 3 sets of dishes in this closet, a wooden box of silverware, sandwich plates with tea cups, various trays, tea cup collection and other stuff!
Can you guess, I will collect almost anything!

Tomorrow I will show you the serving things I have in the small china cabinet in my kitchen!
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Just so you know, that really is a china closet! My house was built in 1925 and they had those closets installed with a lock! So it really is in my dinning room.

My Thrift Store Finds....

Silver plated basket, bread warmer, afghan and a PLATE!
When the girls were very little I was into collecting dishes. Because of you people in blogland and you know who you are, I am starting to get back into it! So I have bought my first plate in a few years! ;D I see a very bad trend here, do you?

An Idea I Found....

I have been thinking for awhile about what to do with the back of the open shelves of my cabinets. I saw this idea on Tatertots and Jello. Within minutes I was in the kitchen with the wallpaper that the previous owners had left and put it up in the cabinets.
What do you think?

Before.

After. I have a few cake plates, cows and I love trays!

A few pitchers.

This is one set of dishes that I have. They are very big, sturdy and heavy.

Maybe I will show you my china closet one day this week along with my china cabinet that I have in the kitchen.

A few week ago..

A few weeks ago I was going to paint the den. But I couldn't do that to my husband. We had just painted the bathroom and the craft room the previous weekend and he looked very tired. So I put off painting.

I have a few deadlines coming up.
Spring, I want and need to get out and dig and plant!
The girls birthday party, which I am going to have in May this year.
And finally my in-laws and my dad will be here end of June and most of July.
So I am about to enter panic mode.
Since I knew my surgery was coming up, I did need to get the den done. We have a lot of heavy furniture in here and I didn't know how long it would take me to feel like moving stuff and time is running out!

As you can see, my children didn't believe that we were painting the den, even though I was taking stuff out of there!

My husband has to love me very much to let me take a pictures of him while he is doing something he really doesn't want to do.

The wall paper was very ugly!
Yes, we did paint over the wallpaper. We think the wallpaper is what is holding the walls up!

He is such a good husband! We won't mention him tripping over the can of paint and spilling it on the carpet and having to use Spot Shot, Oops, Goof Off and a carpet shampooer to get the paint out! We won't mentions that.

The next project in here is to look for fabric for new curtains!

I can see my paintings on the walls now instead of just wall paper!

Humphrey had to get paint on his ear. Every time we paint, he always gets paint on him somewhere!