Little Signs of Easter Around the House

Signs of Easter can be spotted in the apartment.

While the full scale holiday decorating of past years is now gone, because there's no room, there is still opportunity to add a little merriment to table and dresser tops.

The little bunny at the top of this post is not just for Easter.

She's on a shelf in the medicine cabinet year-round so every time the door is opened, she makes me smile.

Easter is a time of rebirth and joy.

Spreading little bits of both through decorating is a fun thing to do.

Good Fruit Combo

When it comes to different kinds of fruit, the choices of those to eat are up to individual preference.

Luckily, melons of all kinds are appealing to me as well as most berries.

Kiwi, however, is new to my tastebuds.

Reading about that fruit, though, and all the good it does for the body, it landed in my supermarket shopping cart.  

Added in thin, cut-in-half slices, to melon and strawberries, it is very tasty.

I prepared a breakfast this week for a very dear cousin and me and the tri-fruit plate was part of the menu.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FRUIT AND HOW DO YOU SERVE IT?

Shine "Em Up

For as long as remembered, costume jewelry has been a huge draw.

There is no way I'd count the number of earrings stored in cleaned up egg cartons that have been placed in large, dresser drawers.

However, when inexpensive "silver" toned earrings turn dark, it's not appealing. 

My tried and true way to get rid of the darkness and restore the jewelry to beauty, is simple and cheap.

Baking soda is sprinkled into a bowl.  Then earrings, or whatever piece of jewelry that is tarnished,  are placed on top of the powder.  Last, but not least, white vinegar gets poured onto the whole shabang.

I grab an old, clean toothbrush and scrub away. 

Rinse well, and the earrings or whatever will look SO MUCH BETTER. 

Be sure to pour out  the soda and vinegar and rinse the bowl well.  

Let dry on a paper towel.  

Voila! "newly looking"  jewelry!

IF YOU HAVE ANY, HOW DO YOU CLEAN AND POLISH YOUR COSTUME JEWELRY?

Chocolate Chip Cookies for Lunch Box Treats

It'd be interesting to know how many chocolate chip cookies I have made over the course of a lifetime.

One thing is for sure, it's a LOT.

These days, there would be no reason to make those treats. 

They don't even have much attention-grabbing powers for me anymore.

The grandchildren, however, are another story.  

They still love chocolate chip cookies.

I like to give them plastic baggies of cookies so they can be placed in lunch boxes.

That way, the kids have a special treat at school. 

Maybe they'll even think of Grammie for making the sweet treats.

WHAT IS YOUR VERY FAVORITE KIND OF COOKIE?

Continuing to Downsize...

One of the hardest things in the world to do (for me, anyway) is to downsize.

Many of us spend years of our lives accumumlating "stuff", things we perhaps once loved or even still do.

However, our housing situation may have changed and we now are in a much smaller space.

It's virtunally impossible to hang on to all the household decor that we love.

There simply isn't room anymore.

For instance, once upon a time, my cobalt blue collection was very extensive, since I'd taken possession of all the pieces a sister gave away.

Throughout the past five years, little by little, (because it's so difficult), the downsizing bug has bitten hard.

The cobalt blue collection is now down to a very few, random pieces, kept on the sills of the bedroom window.

The last, lingering pieces are shown in today's post. 

 My fave is the little sapphire-colored angel with the golden wings. She is so sweet.

Gone is the lovely, large, Colonial, front entry home I loved for years. 

Now, home is a small, lovely but cramped two and one quarter room apartment. 

How long the cobalt pieces will remain is unknown. 

Since deep pink cranberry glass is my favorite colored glass, it might not be too long to let go of the blue pieces.

But not the angel!  

She's a keeper.

She's the color of my September birth month, blue.

So scrap downsizing when it comes to angel girl 'cuz she's staying!

HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO DOWNSIZE?