Holidays, Home Decor

Share Your Style #409

Hello, everyone! Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #409!! Fall has finally come to North Texas and everyone is loving the change in weather. So nice! Since we have cooler weather, I’ve been out in the garden pulling weeds, cutting back rose bushes (just a little), and clearing out dead plants and prepping for late fall/early winter planters. I am very grateful for these cooler temps!

Let’s find out what features everyone shared two weeks ago… 🙂

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Here’s what I shared this past week at French Ethereal…

Of course I know Halloween was over a week ago, but these would have been shared last week, just a day after… Inspired by You: Halloween Jalapeño Poppers! These were delicious and I know you’ll want my recipe and Sarah from Must Have Mom’s version.

We run through all of the holidays here this week with a little of Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Fun for all!

And here are this week’s featured posts…

 

Let’s start this party with a crazy, wild Halloween party over at Karin’s Kottage ~
Giddy Up for a Spooky Western Barbieland Halloween Tablescape. You’ll love all the other Barbie things in Karin’s post! Really cute!!!
Michelle from K’Mich Wedding Soiree shared Pinecones: Nature’s Answer to Beautiful Design. Love all her pinecone ideas!!
Debbie from Debbie-Dabble Blog shared her hubby’s trip out ~ Joe’s Trip to Pittsburgh & the Flight 93 Memorial Site. A fun trip to a hockey game, and a more somber visit to Flight 93’s final resting place.
We give thanks for the people aboard Flight 93 who fought back against terrorists that day.
drizzle coffee cake with powdered sugar glaze.
Oh my goodness! Lois from Walking on Sunshine brings us her Pumpkin Coffee Cake recipe and man! it looks so delicious!!! Can’t wait to try it!
Fall Fireplace Mantel
Kathryn over at The Dedicated House shared this lovely autumn post ~
Fall Fireplace Mantel. So pretty!!
farmhouse fall decor
Our final feature for this week is from Sarah from Must Have Mom. She shares this DIY post ~
Fall Dollar Tree Cricut Projects. Great ideas!!!

Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards. 💜  Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.

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Happy November and fall, y’all,

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Inspired by You: Halloween Jalapeño Poppers!

Happy All Saints Day, dear friends!!! Halloween was yesterday, of course, but I was inspired by you to bake these adorable Halloween Jalapeño Poppers to take to work for our staff treats share day. 😉

Sarah from Must Have Mom linked up her post ~ Halloween Mummy Jalapeño Poppers in Oven Recipe ~ at last week’s SYS.

At last week’s Share Your Style, I featured newcomer Sarah from Must Have Mom with this popping good post. So adorable!!!

I have to tell you, these jalapeño poppers are delicious!!! Taking the seeds out of the first few… Whew, not so much!

My eyes were watering, I was coughing (head turned away to keep the jalapeños clean), I had to stop and blow my nose…

But so worth it!!!

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How to make Halloween Jalapeño Poppers

Ingredients you will need:

  • 12-20 jalapeño peppers, sliced open horizontally and seeded. Leave the stems on for holding while filling (and for cuteness!).

Do wear gloves for cutting and filling each pepper! This was recommended by Sarah and I fully agree. I have heard that you can buy cut and pre-seeded jalapeños but I haven’t tried to find them this way. This may be an option for you. 🙂

  • 1 package 8 oz. Neufchatel cheese
  • 8 oz. shredded pepperjack cheese (I used a brick and shredded/cut up myself)
  • 1-2 green onions, chopped
  • 1 refrigerated can of crescent rolls
  • 1 egg, separated; use the egg white to brush on the filled and wrapped peppers (for browning the crescent roll strips)
  • candy eyes for your Halloween popper people

Mixing together 50% Neufchatel cheese (8 oz. package) and 50% pepperjack cheeses, with 1-2 green onions chopped up. If you have a food processor or standing mixer, this really helps combine the filling mixture.

Fill each pepper and place onto a prepared cookie sheet.

Separate the crescent rolls into rectangles, pinching the triangles together to create rectangles.

Use a pizza cutter to slice each rectangle into strips.

Wrap up each filled pepper popper. If you leave the crescent roll strips out for a bit, the dough softens which makes it easier to wrap your pepper people. 🙂

Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Check for softness.

Place on candy eyes right after removing the pepper poppers from the oven. Each Halloween Pepper Popper has its own personality!

I am so glad that I made these! The tray was completely cleaned up early in the day at school, nary a crumb left.

A big thank you to Sarah at Must Have Mom for sharing her recipe! This has been fun to recreate for you. <3

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Happy All Saints’ Day! Eat a pepper today. ;)’

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Share Your Style #407

Welcome, friends, to this week’s Share Your Style #407! Thank you to all of you who linked up last week as we had over 100 posts shared. Really amazing, thank you!!

Let’s check out this week’s features…

I am Barbara Chapman and I’d love it if you’d follow me here on my blog and on any of my other social media sites, too.  Thank you!💜 

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Here’s what I shared this past week at French Ethereal…

A Fall Garden Walkabout + Lunar Eclipse Photos ~ A nice Saturday walk about our backyard.
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Let’s Visit a Thriftshop in Grenoble, France! ~ part of the photos I took in 2022 but haven’t yet shared here on FE.

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

Our first feature this week is October Entry with the Snow Owls by Debra from Common Ground.
So beautiful!!!
Next we have Sandra from Come to Dinner at Eight‘s totally adorable table set with these cute ghosties!!! ~ A Hauntingly Delightful Halloween! Fun!!!
Chicken & Waffle Sliders
We need something to eat with our fun tablesettings, let’s try some Chicken and Waffle Sliders by Estelle at Homemade on a Weeknight. Yum!!!
How to Make Cheesecloth Ghosts for Halloween
Niky from The House on Silverado brings out the spooky in her DIY How to Make Cheesecloth Ghosts for Halloween. My mother used to make mini cheesecloth ghost back in the early 1970’s and she used Hawaiian bark cloth, too, for ghosts!
Great refresh of this older craft! Love it!!!
Penny of Penny’s Treasures made this sweet plaid vignette ~
Farmhouse Themed Halloween Vignette ~ adorable!!!
Pottery Barn painted pumpkin pillow.
Wendy from WM Design House shared this Painted Pumpkin Pillow for Fall: Potter Barn Inspired.
Love great pillows! 🙂

That’s all I have time to add for right now, dear friends! I’ve got to get off to work. Sorry I fell asleep last evening before posting… Part of the woes of still working, lol! 🙂

I may get some more features added later this afternoon when I get home, but if not, this will have to do. 🙂 Check back later to see if your post has been added… <3

Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards. 💜  Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.

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Blessings to you,

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Share Your Style #403 & a Formal Apology…

Hello, dear friends, and welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #403! For those of you who were here last week, we found out the source of the cigarette smell… My family member is vindicated and I must make a public apology. There was no hidden vaping/smoking involved.

Turns out that the new-to-me buffet must have been from a smoker’s home as it was leaching odors into our home. A combination of really high heat with temps up to 109 F. (111 F. on the heat index) and high humidity, the move from the kitchen to the living room, and two ceiling a/c vents blowing on it caused the whole mess. Made me very sick and caused me to smell smells and accuse this family member of maybe taking up vaping. I have since apologized but I need to “clear the air “with you, too. Please forgive my not trusting this sweet person and thinking the worst…

And I thought the buffet was smoke-free… (think “eye roll!”) Boy, was I wrong!!!

It is now in the garage and in the process of being revarnished and painted inside. If that doesn’t take care of the problem, I’ll have to sell it.

Bummer as I really like the buffet, just not the smoke odors.

But, I love my family more. 🙂 💜 

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So, after all the mad cleaning, washing walls with white vinegar and baking soda (works great for taking off grease!), steaming other walls, trying to figure out why my throat burned, having eyes that were constantly watering, having a house smelled like an ashtray… Washing every object in our spare bedroom/office and cleaning massive amounts of bedding, pillows, etc. around the clock… Plus some carpet cleaning…

It took almost two weeks of wondering WHY the smell was worse in the evening than in the morning… No clue, on my part…

It finally dawned on me that it must be the buffet. As soon as Mr. Ethereal and I moved the buffet outside to begin airing out, the inside of the house became noticeably less stinky! Two days later there was no residual smell in the house. Yeah!

So, with all that, I have documented working on the buffet and some of the house cleaning. Lol, on the bright side ~ most of the fall cleaning is done! 😉 I’ll share that soon… Once I figure out if the buffet gets to stay or go. 😉

Let’s check out this week’s featured posts, shall we?

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

Our first entry this week is this lovely table created by Sandra from Dinner at Eight ~ Setting the Table for Early Autumn ~ just lovely!!
A bouquet of Halloween rice crispy treats.
Too cute!!! Perfect for all those little creatures who will be stopping by on All Hallows Eve, newcomer Ann from Ann’s Entitled Life shares these adorable munchies ~
Easy Halloween Rice Krispie Treats Recipe. Love ’em!! Welcome, Ann!
keto pumpkin bread sliced slathered with butter
Aren’t y’all ready for baking season? This Easy Keto Pumpkin Bread recipe from newcomer
Hilda from Fit to Serve looks just delicious!! Welcome, Hilda!!
The five things every collected fall home needs to have.
Jamie from Anderson + Grant shares 5 Things Your Rooms Need to Have This Fall Decorating Season. Yes!!!!
Really cool idea for fall is this Repurposed Spoon Racks idea from Lisa at Fresh Vintage by Lisa. Really fun idea!!!
Fall DIY dried  Floral arrangemnt on the wall
One last entry from Wendy at WM Design House who shares How to Make the Prettiest Dried Floral Wall Arrangement. Love this!!!

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Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards. 💜  Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.

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Share Your Style #401

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #401, dear friends! Last week, of course, I was at the Dodge dealer picking up our new Ram Longhorn truck. It’s a beauty and will be what we take into retirement in a number of years. 🙂

I am Barbara Chapman and I’d love it if you’d follow me here on my blog and on any of my other social media sites, too.  Thank you!💜 

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No posts for me this week again. Our daughter Amy was here and we spent the weekend hanging out with her and my mother-in-law. For the first time in two months, we had a day in the low 90’s so it was nice to cook in the kitchen, then sit down and have a family meal together. 🙂 And we went out to dinner one of the other nights Amy was here! Wish she lived closer…

I do want to put together some fall posts, it’s just getting them done. 😉 Let’s look at what you’ve done, now…

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

First up this week we have Penny of Penny’s Treasures who shares her beautiful hallway here in this post ~ My First Fall Floral Design Features Pink Sunflowers. Lovely!
How to Decorate a Glass Vase with Twine
Carol from Bluesky at Home shared this easy tutorial on How to Decorate a Glass Vase with Twine. Super cute for fall!!
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I love this sweet wreath from Debbee of Debbee’s Buzz! Easy Refurbished Butterfly & Bee Themed Wreath. Fresh fun for the season!!
bookcase makeover
Robin from Junk is My LIfe brings us this awesome furniture redo ~ Bookcase Makeover. Love it!!!
trinny woodall advice
Newcomer Nicole from Mom Fever shares this funny fashion forward post ~
Houston, We Have a No Waist Situation! Love Nicole’s outfit tucked in and out!!
Welcome, Nicole!
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And something yummy for our upcoming fall baking season, Debra from Gma’s Photo shares this post ~ Bake a Treat for Neighbors. Wonderful blessing!!!

Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards. 💜  Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.

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Fashion, Home Decor

Share Your Style #400

Happy Wednesday, friends! Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #400!! I jumped in on SYS #189, I believe. Then, I took over as sole host shortly after in February 2019 on SYS #197. It’s fun to be here at #400 now. 😉

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I am working on an early fall post but it isn’t ready yet, so no post from me to share this week. Our family room’s painting is almost complete (what I’ve been doing on the weekends since school began), and Mr. Ethereal and I have been looking to replace our 18 1/2 year-old SUV so we have been out for several test drives.

All this to say that I haven’t been working on blogging much though lots of things are getting done.

However, this week is all about getting ready for fall. let’s look at this week’s featured posts. 🙂

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

fall decor
We start this week off with MaryJo from Master”Pieces” of My Life who has gathered together
Fall Decor Ideas for a Beautiful Autumn Season. Love all the inspiration for the coming season!
Our friend Debra from Common Ground brings us a nice roundup of her late summer and early fall decorating ideas in this post ~ Cottage ReView: Late Summer Bakers Rack. Love them all!!
Mix and Match Set Outfit
Jennifer from Curated by Jennifer brings us some great late summer/early fall fashion inspiration in this post ~ Mix & Match Set Outfit. Fun!!!
Fall is a great time to get your garden growing again with fall and early winter veg and Lynne from Thrifting Wonderland shared this post ~ The Herb Garden. Yum!!!
As the weather cools it is a perfect time to getting cooking! Niky from The House on Silverado created this wonderful dish ~ One Pan Caprese Chicken. Delicious!!!
Our final feature for this week comes from Penny of Penny’s Treasures who shares this farm-tastic post ~ Late Summer Mantel. Very mooooving I must say! 😉

Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards. 💜  Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.

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Blessings to you and I hope your weather has cooled off. We have cooled to the low-90’s which is heaven after so many weeks from 105-109 degrees.

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Share Your Style #394

Welcome friends to this week’s Share Your Style #394!!!! I hope you all had a wonderful American Independence Day yesterday, July 4th! We had a quiet day and went to lunch with my mother-in-law at our local Braum’s Restaurant.

Mr. Ethereal hung up a coat rack bar in her laundry room and also fixed her internet which had stopped working the night before. We spent the three days previous working on her front yard sprinklers, pulling out bushes and starting to plant new bushes for her. It was a busy four day weekend for us! 😉

I am Barbara Chapman and I’d love it if you’d follow me here on my blog and on any of my other social media sites, too.  Thank you!💜 

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So let’s jump right into this week’s features, shall we?

Here’s what I shared this past week at French Ethereal…

Just as the title says ~ Creating an Americana Look in the China Hutch.
Hope you will check it out. 🙂

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

Grilled Ravioli
Estelle from Homemade on a Weeknight shared this delicious summer grilling recipe ~
Grilled Ravioli Dinner #Blackstone. Yum!!!
Maya from The Little Treasures who creates beautiful crocheted clothing is back with this post Restoring a Vintage Crochet Blanket. Great work!
Our friend Jeanie from The Marmelade Gypsy shared a lot in this post ~ A Sale, a Farewell and a Garage Sale.
Penny from Penny’s Treasures brings out her best even in the New Mexico heat ~
Red, White and Blue Breakfast on the Porch. So sweet!!!
Debra from Common Ground has the cutest displays and her post this time definitely brings it ~ Summer Holiday Cupboard with Patriotic Flair. Awesome Americana!!!!
an image of a Blueberry Coconut Bundt Cake with cream cheese topping and decorated with blue berries
And our final feature for this week is this one from Esme from Esme Salon who shares this recipe for Blueberry Coconut Bundt Cake. Deliciousness!!!

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Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards. 💜  Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.

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Share Your Style #393

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #393, dear friends! Happy almost July 4th!!!! I’m sorry SYS is up a day late. My daughter and her roommate drove up yesterday to attend a concert and we had an early dinner with my mother-in-law, her grandmother. Time got away from me with the girls over, but publishing today helps make up for it!

I am Barbara Chapman and I’d love it if you’d follow me here on my blog and on any of my other social media sites, too.  Thank you!💜 

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Let’s check out this week’s features! 🙂

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Here’s what I shared this past week at French Ethereal…

Come to a Flag Day Tea! ~ Come meet my friends from work and visit with my mother-in-law again.
Create a Simple Patriotic Vignette in Under 5 Minutes ~ part of this month’s Pinterest Challenge.

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

Ann from Apple Street Cottage brings us these adorable and easy to make Firecrackers from Essential Oil Tubes. Fun!!!
Debra from Common Ground shares this fun Americana look in
Summer Patriotic Cupboard with Red Transferware. Love this!!!
Classy Home Decor
For any young parents out there, Kathryn from The Dedicated House shares some secrets in her post ~ Effortlessly Elegant: Balancing Parenthood and Classy Home Decor. Great tips!!
Spring Chicken Spaghetti
Estelle from Homemade on a Weeknight brings us this yummy recipe to share over the holiday weekend ~ Spring Chicken Spaghetti. Delicious!!!!
How to Create a Patriotic Grain Sack Wall Art-The Crowned Goat
Our final entry for this evening is this fun DIY craft idea from CoCo of The Crowned Goat ~ love this beautiful tribute to our nation’s birthday ~ Patriotic Inspired Grain Sack Table Runner.

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Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

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Happy almost July 4th!

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Share Your Style #391

Welcome, friends, to this week’s Share Your Style #391! Thank you for waiting an extra day for this post. With Flag Day just yesterday, Wednesday, June 14th, I have a whole host of patriotic post for you!

I am Barbara Chapman and I’d love it if you’d follow me here on my blog and on any of my other social media sites, too.  Thank you!💜 

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I personally have a number of posts to share with you this time (to make up for the many I haven’t shared in the past).

Happy Belated Flag Day!!! Time to bring out the patriotic decor and get some bbq on…

Let’s get to it…

Here’s what I shared this past week at French Ethereal…

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It has been a week of highs and lows, as you can surmise with Yoda’s illness and then taking him to the vet… He was a good boy… 💜 Flag Day was also a day I had scheduled a tea at our house so I’ll share that post next week…

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

Make a Gorgeous Patriotic Flag – Perfect for Farmhouse Decor ~ First up this week, Niky from Life as a Leo Wife celebrates our nations patriotic holidays with this star-spangled post!
Debbie from Debbie-Dabble Blog shares her patriotic decor in this post ~
Celebrating Our Country’s Birthday, 2023. Love it!!!
Chicken Parm Sandwich
Estelle over at Homemade on a Weeknight shared this yummy recipe for a
Chicken Parmesan Sandwich. Perfect for summer sandwiches celebrating our nation’s holidays. I am soooo there! ;)’
Loving Debra from Common Ground‘s post ~ Patriotic Colors on the Front Porch. Really pretty! Love the hydrangeas and those beautiful pillows!!!
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Newcomer Victoria from World Travel shares a photographic essay on
Lake Bled – Bledsko Jezero, Slovenia. Gorgeous scenery! A bucket list destination for a future vacation.
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Debbee from Debbee’s Buzz brings us this beautiful tablescape post ~
Botanic Garden Dishes: Floral & Butterfly Summer Table. Love the garden theme!
Style Imitating Art selection
Sally from Within a World of My Own shares Style Imitates Art: Mixing Prints and Shades of Blue for SIA: Taking in the Laundry. Wait until you see her fun skirt!
Patriotic Blog Hop
Our final post this week is from Wendy at WM Design House who shares
7 Free Dinner Party Printables; 4th of July Ideas. Fun!!!

Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards. 💜  Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.

Thank you for your thoughts, prayers and condolences,

Barb 💜

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Share Your Style #390

Hello, dear friends! Welcome back to Share Your Style #390!! My cataract eye surgery went well and I am a week out now. I went to the 2nd post-op yesterday and the right eye is doing well. The incision is healed and I am seeing very well already.

As you may know, I chose to go with multi-focal lenses, and even with the quirky “seeing the lens rings” around halogen lights, the rest of the vision is so exceptional, it’s fine. What I mean is that the eye actually “sees” a reflection of the lens’ circular configuration. I also see light refracting off the lens when light comes in sideways. You get used to it. So, if you are looking to have cataract surgery soon, I highly recommend the multi-focal lenses for vision like you had as a kid! It’s worth the extra money… 🙂

I see only one moon again and stars look normal ~ no more long tails and starbursts around them! Yeah!!! Driving at night is great and now I don’t have to wear glasses. There is a bit of scarring on my left eye, the first eye done, so that will be lasered off at the end of June.

***This is the Mayor of Paris’ office building ~ part of last year’s wonderful trip to France with my daughter. 🙂

Well, I literally took two full weeks off from all blogging, so no posts this week for me. Instead, you get a little insight as to WHY I haven’t blogged much this year. My biggest news is that my husband will be moving to a new position with a new company after the July 4th holiday.

We have known since two weeks before Christmas (really great timing!) that the entire division of 90 people would be “softly laid off.” The company is moving the Reverse Logistics group from Texas to California (go figure!). Hubby doesn’t want to move back, nor could we afford it anymore (we weren’t doing well financially there, as it was anyway). On Zillow, our first and second homes show at $513,000 and $620,000, respectively. (Now if we could have sold at either of those prices…)

A bit devastating to me, since the last time Hubby was out of work, he was out of his usual work for two full years. He continued coaching pole vault and the final year he also was the head coach at our grown children’s high school. We had to sell our second home, but as it turned out living at Lake Skinner for a year as a camp host turned out to be a wonderful way to slowly say goodbye to our “hometown” of Murrieta, California. This linked post shares some of that last home and a little of Riverside County Parks – Lake Skinner, Winchester, California.

So it is definitely a huge God thing, a wonderful blessing!, that we won’t have to sell another home under duress. (We have only been here in Texas 6 1/2 years!) Hubby will get to use his coaching talents in a new way. This was something one of the interviewers was interested in as Mr. Ethereal coached for eight years while working his other jobs as well.

So, happily, I can truly relax this summer, and get back to wandering about, photographing life, and to blogging… Posts coming soon! 🙂

Let’s get to your wonderful posts!!

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

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First up this week we have Debbee of Debbee’s Buzz who shared a trip worthy of a lifetime ~ a visit to Sequoia National Park: Land of [America’s] Giants. Do check out her post! The trees are MASSIVE! <3

(*America added for our overseas friends!*)

It has been a few weeks now since Mother’s Day… I know you will tear up as you read this lovely post from Sujatha from Crystal Grandeur who reminisces about her mother ~ so heartfelt! Please enjoy this lovely table from her home in India ~ Mother’s Day Table with Lotus Flowers.
Published on Mother’s Day, this lovely tribute to the beauty of birds by Debra from Common Ground strikes a soft spot in my heart ~ Cottage Review: Vintage Birds. Lovely!
Recent newcomer Sandi from Old New Green Redo brings us this fun gardening post aptly named Midwest Gardening 2023: Way Back When ~ Ivy Tomato Cage Topiary. (I had a couple, too! Ivy grows great on them. 😉 )

Enchilada Casserole - Enchilada Cazuela / www.delightfulrepast.com
Longtime friend Jean from Delightful Repast shares her recipe for this mouthwatering dish ~ Enchilada Cazuela. Yes!!! Dinner tomorrow… :)’
Coco from The Crowned Goat brings us this easy peasy craft idea ~ How to Whitewash Terra Cotta Pots with Chalk Paint. Perfect for summer decorating, friends!
Tips and Tricks for Elevating Your Morning Routine-The Crowned Goat

For a double-header this week, CoCo also brings us this perfect-way-to-relax post ~ Simple Ways to Elevate Your Morning, part of her Celebrating Life series.

Wildflowers in a field
Last up this week we have DIY Wildflower Floral Arrangements ~ No Florist Needed by Wendy at WM Design House. Yes and yes!!!

Honorable Mention

Longtime blogger Amber from The Hungry Mountaineer shared this fun post about Bohemian Fashion Treasure-Hunting via Yucca Valley Thrifting. Love thrift shops!!! You get the best things there!!!

***Sorry this wouldn’t post up! The photos are fun and Yucca Valley is beautiful and warm during the day in January/February for camping/hiking. If you get the chance to visit, please enjoy!

Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜

If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards. 💜  Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.

I had no idea how emotional I was going to get writing this SYS post for you today… I have said to Charles several times that I just couldn’t go through losing another home… I loved the four years we lived in our two RV’s, but the walls are very thin and RV’s move in the wind and storms. There is something about a solid house which I personally need. It’s a deep longing and may have a lot to do with being a military child and living in 42 different homes over the years. Funny how this didn’t hit me until I was long grown!

It has taken a while but I have fallen in love with our little brick home, our manor house. <3

Thanks again, friends, for hanging in there with me! I truly appreciate your friendship and I do hope we can meet in person one day…

Love and hugs,

Barb 🙂

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