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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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.
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!
Kathryn over at The Dedicated House shared this lovely autumn post ~ Fall Fireplace Mantel. So pretty!!
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.
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. 😉
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!!!
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
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!💜
Next we have Sandra from Come to Dinner at Eight‘s totally adorable table set with these cute ghosties!!! ~ A Hauntingly Delightful Halloween! Fun!!!
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!!!
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!!!
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.
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. 🙂 💜
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!💜
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!!
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!
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!!
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.
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!💜
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…
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!
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.
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. 😉
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!💜
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…
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!!
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.
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!💜
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.
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!💜
Estelle from Homemade on a Weeknight brings us this yummy recipe to share over the holiday weekend ~ Spring Chicken Spaghetti. Delicious!!!!
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. 💜
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.
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!💜
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…
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!!!
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.
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,
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…
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!
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.
***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…
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