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Share Your Style #400

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 French Ethereal

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!💜

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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. 🙂

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.

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.

Big hugs to you,

DIY Projects, Fashion, Holidays, Home Decor

Share Your Style #399

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #399, friends! No posts for me this week as Mr. Ethereal and I just enjoyed a weekend of yardwork and some time to rest. He has been going gang-busters at work and then working in the yards on the weekend, so he needed time to recover from being sick. 🙂 We had fun watching Bruce Willis in REDs and REDs 2…

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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Has it been super hot where you live? Here in North Texas we have been over 100 degrees for the past month now. This week we really heat up to 108 and 109 degrees with the heat index even higher!

I am sooooo ready for fall… How about you? Our plants have been suffering but most of them seem like they are making it. 😀

But besides that, we have a bunch of great posts to share ~ some DIY, a little fashion and much friendship! Worth being a little hot… 😉

And here are this week’s featured posts…

This week we start off with a little trip to Michigan with **Jeanie from The Marmelade Gypsy** who shared Postcards from the Lake: Welcome, Dear Friend!

Newcomer **Tanya from Twelve O Eight** shared these adorable Ruffled Linen DIY Stool Slipcovers + A New Hutch. Love the slips!!! And a hearty welcome to you, Tanya!!

**Carol from Bluesky at Home** brings us this fun Christmas in July post sharing her lovely home ~ Merry & Bright Christmas Home Tour. Perfect to cool us all off and to inspire us for the season to come!

It’s been a minute since **Kelli from 3 Boys and a Dog** stopped by, but I’m so glad she has as this Soothing Lavender Oatmeal Soap Recipe is wonderful!! Love lavender soap…

Inspired By Frida Kahlo - July's Thrifty Six, Mexican top, handmade flower headband, Vivaia pink mules — Another new friend **Emma from Style-Splash** wears her super fun outfit ~
Inspired by Frida Kahlo – July’s Thrifty Six.

close up photo of wooden bench after staining and painting — **Natalie & Taylor from A Ray of Sunlight** brings us this DIY post ~ How to Paint a Wooden Bench.

Enjoy the party,

Gardening, Home Decor, Tablescapes

Share Your Style #398

August 2, 2023August 2, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #398, dear friends! We have so many hot features this week to match our summer weather… Let’s check ’em all out!

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’m back to school this week and it promises to be a good year! I love what I do working in the library and I love seeing how our students grow throughout each year. I’m excited to see what this year will bring.

Here at French Ethereal, I am excited about seeing you here every week. 🙂 This week I’ve got a forgotten post, a look at the gardens at Versailles, which I started last year but never finished. I think I published a version of it, I’m not sure, but here is the post I should have written. I hope you will stop by to read it!

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

Retourner en France: Les Jardines de Versailles

And here are this week’s featured posts…

**Penny from Penny’s Treasures** shared this lovely basket in her summertime post ~
Designing a Picnic-Themed Pocket Tobacco Basket for the Front Door. Beautiful!!! And this looks so cool with all the summery pastels…

It’s a little early but that’s the life of a blogger, isn’t it? (Plus at this point, I think we are all hoping for a bit of fall weather!) **DeeDee over at Clover House** is sharing a sweet craft DIY ~ Revamp Your Dollar Store Pumpkin: Budget Friendly Makeover Ideas.

HUH, RVERS PUT THEIR TOILET PAPER WHERE? #rv #motorhome #camper #travel #camping #toilet #convenience #ToiletPaper #DieselPusher #TravelTrailer — **Grammy Dee from Grammy’s Grid** brings us this funny post called appropriately…
Huh, RVers Put Their Toilet Paper Where??! I love it! After four years living in two RVs, we went up to clean and reset our Prairie Home RV’s stabilizers a couple of weekends ago. Makes me laugh to read this!

Ephesus-Turkey-Celsus-Library-arches — If you are looking for a wonderful trip destination, check out **Debbee from Debbee’s Buzz** post ~ Aegean Cruise: Visiting Ancient Ephesus, Turkey. We all need places to visit, even if vicariously. 🙂

Plum Hand Pies using 2 Ingredients Dough Recipe @ treatntrick.blogspot.com — We are getting hot in the kitchen with where **Trick’n’Treat** shared this incredibly yummy recipe for Plum Hand Pies Using 2 Ingredients Dough. Delicious!!!

How To Make A Lemon Wreath For Front Door (Budget Friendly) — **Meredith from Arts & Classy** shared this really fun wreath in her post ~ Discover How to Craft a Fabulous Lemon Wreath for Your Front Door – Inexpensively! Soooo pretty!!!

Last up for this week, **Sally from Within a World of My Own** shared her rendition of a recent Style Imitating Art party ~ Pink & Blue Summer Outfits with a Magenta Viva Tee. Love it!!!

Blessings to you,

Home Decor, Recipes

Share Your Style #397

July 26, 2023July 26, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome friends to this week’s Share Your Style #397! I am so glad you have stopped by today as we have a bunch of fun features to share with you, including this month’s Pinterest Challenge ~ which mine is shared just below. Let’s take a look, shall we?

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 am back painting in the house after Mr. Ethereal and I finished up fixing Gramma’s sprinklers, planting six new Texas sage/barometer bushes, and running drip irrigation lines for those plants out in her front flower bed. This was accomplished over the past three or four weekends and we are glad to have that project behind us! It’s just too hot to play outdoors at the moment, lol.

I linked a couple of my older wreath-type posts down in the party, in case you’d like even more inspiration. Here we go…

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

Create a Late Summer/Early Autumn Wreath from a Dollar Tree Score! ~ This is NOT the final wreath but it IS the wreath form I used. Just click on the title and you can see the new wreath I made from our neighbor’s bushes.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is ThriftShopFinds-683x1024.png — A Thrift Shop Adventure, What I Found + A Little History… ~ This one you’ll just have to hop over to find out what I bought! 😉

And here are this week’s featured posts…

green garden tablescape — First up this week we have **MaryJo from Master”Pieces” of My Life** sharing her lovely secret garden in this post ~ Shades of Green Tablescape in the Veggie Garden. Lovely!!!

**Debbie from Debbie-Dabble Blog** brings us her 2023 summertime porch decorating this time with Mid-Summer Front Porch Refresh. Love the bright colors with the b&w!!!

Our friend **Penny from Penny’s Treasures** shared this adorable vignette as part of her Summer Entry Bench and a Container Garden. Love the chickens!!!

Quick And Easy To Make Vegan Frosted Lemon Cake: — Oh my! **Claire Justine OXOX** has created the perfect recipe for summertime fêtes ~ Quick and Easy to Make Vegan Frosted Lemon Cake. Yum!!!

Zeebaars op cederhout van de kamado — Newcomer **Camiel from Siezoenenblog** (“Seasons,” or a play-on-word: “Seasoning” Blog — my best guess!) brings us this delightful fish recipe from the Netherlands ~ “Sea Bass [Cooked} on Cedar on the Kamado [BBQ]” — Zeebaars op Cederhout van de Kamado.

Our final feature for this week comes from **Estelle over at Homemade on a Weeknight** who shared her flock of feathered friends ~ Greetings from the Coop! Really cute story; you need to go check out her babies!!!

Enjoy the party, everyone!

Gardening, Home Decor

Share Your Style #396

July 21, 2023July 21, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #396, dear friends! I am sooo sorry that I did not get Share Your Style out on Wednesday. I am getting used to my husband coming home from work at a “normal” time, and I just really forgot! I am back painting in the house again, and it’s really hot and humid this week, as it is across much of America, so there’s my excuse, friends.

But I thought I’d put SYS up anyway and share your features, just a day or so late. 🙂

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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And with more painting, finishing up working on the sprinklers at my mother-in-law’s home, I didn’t get a post out over the past week, so…

Let’s get to this week’s features!

And here are this week’s featured posts…

First up this week, I am totally loving **Debra’s post from Common Ground** sharing all these seashells!!! Look at this buffet! Perfection bringing the beach home ~
Coastal Vibes with Seashell Buffet.

Woman standing in the lobby of the St Regis in Rome. — Newcomer **Rosemary from Distinctly Southern Style** shares What I Wore on the Plane to Italy. It’s all about comfort, isn’t it? Welcome, Rosemary!!! Enjoy your trip!

cat kissinger — Next up we have the cutest cat!!! I can’t wait to screenshot this cutie and send him to my cat-loving daughter… Kissinger the Cat is coming over from **Aleksandra at Cats & Dogs (pets876.blogspot.com** ~ I know he is huge and those tuffted ears!!! You’ll have to check out Aleksandra’s posts. She features many furry friends. 💜

**Kathryn from The Dedicated House** shared a nice post on types of fences ~ 3 Most Popular Types of Residential Fences. Love this! I am still on the hunt for another iron or aluminum fence to finish off the backyard. 🙂

**Coco from The Crowned Goat** brings out her summer whites on her cool and comfortable front porch ~ Cottage Inspired Summer Porch Tour. Lovely!!!

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Salvaged-Windows-for-Sale-at-Renningers-The-Crowned-Goat-684x1024.jpg — Last up for this week, we have another of **Coco’s** posts and this one shares 11 Architectural Salvage Decorating Ideas. Love all the stained glass!!! I’ll take the tall triple window with the ethereal lady in the middle… 😉

Enjoy the party!

Home Decor, Recipes, Tablescapes

Share Your Style #395

July 12, 2023July 12, 2023 French Ethereal

Hello y’all and welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #395! Summer heat has arrived and Amazon Prime Days (in case you haven’t heard, lol!). Since we all need a bit of cooling off, let’s check out this week’s cool 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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Oh, my goodness the weather has turned up!!! The furnace is going this afternoon and I don’t think our a/c has turned off since noon. It’s set at 78 degrees, too. Remember the good old days when we could set it at 72 degrees and that was the norm??

Mr. Ethereal and I have spent the past two weekends over at my mother-in-law’s fixing her sprinkler pipes in ground and finally getting to plant five Texas sage bushes (Barometer bush) for her. You should have seen the nasty roots winding around her sprinkler water pipes! It took Hubby literally 18-19 hours over two days to remove the set of HUGE roots from a crepe myrtle tree right up against the corner of her house. I know that tree is going to shock but it had to be done. Well, Gini’s pipes are redone and the plants are in. Gramma just needs to water daily in this nasty heat!

Let’s see what wonderful cool features we have this week!

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

Summertime Decorating in the Living Room + A Little Chat

And here are this week’s featured posts…

First up this week we have Postcards from the Lake – Finally! by **Jeanie from The Marmelade Gypsy.** Jeanie always shares such beauty and all the wildlife, plus visits with friends, from this idyllic part of Michigan. Come for a visit!

Our friend **Sandra from Come to Dinner at Eight** shares a trip to see her daughter and a wonderful visit to A Tea Room, a Botanical Garden and an Emergency. Stop by and find out more!

**Sandra** also shared this beautiful post about receiving these gorgeous flowers… Summer Decor with Flowers! Heavenly!!!

Strawberry Eton Mess Recipe — Oooooh! **Claire Justine** shares a dessert to cool our fired-up days ~ Strawberry Eton Mess.
Looks soooo good!!!

**DeeDee from Clover House** is back with this festive patriotic post ~ Dreaming in Red, White & Blue: Patriotic Bedroom Decor. I just want to shout, “Hip, hip, hooray!”

From **Common Ground, Debra** brings us this refreshingly cool decor post ~
Summer French Country Wagon in the Dining Room. Love love love the yellows!!!

I also loved this other yellow-filled post by **Debra** appropriately named
Lovely Lemony Vintage Basket & Decor. So summery!!!

**Penny from Penny’s Treasures** shares a look at her Summer Backyard Tour and
Happy 4th of July! Love her roses!!!

Our final feature this week is from **Rita from Panoply** who sets such an elegant table in this post ~ July Garden Update and Just Bee-Cause Tablescape. Beeutiful!!! (And more yellow!)

Stay cool, friends!

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Share Your Style #394

July 5, 2023July 5, 2023 French Ethereal

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. 🙂

And here are this week’s featured posts…

**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!!!

Have a great week, everyone!

Home Decor, Recipes

Share Your Style #393

June 29, 2023July 4, 2023 French Ethereal

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! 🙂

***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.

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!!!

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!!

**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.

Happy almost July 4th!

Home Decor, Recipes

Share Your Style #392

June 21, 2023June 21, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #392, dear friends! Hubby and I are traveling today so this is going up while I’m on the road. 🙂 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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Did you have a nice Father’s Day? Mr. Ethereal and I have been busting ourselves working on setting up micro-sprinklers out in the backyard. He is also noodling fixing our #1 sprinkler line as one of the backyard oak trees has “eaten” the valve, the pipes, and now we have to move the whole thing. We didn’t even bbq… But we did manage to have some good take-out while messing around for four days straight getting this all done!

I have been hand-watering everything, including watering the inside of the yard. Spring rains have pretty much stopped, so it’s imperative we get the system up and running for the rest of the grass, which is now getting no water on the other side of the fence… Thankfully, Mr. Ethereal is handy! 🙂

This week we have a ton more patriotic ideas to share with the 4th of July holiday just around the corner… 🙂

Thank you for all of your kind thoughts and prayers for us with the loss of Yoda. He was my walking buddy for most of his 18 years. I realized that we got him in October of 2005 and he was between 5 mos. and 1 1/2 years old, at the time. He grew after we got him, so I always believed he was younger. We gave him a March birthday. So he was 18 years old, not 17. 😉

This is a good photograph of Yoda when he was still healthy back in 2021. He still loved going for walks then!

Let’s see what going on over here at French Ethereal…

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

Setting a Patriotic Tea Table ~ part of the Flag Day Tea I had at our house for my current boss, a coworker, one of our favorite subs, and my mother-in-law. Coming out soon!

And here are this week’s featured posts…

OMGosh! **DeeDee from Clover House** got busy painting this adorable shed!!! Totally in love with the stripes ~ perfect this patriotic theme! I Painted Stripes on My Shed!!
Well done!!!

**Karin from Karin’s Kottage** shared the sweetest posies in her patriotic post ~
The Perfect Red, White, and Blue Table: Simple and Stunning! Really pretty!!

**Sandra from Come to Dinner at Eight** shares another of her stunning tables with us in this ethereal post ~ A Summer of Colors. Love the seafoam greens!!!

**Penny of Penny’s Treasures** shares this adorable vignette and her “girl” in this fun post Creating a Garden Lady for My Front Porch. Love “her” with all the soft patriotic color!!

How to Decorate with Vintage Cutting Boards-The Crowned Goat — **CoCo from The Crowned Goat** shares How to Clean & Restore Vintage Cutting Boards (and I’d say: How to decorate with them, too!). How many do you have??

Welcome to newcomer **Melynda from Scratch Made Food for Hungry People** who shares this yummy Sour Creme Beet Salad. Delicious and perfect for all our outdoor summertime fêtes!

***Sorry the photo is blurry! The original was very small to start and blowing it up made it grainy.

Happy linking!

Barb 🙂

DIY Projects, Home Decor

Share Your Style #391

June 15, 2023June 15, 2023 French Ethereal

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…***

Painting Our Living Room + A Beautiful Mess

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…

And here are this week’s featured posts…