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Share Your Style #380

March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome back, friends! This week’s Share Your Style #380 is back after a two week hiatus. The first week I can’t even remember why I missed (exhaustion?), and last Wednesday I was recovering from eye surgery in the morning. So, instead of my usual photo I am sharing “Pirate Barb” with the eye patch I had to wear the first day ~ all day and night. Then I only had to wear it at nighttime. 😉

*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 apologize for not letting you all know I’d be off last week. I thought I’d feel good and be able to post that evening. I was home early enough from the surgery center, but I didn’t think about the effects of anesthesia on the body. I was sleeping pretty much all afternoon and evening as soon as I got home.

So, again, I apologize for not having SYS these past two weeks, but sometimes I just need some time off. 😉 And this evening, I was out planting veg in the garden and then critter-proofing the bin with lots of hardware cloth, chickenwire until 8:00p.m.

Better late than never! Let’s get this party started!! 🙂

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

Let’s Sew! Making a Balloon Curtain for the Kitchen ~ I’m back sewing for a bit! Feels good to get back to my roots. I’ll be back painting in the family and living rooms soon.

And here are this week’s featured posts…

First up this week is this beautiful tray post from **Debra of Common Ground** ~
Early Spring Garden Tray with Paperwhites. Love it!!!

leprechaun-centerpiece-supplies — Can you believe it’s already St. Patrick’s Day? OH! And Happy Ides of March today… 😉 Wasn’t a good day for Caesar, though… **Debbee from Debbee’s Buzz** shared this fun post ~
Quick and Easy Lucky Leprechaun Centerpiece. Soooo cute!

**Ann from Apple Street Cottage** brings us this pretty vignette of
Birdcages and Candles.Lovely…

**Jennifer from Curated by Jennifer** wears this fun outfit proudly in this post
It’s My Birthday!!!

IKEA shelving hack black and white dishes — **Karin from Karin’s Cottage** created this great shelf in her post ~ Ikea Shelving Hack. Great job!!!

**Meagan from Decorative Inspirations** shared this springtime post ~
The Best Spring Cleaning Practices for the Gardens, Yards and Patios. Great tips!!

**MaryJo from Master”Pieces” of My Life** shared this gorgeous tablescape in this post ~
Forced Spring Bulbs Tablescape. Love the green and pewter coloring!!!

**DeeDee from Clover House** shared Simple Spring Vignettes. Adorable!!

A DIY Dutch tulip crate filled with assorted Spring decor. A large bunny, wood beads, a wooden Easter egg in a clay pot, and a large vintage jug holding greenery. — Lastly for this week, we welcome **Leanna from Pretty DIY Home** who shared this sweet post ~
How to Make a Dutch Tulip Crate for Spring. Adorable bunny and look at those large plaid carrots!
So glad you made it over, Leanna. 🙂

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 St. Patrick’s Day and Ides of March, everyone!

Barb 🙂

Happy spring, y’all! Enjoy the party,

Barb 🙂

Recipes, Tablescapes

Share Your Style #379

February 22, 2023February 22, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #379, dear friends! I’m so happy you are here!! As I write this to you, I am listening to a worship service my son played guitar with this past weekend. He plays there at his church in South Dakota most weeks. My heart is full! I hope you are blessed this week, too… 💜

This link party is for home decor, DIY, crafts, recipes and the like, but you are more than welcome to share any of your family-friendly posts with us all. Please feel free to share this post too and join my small but loyal band of friends. I appreciate you! I appreciate your subscribing, also. As always, I am glad that you are here… 💜

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 new posts from me this past week. I worked on painting in our kitchen and spent a lovely part of Sunday afternoon out in the garden! Such a blessing to work the soil, get a few things planted in the back flowerbeds and others into small pots to grow on, for later planting.

Yesterday evening, I was able to take some ranunculus corms and get them planted for pre-sprouting in a small recycled lettuce tray. As they grow into little plants I hope to get these 24 little plants tucked into flower pots around the garden!

We have a bunch of fun ideas for you to recreate in your own homes as spring cleaning and DIYing gets going!

Well, friends, let’s see what features we have this week…

And here are this week’s featured posts…

**Lori from Dining Delight** shares her lucky gold find in this post ~
St. Patrick’s Day Table for Two. Love the overflowing pots of gold and the little shamrock napkin rings!!!

Newcomer **Iris who goes by Moumous, from her blog La Moumous**, shared this fun fashion post on 15 Must-Have Wardrobe Staples in 2023. I personally love a nice shirt and jeans ~ timeless!! Isn’t that handbag so sleek? Perfect for spring. Welcome, Moumous!!

**Debbie over at Debbie-Dabble Blog** shared her friend and neighbor
Ann-Marie’s Winter Home Tour 2023. Fun seeing all the vintage decor! Thanks for sharing with us!!!

masquerade mask Mardi Gras table — **MaryJo from Master “Pieces” of My Life** brings us a little Cajun inspiration with a Fat Tuesday post ~ Masquerade Mask Mardi Gras Table. Love the colors and the gorgeous masks for favors!

It’s all about spring over with **Debra from Common Ground** in her post ~
Starting on Spring with Green Transferware. Love all the china pieces!

**Niky from The House on Silverado** shared this fun craft project ~
Upcycled Serving Tray. Love how it turned out!!!

**Kathryn from The Dedicated House** shared this DIY project post ~
Cabinet Installation on a Budget. The kitchen looks wonderful!! Great job!

**Lynne over at Thrifting Wonderland** shares an easy DIY for
What to Do with Valentine’s Day Flowers. So easy any of us can do this!

Oh my, I LOVE this armoire how it turned out! Check out this post from **Tara at Stilettos & Shiplap** ~ From Facebook Marketplace to French Beauty. Lovely and perfect on this wall!

Early Spring Decorating Ideas With Daffodils — Last up for this week we have **Amber of Follow the Yellow Brick Home** ~
Dreaming of Daffodils – Early Spring Decorating Ideas. Love the yellow…
So pretty!

Extra Bonus Recap:

old bed spring crafts - make a wreath — If you didn’t get to hop over to **Wendy’s at WM Design House** last week, do check out her totally crafty (and fun!) post ~ Spring Decor at It’s Best –
Sharing Over 20+ Ideas for Crafting. Love this spring wreath and all of her crafting ideas!!

Enjoy your week as we head towards spring,

Barb 🙂

crafts, Holidays

Share Your Style #378

February 15, 2023February 15, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #378, dear friends!! Since Valentine’s Day has just passed, we will still have Valentine ideas for you plus some fun springtime ideas to whet our whistles! Come along and 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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We had a very nice Valentine’s Day at school this week. Some teachers and students dressed up in their cutest Valentines-ey outfits. I’ve been wearing pink sweaters all month, so I wore a newer Buc-Ees Valentine shirt. It was fun to pass out ID’s to students (our machine was broken for almost a month) and ask them if they’d like a candy, too.

Today it’s back to normal; a bit of a letdown. But now we move on towards spring! I am already planting seeds. I found two pink PeeGee hydrangeas at the end of January at a Big Box store and I got those planted in large plastic pots yesterday afternoon. Our temps are supposed to drop again this coming weekend, so they will be nice and portable to go inside the shed. It’s filling up nicely and my little tomatoe plants are growing!!!

Well, let’s get to those features…

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

Valentine Beauty in the Hutch ~ I hope you’ll come see my post! It took a long time to get this ready to post since I was busy painting the dining room. It’s looking good and you’ll see a peek at that. 🙂

And here are this week’s featured posts…

Pin thumbnail — This week we start off with a lovely cloche post by **Michelle at K’Mich Wedding Soirée** ~ The Best Centerpiece Ideas You Need to Know. Love the dried flowers in this cloche!

**Debbie from Debbie-Dabble Blog** shared this adorable Valentine’s Dessert & Hot Cocoa Bar. I’m in-love with all the “cupcakes” real and faux!! Very cute set-up!!

**Jeanie over at The Marmelade Gypsy** shared what’s going on up in Michigan here in February. Love this gorgeous bird (woodpecker? Ours looked different in California but we do have similar striped birds here in North Texas.)

**Sally from Within a World of My Own** shared versatile wardrobe with minimal changes plus these wonderful beads in her post ~ 11 More Pink Outfits for Valentine’s Day + DIY Paper Beads.
Love ’em!!!

Oh my!!! **DeeDee from Clover House** brings out the bling and hearts galore here in her bedroom ~
Vintage Glam Valentine Bedroom Decor. Gorgeous!!!

repurposing rusty old bed springs - trash to treasure — **Wendy from WM Design House** shared a bunch of fun ideas….
Box Spring Upcycle: 10 Fabulous Old Bed Spring Crafts.
Check out the wreaths! 🙂

Spring is coming, yeah! Enjoy the party!!

Barb 🙂

crafts, DIY Projects, Tablescapes

Share Your Style #377

February 8, 2023February 8, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #377, dear friends!! Oh my goodness! There are so many ideas for sharing with family & friends for Valentine’s Day… Let’s take a look!

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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As I finish up painting in our dining room, I wanted to thank all of you who shared your thoughts on how I should paint the lower wall and picture moulding below our chair rail. In the end, after going back and looking at pics from Versailles, I decided I really did love the Comet Dust grey wall color, so I carried it down below and used off-the-shelf Valspar Ultra-White on the mouldings. It’s looking good!

Since then, I’ve been dealing with sick dog… Lots of mopping in the kitchen and laundry room, carpet cleaning & laundry. He has had multiple baths, too. I think the extreme fluctuation in temps didn’t do him any good since he has to go outside to use the restroom. Plus I was painting indoors, where he is close to during the day… So, maybe that whole combination was the issue. He seems better now but I’ve held off finishing painting until later in the week, and only in small amounts. 🙂

So let’s look at this week’s features! I hope you will stop by and visit a few people while you are here. Everyone works soooo hard! 💜

Have a great week!

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

An Inspiration Challenge ~ Styling a Vintage Valentine’s Cloche ~ This is a link party if you’d like to come aboard and add ONLY CLOCHE posts with VALENTINE’S DAY DECOR IN THE CLOCHE.
I’ve had to removed several posts which didn’t read the link up through. Thanks!!! 💜

And here are this week’s featured posts…

How to style pink velvet pants multiple ways- Karins Kottage — **Karin from Karin’s Cottage** shared a blast-to-the-past with her post ~
How Do You Style Velvet Pants? Yep, I had a whole pantsuit outfit. 😉

**Lynne of Thrifting Wonderland** has us sighing over her entryway in Two Flower Vignettes. Love the sweet petals dripped along the table runner!

**Kathryn from The Dedicated House** shared her Dining Room Paint Refresh.
Looks great! 💜 Been there AND still painting ours. 💜

**Sandy from Come to Dinner at Eight** shares her beautiful table set ~ Greetings – The Birds of Winter. Love this pattern!!!

**Debra of Common Ground** shares this How to Make a Moss Covered Heart.
So pretty!!!

**Lynn from Living Large in a Small House** brings us her It’s Time to Start to Planning a Garden. Here is a sunflower from a previous garden year. Beautiful!!

DIY Valentines Mailbox-Painted Wood Mailbox with Letters-The Crowned Goat — **CoCo from The Crowned Goat** shared this fun DIY project ~
DIY Valentine’s Mailbox. Adorable!!!

Happy Valentine’s month,

Barb 💜

crafts, Holidays, Tablescapes

Share Your Style #376

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 French Ethereal

Good evening, everyone! Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #376. It’s officially February and all things Valentines is on repeat!! Since we have a third day off from school tomorrow, I may actually get a Valentine’s Day post out 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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My mother-in-law made it safely home from a month in California. She has been for home for about 10 days now and we got together over the weekend. We even went to our favorite thrift shop on Saturday, but didn’t find anything. That same day, I made a crockpot full of turkey meatballs in organic tomato sauce paired with cheese raviolis, plenty of leftovers.. Turned into a wonderful dinner. Yum!!!

We did better at Lowe’s as we scored some wonderful plant starts. I’ll share a post on the the things I found soon, but for now… It is too cold to be out in the shed working on potting up plants! At least for me. 😉

Well, let’s check out this week’s features, shall we?

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

Our Laundry Room Paint Refresh ~ a new look for the new year!

And here are this week’s featured posts…

**Lynne from Thrifting Wonderland** brings us her yearly Valentine’s Day table rendition ~
Start With Flowers Tablescape. Lovely!

white dinner plates — **Karin at Karin’s Kottage** shared a sweet post ~ Pink & Red Valentine’s Day Table for Kids. Perfect for sharing with her grands!

**Amber from Follow the Yellow Brick Home** shared a beautiful post to inspire us ~ Easy Vintage Valentine’s Day Cloche Display. Love all the sewing goodies!!

**Sandra from Dinner at Eight** shared her lovely tablescape here in this post ~ Valentine’s Day — A Table Set for Tea. Gorgeous!!!

**Jeanie from The Marmelade Gypsy** shared her post ~ And January Goes On! ~ all about what’s been going on up in her neck of the woods in Michigan. Check out the poor deer and what happened to him… A wonderful ending! 💜

house hunting tips — **Pam from An Artful Mom** brings us this post for anyone looking to buy a home this year ~ Our House and Some House Hunting Tips. Great ideas!!!

**Penny from Penny’s Treasures** rounds out this week’s featured posts with this adorable “pocket pillow” in her post ~ Valentine Dining Room Decor, Pocket Pillow and Snow.
Love this decorating craft idea!!

Happy linking, friends!

Barb 💜

Holidays, Home Decor, Tablescapes

Share Your Style #375

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #375, dear friends! I’m excited to share all the cool features we have for you this week…

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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Can you believe we are coming to the end of January 2023 already? It was just New Year’s and now we are speeding towards Valentine’s Day! With that, I’ve chosen some wonderful Valentine ideas for you.

So let’s get to this week’s features!

***Quick update on Thursday morning: I fell fast asleep as I was writing this and putting together this week’s SYS features last evening, so… I’m finishing this morning and actually POSTING IT. Lol!

I took half a Benedryl yesterday around 11am because I guess I’m now allergic to Prednisone. Anyway, it knocks me out and so somewhere around 7:30p.m., I was out for the night. I did make it through the school day and the hives never fully erupted, but I still feel itchy…

Anyway, happy to get this Valentine’s-y post out for you! Plus a touch of football, too. <3

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

A Rosy Valentine’s Cake to Bake ~ part of this month’s Valentine’s recipes in our Pinterest Challenge.

And here are this week’s featured posts…

**MaryJo of Master”Pieces” of My Life** shared a bunch of beautiful tablescapes for inspiration at your own home in this post ~
Setting the Mood for a Valentine’s Day Tablescape. I loved this alfresco setting!

**Penny from Penny’s Treasures** shares this pretty in pink post ~ Vintage Valentines are the Stars of My Pink Valentine’s Tree. Love ’em!!! (I’m a sucker for pink!)

**Lynne from Thrifting Wonderland** shares winter whites in her winter cupboard ~ Winter Display in the Hutch. Love all the creamware!!!

**Lynne from Thrifting Wonderland** also brings us a couple of easy and fun crafts to make for Valentine’s Day. I can see this being so fun with kids!!! Our double feature for this week ~ Two Quick Valentine’s Crafts.

Chocolate Rice Krispies Treats are turned into Football Rice Krispie Treats for game day! They’re a chocolate treat base cut into football shapes then dipped in chocolate with white laces piped onto resemble footballs. This easy, no-bake dessert is perfect for tailgating, football parties, playoff games, and Superbowl parties. Game day desserts are the best part about game day foods so these are a must make dessert recipe! #gamedayfood #footballfood #ricekrispietreats #glutenfree #nobakedessert — Newcomer **Shay from What the Fork** shares this easy peasy recipe for
Football Rice Krispie Treats! Perfect for this weekend’s big Super Bowl Game!!!

20-valentines-day-ideas-table-crafts-decor — **Debbee from Debbee’s Buzz** shares her fun post (love all her tablescapes!) featuring
20 Sweet Valentine’s Day Ideas. Love it!!!

Hawaiian style pork spare ribs with pineapple served on a plate with fresh berries and yellow rice — Newcomer **Arlene from Flour on My Face** brings us her yummy recipe for
Sweet & Tangy Crock Pot Hawaiian BBQ Ribs. Seriously delicious!!!

Last up for this week we have **Meagan from Decorative Inspirations** with her sweet post ~ How to Make a Salt Dough Garland. Love it!!!

Happy linking!

Barb 🙂

crafts, Holidays, Home Decor

Share Your Style #374

January 18, 2023January 17, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #374, dear friends! As we come to the middle of January, we have lots of great features to share, including some Valentine’s ideas!

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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It’s always amazing to me how quickly Valentine’s sneaks up on us on what feels like just a few short weeks after Christmas and New Year’s Days. I personally am still putting away Christmas decorations but only because Mr. Ethereal hung a new I-beam style system of 4x4s from over our garage door.

Going up and down from the attic to retrieve boxes was getting to be a chore, and also a little unsafe. Both of us are over 60 years of age and falling out of the attic space is always a real possibility. Critters ate through a few things, too, which ticked my husband off so he brought EVERYTHING down from above to clean, repair, throw away, and to find new homes in the shed, in this new hanging rail system, or to be given away.

So, I am reboxing ALL of our spring, summer, fall and winter decorations into tidy, black and yellow Big Box store boxes. Ugly colors (to me) but they do hang well and are very sturdy. The used boxes will store something new, go to my mother-in-law’s garage to rebox things she wishes to store, or be given away.

But in all of this, I am finding beautiful things to put in our hutch and onto our mantel to share hopefully soon. 🙂

While doing this, let’s check out our features, shall we?

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

Arctic Blast & Indoor Plant Overwintering, Production & Shed Insulating ~ prepping the garden to survive single digits (our thermometer registered -1 F. as the lowest temperature we had in our backyard). Also, this is a look at my first attempt at seed production. Hope you will take a look!

Sick at Home ~ Turns out I’ve had a third round of Covid, dear friends! I am thankfully feeling better and on an anti-viral, an antibiotic and a steroid. This particular strain of Covid tends towards bronchitis and not pneumonia, which is yucky but better for all. 🙂

And here are this week’s featured posts…

Our first feature this week is from **Debra of Common Ground**. She shares winter whites in her post ~ Neutral Winter Dining Room with Paperwhites. Lovely!!!

**Debra**‘s post ~ Winter Whites Tabletop Vignette ~ is our double header this week.

Pom~Pom and Heart Valentine Garland — **Carol from Bluesky at Home** brings us this crafty post ~ Make a DIY Pom-Pom & Heart Valentine Garland. Sweet!!!

**Linda Kilsdonk from Paperseedlings** shares her 1 year self-challenge to paint 365 birds. Come check out the beautiful birds she has drawn and painted! ~ #365birds November 2022.

**CoCo from The Crowned Goat** shares 52 Weeks to a Simplified & Organized Home Challenge. Good thoughts to get us all going! 🙂

**Penny from Penny’s Treasures** brings us her family’s Winter Family Room 2023. Love all of the pink with white!

**Jennifer from Curated by Jennifer** shares her winter fashion post ~
Red Cashmere Sweater with Printed Skirt. Perfect for upcoming
Valentine’s wearing!

big red chicken under the banner of how to take care of chickens — **Charlene from The Secret Life of Homesteaders** shares good advice on How to Take Care of Chickens. Love this!! I have always wanted to keep chickens, if only I could get Mr. Ethereal to agree. 🙂

**Emily from Hunny I’m Home DIY** shares what to do with those waiting-to-be-used jar lids in her post ~ Rustic Farmhouse Mason Jar Lid Wreath. Easy and pretty!

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday week!

Barb 🙂

Christmas, Holidays, Home Decor, Recipes

Share Your Style #373

January 5, 2023 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #373, dear friends!! Sorry this is going up a day late, but I HAD to get a big project done for our Odd Fellows lodge. It’s mostly done, my writing hand is very tired, but it’s just about ready to turn over (the project, that is). So, let’s hop into our 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…***

Sunday Sentiments ~ Our Mary Had a Little Lamb Mantel – and why I chose this title. 🙂

Have you taken down your Christmas displays yet? I always find it a little sad but it is nice to have a clean slate for doing some winter whites in our living room. I’ll share how it looks now with you soon.

I know many of you are still celebrating the 12 days of Christmas with the Festival of Kings, until January 6th, when traditionally the Wise Men showed up to greet the baby Jesus, so there might be a few Christmas posts featured here again. 🙂

Let’s dig in!

And here are this week’s featured posts…

First up this week, we have **Debra from Common Ground**‘s beautiful hutch filled with Christmas pretties ~ Gathered for Christmas in the Holiday Cupboard.
So pretty!!!

**Debbie from Debbie-Dabble Blog** shares her holiday cupboard and living room in Christmas finery ~ A Thomas Kincade Tree, Village and the China Cupboard in the Den. You might enjoy her Christmas at Nelson Crest post, too!

new-years-eve-tablesetting-ideas — Our third friend, also named **Debbee from Debbee’s Buzz,** shared a lovely New Year’s Eve Tablesetting Ideas ~ Isn’t this penguin just the cutest?!!

Chili Mac and cheese recipe — We need something to put on all of our dinner tables this winter! Newcomer
**Michelle from The Wooden Spoon Effect** brings us a yummy recipe called
Simple Chili Mac Recipe. Perfect for our chilly winter weather! Welcome Michelle!! We are glad you are here. <3

penguin craft image collage with the words penguin name craft — Our second newcomer **Sam from Simple Everyday Mom** shared this really cute idea to make with your kids and grands!!! Welcome to you as well, Sam!!
So happy you found us here at French Ethereal!

New Year’s Eve In the Smoky Mountains — **Vera from Veravise** brings us a little New Year’s Eve in the Smoky Mountains ~ great place to visit, if you’ve never been there! This is where I went for my nephew’s wedding a year-and-a-half ago Memorial Day weekend.

And that’s it for this week, friends! A great bunch of holiday and supper recipe ideas, if you haven’t checked out last week’s SYS entries. I love looking back at your ideas and picking something to cook or bake, thank you. <3

Happy January, y’all!

Barb 🙂

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Share Your Style #372

December 28, 2022December 30, 2022 French Ethereal

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #372, dear friends! Here we are coming up on New Year’s Eve… Boy, this year has flown by!

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 sure have enjoyed visiting with you this year, and now here in my eighth year as a blogger, I think about what changes I should make for the upcoming year.

Do you do that?? I’d like to do more vlogging on my YouTube channel if I could learn how to string videos together and get myself in front of the camera. Talking to a camera doesn’t bother me, it’s all the technical stuff, lol! I used to sing for the kids at church a number of years ago and that got me over the fear of talking into a microphone. 😉

Well, let’s get to our party, shall we?

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

Our Christmas Table, Our Christmas Hutch and a Little Weather ~ I so enjoy having time off to really enjoy decorating for you! We sat down to a nice Christmas Eve dinner with our daughter.

And here are this week’s featured posts…

We start off this week with something yummy for your New Year’s Eve parties… **Estelle from Homemade on a Weeknight** shared these wonderful Chicken Sheet Pan Nachos. Yes!!!

3 Tips When Renovating Your Bathroom — Next we have **Kathryn over at The Dedicated House** sharing Creative Ideas for Bathroom Decor. Perfect for anyone looking to update theirs in 2023!!

**Meagan from Decorative Inspirations** shares this fun post ~ A Classy New Year’s Eve Table ~ inspiration for all of us who wish to “do it up” but can’t come up with anything fancy! (Me!)

Harking back to Christmas which was only just a few days ago now…
**MaryJo from Master”Pieces” of My Life** brings us sweet traditions in this post ~
A Christmas Tree Tradition Continues and Why It Is So Important. Love this!!!

Twas-night-before-Christmas-Eve-table-Johnson-Brothers-dinner-plate — **Debbee from Debbee’s Buzz** is back with a fun post we can store away for next season ~
Twas the Night Before Christmas Eve Table. I love all of Debbee’s table settings and this one is just adorable with the merry placemats!!!

I literally started some bibb lettuce, tomatoes and spinach in the shed/greenhouse today! It’s more of an experiment but the heating mat is underneath my domed seed tray, so… We shall see! I am getting my Monty Don on and hope to have tomatoes going year-round. ;)’

picture of seeds being started in black pods answering the question of when to start seeds — For us gardeners who really go nuts when we can’t play outside (yes, this is me!), newcomer **Charlene of The Secret Life of Homesteaders** shares this gardening post full of great information for indoor gardening ~ When to Start Seeds. Welcome, Charlene! Glad to have you as part of the French Ethereal community. <3

**Arun from Jaipur Gardening** brings us beautiful blooms from across the world in this post ~ Mild Winter in December. You’ll definitely want to check out this gorgeous post!

french toast croissant bake — Our second newcomer is **Karla from The Happy Mustard Seed** and she is sharing this scrumptious recipe for a Croissant French Toast Bake with Blueberries and Strawberries. Perfect for New Year’s morning!!!

30+ US Winter Hiking Ideas — **Dave and Jamie from Photojeepers** are back with something to help us get back in shape after snacking our way through the holidays ~ Best Winter Hiking in the US by Region. I love it!!! I have been itching to go camping, have you?

floral kimono, teal velvet boots, kimono style, thrifted fashion, Shelbee on the Edge — **Shelbee from Shelbee on the Edge** has THE CUTEST OUTFIT (and I love the teal boots!!!) in her post ~ It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Teal Fine (+ Link Party #325). I love Shelbee’s fashion posts as they relate on so many levels!!! If you haven’t stopped by to check out Shelbee’s monthly “fashion follows art” posts, you should. A lot of fun and I always learn something new about an artist, a piece of artwork and about the hosts as well! Enjoy!!!

And that’s it for our last SYS of the year, ladies and gents!! I hope that your family is safe, healthy and doing well. We are truly blessed here in our North Texas home and have enjoyed a good year. Many blessings to you, my friends!!!

Happy New Year 2023 to y’all!

Barb 🙂

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