Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #410, dear friends! Sorry this is getting up so late. It’s been getting harder to get SYS out lately with late fall weather coming on, getting the garden prepped to sleep, work and the holidays and family visiting. I planned to take last week off but the previous week I was busy with work.
But we’re back and ready for a little Thanksgiving finale and a welcome to the Christmas holiday season! Let’s get to this week’s wonderful features, shall we? Oh! And a new opening party photo for the season… 🙂
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!💜
Just as cute as can be, these fun Reindeer Hot Chocolate Cone Bags from Lois at Walking On Sunshine Recipes really hit the dessert spot! Yum!!!
Dave and Jaime from Photo Jeepers are back with this fun idea for gift giving for the camping enthusiast in your life ~ National Park Ornaments Are Festive Vacation Keepsakes. They sure are! Great stocking stuffer idea!!!
Looking for some DIY project ideas? Look no further than this DIY Black French Provincial Dresser post by Natalie and Taylor from A Ray of Sunlight. Love this dresser’s new look!
Oh my goodness!!! I don’t know about you but I am wishing I’d seen this turkey sooner… Adorable and gorgeous!!! Sarah from Hyacinths for the Soul shared a Tribute to Tom Turkey and this gorgeous bird was part of the story. Neat story about the creator of this beaded bird! Do check her post out. <3
Penny from Penny’s Treasures brings us a treasure this week with a story called a Christmas Open House on Meadow View Lane. Adorable scenes you will surely love!!!
I love all the holiday inspiration this week and Debra from Common Ground shares her Thanksgiving spirit in this post ~ Giving Thanks in the Holiday Cupboard. More beautiful turkeys and enchanting fall china patterns… Be still our hearts! <3
DeeDee from Clover House brings us her beautiful Christmas decor in this post ~ The Majestic 7′ King Noble Fir: A Regal Unlit Christmas Tree. I have to say I do love King of Christmas decor and bought one of their wreaths when we bought this house four years ago. Great sale going on so do swing by DeeDee’s blog.
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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 December, friends, and welcome to this month’s Pinterest Challenge hosted by my friend Cindy of County Road 407 fame. This month we are creating beautiful evening holiday tables and… Mine just happened to work out with mostly whites and golds…
If you are just coming over from Niky at The House on Silverado for the first time, welcome! I am soooo glad you are here. 🙂 Enjoy the tour today and please think about subscribing if you enjoy my site, thank you. 💜
Her table looks lovely in her post with its gilded candelabras, candlesticks and all the baubles set on the table. Her gold inspired me to pull out my silver for this challenge as I don’t have as many gilded candlesticks. 🙂
Kelley created the prettiest gilded table here with lots of textured sparkly ornaments, twig faux bois taper candlesticks and other gold candlesticks perfect for pillar candles. Love the Christmas tree in the background!
I love how the tree is an extension of the gilding found on the table! Isn’t candlelight just so beautiful at night?
I love the neutral look, too, and that is more of the inspiration I took out of today’s challenge and where I jumped-off in my table’s vignette.
I have a number of gold and silver candelabras and candlesticks so I went for the mercury glass silver big taper candleholders as my anchoring pieces. I knew I wanted to have white as my base as I was pulling out my woodland themed animals.
From there, I added in my hand-decorated mini Christmas trees plus a few others I found decorated with little red berries, snow and a couple of glass Christmas trees thrown in the mix, too.
Like Kelley had in the background of the inspiration tablescape, I hung a Christmas wreath on the kitchen door going out into the backyard. For fun, I thought I’d wrap the two rose botanical prints this year as presents. Kinda fun!! 🙂
Adding some of our sparkly animal ornaments from our collection to my winter wonderland scene were the final touch on this nighttime holiday tablescape.
Okay, and two white linen napkins underneath it all for the “snow,” as I alluded to before. 😉
Thanks for stopping by today! I appreciate your sharing a photo or two, if you would. Lastly, please enjoy visiting Michelle from Thistle Key Lane who is up next and whose table is just lovely with holiday ornaments and fresh greenery!!!
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… 🙂
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!💜
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.
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.
Happy Wednesday, y’all! Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #406 and boy have we got great features this week!!! Fall weather is hitting sporadically here in North Texas and today it was a comfortable 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Love that it is still warm but definitely cooler. Let’s get to the party! 🙂
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!💜
A Day at the Ditch is from Jeanie at The Marmelade Gypsy and is our final feature for this week. Beautiful!!!
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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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Thank you for stopping by and please enjoy the party,
Welcome to this month’s Pinterest Challenge, dear friends! Our friend Cindy from County Road 407 finds a photo for us to use each month as our inspiration piece. This month we have been challenged to create a beautiful fall vignette…
If you are just coming over from Carol at Bluesky at Home to French Ethereal for the first time, welcome! I am so glad you are here and hope you consider following my blog and my other media channels.
My living room is fresh and clean with the fall cleaning I began just a couple of weeks ago, and I’m happy to share a small corner of it with you today: our lovely library/tea table over by our western facing back windows which overlook our backyard. 🙂
So, let’s get to our inspiration!
Vintage inspiration
I totally love this fall-styled table from Katie Wood at The Cottage Journal magazine, who shared this vignette as part of homeowner Gloria Parker’s antique-filled home built in the 1830’s. There is sooo much autumnal goodness here!
Gloria’s table is artfully arranged with a double-handled olive oil jar, which I learned during this challenge is called a confit jar which is filled with orange winterberry vine. A stack of vintage books, a lovely autumn-colored soup tureen, plus several prettily framed portraits add to the scene! Oooh, I just noticed she copied the pot’s look in the shorter soup tureen with its double handles as I took in a second pass over her photograph. Don’t you just love “repeats” in decor?
Just brings everything together… 🙂
A bit more fall is woven into this vignette with several tiny cream pumpkins and a few fall leaves. Love the monochromatic look!
The orange winterberry branches definitely lend their fall touch to the vignette and set the color scheme. The pumpkins add a festive look and set the scene squarely around October and Halloween time, at least in my opinion.
My tableau
Our vignette begins with finding something along the lines of those winterberries…
I found faux ones at Hobby Lobby but they were a bit pricey so I opted instead for soft autumn flowers in peach and pale yellow paired with creamy pussy willows.
How to Make Your Own Fall Foliage Vase
I arranged these florals in a French vase to mimic the winterberries in the olive oil jar from our inspiration photograph.
A sheet of heavy paper packed around the stems keeps the florals upright (what the cashier wrapped these stems with). I would have used chicken wire but forgot that I had some out in the garden shed. 😉
Pieces of green moss tucked in around the top hide the paper edges and give the vase a finished look.
As you can see, creating a little area for penning a note to a loved one is really showcased with the soft fall colors in our floral bouquet!
I’ve added my signature maiden statue for added height and its soft chalkware hue, plus more whites in a vanilla-scented candle, then a creamware mug of hot tea, play up the creams of the sweetly soft pussy willows.
The little brown jug with its little friar or monk stopper is a prohibition piece which belonged to my father’s mother and father. It plays “How Dry I Am” and it still works! This jug is another nod to the beautiful olive oil jar from Katie’s stylings for the Cottage Journal.
To the other side of our library table, I’ve added a small stack of books in soft fall colors of russet, gold, cream and a pale sky blue. Two fabric pumpkins nestle into the scene just like in our inspiration piece and add more texture to this vignette.
One vintage framed card set inside a gilded frame I’ve had since high school helps complete the tableau. After I began photographing, I remembered this little pewter candle snuffer and added it to my tablescape.
I did indeed use it to put out the candle when I was done. 🙂
The rest of the story
And here is our full fall vignette ready for me to finish writing this notecard. An old favorite story about Hazel the rabbit and her many friends in Watership Down waits to be picked up and read some more. Not a bad recreation, is it? I’m happy with this fall styling.
Thanks for stopping by today, everyone! Up next is Kim from Cottage in the Mitten whose fall vignette is absolutely stunning with her signature blue books! Do stop by and check out all of the other wonderful fall tablescapes shared today… 🙂
Thank you to Cindy for gathering us all together again! Love being part of the Pinterest Challenge crew…
Well, last weekend I was down in Corsicana, Texas, for an IOOF meeting. Was a good event but I am glad it is over! 😉 My mother-in-law went with me and she prepared the luncheon ~ which is her specialty and heart, really. We enjoyed eating out and an ice cream treat stop at Braum’s down there. I took Gini over to a women’s dress shop called Cato, and we had fun checking out all of the clothing there. I tried on a super cute blue jean jacket but it was too big. I did find a nice deep green long-sleeved shirt for fall and that came home with us. Oh! And we stopped by Buc-Ees in Ennis (about 20 miles north of Corsicana) and we found some fall Buc-Ees t-shirts for the season. I think that makes the 18th Buc-Ees t-shirt I own… 😉 TRUTH!
I’m still working on painting and varnishing the buffet so no new posts yet for you. Still has a cigarette or old wood smell… Might be painting the whole thing. And that’s okay as I like white painted furniture anyway. Just this little update here. 🙂
Well, let’s get to the party!
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And here are this week’s featured posts…
Our first entry this week is all about snacking ~ Sunday Afternoon with Cookies from Lynne from Thrifting Wonderland are the perfect early fall treat (okay, any time of year, lol!). Yum!!!
Michelle from Weddings by K’Mich shared this precious pup from her Facebook post and blog post ~ Dogs in Your Wedding Don’t Have to Be Hard. Adorable floral collars!!! Soooo happy Michelle figured out a way that allows me to share her photos (Facebook) and posts with you! <3
Niky from The House on Silverado shared her Cozy Fall Bedroom. Love the grey floral with the cream, tan and beautiful green headboard! Stunning!!!
Lois from Walking on Sunshine Recipes, who is a newcomer to SYS, brings us these delicious looking Pumpkin Cheesecake in a Jar recipe… Seriously, I am in need of pumpkin spice yummies! How about you??? Welcome, Lois! Glad you are here!!
Perfect to make with your kids and grands!! Newcomer Darcy from Darcy & Brian shared how she made these adorable wands for her little trick or treaters. 🙂 Welcome, Darcy and Brian!! Glad you are here. <3 How to Make a Wizard Wand Out of a Stick.
Wendy from WM Design House brings us this luscious fall entryway in her post ~ 35 Fall Front Porch Decorating Ideas on a Budget. Is your porch all ready for the season? Or are you like me and you are just waiting for pumpkins to arrive at the local garden center and church bizarres. Pretty!
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 #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!💜
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 atFrench Ethereal…
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.
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!
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. 🙂
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 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!💜
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 atFrench Ethereal…
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!
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 #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.
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