Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #326! Happy Wednesday to you all, dear friends!!
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!💜
Happy Wednesday, everyone! This week is our last week of “All Things Thanksgiving” with next week beginning our Christmas posts… I decided to wait because I just wasn’t ready for them this year. I know as bloggers we usually want our ideas out there early, but I just wasn’t feeling it. I’m sorry…
On another note, we have been having “Santa Ana’s” in North Texas this week (warm winter winds) usually in Southern California. Funny too, it FEELS like a So Cal fall day! ~ three days in a row in the high 70’s! The cold front returns this evening, though, so the confused plants will just have to get over this warm spell. 😉
Now, let’s get to this week’s features! (Nothing finished from me this week.)
And here are this week’s featured posts…
Debra from Common Ground gets my vote for the comfiest porch in this post ~ Cozying Up the Back Porch. Sooo pretty and inviting!
Amy over at A Day of Small Things brings us her lovely fall post ~ Sing to Me Autumn… Love the poem and her decor!
Jeanie from The Marmelade Gypsy shared some good fall reads in her post ~ September/October Book Wrap. Yes!!! Also good to stock up on for cozy winter reading. <3
Shelbee from Shelbee on the Edge shared her thoughts on being authentic in her post all about style ~ Faux Real Looks in Leather and Suede. Love this look for fall!
Rita from Panoply shared this lovely table set for Turkey Day in her post ~ Thankful… All kidding aside, there is much to be thankful for this year. <3
Sandra from Come to Dinner at Eight shared this perfect for late fall Autumn Tones for a Tray. So warm and inviting!!!
A big Thank You to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to y’all 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. 💜
Happy Wednesday, y’all!Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #283!
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! 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!
CoCo from The Crowned Goat shared an easy to make holiday spray used here on the door in this post ~ Creating a Simple Holiday Spray.I am all about simple this year!
Tiffany (Tee) of TeeDiddlyDee shares her beautiful fall hutch in this seasonally colored post ~ Fall Vintage Door Hutch. Totally love all the upcycled pieces of wood and turned pieces!!
Cindy from Cloches and Lavender shared this gorgeous wintertime wreath in this DIY post ~ Quick and Easy Winter Wreath. Simply stunning! Love the feathers… <3
A big Thank You to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to y’all 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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Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #281! This link party is for home decor, DIY, crafts, recipes and the like, but you are more than welcome to share 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! As always, I am glad that you are here… 💜
Happy Veterans’ Day, friends!!! From this USMC family to yours, Uuuurrrraghhhhh! Well… If you’ve noticed a strange look to my face here, the blog in general, well, I FINALLY migrated the blog to WordPress. I am excited to make the move and it’s a bit scary, too. WP has a lot to offer that my happy Blogger account didn’t.
Mainly, I have been looking into WP for two years because of its capability to incorporate email. I have gone into Inlinkz and downloaded a bunch of your emails to files to create a spreadsheet and will test an email soon. I apologize if you DON’T want to be emailed by me here at French Ethereal and you’ll be able to unsubscribe, of course!
On the COVID-19 issues, Charles tested positive on Saturday. My 2nd test last Monday was also positive, probably due to the pneumonia being left untreated (my thoughts). This week I am FINALLY feeling much better. I just get tired easily so I am putting in for more time off from school until I get fully recovered. I just pick up colds and other viruses too easily.
All right, friends! Let’s get this SYS going…
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!💜
Here’s what I shared this past week atFrench Ethereal…
A Very Thankful Table for Six ~ from Fabby over at Fabby’s Living. I love her table and of course the beautiful turkey tureen!!!
Penny from Penny’s Treasures shared her beautiful barn updated in this holiday post ~ Barn Makeover and Playing with My Christmas Mantel.Amber of Follow the Yellow Brick Home shared her beautiful farmhouse home dining table set for Thanksgiving in this autumnal post ~ A Thanksgiving Tablescape Sneak Peak by Cozy Candlelight. Love her home!!!Amber from The Hungry Mountaineer shares her fall style with us ~ Fall Fashion at Lundy Lake…ish. Love everyone’s fall fashions! Makes me want to shop… 😉
Rita of Panoply shared her gorgeous feathers and thistle tablescape in this Thanksgiving post ~ Thistle and Pheasant Run Thanksgiving Tablescape. Part of a fun blog hop from last week. <3
I think I will stop here for this week and pray, friends, that this works! <3
A big Thank You to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to y’all 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 have been featured here at Share Your Style… Here is a button to copy to your site and to share.
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.
Hope this is going to work… Giving it a try! If anyone can leave me a comment as to HOW to add the WP shortcode or the long code (if this DOESN’T work!) and tell me how to fix this week’s SYS Inlinkz, that’d be great!!! Crossing my fingers…
If it DOESN’T WORK, I will figure it out and edit according to what I find, so… the party stays open until next Monday evening at 6:00p.m. CST, so just keep stopping back by to try and link up again. Happily, I was able to bring over some of your photos and add links… 🙂
Welcome toShare Your Style #232! This link party is for home decor, DIY, crafts, recipes and the like, but you are more than welcome to share your family-friendly posts with us all! As always I am glad that you are here and there are so many great posts to choose from to share with all y’all…
I am your host 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!
Here’s what I shared this week at
French Ethereal…
In this post I share photos of “The Girls” decorated for the holidays along with a few statues from friends. Hope you will stop by! ~ Decorate Your Statuettes for the Seasons.
Amber of Follow the Yellow Brick Home shared more beautiful ideas of which she will be revealing soon as part of this fall’s One Room Challenge ~ Week 5.Love it and check out the amazing tile!
I have been keeping up with Amber’s posts about this redo and getting some fun ideas for when we update our master bathroom. It is seriously in need of losing the 1990’s jetted tub (think gross nozzles and a breeding ground for small but cute fruit flies, just not in my bathroom!). I think I shared about the broken wall in the shower, too, when we first moved in… The backyard is ahead of this redo, though.
Rita at Panoply shares all the wonderful treasures she has found while thrift-shopping and the like ~ Panoply New, Vintage Finds.So many wonderful pieces! Aren’t these bunnies cute??
Sandra at Dinner at Eight shared her dining room table set for Thanksgiving ~ soooo pretty with gilded chargers and gold rimmed plates! ~ in a post appropriately titled Elegance and Candlelight for Thanksgiving.
You may recall a post I shared earlier this year at Share Your Style from Debbie at Debbie-Dabble Blog. This is an update on her lovely yard and its gorgeous fall look ~ Late Fall Front Porch and Yard Update.
Well, that’s it for this week! Thank you to everyone who linked up this week and a special thank you to everyone who posts about the link party Share Your Style on your blog ~ I do see it when I stop over and I appreciate your support! Without you, there’d be no party.
Big Hugs!!!
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Our Thanksgiving this year ~ we have much to be thankful for including a warm and comfortable home to live in, family and good friends both old and new, and a good job where my husband is getting to really expand his knowledge and display his abilities.
With that, I am thankful for a job photographing what I love and to be able to share places to visit around Texas and beyond with you. I also get to share inexpensive found goodies from thrifting trips and
today I am sharing this little table pour deux…
Dining out-of-doors is lovely in the fall… The daytime is still warm and sunny and the bugs are gone so setting up a table for unalfresco déjeuner holds promise of rest and much enjoyment. And often a simple table is best set in the garden where we can enjoy birds chirping away in the trees nearby and the the garden’s plantings as they bloom before heading to bed for the year.
This table setting is an adaptation of another table stylingcreated recently on our larger picnic table.
The nice thing is that either styling can be copied for any time of the year by removing these little Baby Boo and velvet pumpkins then adding new elements
for whatever season you are in.
🙂
Here I’ve used a vintage embroidered tablecloth found at an antique shop paired with simple white plates and crystal wine goblets and silverplate flatware.
Sweet checked napkins found on clearance add their own nice rustic flair to the overall elegance.
Woven grass placemats repeat the soft pale color
of the little pumpkins and add a little more gold to the table setting, as does this sweet little pheasant.
Bringing out a pillow or two adds a little French ambiance to the dining experience and is always welcome.
The nice part is as you sit and relax away
the afternoon sharing a meal with your spouse or
a dear friend
we begin to re-energize ourselves from the craziness of a busy year ~ always a good thing.
Here’s to a lovely holiday season and best wishes to you on this Thanksgiving day…
What an honor to be your host this week for the 183rd Share Your Style! I am so lucky to be part of such an amazing team bringing together your fabulous ideas in one Link Party! I’m Kristin of
Here are few of my posts from last week to give you ideas for Thanksgiving and a sneak peek of my Christmas decor to come! If you are new to my blog, I would love to get to know you! Come on over to read, explore and leave some feedback! Let’s connect!
Get to know my teammates, some of the most inspiring and encouraging bloggers in this community! We’d love for you to give us a follow! Remember, the link up and features are shared on all seven blogs each week!
What a wonderful week of Share Your Style we had last week! There was so much amazing inspiration shared! Thank you to all who linked up! Here are a few of my favorites.
This Lake Girl can’t get enough of this idea! And how fun for any backsplash!
Inspiration comes in all forms and this quick post is just a preview to a couple of upcoming Thanksgiving posts, a craft and more…
Last Friday was a beautiful day to be out of doors for some fall Thanksgiving photography and table stylings that I am excited to share more later this week.
For now, enjoy these photos and check back Thursday for more and a craft on Friday ~ I’ll be sharing where I found my inspiration, too.
Don’t forget to stop in on Wednesday evening after 6:00p.m. for Share Your Style, too!
Can you spot the craft project??
😉
Sharing with
Spread the Kindness ~ Shelbee on the Edge
Style Showcase ~ Shabbyfufu
Friday at the Fire Station ~ A Fireman’s Wife
Dishing It and Digging It ~ Angie the Freckled Rose
My former home’s backyard garden in Murrieta, California the year before we sold our home.
Giving Thanks
We have much to be grateful for ~ the least of which
is that we weren’t homeless over the past two
years while Hubby was out of his normal work.
We made it through having to sell what I thought
was our “forever home” and instead took up
a slightly nomadic life
living in a 27′ Coleman travel trailer for about
1 1/2 years before we traded it in for our new 41′ fifth wheel which we love for its room!
Looking west over neighboring rv’s here in North Central Texas.
Just a few photos from earlier this fall of my
kitchen and dining areas.
The lemon poppy seed cake on the back counter
is one I often bake when having friends
over for tea.
The garden area in September just after putting in the little square stepping stones.
Our little prairie rv home
This is the garden area just outside our fifth-wheel.
We had no “pop-outs” on the previous trailer so we were
really cramped and constantly having to move a box
to sit down to eat, watch tv, to do anything.
In this beauty, we have the luxury of five slides which makes
the inside about 16′ wide throughout most of the trailer.
It is really a small apartment in many ways.
We are staying nomadic for just a little while longer as we
begin looking for land and a house.
🙂
My friend Peggy came for an impromptu tea one day recently.
“One is silver and the Other is gold”
I am thankful also for my “old friends” in California, whom I can visit with anytime via Facebook and Instagram, and I am thankful for the “new friends” I have made since moving here to Texas. I believe God has provided for this need for friendship with park owners who really care in every sense of the word for the people and animals who live here.
Little Skidboot at his first shearing. He is one of 13 alpacas here at Wagon Master RV Park and Alpaca Farm, Sanger, Texas.
It is a great blessing for everyone here, whether as short-term campers or as extended-stay residents, to be able to stay here. The owners really act as caretakers of the land and have a heart for people. 🙂
A tablesetting I did earlier this fall.
New beginnings We are grateful for a chance to start over and work on rebuilding our nest egg. We also are rebuilding our household ~ of which this “prairie home fifth-wheel” is a big part. Traveling to new places as I work on making my little blog into a real business is also an exciting part of the new here in Texas! I am grateful for the chance to do something I love full-time. 🙂
A recent Thanksgiving tablesetting with pumpkins and pansies.
Grateful for the little things Mostly I am grateful for all the little things which have “coincidentally happened” this past year… Our daughter moving to Texas before we did to move out and live with her friend then… my husband finding and getting his new position also here in Texas. Or like last Christmas time when I found a J Broadhurst Constable series set of china minus the lid for the teapot in an antique mall I just happened to visit for the first time. It had been in my heart for many years to have a set of pinkish-red china like this as it so beautiful to me. God knew it and led me to it! Of this, I have no doubt. Lastly, for meeting a new group of friends and a Bible study being offered here at the park and farm by a new wonderful friend.
Coincidence?
I don’t think these things are coincidences.
I believe they are gifts and blessings from our
Great Creator.
I hope you do, too.
😉
Our kitchen table set for a little Thanksgiving tea!
😀 Many blessings to you and your family this Thanksgiving… Please enjoy visiting with all of the lovely ladies who are linking up today. There are many wonderful and inspirational tablesettings and ideas out there for your holiday decorating…
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