Share Your Style #326

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 French Ethereal

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!💜

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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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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

Here’s a fun turkey Quick and Easy Thanksgiving DIY post from **Thrifting Wonderland.** Gorgeous bouquet!

faux leather trousers, cropped sweater, thrifted blazer, beret, fashion over 40, Stylish Monday, Shelbee on the Edge — **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!

liberty-blue-Thanksgiving-table-turkey-tureen-centerpiece — **Debbee from Debbee’s Buzz** shared her beautiful table set for Thanksgiving with these lovely turkeys ~ Liberty Blue and Thanksgiving Table and Turkey Napkins. Lovely!!!

**Renae from Peacock Ridge Farm** shared this delicious recipe for How To Make Baked Sweet Potatoes with Maple Glaze. And as the rest of the post title says: Perfect for your holiday feast!!!

**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!!!

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.

Let’s party!!!

Barb 🙂

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Share Your Style #283

November 26, 2020December 3, 2020 French Ethereal

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!

My sites: French Ethereal Instagram Facebook Pinterest YouTube

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

Put together a Fun Christmas Crate in 10 Minutes ~ Should have been part of this month’s Pinterest Challenge but I blew the deadline… Oh, well! 😉

Debra over at Common Ground shared her fall entryway table in this lovely Thanksgiving tableau ~ Transitioning a Fall Entry to Thanksgiving. Lovely!

And because I loved this post from Debra also ~ Using Vintage Frames for a Thanksgiving Mantel. Don’t you just love the layered frame look? Beautiful!!

How-to-Create-a-Holiday-Greenery-Spray-The-Crowned-Goat-1 Creating a Simple Holiday Spray Christmas Holidays

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

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.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!!

Barb

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Share Your Style #281

November 11, 2020November 18, 2020 French Ethereal

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 at* *French Ethereal…***

*Celebrating Thanksgiving into Christmas with Sub*tle Changes ~ $10 on the 10th

And here are this week’s featured posts…

*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.

raditional Thanksgiving tablescape with candlelight for elegance — **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… 🙂

Happy linking!

Barb

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Share Your Style #232

November 14, 2019 French Ethereal

Welcome to Share 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…

•Barbara: FrenchEthereal / Facebook / Twitter /Pinterest / Instagram

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.

Here are this week’s featured posts…

Home Improvement and DI

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.

Linda at Crafts ala Mode made this adorable centerpiece created with painted gourds ~ love it!!! ~ Whimsical Goose Centerpiece from Gourds.

Penny of Penny’s Treasurers posted this sweet Thanksgiving display featuring this Yard Sale Deer. Really pretty!

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!!!

😀

If you’ve been featured here at Share Your Style…

Here is a button to share and copy to your site and your featured posts, thank you!

I’d love it if you’d follow my Share Your Style board

on Pinterest, thank you.

Have a blessed week!

Now let’s get this party rolling…
🙂

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Une Table Pour Deux ~ Happy Thanksgiving!

November 22, 2018June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

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 un alfresco 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 styling created 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…

Hugs and blessings to you,

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Share Your Style #183

November 15, 2018 French Ethereal

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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

White Arrows Home.

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!

Thanksgiving Mantel Decor

Christmas Mantle, Log Cabin, Cabin, Buffalo Plaid, Rustic Christmas, Stone Fireplace

Christmas Preview

Thanksgiving Table

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!

• Lynn: The Vintage Nest / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / Google+

• Barbara: 21 Rosemary Lane / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / Google+

• Carol:The Red Painted Cottage /Facebook/ Twitter /Pinterest/ Instagram

• Kristin: White Arrows Home / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / Instagram

• Barbara: French Ethereal / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / Instagram

• Kim: Serving Up Southern / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / Instagram

• Meredith: Southbound / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / Instagram

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!

Dazzle While Frazzled

These Cinnamon Spice Blondies are definitely on my list to make! Delicious and Easy!

Playdates and Parties

On my To Do List! Learn to reupholster! This post is perfect timing!

Faeries and Fauna

I can’t wait to get organized for the Holidays with this cute DIY planner!!

The Scrap Shoppe Blog

Now it’s time for this week’s party! Link Away!

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A Quick Post ~ A Soft and Ethereal Thanksgiving Tablescape or Two

November 13, 2018June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

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??

😉

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Dishing It and Digging It ~ Angie the Freckled Rose

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WOW ~ Savvy Southern Style

Wonderful Wednesday ~ Ducks in a Row

Make It Pretty Monday ~ The Dedicated House

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A Year of Giving Thanks

November 22, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

This has been a year of

giving thanks

for us…

First of all, I’d like to welcome you if you are coming

over from Katherine’s Corner today with the

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We are recent transplants to Texas via many years

in California.

My husband was blessed with a new position

here in the Dallas area last November.

We are very blessed to be here and for his work ~

our first reason to give thanks…

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!

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And follow me on any of my sites if you’d like.

The links are above and here in the sidebar.

Thank You.

😀

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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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 23, 2016June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Happy Thanksgiving

to you and your family!

Just a quick post this morning

as we head off out of town this Thanksgiving

to visit our daughter

and

the friends she lives with

at their home here in Texas.

I thought I’d share a bit more of the holiday table I set up

with those gleaming gold chargers first then the

black and white pheasant plates followed by

a creamy white ironstone salad

with a small bread plate on top.

When we are home, our Thanksgiving table

always includes

a roasted turkey cooked to perfection

from four to five hours in the oven

until the crackling skin is all a warm golden-brown

on the outside and is

a juicy and fork~tender feast on the inside.

We always have some kind of cornbread stuffing

whether it’s homemade or out of a box for convenience and

I like to make my personal favorite ~

candied yams with a brown sugar glaze and

ooey gooey mini marshmallows

melted all over the top

{I use Libby’s big 32 oz. cans with an old

Fanny Farmer candied yam recipe!}

Then we have juicy vermillion red

whole or jellied cranberry sauce and our

daughter’s famous mashed potatoes.

I am thinking that since our daughter is with her friends,

maybe she will be making her smashed potatoes

for everyone this Thanksgiving!

I sure hope so!

:),

One of two photos taken at our former home ~ I made the fall napkins years ago.
The tea set is Wedgwood pattern.

I don’t have a photograph, I think, of that recipe…

but…

I thought I’d just share some of the fall photos I found

when I was out at different places this year

plus a few past fall photos.

This turkey~shaped pasta I saw one day at HomeGoods

and thought they were really cute!

So cute you could just gobble it up!

{ha ha!}

😉

One of the times I was down in Oceanside at the dentist this fall,

I found these festive transferware pieces at

Tuesday Morning.

I think these table runners were also at Tuesday morning

but I’m not 100% positive.

This wonderful scene was found while we were up at the

64th Annual Pomona RV Show

And this was one of the photos I took while still at

“The Lake” ~ Lake Skinner

just after I made all thirty~something

fabric pumpkins.

Here are more of those soft pumpkins in my French~styled Thanksgiving

table setting.

Love all the fabrics that Wal-Mart is carrying this year!

All this fabric {except the sheet used as a tablecloth}

used to create these fabric pumpkins and the table runner

are Waverly and other manufacturers which are

making their fabrics available to consumers.

Great for us!

The plates in the middle are paper plates I found at

Hobby Lobby

in their wedding crafts section.

They were beautiful and though they aren’t really china

I felt they were beautiful enough to stand in

for the real McCoy ~ don’t you just love

the swirly lace pattern?

And a last photograph of the basket I have been adding

dried flowers to for several years now.

This fall, I added in nice faux stems from

Hobby Lobby

to really heighten the fall feeling of this floral arrangement.

A great way to save and store dried florals!

🙂

A last shot of Sarah, Duchess of York pattern by Wedgwood

and one of my silver serving platters used as a charger.

I talked about using silver serving pieces that way

last week in one of my

Thanksgiving posts.

May your family have a

safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

I look forward to hearing about your

Thanksgiving soon!

Blessings to you,

Barb 🙂

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Old Holiday Photos ~ Decorating Inspiration!

November 17, 2016June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

I’ve been reading other people’s blog posts

this past evening and so many ladies

shared their wonderful homes…

Made me want to revisit our last home with you!

And after reading all these wonderful blogposts,

seeing all the Thanksgiving tables decorated so prettily with

sparkly goblets flashing prisms of light from flickering candlelight,

and gleaming just~polished silver and china laid out so carefully

made me nostalgic.

Then all of the photos of newly decorated Christmas trees

all festive and glowing

just brightening up

every room…

I became inspired to share some favorite

decorating goodies with you!

Style Favorites:

French cane~back chairs

The two shown in the photo above at the head and

foot of our antique dining room table

are the same ones

I have had out all summer while we were in our

“Tiny Home” at Lake Skinner.

They await their return to a new home

in this coming new year!

As do those plates, teacups and saucers…

Oooh! The mugs I just purchased from

HomeGoods

go with this set!!!

{I forgot to mention that yesterday! I was really excited to find them!}

🙂

Dried Flowers in Baskets

The blooms are darker here but that wonderful

wicker basket is still going strong!

This is one of my favorite table settings

for family and friends, by the way…

Style Trends:

Silver~plate platters

If you haven’t gone thrift~shopping

for those old 1960’s/1970’s {maybe even more recent}

silver~plate serving platters to use as chargers

under your dinner plates,

you’ve got to go!

They are my “go~to” pieces

underneath everything!

Some I spray painted white and I’d use them

underneath big plates the same way.

Most I kept just as they are as

I like the silvery look.

They are fun to stack with glassware

in between, too, creating towers

to create large tiered serving pieces

to present cupcakes and other goodies

at parties!

And this generic 1980’s chandelier

turned beauty!

My friend Kathy gave me the idea of

decorating one’s chandy while were still in our first home.

One year at Christmas time, I found this dangling garland

at Michael’s, I think.

This pearl garland is a favorite!

Kathy used these garlands on chandeliers

all over her house and hanging off picture frames!

Super cute!!!

Remember how in all the decorating magazines

back in the early 2000’s you’d see these 3′ long strands of

crystal garland and teardrop pendants for sale

in the advertisement sections??

Well, that’s where I got these!

You can see the teadrops attached to each of

the bobeches sitting atop each candle sconce

underneath each bulb.

Then I just kept finding more crystal things

and other beautiful decorations to hang off of them!

Especially at Holiday~time!

Here are two of Kathy’s chandies!

Sorry the left photo is so blurry ~ I must have shook

when taking it with my old phone.

Hanging greenery whether faux or real

looks lovely with all the dangling

Christmas ornaments!

Inspiration galore!!!

This post is a little random plus it’s getting very late…

but I thought you might like a little random decorating and also to

see the home we loved and lived in for 13 good, long years.

Good memories!

And, I’m so glad I am able to share

them with you!

Happy Decorating!

Barb 🙂

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