crafts, Home Decor

Share Your Style #424

Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #424, y’all! It has been another busy week around here with a new painting project, a little gardening, and the school year winding down. Let’s check out this week’s featured posts…

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…

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

Adorably cute is what this is! Stephanie from Crazy Little Love Birds buzzes about this fun craft idea in her post ~ Easy DIY Springtime Wooden Beehive Decoration.
Way to beeutify our homes!!
Debra from Common Ground shares this fun idea to copy ~ Spring Coffee Table with Metal Baskets. So fun and colorful!! Debra also shares a fun spring hanger idea ~
Vintage French Seed Packet Garland. Do check these out!
Lynne from Thrifting Wonderland brings us so much beauty this week with her photographic review ~ Garden Photography. Stunning…
Our final feature for this week comes from Julie over at Sum of Their Stories who brings us this fashion recycle idea ~ How to Refashion an Old Jacket into a Dress.
Clever idea and great sewing project!!

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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Gardening

A Spring Garden Tour: Roses, Roses & More Blooms!

This is a spectacular year for roses in North Texas! Our garden began bit by bit just after we moved into this house in the spring and summer of 2019, and the first roses were planted the following spring after ordering from David Austin Roses out of West Texas. Come see all the blooms!

Climbing Eden Rose ~ along our garden shed

Most of our roses are four years old bushes now where they are mature enough that they are beginning to climb along our fences and walls… So ethereal!

This is an Eden climbing rose. Most of my roses are repeat bloomers; however, Eden is a once a year show-stopper. This was taken a couple of weeks ago…

I planted these snapdragons last year and I guess they seeded themselves as they came back like crazy this year!

Another beauty in its pot at the front of the shed next to its wooly holly companion. 😉

Life is like a rose garden ~ watch for the thorns and keep the pest dust handy.”

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Sooo many wildflowers popped up, too. Nepeta or catmint on the right, above. The wildflower, Dayflower, is on the left. They grow beautifully here and I’ve actually lifted some and moved them from the front yard into the back garden. They don’t seem to mind. 🙂

This may be Obedient Plant. Hard to tell since my 100 Texas Wildflowers book doesn’t show a close-up of the leaves. This comes up on its own each year since I started watering this southside of the garden.

I searched the internet including the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, too, for this plant. Not sure what this wildflower is because of these leaves’ shape. These flowers grow from single stems then bloom at the tips. Really pretty and they’ve been multiplying each year!

Moving into the pots up against our patio, Mary Rose is blooming fiercely with tons of blooms ready to pop in the future!

Under our bedroom window, these pretties are cheering us as we look through the windows.

This is Albrighton of which I just snipped a bunch for Sunday lunch with Gramma Gini. It is a quatrefoil, if I remember correctly. I love its hundred petals per flower.

Here is Gentle Hermione, another English rose, of which I have two. Sadly, I think these two both are susceptible to rose rosette disease… 🙁 There isn’t a cure yet, but I am hopeful Texas A&M will come up with something soon.

I cannot be without roses… <3

Here is Gentle Hermione along the fence prior to having the new fence panel installed. 🙂

Outfront, we have Miranda Lambert in the tall green urn. It just goes for it! <3

This year, this rose is growing more upright. It also acts a bit like a small climber as sometimes some of the canes will lay over. Very pretty, actually!

A last look at a backyard rose in its pot… 🙂

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Have a happy day, garden friends,

crafts, Gardening

Share Your Style #423

Welcome, friends, to this week’s Share Your Style #423! I hope spring is blooming out your way. We have loads of wonderful spring ideas to share ~ from recipes, to crafts, a little fashion and, of course, gardening!!! (My favorite thing this time of year!)

I am Barbara Chapman and I’d love it if you’d follow me here on my blog and on any of my other social media sites, too.  Thank you!💜 

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And here are this week’s featured posts…

Christie from Christie’s Mobile Home Diary begins this week’s features with DIY ideas with Before and After Garden Projects Refresh for Spring 2024. Wait ’til you see all the things Christie reworked! Really fun transformations!

Estelle from Homemade on a Weeknight shares this mouth-wateringly decadent one-dish meal of Bacon Rosemary Chicken Pasta. Can’t wait to try this!! Yum!
A May Day basket covered with moss and filled with dianthus flowers.
Up next we have Missy from Sonata Home Design who brings us a lovely idea to celebrate Moms ~ the gift of How to Make a Moss May Day Basket: A Step-by-Step DIY. Lovely!!!
How to style old navy sleeveless jumpsuit styled 2 ways
Karin of Karin’s Kottage fame shows us some simple ideas for How to Style an Old Navy Sleeveless Jumpsuit Two Ways. Perfect for the upcoming summer months and for now!
blue ball jar mantel styling
MaryJo from Master”Pieces” of My Life is back with this cheery post ~ Spring Mantle Styling with Blue Ball Jars. Love this!!
Our final entry for this week if from Penny at Penny’s Treasures who shared her Spring Greenhouse in bloom… Just beautiful! Enjoy, everyone!

Well, that’s it for this week, y’all. We had a quieter party last week with the party going up late after the trip after visiting the hospital with my mother-in-law (She’s good now, thank you.), so just a few lovely features this week.

We should be up to full-strength next week, though!

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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Until next week, blessings to you,

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