Thank you for visiting The French Elements blog where French is a state of mind. If I can't be in France, at least my mind can spend some time there. Won't you join me?
My name is Barb and I am the woman behind the online boutique THE FRENCH ELEMENTS. While I will always keep The French Elements blog (so many memories), I have started a new one and I hope you will visit.
CHASING THE NEXT CHAPTER is about change. The past few months I have been thinking about writing a new blog. My youngest son passed away 7/1/2015 and life will never be the same for us. He entered Heaven and we entered a new chapter in our lives. A very different chapter that is still unfolding.
We have always talked about moving back to Europe (or elsewhere). The talk continues but we are planning on making the dream our reality.
He would be pleased.
Know who you are, accept who you are, be who you are.
Tres chic!
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
Beautiful
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world, is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive.
Shakti Gawain
motto for every year
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, It's not the end.
I'm settled down in my living room, watching the wind and the rain
outside. It isn't a day for going out.
It might be a day for a cup of coffee and a c...
Oh the rain. It drums down on the skylight. There are great puddles on the
streets and sheets of water spray when cars drive through them. Indoors,
th...
Yes, only hours after the broken water pipe the power went off for 4.5
days...
Tree down near greenhouse...
Creek near road washed out...
warnings
Bridge t...
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A couple of you have checked in on me, I have been mighty busy since my
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February is a short month even when it has 29 days. I've been busy with
my "day job" but have found Leap Year treasure along the way.
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Last week a group of ballroom dancers put on a show at my mother's care
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decor...
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Oh, Barb!! This is so cool!! Although the only word I understood was Merci!!! Amazing how they didn't need all the lighting and strange stage arrangements back then.
I received my package today...LOVE everything!! And thank you for the little gift. You know, Moulin Rouge is one of my favorite movies (the more current one) and I adore the soundtrack.
My daughter is very envious of the pillows so I will have to watch them closely. ;-) Thanks so much. Let me know when you have more new goodies!!
Hi Barb, Wow this is pretty awesome. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for stopping by and your kind comment on my upgrades. I enjoyed my visit to your blog. See you again soon. Hugs, Celestina Marie
Hi Barb! Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I LOVE, love, love all of the French goodness you have going on here!!! I see from your past post that you adore old postcards too (of course the vintage French ones are extra special)! Happy Wednesday!
Hi Barb! It's good to talk to you!! You were so sweet to have missed me ~ I missed you, too!! I'm glad to be back in blogland. Loved hearing Paul en Francaise. He's still a cutie!! :) Lots of Hugs, Bebe
Oh Barb, How wonderful to see & hear John (my fave Beatle) singing "I'm a loser".It brought tears to my eyes, and made me feel 14 years old again. Thanks for visiting Normandy today. a bientot Maggie
Bonjour Barb!!! Hey, thanks for coming by to vote! The results are now starting to roll in; for a while there I was worried that I wasn't going to have a "contest" here....I fail to realize that while I am on vacation for the entire summer, the rest of the world that follows me is not in the education field and everyone works! I thank you for your participation, Barb. I hope all is well on your side of the country! Take care, Anita
Hi Barb...thanks for stopping by the farmhouse and for the sweet comment. Sorry to hear that your son has been back in the hospital and hope all is well at the present.
Things have been hectic around the farmhouse the past few weeks/months, to say the least, but we are on an uphill climb right now. More dr appts coming up but that is the norm lately.
GIRL...let me tell you I LOVE THE BEATLES. Their music still amazes me! George was my fave! I think he had more to offer the group than THEY ever knew. So sad he had to leave us before his time...
My computer got a bad virus so I am using a loaner. It has no picutre program and I only have dial up internet, so I have put my blogging on the back burner--so to speak. I will return with a vengenance one day...LOL
I have been super busy this summer, tying up lots of unfinished projects. That takes time since I always have at least 3going on at once.
I am making a duvet cover, putting a satin sealer on my kitchen cabinets, planting mums, making Pay if Forward gifts, and running back and forth to doctors offices and I've forgotten what else....whew
Hi Barb,You always have something kool on your blog.I think every one is trying to learn french.I should too but my pea brain can't take in much right now...LOL.But I so enjoy you ladies talking.XXOO Marie Antionette
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Oh, Barb!! This is so cool!! Although the only word I understood was Merci!!! Amazing how they didn't need all the lighting and strange stage arrangements back then.
I received my package today...LOVE everything!! And thank you for the little gift. You know, Moulin Rouge is one of my favorite movies (the more current one) and I adore the soundtrack.
My daughter is very envious of the pillows so I will have to watch them closely. ;-) Thanks so much. Let me know when you have more new goodies!!
xoxo
Janie
Allez Paul!!! Bravo mon cher Beatle....tu parlais comme un français! Anita
Hi Barb, Wow this is pretty awesome. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for stopping by and your kind comment on my upgrades.
I enjoyed my visit to your blog. See you again soon.
Hugs, Celestina Marie
Hi Barb! Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I LOVE, love, love all of the French goodness you have going on here!!! I see from your past post that you adore old postcards too (of course the vintage French ones are extra special)! Happy Wednesday!
:) T
How neat Barb! I just loved the movie "Across The Universe".
I know not the same thing but it was neat.
Thanks for your sweet visit. I really appreciate it.
~Blessings, ~Melissa ;)
Hi Barb!
It's good to talk to you!! You were so sweet to have missed me ~ I missed you, too!! I'm glad to be back in blogland. Loved hearing Paul en Francaise. He's still a cutie!! :)
Lots of Hugs, Bebe
P.S. Been enjoying your old postcards!
Oh Barb,
How wonderful to see & hear John (my fave Beatle) singing "I'm a loser".It brought tears to my eyes, and made me feel 14 years old again.
Thanks for visiting Normandy today.
a bientot
Maggie
Bonjour Barb!!! Hey, thanks for coming by to vote! The results are now starting to roll in; for a while there I was worried that I wasn't going to have a "contest" here....I fail to realize that while I am on vacation for the entire summer, the rest of the world that follows me is not in the education field and everyone works! I thank you for your participation, Barb. I hope all is well on your side of the country! Take care, Anita
Hi Barb...thanks for stopping by the farmhouse and for the sweet comment. Sorry to hear that your son has been back in the hospital and hope all is well at the present.
Things have been hectic around the farmhouse the past few weeks/months, to say the least, but we are on an uphill climb right now. More dr appts coming up but that is the norm lately.
GIRL...let me tell you I LOVE THE BEATLES. Their music still amazes me! George was my fave! I think he had more to offer the group than THEY ever knew. So sad he had to leave us before his time...
My computer got a bad virus so I am using a loaner. It has no picutre program and I only have dial up internet, so I have put my blogging on the back burner--so to speak. I will return with a vengenance one day...LOL
I have been super busy this summer, tying up lots of unfinished projects. That takes time since I always have at least 3going on at once.
I am making a duvet cover, putting a satin sealer on my kitchen cabinets, planting mums, making Pay if Forward gifts, and running back and forth to doctors offices and I've forgotten what else....whew
LIFE IS GOOD....have a great day.
Well, I would agree that Detroit wouldn't compare in the least to Paris! LOL! But I'd take a listen to the Beatles live anywhere! How fun!
Hi Barb,You always have something kool on your blog.I think every one is trying to learn french.I should too but my pea brain can't take in much right now...LOL.But I so enjoy you ladies talking.XXOO Marie Antionette
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