THE FRENCH ELEMENTS: beautiful gardens

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Barb

Barb: 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.

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Helen Keller

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Re-post #2- You know how much I love the Netherlands

This post is from April 2009.
I thought I would re-post
about one of my favorite experiences.

I hope you enjoy it.

Posted by Barb at 5:00 AM 5 comments:

Labels: beautiful gardens, The Netherlands

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Always wear your crown

embroidered European linen

Blue and White Embroidered pillow covers

Embroidered monogram linen pillow

linen pillows with french lavender

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Only in Spain

El Escorial

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Perfect!

Paris

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Custom Initial Hoop

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Flower market in Nice

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Close to Heaven

You will adore this book

Fantastic website

Francophilia.com

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Love this site!

Run your race. That is what matters.

AHHHHHHH

Geneva

Love it, would hate to clean it

So many options

My 1st market in the Netherlands-1971

The start of a long love affair

Nice

Just a thought away

The happiest place in France

My J.W

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

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