Welcome to Moving Parts and French Hearts!
I'm Kristen - my husband and I are working to escape the United States and move abroad, specifically to France. Welcome to our journey of simplifying life, getting out of the U.S., and creating a slower, more intentional way of living and doing business in France. On this channel, I'll be focusing on just that. Getting rid of stuff here, fixing up the house, and building my business to take with me to France.
I'll also post the occasional calming Sunday walking video, starting here in North Carolina, and eventually calming walks in France and beyond.
We don't want to wait until retirement to build our new life abroad!
Whether you dream of moving abroad yourself, or you simply want to live with more courage, creativity, and calm—you’ll find inspiration here.
Meanwhile, I hope you're enjoying where you are on the way to where you’re going.
Moving Parts and French Hearts
I've scripted but not filmed tomorrow's video, which is about the US tipping culture and its deeply racist roots contrasted with France's lack of tipping culture due to its egalitarian changes historically.
I might film something shorter to say hi, but right now, I am sick. Apparently my flu shot this year did not stop me or my husband from getting a different strain of the flu. Stay safe, y'all. I'm going to take a nap.
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Currently editing my exploration of Strasbourg, France, part 2. I'll have a special guest (thought not live), who lived in Strasbourg for several years, along with his husband. We'll get first-hand information. I'll post it later this evening, so stay tuned!
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Back to the division of both personal and business. I've been thinking about experimenting with adding my full drawing tutorials, creative thinking videos, etc. to this channel. I feel that is too overwhelming and not cohesive for the channel. I'm going to Keep my Tuesday vlog a vlog - in the vlog, I will talk about what we're doing to get ready to move to France, and show snippets of what I'm doing with the house and my creative business, and life in general. If people want to see more, they will be able to link to my "Sketch Your Life!" Creative clarity channel.
Thursdays will still be about Exploring French Towns, as well as French Culture vs. US Cultural stuff. And Saturdays, which I've moved to 2 pm EST (8 pm France time) will be my livestream days. It's smooth, and those of you, my wonderful subscribers who expressed an interest, will be able to click on my Sketch Your Life channel to get those lessons and future live sketch sessions, and creative clarity discussions. Image for fun.
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1,000 Subscribers! Whoooo hooooo!
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Hello everyone! My apologies for changing the time on my live to 2 pm EST without enough warning. And, my apologies for those of you who come looking for me at 3 and find that I'm not there. I'm going on a walk in the shady parts of a trail with my husband and our dog.
For those of you who do watch my livestreams, let me know here if you would be able to attend lives an hour earlier than usual on a Saturday (so 2 pm EST / 8 pm France) rather than the usual 3/9 hour.
Photo for interest:
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Ten! Ten! Ten! Ten, let's sing a song about tennnn - how many is ten? (Sesame Street throwback and I have ten subs left before I hit 1,000!
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I'm posting a new video tomorrow about a place in France - can you guess by the photo? Meanwhile, there will be no Livestream on Saturday, as my husband and I will be in our county's No Kings march (picture below of the last time). Have a great week-end, everyone!
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Today's live is cancelled. Due to what happened overnight, and the US bombing of an Iranian girl's school, I am not in the right mental space to talk live. Instead, I'm dedicating myself to the hard work of cleaning out rooms. Sorry everyone. Stay safe.
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Working today on emptying rooms and getting rid of big furniture! I've turned things around - instead of just picking things to get rid of, I've begun packing the things we are shipping to France. This week, my studio will be emptied completely (my goal), and I'll be priming and painting in there. Once the painting is finished, the carpet will be ripped up and we'll get a big enough piece at the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store down the road to replace the old paint splattered one. Good times.
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