Life is Good!

Just checking in to say 

"Hello"

and to let you know

Life is being good to me!  

It doesn't get any better than

 my niece, Amberlyn

 &

vanilla icecream balls rolled in coconut:)) 

Wishing you long lazy days in the sun

&

 hoping your summer is being

Good to You!!

XO

fin

photo 1 my sister julie miller, 2 lamoiredecamille blogspot

To Float

Did you know that

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~       floating     ~

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is a very magical thing....

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To have the ability to float will always hold you in a

 very safe

&

 peaceful place.

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HAPPY SUMMER

 My Beautiful friends!!

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XO

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photo from my friend Lori's blog at Vignettes antiques

So Proud

I just saw my living room featured on the cover of this French Published Magazine

Maison Romantique!

Thanks to a post I JUST saw this morning visiting Sandy at

~~Paint Me White~~

her Beautiful home joins mine in this

 June/July 2012 issue!! 

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Although my walls have been painted, the New York lady portrait in black dress has sold, the small french blue end table & coral sconces are in my daughter's home.  The old pine french window mirror hangs in my other daughter's {Noel's studio}, the seacape hangs in my kitchen and the colors have all erased to shades of grey....

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I make myself laugh with the constant changes I do,

but as one of my articles quoted me,

"Things change in my home like the tide in the ocean, but the love never changes it is always constant."

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I am so Proud to be on this cover in France and to have my home seen from so far away~

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Just wanted to share with YOU my most darling friends!

&

If any of you know how I can get a copy of this please let me know~

Have a Beautiful Week!!

XO

fin

Just Words

Just words that

I

 LOVE.

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Beautiful Beautiful Words....

These treasured photos and words were found today on my visit with

VosgesParis~

Hugs

to All of you, my special sweet friends!!

XO

fin

photos from VosgesParis

My Winners!

 My Three Gracious

WINNERS!!!

Ashley, Noel, Mandy

Please send me your mailing addresses to
frenchbluue@gmail.com
so I can send your signed copy of
Vintage by Nina!!

Have a Beautiful week everyone
&
Thank you All for entering!!

XO

fin

both photos taken by Janet Solomon/FrenchBlue at:
The Louve in Paris

A Special Surprise! Vintage by Nina Giveaway!!

I'm home my darling ones!!

I am so very sorry to have been away for so long~~~

 But 

 I have brought you a very special surprise! 

 A Mary Poppins bag full of PURE Inspiration!

 From a land of white Swedish wonderland

and from a home with many dreamy windows to peek inside,

from two amazing eyes and one heart that knows just how to touch your soul~

If you don't already know her Amazing magic, let me have this opportunity to introduce to you an authentic antique dealer, interior designer, columnist, brocante junkie and writer, my friend from Scandinavia

Nina Hartman!

She shares all her talents with us in her one

Charming & Beautiful Home

 on the pages of

~Vintage by Nina~

                                                                                                                grey

  zinc                    rare          Sweeden

                      white          raw                    baskets

                                                       blanc         collections

                               clear                 France           

                                        glass       old

ironstone           wood                                                                     wings 

           recycled               brocantes                           hearts

                                                                                         linen

                                  soul                               ballet

For your pure 

Joy & Inspiration

Nina has sent me 3 signed copies of her book 

for you!!!

To win....

 I think you already know the ropes~

1. Leave me a comment on this post~

2. For TWO entries: Leave me a comment on this post AND promote Vintage by Nina on your blog.  Come back and let me know you have posted it~

3. For THREE entries, do both of the above, then come back and give me a BIG hug~

 Good-bye for now sweet friends....

I am going to go sit in the sun, have a cup of my newest favorite Earl Grey green tea,
 and gobble up all these pages of
tattered heaven~

XO

fin

Notes from Nina to know:

Trino at Atelier de Campagne is taking orders both for wholesale and for private individuals.
 

Atelier de Campagne

The first scandinavian interior book that is 100%

in ENGLISH in the US!!
This book is already worldwide in three editions.

vintage & antiques.This is the book where France meets Scandinavia.Where the Nordic light meets the French brocante findings.This Best Selling Book Vintage by Nina is NOW Available

in ENGLISH in the US!!
This book is already worldwide in three editions.
Over the past eight years she has run the vintage and antiques online shop 

VINTAGEBYNINA.COM

with showroom in Sweden. Her creativity, artistic talent and passion for interior designs and styling with vintage and antiques, has made her one of the most famous stylists in Scandinavia.

The book VINTAGEBYNINA is a result of the close cooperation between Danish Nina Hartmann and the Swedish photographer Maria-Isabel Hansson. Their work is seen in international interior magazines through the entire world.

Ninas soft, warm, light, feminine and highly personal style is characteristic for the book containing 160 beautiful and inspirational pages. The book Vintage by Nina is meant to inspire and create ideas, creativity and dreams for the readers.
Bedste hilsner fra
Nina Hartmann

www.vintagebynina.com

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Something about Nothing

There is a light shimmering. 

It is dancing through me! It is cleansing my world!    

I see that there is something about nothing

That I absolutely adore!

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Lately I have been letting go of so much stuff

&

 also emotionally of so many silly little fixes I'v had through my whole life

 that wasn't even real.

It feels SO GOOD!

I feel

~So Free~

XO

fin

image 1 citified blogspot image 2 burlapluxe blogspot

 

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