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.
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Sorry in advance, y'all, but I will not be getting my latest French City exploration video up today. I've had a lot on my plate of late, and my research on Pau, the city I am currently researching, has taken a back seat. I want to do it justice, so I'm not going to try to throw together some AI slop just to get a video out - I don't like it and when I hear other people using it (I can always tell), It's annoying and feels vacuous. So, in the interest of NOT doing that, I need to finish researching myself about the city before I film the video. I'm also having a difficult time finding many photos on the city that are free, but here's one for you (it really is a gorgeous place).
4 days ago | [YT] | 12
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For those of you in the US, Happy 4th of July tomorrow, y'all. My husband and I will be going to celebrate with friends during my usual livestream time, so I won't be having a livestream tomorrow. It will be 100 degrees F here, with even higher "feels like" - everyone, take care of yourselves and stay cool!
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 6
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As I'm editing my Bordeaux, Part 2 exploration video (I'll post it later this evening), I'm realizing something about myself. I was trying to make things more efficient when I got to the editing process, so I tried out a teleprompter - just plugged my own handwritten script into it and let it roll. Problem is, that means I'm looking at that rather than looking at the camera, which makes it seem like - well, like I'm reading from a dang teleprompter!
I also realized that the very act of reading some of the script meant that I was kind of boring myself with my speech patterns. I am NOT going to sacrifice my natural way of talking to help ease my editing process! Forget it. So I'm ditching the teleprompter and going back to simply talking to y'all as if you're sitting there in my living room.
I'm not going to re-do this one - it still has good information in it - but I'll leave it up as a lesson to myself of the difference between relying on a teleprompter instead of just talking to you.
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 7
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Yesterday's video about Cap d'Agde and it's attached naturist resort was great fun. I wonder if it would be fun to do a series of digging out the "weird and wonderful" places in France and researching them.
1 month ago | [YT] | 6
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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.
2 months ago | [YT] | 8
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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!
2 months ago | [YT] | 12
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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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