Bonjour everyone and welcome to a brand new blog…..for those of you who’ve been following my blogs for a while I’d like to say thanks for sticking around and I hope you continue to enjoy being here…..For those of you who are new here I’ll take a minute to explain what’s happening…..In September 2012 I started my blog Seek Joy which was then known as Home, Love & Life As I Live It…quite a mouthful hey lol…..and while I loved the blog it had a couple of name changes but all the posts from it are here in the archives….Then in December 2016 I started another blog called Maison Chic Designs which was all about living a French way of life while living in Australia….I’m a self confessed Francophile and love everything about France and her culture. However, my hubby injured himself not long after starting this blog and both blogs suffered and this one in particular sat in limbo with nothing happening but it was always in the back of my mind……then in June of 2017 I started my green beauty blog called Beyond the Mirror…..this blog is the most current and I love it to bits. It’s all about my journey from using mainstream cosmetics and switching over to completely certified organic and natural skin care, makeup and house hold products while incorporating as much gut healing health tips I can.
So why the new blog you might be asking. Well as you can imagine writing three blogs and managing 4 Instagram accounts (one for each blog plus my health one) is very time demanding. After trying to balance everything for so long there was always one area suffering and not getting the attention in deserved. I certainly didn’t want to give any of them up as they’re all my passions but I needed to free up my time and give some time back to my family. So this is when I decided to merge the three blogs into one new blog and now we have Ma Belle Vie…..Ma Belle Vie translated is My Beautiful Life and being as I love blogging and sharing on instagram the daily things I get up to, my love of everything french, skin care, makeup and life in general I couldn’t think of a better name than Ma Belle Vie.
If you’ve been following me for a while then you know in December last year my family and I moved from Western Australia to Tasmania and while we love it here it’s been a big change and a lot of getting used to things working very differently to over home. So today I thought I’d share a few pics of our little chateaux kitchen/dining area, the view from our drive way and a beautiful place we visited last weekend called Russell Falls. Today is really just an introductory post to welcome you all but I’ll be back regularly with updates on family life, french finds and all things green beauty and health…..enjoy the pics….
Michelle x
Ma Belle Vie 