Belle Inspiration Magazine

The new issue of Belle Inspiration is out, and it's a beauty! I'm thrilled to see my photo on the cover, and I have a photo tour of Normandy in this issue, as well.  I'll see if I can get a link to that to post here, but in the meantime I'll post a few of the pix from the article.  If you love Summer in France, French Décor,Photography, Versailles, Antiques, Paris... oh you know, all the things we love, well this is the magazine for you!  You can subscribe to it here.

And there's a special treat this month, as Editor Mimi Bleu begins to tell us her story of how an American girl on vacation in Paris meets the love of her life , and never leaves the City of Light!

Dame Marie-- a village in le Perche

view from our room at Château de la Ballue

I am blogging sporadically these days, but I post everyday on my Facebook page, French at Heart .

I hope to meet you there!

Since Google will not let me leave comments...

... on your blogs

or even leave replies on my own blog...

I might as well go dance.

so sorry, mes amies, but its the thing between my server and Google.  They just don't get along.  I'll try again tomorrow night.  

Happy Labor Day to my American pals!!

Leaving tomorrow for Paris...

...to do some serious [ window] shopping!

oh, I'll buy a macaron 

or two...

I'll pass on les poulets

and although this shop is near our apartment, I probably won't be coming home with 

a Goat lamp

I'll hit this hard...

and this...

...and try to fit this is my suitcase

...though I doubt I can fit them both.






So à demain, mes amies, when I'll be sitting in a chair in the air!!!

Only a week to go!

c h â t e a u  d e  m e s  r ê v e s

We're leaving for Paris and the French countryside in 7 days! I expect to see a lot of this...

and a whole lot of this

If you want to see what else we'll be looking for, you might want to go on over to 
Quiddity 2, 
where I did a long post on the famous 

Puces de Saint-Ouen...

Hydrangeas

All over Normandy right now there is a 
profusion of Hydrangeas. The more acid the soil, the more blue the Hydrangea.  Alkaline soil produces pinker shades. No matter the color, when we move to France, I want dozens of these bushes!

Colza

C o l z a  i n  t h e  L o i r e  V a l l e y

Colza is in bloom now in France.

Here's what wikipedia has to say:

Colza oil is a nondrying oil obtained from the seeds of Brassica rapa, var. oleifera, a variety of the plant that produces turnips. Colza is extensively cultivated in France, Belgium, the United States, the Netherlands and Germany and Poland. In France, especially, the extraction of the oil is an important industry. In commerce, colza is classed with rapeseed oil, to which it is very closely allied in both source and properties. It is a comparatively nonodoriferous oil of a yellow colour, having a specific gravity varying between 0.912 and 0.920. The cake left after extraction of the oil is a valuable feed ingredient for pigs.

I did this photo 3 years ago as a study for a painting. 

 I still have yet to do the painting :\

SuperMoon!

dawne polis

Did you all see the SuperMoon last night?

They all came out in Paris...

dawne polis

...but only One Cow was awake on 

Everafter Farm

Beautiful Belle Inspiration!

a p p r o a c h  t o  t h e  h a m e a u

from the story "L'Hameau de la Reine Marie Antoinette"

I am thrilled to have my photo story on Marie Antoinette's hameau featured in this month's issue of 

Belle Inspiration Magazine!

from Belle Inspiration's Facebook page

And what a beautiful issue it is, filled with all things romantic, feminine, fun, and French!

I've found lots of new Etsy shops I need to visit, and also several new blogs I need to check out.  And at under $20 for not just one, but TWO subscriptions, it makes the perfect gift for yourself and a friend!

Thank you Mimi Bleu, for doing such a wonderful, creative job with your magazine!

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There is still room in our 

Photography Workshop 

in Paris and Normandy

July 6-11

scroll down  to see more samples of our photographic technique

and please contact me for more details

Dawne Polis

iluvfrance@wildblue.net

Photography Workshop~~PARIS~~July 11-16

b o y  w i t h  r e d   b a l l

s i m p l e  b & w, o r...

  t e x t u r e d...or...

t h e  "p a i n t e r l y"  p h o t o g r a p h






a n d  e v e n  i P h o n o g r a p h y

at versailles




Dean and I are leading a
 Photography Workshop in Paris and Normandy
 July 11-16


We would love to have you join us as we photograph the Eiffel Tower, the Seine, and the streets of Paris,
spend Bastille Day at Versaille,
travel to Monet's gardens at Giverny,
and sleep in a French Château!


All photographers are welcome, 
from beginner to expert.


For more details, please email Dawne at
iluvfrance@wildblue.net 




We Hope to see you HERE!!!

textures by French Kiss Textures and Boccacino

amoureux à Paris

young lovers

m u s é e  c a r n a v a l e t

this musée, in the Marais, was once the home of Madame de Sévigné, a friend of Louis XIV. I'm fond of this woman because of the elegance and sheer beauty of her former home, but mostly because of the tender loving letters that she wrote to her married daughter.

older lovers

i n   M o n t m a r t r e

Moulin Rouge--two times

m o u l i n  r o u g e  b l e u

j a c q u e  a t  t h e  m o u l i n  r o u g e

Seen in the Marais

r e n d e z - v o u s  d e s  a m i s

w i n d o w  i n  t h e  m a r a i s

Marie Antoinette's Hameau

l e   m o u l i n 

c h o u x  e t  p o i r e a u x

m a r l b o r o u g h  t o w e r

Paris Collage

Merry-Go-Rounds

a u x  t u i l e r i e s

à  m o n t m a r t r e

In Paris, between December 17 and January 2, there was no charge to ride the carrousels.

Oh, dear. 

Next year, peut-être, I will go riding

 many times.

A pretty cottage we saw in France...

e n  g e r b e r o y 

les châteaux

m o n  c h â t e a u  e s t  t r è s  l o i n

c h â t e a u  d e  n i z u r a k

c h â t e a u  d e  l a  v e r r e r i e

c h â t e a u   d' a m b o i s e