Tag: giveaway
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baby it's cold outside {giveaway}
One of the things I love about living in Le Petit Village is that we get all four seasons to their fullest; printemps is always bright and chirpy, l’été is gloriously hot, automne is perfectly crisp and hiver, well hiver is freaking freezing. But with all of that freezing cold usually comes snow, and for me,…
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Mastering the Art of French Eating {review + giveaway}
via When I was contacted about reviewing Ann Mah’s, Mastering the Art of French Eating, I couldn’t have been more delighted. This is one of those sumptuous reads that I was dying to get my hands on. The whole title just draws me in; Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love…
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The Cleaner of Chartres {giveaway + review}
{author’s page} Chartres is a French town not too far from Paris but miles upon miles away from Le Petit Village. But like The LPV, Chartres is full of medieval buildings and quirky characters with curious pasts. The Cleaner of Chartres tells the tale of one of these characters… Agnès Morel is the local cleaner.…
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book giveaway: Franklin's Spy
I’m going to tell you guys about something that I think is pretty cool and that I’m really proud of… my mother, EE Bracken, has written and published two books… not one, but TWO! I know there are some people out there that think writing a book is a piece of cake, but I’m here to…
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glamorous giveaway
{best phone number ever} Today I woke up in The Husband’s old bedroom, with his old stuffed animals, six hours north of The LPV, in Auvergne. Auvergne isn’t the most glamorous place in the world (especially not right this second as it’s raining buckets), but it is a very beautiful and tranquil one (lots of lush…
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giveaway: your very own LPV t-shirt
Check out my t-shirt! Do you like it? This company, T Shirt Printing, contacted me and asked if I would like a Le Petit Village t-shirt and I was like, um… yeah I would. And then I was like, hey, how about you give me two, so I can give one to one of you…
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{notecard giveaway}
Holiday Season 2012 is officially here, and to celebrate it (and to celebrate YOU too!), I’m giving away a set of three beautifully hand drawn (hand drawn by an actual Le Petit Villager no less) notecards depicting Le Petit Village scenery (the original LPV to be exact). {each card is 4×6 and comes with a…
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The Folly of French Kissing {giveaway winner}
Congratulations to Kristen who was lucky number 54, and since 54 was the number randomly generated by random.org, she’s the winner of a copy of Carla McKay’s, The Folly of French Kissing. In other news I’m absolutely wrecked. I’ve been traipsing about Avignon, Gordes, Forcalquier market, and Cassis and I’m in desperate need of a nap but…
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The Folly of French Kissing {review + giveaway}
{buy me} … and I can tell you that they detest the Parisian’s far, far more than you. -The Folly of French Kissing While reading Carla McKay’s mysterious and delightful romp through British expat life and intrigues in the south of France, The Folly of French Kissing, I came across countless lines that could have…
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giveaway: my memories scrapbook software
Here’s something you probably would have never guessed about me… I used to be very into scrap booking. There I said it. But this was back in the days of Elmer’s glue and scissors, before all this new fangled digital scrap booking came about. Sitting in my mother’s garage in Texas, are scrapbook upon scrapbook from…