Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Last Call for France!

As many of you know, we have started taking groups of women to France every summer for our Chateau Getaway. We stay in the lovely, 18th century Chateau Dumas just an hour north of Toulouse. Besides immersing ourself in the countryside of the South of France, we visit flea markets, brocantes, a hundred year old hat factory (where you can design your own hat), local craftsmen, and food markets. We spend a day with a master dyer learning how to dye our old linens with woad, as well as learn jewelry and flower making. We still have a few spots left in our first week, July 17th - 24th - let me know if you yearn to live in a chateau for a week and dream in French! It's a magical trip! Here's a peek at our getaway last summer....more to come!



4 comments:

Alice said...

Oh sweet heaven this trip sounds like a lot of fun! How I would love to do something like this in the future!!!!

Vintage Home said...

...well I can't go to France...so I hope you don't mind me sending you this wee note....my neck hurts and my eyes sting...I have just sent the better part of the evening reading your whole blog...or a lot of it!...
Thanks you for inspiring me to continue with my fascination of vintage textiles and linens!

by Lisa and Nicole said...

Woad is my fav - I just love the color it produces!!!!!!! Thanks

juliaD said...

Hello,
I have just found your blog...and wondered when you will be planning another trip to France to do another workshop trip again?...as I feel I might have missed this one?, was it July 2010?...x...julia