Yesterday morning (Saturday), I began the day as I usually do, meditating on the garden porch with Nelle curiously wandering about the lawn, flower beds and seeing what the neighbors were up to, and as it was l’heure bleue, I couldn’t help but smile. Thinking of TSLL community, your comments on this post — 15 Ways to Savor L’Heure Bleue — made for some inspiring and lovely-to-read prose. If you haven’t already read this post, and especially the comments, I encourage you to do so. It is now easily a #top100 post here on TSLL.

Another French Week is in the books, and that is hard to believe, but I do hope you had a wonderful time. Whether discovering something new for incorporating into your everydays or perhaps ideas for your next or first trip to France, or maybe you discovered a kindred spirit or learned more about TSLL community and its love for living well and thoughtfully and most definitely with some Francophile inspiration sprinkled about.

After each year’s celebration, I am more than eager to book the tickets tout de suite and head to France immediately most preferred, and perhaps you are too. And whenever that may be, I wanted to share with you that in my new book Savoring the Sojourn, included in each of the seasonal chapters are wardrobe packing items (for city and country visits to both France and Britain) as well as travel tips for when you want to visit France but also have a desire to head over (or under) the Channel to Britain. Needless to say, France and my love for this country are sprinkled throughout the book in all sorts of ways, and I did my best in the audio version to speak as accurately in French as I could (please be kind). There is quite a lot of French in the book I quickly realized, as I was trying to read quotes in French and names in French, and so on and so on, you get the idea.

But now!

Oh! I almost forgot! Today is the final day to save 20% off all French-inspired notepads. The discount is already applied, and you can shop them all here. This includes the Capsule Menu notepad (English and French version) as well.

Following this post, the next new post will be on Friday with the This & That: August 21st , as I will be taking the first half of this coming week off and making sure all of the giveaways are on their way to the winners, and getting prepared to launch Savoring the Sojourn on August 25th. But now, let’s get to the winners!

If you see your name below, please follow these instructions:

• Email me (Shannon) at giveaway@thesimplyluxuriouslife.com
• Email me no later than MONDAY August 17th at Noon (Pacific). If I do not hear from you at this time, the giveaway will be sent to the next randomly drawn entrant.
• In your email, include the following information:
  • Full Name
  • Email address your membership (or newsletter subscription) is associated with

• Shipping Address and any other necessary information to ensure a safe and accurate delivery of your parcel to your home (phone number too for tracking details to be shared should that be available from the shipper); 
• Confirm your selection for your giveaway – i.e. size, color, type, etc..
• Please remember, that as a winner, we all (fellow Premier members) want to see your gift! So capture a photo or video of it and share it with Shannon via email or IG (tag @thesimplyluxuriouslife), and it will be sure to be shared in an upcoming A Cuppa Moments as well as on Instagram.

Now, let’s not only discover who won the giveaways but learn a little bit more about each of the winners and fellow members in TSLL’s international community.

The Giveaway Winners

I am excited for you each to receive these special gifts, and do hope you enjoy them. I use Random.org to decide who the winner is because, after reading all of your comments on each giveaway, I want to give away as many gifts as there are of you who entered. 🙂 I appreciate your willingness to share a bit more about your life, to introduce yourself, and to let us know why a particular giveaway gift spoke to you. I take that as a sign that you feel safe in this community to do so, and I promise to continue to do all that I can to ensure TSLL remains a respite and a place to relax, pause, and enjoy yourself and the company of fellow TSLL Premier members.

The 1st Giveaway: Panier des Sens Candles (2 winners)

• Comment #42: Mateja Kalingar
  • Mateja became a founding member when the Premier/TOP Tier community on TSLL was officially established in September 2020.
  • Living in Croatia, Mateja regularly comments on posts that speak to her, as well as offering cheer and support for fellow members and Shannon. Her kindness is part of what makes this community a welcoming place. She is a mother of a young toddler and is also a teacher, loves David Suchet’s Poirot, speaks and explores many different languages and is an avid bibliophile.
• Comment #135: M3C (Meg)
  • Meg also is a founding member of TSLL, becoming a Premier member in September 2020.
  • She lives in Pittsburgh, working at a university and is a married mother with boys who loves to travel and read avidly. Curious about art, if she isn’t reading about something pertaining to art or art history, when she has time, she will be visiting the latest exhibit that has captured her interest.

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The 2nd Giveaway: Personalized Buly’s Baume des Muses

• Comment #27: Colleen T.
  • Colleen has been a Premier member for over three years and calls Saskatchewan, Canada, home.
  • She is a curious individual, actively learning and pondering, so when a Monday Motivational post speaks to her, she shares thoughtful comments I always appreciate reading. And in fact, it was her comment about bridges on a post shared this past spring that you may want to check out. Read the post and her comment here.

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The 3rd Giveaway: House of Guerlain’s L’Heure Bleue perfume

• Comment #53: Jen Agnew
  • Jen is a brand new Premier member, joining TSLL community earlier this month. Now, I think we all want some of her luck! 🙂
  • She hails from Indiana and clearly is a Francophile. 🙂 Congratulations Jen and welcome!

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The Weekly Newsletter Giveaway: A French-themed book of choice (up to $40 in value)

• Email from Vlatka
  • Rose has been a reader of TSLL since 2018, and became a Premier member in 2025. She joins TSLL community from Europe, living in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  • The book she chose is now one I am most curious to read. Laurence McHale’s Season Outside the Frame: A Novel of Art, Obsession, and Revelation, published earlier this year. Thank you for the introduction Vlatka! 🙂

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The Grand Giveaway: A Longchamp Le Pliage Tote

• Comment #55: Marion Eckhause
  • Marion has been a Premier member for over three years and calls Arlington, Virginia, home.
  • She is a regular commenter in A Cuppa Moments and on other posts of various topics, sharing what inspires her, engaging with fellow members and readers, as well as offering her experience and what she has found elevating in her own life whether it pertain to meditating, travel, skincare, and, overall, living mindfully. A gardener, it is the forsythia that she delights in as it sings the song of spring’s arrival. Having traveled to Paris, she has shared that she is looking forward to traveling to Brittany, and one way she enjoys incorporating France into her life “is by having a charcuterie with many French cheeses, meats, and other fresh ingredients. It’s a simple dinner and a delicious way to savor France in our life.” I couldn’t agree more Marion and now I am most ravenous! 🙂

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Congratulations to each of the winners! May each gift be welcomed into your everyday to elevate it even more. 🙂

If you are one of the winners shared above, please do share photos of your giveaways when they arrive or how you are using them in your everyday life. Email the photo to me or post on social media and tag @thesimplyluxuriouslife, and then I will be sure to share them in an upcoming A Cuppa Moments with members upon receipt. I am always enjoy seeing how members enjoy using their gifts and I know many members do as well.

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Did you see your name above listed as one of the winners? Please contact me as soon as possible with the following information requested (shared above) so I can swiftly start the shipping process and ensure you receive your gift as soon as possible to begin savoring.

This coming week I will be shipping and/or tending to each of the giveaways to hopefully have them all en route to the winners by the end of August.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter and if you also shared something about yourself or introduced yourself a bit more along with your entry, thank you. I do read each of your comments and emails, and while I wish I could send you all the giveaway, please know I hope you choose to treat yourself to something that will elevate the everyday and piqued your interest and spoke to your predilections. After all, welcoming a bit of the French culture we love into our everyday wherever we may live is a wonderful way to savor the culture when we cannot be there in person ?.

If you are still catching up on all of the content shared during this year’s French Week – the 11th Annual – you can find all of the posts here. With 14 posts, you have oodles to explore, enjoy, and discover!

And now it is time to look ahead to next year’s Annual French Week, the 12th Annual TSLL French Week, which is always the second full week in August, and next year it will fall on August 8—14, 2027. 

Catch up on all French Week content created and shared over the past eleven years on the designated page here on the blog. And as always, look for French-inspired content every week throughout the year, either on the weekly This & That post or on the blog and podcast. Thank you again so much for making this annual celebration of all things French a truly special week.