Wednesday, March 30, 2011

FRENCH Antique Art Nouveau Repousse Aide MEMOIRE Carnet de BAL Souvenir NOTEBOOK Woman BUTTERFLY Face PEARL

We are very pleased to offer this incredible antique Carnet de Bal on our web site today!!!

A bientot ! ! Lynn

For Artisan Jewelry and French antiques, please visit us at: http://www.frenchatheart.com/

Studio now open by appointment! (714) 310-0702

Lynn@FrenchAtHeart.com

Thursday, March 24, 2011

ANTIQUE JEWELRY Orange County Trunk Show this Friday in Costa Mesa





Trunk Show in Costa Mesa this Friday!!!!



Please join me to Visit a great local shop and

Preview my new antique pieces, a few photos featured here.

March 25th - 11:30am to 5pm
appetizers and drinks

Maggie - Nori - Annie

LU LU boutique + gallery
1724 tustin avenue (@17th street)
costa mesa
949.650.5858


A bientot!
Lynn

For Artisan Jewelry and French antiques, please visit us at:
www.FrenchAtHeart.com


Studio now open by appointment!
(714) 310-0702

Lynn@FrenchAtHeart.com

Antique FRENCH Mont St MICHEL Mirror Locket Necklace


We are pleased to add to our selection today a stunning French piece depicting Mont St Michel. It is a slide mirror made into a pendant, just the thing for those quick touch-ups!



Mont Saint-Michel (English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France. It is located approximately one kilometre (just over half a mile) off the country's north coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. The population of the island is 41, as of 2006. The island has been a strategic point holding fortifications since ancient times, and since the 8th century AD it became the seat of the Saint-Michel monastery, from which it draws the name.

In prehistoric times the bay was land. As sea levels rose, erosion shaped the coastal landscape over millions of years. Several blocks of granite or granulite emerged in the bay, having resisted the wear and tear of the ocean better than the surrounding rocks. These included Lillemer, the Mont-Dol, Tombelaine (the island just to the north), and Mont Tombe, later called Mont-Saint-Michel.

[edit] Tidal islandMont Saint-Michel was previously connected to the mainland via a thin natural land bridge, which before modernization was covered at high tide and revealed at low tide. This connection has been compromised by several developments. Over the centuries, the coastal flats have been polderised to create pasture. Thus the distance between the shore and the south coast of Mont-Saint-Michel has decreased. The Couesnon River has been canalised, reducing the flow of water and thereby encouraging a silting-up of the bay. In 1879, the land bridge was fortified into a true causeway. This prevented the tide from scouring the silt around the mount.

On 16 June 2006, the French prime minister and regional authorities announced a €164 million project (Projet Mont-Saint-Michel) to build a hydraulic dam using the waters of the river Couesnon and of tides to help remove the accumulated silt deposited by the rising tides, and to make Mont-Saint-Michel an island again. It was projected to be completed by 2012.

The construction of the dam began in 2009 and is now complete. The project also included the destruction of the causeway that had been built on top of the small land bridge and enlarged to join the island to the continent, and was used also as a parking lot for visitors. It will be replaced by an elevated light bridge, under which the waters will flow more freely, and that will improve the efficiency of the now operational dam, and the construction of another parking lot on the mainland. Visitors will use small shuttles to cross the future bridge which will still be open to pedestrians and unmotorized cycles.



A bientot!
Lynn

For Artisan Jewelry and French antiques, please visit us at:
www.FrenchAtHeart.com


Studio now open by appointment!
(714) 310-0702

Lynn Konrad
8422 Crane Circle
Huntington Beach, Ca. 92646

Lynn@FrenchAtHeart.com

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

NEW Permanant Space at the LA ROSE BOWL Antique Market

A few of my new pieces.....









We are pleased to announce we now have a permanent space in the antique Section of the Rose Bowl!!!!! It is Row M, space #9.

We are in the same row as the Restrooms...so convenient for us..... and you! lol
Please come by and see our new designs!!!

We are having a surprise celebrity there this Sunday!!!!!
A bientot!
Lynn
For Artisan Jewelry and French antiques, please visit us at:
Studio now open by appointment!
(714) 310-0702
Lynn Konrad
8422 Crane Circle
Huntington Beach, Ca. 92646