Hannah Stouffer Poster, Exclusively for Mignonne. On Sale Now.

Longtime supporter and artiste extraordinaire, Hannah Stouffer, designed a beautiful image depicting the essence of Mignonne, as part of our first year anniversary reception.

Hannah is an amazing illustrator and graphic artist, whose commercial illustrations have graced countless products and pages, including Benefit cosmetics, 1800 Tequila and Coca Cola Vanilla, to name a few. A recent claim to fame for Hannah is her featured recognition by 7x7SF.com for her art prowess. She was recognized in their Best of Home + Design 2008 series. Hannah's work is hot, hot, hot!

"San Francisco based illustrator Hannah Stouffer finds a great deal of comfort in imagery- its an admiration that is often times overwhelming. She has an infatuation with icons that reflect and embrace specific eras and genres. Luxury, royalty, muscle cars, heavy metal, the animal kingdom, femininity, horse races and foliage are all somehow connected in her work by embellishments, pattern and decoration. Perhaps the creative independence so deeply instilled in Hannah since youth informs the penchant she has for hybridizing contrasting elements in her art with such careless abandon. Monster Truck rallies and vintage pin-up girls alongside Baroque art and Americana, all serve as adequate subject matter and styles with which to wield her interior visions and satiate her desire to create her classic contemporary trademark style. Like her art, her life is spent in a grand array of spaces: whether it be a day at dollar-day horse races or reading on a beautiful piece of antique furniture, she is always materializing the world as it appears to her and her lovely feminine gaze."

We are honored to have our own Hannah Stouffer-original Mignonne poster now in the store to share with our customers. The poster is 12" x 18" and printed on high quality, heavy stock. You can purchase this frameable art piece online here at Je Suis Mignonne. Use the completely secure PayPal shopping tool to the left to have your poster sent to you today. Let us know if it is a gift, and we'll be sure to wrap/mail it appropriately!

Thank you Hannah, for your support and the beauty your artwork brings us!

Mignonne Introduces New Candle Line.

We are pleased to begin offering Archipelago Botanicals candles. Archipelago Botanicals candles are hand poured, using only the finest ingredients and fragrance oils available. Made from a premium wax blend containing more than 50% natural soy wax, Archipelago Botanicals candles burn longer and cleaner than regular candles.

We currently are presenting your choice of pillars and a beautiful boxed candle.

One nice thing about a pillar is you have different decorative options including displaying using your own candle holder. You'll find a variety of scents and colors. Savannah, cream colored and scented with a blend of Jasmine and Gardenia. Pacifica, a light aqua color, is scented with Ylang Ylang, Cedar and Sea Greens to create a fresh clean aroma. Petale, in blush pink, is an intoxicatingly feminine scent, with white lilies, jasmine, Moroccan rose and pear. Our pillars are 2.5" wide and 5" tall. They are wrapped handsomely in tissue and ribbon, ready to go as a nice gift or prepared to store in a linen drawer, extending the scent until unwrapped for display.


Our boxed candle of choice is the Excursion line. In a clean white box, this candle makes a sophisticated gift. We've selected Provence (French lavender and thyme, an unusual and calming fragrance mix) and Positano (combining white nectarine with sweet persimmon and pomegranate).



In the future, we'll be expanding our Archipelago line to include additional seasonal fragrances and scented oil diffusers, a great alternative to candles for home fragrance.

Mignonne Reception during Art Murmur

Mignonne now stays open late the first Friday of each month in recognition of Oakland's art event, the "Art Murmur".  A group of galleries in Oakland have openings, and because Mignonne shows work by local artists on a rotating basis we felt it appropriate to become a part of the "scene".

The first Friday of the month is a perfect time to plan a night out in Oakland ... Stroll over to Mignonne, have a glass of wine and check out the collections by this month's local artists.  Take the art walk tour and end up with a delicious dinner at one of the great Old Oakland restaurants. 

Appreciating art is a great outlet for keeping us sane, inspired and motivated in today's frenzied world.  Oakland is overflowing with creative and inspiring individuals.  

Nicole Hanshaw and Gary Comoglio, our featured artists, are two of these individuals ... finding time and passion in their lives to create beauty for us to enjoy!

Mignonne will offer wine from 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm, along with some beautiful original works of art, on Friday June 6th.  See you there!

New Vintage Décor Items are Here!

Johnelle just arrived home with a number of new items for Mignonne. She is returning from a trip assisting her mom and partner, Kimberlee, prepare for her move abroad to Brantôme, France. Later in the summer, once Kim is established, we'll be bringing in new items directly from France to add a unique flavor to the shop.

Pictures are coming, items include a very collectible selection of vintage roosters and chickens, done in porcelain. Also, over a dozen teacups and saucers of English bone china (Royal Albert, Staffordshire) and one or two from occupied Japan.

One or 2 new vintage furniture pieces ... a mid-century french provincial style ladies' desk with embossed leather touches.

Coming soon are several vintage painted furniture pieces ~ keep checking back for updates!

Read more about Kim's French adventure at her blog, "Non. Je ne regrette rien".

Soap milling explained.

Mignonne features several lines of high quality soaps. Many of our customers ask us just what the different terms mean ... such as "triple milled", "hard milled", "French milled".

Soap milling is the process of shredding apart prepared soap and then putting it back together using high pressure and rollers. When this process is done 3 times, you get "triple milled" soap. By milling, the fragrance, color and ingredients are more evenly distributed throughout the bar. It also improves the texture of the soap, resulting in a harder bar and longer lasting soap.

French milled soap refers to a process using heat and cold. The rollers used to mill the soap are controlled with hot and cold water and help make the soap bars milder and longer lasting.

These processes, combined with high quality ingredients, are used to create the lines of soap Mignonne offers.

You can find the following French bar soaps in our store:

~ L'epi de Provence, with 100% shea butter, is our most popular soap. We rotate fragrances with the seasons.

~ Doux, handcrafted in small batches using shea butter, olive and palm oils with natural Provencal fragrances.

~ Savon de Marseille, one of the oldest traditional soaps from France, having been made for over 1,000 years. Since 1688, French law has required that only soaps produced using ancient methods can bear the name "Savon de Marseille". These soaps take two weeks to make. We feature square blocks of fragrant soap with crushed local flowers (lavender blossoms, rose, verbena) and natural oils incorporated into the soap.