Welcome to Edwina by Adrienne 🌸🗼

Practical guides for dreamers who are finally ready to make their move.

I am Adrienne — an American living in Paris on a French long-stay visa, which I navigated completely on my own without a lawyer or immigration consultant. What I learned along the way became the guide you will find in this store.

Everything I publish here is written from real lived experience — not recycled information, not theoretical advice, but the honest, practical roadmap I wish I had when I was sitting at my kitchen table surrounded by paperwork and seventeen browser tabs.



What you will find in this store:

📖 Oui, You Can — The No-Nonsense Guide to Moving to France on a Long-Stay Visa

📖 Coming soon — From Retirement Visa to Freelancing in France: How to Make the Leap

📖 And more Paris life and expat guides as my own journey continues

Every guide comes with one promise: real talk from someone living it right now.

Your dream does not have an expiration date. 💛🇫🇷

The Story Behind Edwina by Adrienne

Edwina is a name that came to me in a dream.

For years I did not know what it meant or why it stayed with me. I filed it away the way you file away the things that feel significant but unexplained — with quiet curiosity and the sense that one day it would make sense.

Then I retired. And I did something I had been dreaming about since my twenties.

I moved to Paris.

I packed up my life in the United States, navigated the entire French long-stay visa process completely on my own — no lawyer, no consultant, no hand-holding — and got on a plane. Alone. With a suitcase, a stubborn refusal to give up on my dream, and apparently, a name I had been given years before I understood what it was for.

Standing in my Paris apartment for the first time, looking out at the city I had always imagined living in, it finally made sense.

Edwina was always pointing me here.

This brand — Edwina by Adrienne — exists because of everything I learned along the way. The visa paperwork that felt impossible until it didn't. The grey November skies that nobody warned me about. The moment I walked into my local shop and said Merci instead of Bonjour and the whole counter burst out laughing. The morning I walked past the Eiffel Tower on an ordinary Tuesday and thought — I live here. This is just my life now.

Through travel guides, expat resources, botanical prints, and cinematic Paris Shorts, I share the practical, the beautiful, and the brutally honest reality of building a dream life in France.

Because if I can do it — and I can promise you I am a perfectly ordinary person who simply refused to stop dreaming — so can you.

Welcome to Edwina by Adrienne. 🌸🗼

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