Now that Ninya has publically posted it on Facebook, Elizabethan Costume group, I can finally let it out of the bag. ( Read more... )

The book I mentioned before, where I thought I had finally found that was supposed to include Henry VIII's sumptuary laws... well I finally sat down and was reading through the sections as I had run across the proper dates to look under ( Read more... )

The name of the book is Clothes of the Common Man by Stuart Peachey. It's on discount price for preorder at amazon.com (link here), and at oxbow/David Brown books.

Have a new book that arrived today... Women in Pants: Manly Maidens, Cowgirls, and Other Renegades by Catherine Smith & Cynthia Greig (I bought it cheap on eBay, but amazon prices from other dealers are similar ( Read more... )

First, mmcnealy posted on her LJ a bunch of links on old out of copyright scanned books, including inventories. That got me looking further and so...

Finally, I've found the Statutes of the Realm Vol 1 pdf that contains the statutes Henry VIII enacted, and earlier legal items. And without having to travel far away to look at microfiche films to read them ( Read more... )

I am tired. Right before dinner Cam managed to knock over a can of white latex primer in the playroom, on the carpet, so we had to work hard and fast with paper towels and our steam cleaner to get it out of the carpet. And we ran out of cleaner soap, so I made the mistake of using dish soap, which just ended up with lots of bubbles all over the ( Read more... )

Went to the heart doctor on Friday morning for my checkup. Doc says that most of my stats are looking good still, but I am slowly gaining weight. I also have some issues that are not good with regards to my arteries. So, I MUST get exercising again. MUST. Me, Ms. Couch Potato. Either that or even stronger meds, which I will be on the rest of my ( Read more... )

In my running around today, I got by the library because they had a book holding for me. The book is "The Italian Renaissance Interior, 1400-1600
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My copy of The King's Servants (I pre-ordered it around my birthday as a self gift) has arrived today... bent in half and stuffed with the rest of my mail. Not that my mailbox isn't so small as to allow it to be flat, which there is room enough, but because that's what my mail carrier does with all my mail, unless it is in a box or stiff padded ( Read more... )

Yes, it is late. I had logged off my computer when the kids went to bed and curled up with another novel, which I finished around 11:40pm. I tried to sleep, but my mind is still too active to shut down for the night, so here I post. ( Read more... )