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

It was mentioned on the GBACG mailing list about some interesting videos, called "The Worst Jobs in History" with Tony Robinson who was an actor on Black Adder ( Read more... )

The Tudor Lady's Wardrobe pattern arrived in the mail today, with my name on the front cover. Woohooo!

I know what I am reading today. :-D

The Tudor Lady's Wardrobe Pattern is DONE. We'll start shipping tomorrow.

Many thanks to each and every one of you for all your patience and
support.

Love,

Margo and Doug

Oh yeah! Now I am doing a happy dance, figuratively, since my right leg is not doing well.

Quick post before I head out for dinner. The DVD, Living with the Tudors arrived. When do the Fresno people want to arrange to see this? hsifeng, I am looking at you. :-)

The Kentwell Tudor film I mentioned earlier, well Kristin on Tribe/RenFaire History Snobs found a(n?) US distributor ( Read more... )

This just came across Tribe, and I had to share the link. It is a film on Kentwell! This is a promo piece.

http://britdoc.org/real_films/film/living_with_the_tudors/

I hope it will play in the states on a channel I can watch.

Woot! There is a shirt from the Henrician period in full array in the PoF4 book!! It is one of the images I had seen before, but I would not have guessed to its simple design. I so have to try it sometime.

Gotta love the mind when it is asleep, or just on the fringe of sleep... and how it wants to play with ideas that I've been pondering about a day or two ago, and then it spits out a "pronouncement" that I am supposed to take at full value, or so says my sleepy brain ( Read more... )

I am a bit tired now, but it has been a good day of "teaching" people about Tudor costuming, and helping to draft out personal smocks based on the pattern I drafted up. Sometime I need to put instructions to go with the pattern. I also helped with some fitting and detail info on one person's kirtle (she's a bit beyond smock already ( Read more... )