Listen to Caps Off to Tudor Times - A Time Travelers Companion

Watch those curls girls!

In this month’s podcast episode of Tales from Tudor Times… Time traveling Bella Salas falls for Elizabethan caps: linen beauties with elaborate embroidery, a luxurious be-feathered velvet topper, and a plain woolen head covering that helps her escape from a mean suitor.

Listen to the episode TT9- Caps Off to Tudor Times

Pickup a copy of Tangled in Tudor Times at amazon

 

 

 

Time Traveling Tudor Embroidery

 I stole a glance at Lettice’s stitchery. She was fashioning a pattern of bulrushes in metallic gold and olive-green threads on a background of Nile green sarcenet. On the other side of the passageway, Genevra was adorning stiff cream-colored silk with brilliant red and yellow pomegranates.

 

In my teenaged years I’d spent my time studying Calculus, Operating Systems Protocols, and Mapping Theory. In their own time, Lettice and Genevra had been honing their skills with a needle, learning how to use gilt thread and create precise goeblin and Spanish black work tent stitches. Embroidery was a hobby for me, but they had worked on it daily since they were young girls. My lack of experience showed.   

 

Having taken one look at the work I’d been doing on clothes from the household mending basket, our new project lead, Genevra, immediately declared that “Lady Isabella can do the plain sewing for her Majesty’s ladies.” I returned to hemming a finely woven, but indeed very plain, white linen sheet with a sigh. 

 

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Tangled in Tudor Times, the first novel in my new series, is available on amazon.com. It's a romantic, suspense story with a time travel twist. Kindle Unlimited subscribers can download it for free. I'd love you to read it and leave a review.

 

It's also the perfect present for historical, romance, Tudor-loving friends, and family. 

 

Paperback  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LWGSYMY

 

Ebook  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M32DQ9X

 

Where does a Time Traveler stay in Tudor Times?

We all need a place to stay when we go on a long trip.

And trips don't get a lot longer than the one Bella Salas takes to the Sixteenth Century.

Listen to ... Time Traveler Puts up in a Priory 

Listen to A Historic Elizabethan Double

A Time Travel Twist

Paloma reached for the box and opened it to display an antique, gold-rimmed miniature painting. "It’s uncanny," she said. "This woman really looks like you." My sister laughed. "I bet you think you’re going to find a time portal back to the sixteenth century when you get to London."

Listen in as LR Shimer shares time traveling Tudor tidbits in this companion to her novel, Tangled in Tudor Times.

Tales from Tudor Times Podcast Episode 1  

LR Shimer's amazon bookshelf

Tangled in Tudor Times - Romantic Suspense with a Time Travel Twist

 

Tangled in Tudor Times, the first novel in my new series, is available. It's a romantic, suspense story with a time travel twist. Kindle Unlimited subscribers can download it for free. I'd love you to read it and leave a review.

 

It's also a perfect present for historical, romance, Tudor-loving friends, and family.

Ebook  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M32DQ9X

 

Paperback  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LWGSYMY

Software Engineer Bella Salas tumbles through a stained-glass window into Tudor times, where she finds romance and suspense in the shadow of the Roman Emperor Hadrian's ancient wall.

With fellow time traveler Will Sainsbury as her guide, Bella establishes herself in sixteenth century England by passing as her look-a-like kinswoman, the Lady Isabella. Though her matchmaking hostess parades eligible suitors before her, Bella prefers green-eyed, secretive Will. 

The English north country, with its frolicking lambs and wildflower-filled meadows, is the perfect place for romance. And how many other sewing hobbyists can say they've embroidered sheets for Queen Elizabeth the First? As Bella searches for a way to return to her own time, she learns there's a dark side to the rural community. Young girls are being attacked by an unknown predator, and the isolated villagers don't want to talk about the open secret.

Can Bella catch the predator, and escape Tudor times?

 

NYC Time Portal

Burst through — Time Portal

NYC, where have you been?

Since we've been hiding

 

Bramble Berries - Last of the Olallieberries

Summer Draws to a Close in California. 

What could be more romantic?

Olallieberry

 

Modern Masks or Elizabethan Nosegays?

How about we all go back to breathing through nosegays

Like back in Elizabethan Times
Instead of masks ? Hey - they kept the Plague away. Didn't They?

Planner Seeks Neighborhood Time Portal

                                          

Today, The Planner, wants to toss her carefully laid out planner in the air 

And head for an unknown Time Portal.

Unicorn Day - A Dog's Point of View

The Hunt of the Unicorn 

My hound won’t give chase.

No foe of his, this pure beast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_of_the_Unicorn…
https://twitter.com/LaurelShimer/status/1248359654360363008

Was Living Together a Sin in Tudor Times?

Many folks today, think living together, without being married is a modern idea. 

In the first half of the sixteenth century, HenryVIII’s fifth wife, Catherine  Howard, and Francis Dereham were definitely a Tudor couple.

Drop Those Daisies - Time Needs Heroines To Stay Busy

Action scenes are a blast to write. 
And then it’s time to edit.
I just found that my protagonist (heroine), Bella Salas, is standing around watching a life and death struggle- while holding a bunch of daisies. Gotta put that gal to work.

Bumble Bee Travels Through Time

We all travel through time in our own way.

This time traveling Bumble Bee is working hard making her alternative style of honey in my Pride Of Madeira blooms.

 Yes - out here in California we're doing Spring. 

https://www.buzzaboutbees.net/Do-Bumblebees-Make-Honey.html

Time Traveling Trees - Coast Redwood Takes it Slow

Sequoia semperviren
a.k.a. Coast Redwood

A whole colony of time travellers live over the fence from me here in California's San Francisco Bay Area.

These Coast Redwoods take their time travel slow. They just put their roots down for one to two millenniums. No magic charm or Time Machine required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens

The Planner - But Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

It takes a lot of time just to corral all my different schemes, projects, and proposals.
Just for one day I'd like to be one of those people who ask, "But where do you get your ideas?" 
Only for one day.

The Planner: Slipping Off To Time Portals Unknown

Today, The Planner, wants to toss her carefully laid out planner in the air 

And head for an unknown Time Portal.

The Planner: My California Primary Ballot MAILED

Most Important Task in my Erin Condren Planner this Week

Had a great walk to the mailbox with my husband and dog after supper last night. We could only drop two completed ballots into the box. The pooch doesn't get one. 

Though I bet somebody's dog is voting out there.

What We Moderns Forget: Envelopes

The letter had been lost for 450 years. It’s envelope had gotten stuck under the inside flap of an old ledger box. No museum archivist had noticed it until Will Sainsbury came along to do a little research of his own.

I must have edited that scene fifteen to twenty times, before it occurred to me that a letter written in  the era of Elizabeth the First would probably not have been enclosed in an envelope,

Back in ancient days of BCE, Babylonians and Chinese people are known to have provided protective wrappings for some communications. It’s not totally beyond the realms of possibility others throughout the ages sometimes protected something important. 

But we better just fold up Will’s letter, seal it, and push it in under the lid.

More on Envelopes https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pushing-the-envelope-144581278/

What We Moderns Forget: Light

In the 'midst of an historical story WHO HERE has not forgotten that our heroine needs to grab a candle, lamp, torch, or perhaps a shuttered lantern when she trips off to run into the antagonist?

Planners are Liminal Spaces : From Everyday to Imagined

My Erin Condren Catchall Planner Earlier This Week

#Planners are also #LiminalSpace - Because they lead from my everyday world to a mystic land, where I get everything done as imagined.

 

I adorn my #decoratedPlanner weekly, with collages of favorite designs, photos, stickers, and flip-back windows that hide private ideas. A washi tape hinge allows the decorative paper to flip back, so I can write private plans and ideas underneath.