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Bored with the Borgias?

Tired of Tudors?

Does the Roman Empire leave you sighing?

If you're ennuyeuse when it comes to visiting the same old eras, book your next time travel adventure with Portal Pilots.

Our specialized guides help you travel through time when, and where you want to go.

Time Portal Guardians: The Mystery Revealed

A couple of days ago, I posted an art journal entry titled Guardians of a Time Portal. Just what are my two cats doing when they're sleeping their time away amongst the roses on the driveway, I asked?


My friend,Judy Gosnell  was able to answer that question in a flash. That gal is a natural when it comes to time travel. What era other than ancient Egypt, when cats were worshipped properly, would a cat consider worthy of her guardianship?

Stop on by our driveway the next time you're in the mood to join Pharohs retinue. Just don't forget a little offering of mackerel to placate the guardian at the gate.

Clearly our furry companion Olivia, sees herself as a later day Bastet. It's certainly nice of her to spend so much time in the modern era when she could be chasing mice through Pharoh's graneries. I feel honored.


No, not honored enough to open up ANOTHER can of mackarel. You can wait until breakfast-time, Olivia.


I created the illustration above in Photoshop, using photos I took at the British Museum. In four trips to London we've never missed a visit to that delicious treasure trove.

Time Portal: Stopping in for a brew at The Time & Time Again

Just another British pub?

Maybe.

But have you got the nerve to open the door?

Could be a special locally brewed ale, a piece of Cheshire cheddar, and the most delicious meat pie you ever tasted.

And if you're really lucky, you might just happen by on a day when we specialize in Victorian Values, Cromwellian Conundrums or Tudor Time Travel.

Guardians of a Time Portal: Fantasy Cat Quilt

Don't think you're gonna paw past MY way

Without a little donation to the gods 

That guard your house

And keep those old mice at bay.

I used to think my kitties were just sleeping their day away in the sun. But just recently I learned that they are actually the guardians of a local time portal. In their case a little donation, of the right sort, will get me farther than just on to my back door without suffering a swipe on the ankle.

It will take me back to times long past.

Just what era would a cat be caring for?

Part 5: Listen In- The Sewing Chronicles of Lady Lizbeth:The Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maid – Podcast, Part 1

Time to listen in on the latest Unpolished Performances podcast!

The Sewing Chronicles of Lady Lizbeth:The Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maide (Part 1)

Download this audio show directly from the iTunes store with this link (or search the iTunes store using the term 'unpolished performances') 

You can also listen to this show from your computer by following this link http://web.me.com/simpleromantic/Simple_Romantic/Podcast/Podcast.html

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Show Scoop: Our American blogger, Liz, is looking forward to a summer in London, sewing, sightseeing, practicing Bartok on the piano, and developing some great new historical and modern fashion content for her sewing blog.

It’s always a challenge keeping your online journal going when you’re on a trip, but Liz hadn’t counted on that trip extending back to the England of Queen Elzabeth the First.

Does anybody know if there’s a widget for blogging access that remote?

THERE HAVE been regular hints about, and excerpts from, this story in The Simple Romantic’s Art Journal for a few months now. I’m particularly partial to the “pithy sayings” that Lady Margaret Hoby, Lady LIzbeth’s mentor in past times, has been dropping like little time travel pearls amongst my illustrations.

The Podcast includes the full introduction to this story. As this serial short continues to emerge from the pages of The Simple Romantic An Art Journal, you can continue to follow it’s development (and that’s even easier if you signup for a free/no spam email subscription – look up in the upper right hand corner of the blog)

Though portions of the story are available in the online journal, the entire introduction is only available as part of this audio podcast, which also include some of my own background music performances. 

Quilt Romance: Ryeland Sheep in Clover

Click on the illustration above for the full

ITCHY detail

Hadrian's Wall Country, Ryeland Sheep In Clover

Our Ryeland Sheepe do have the best woole,

A face like a terrier dog,

And a friendly way about them.

Do ye step close to the Ryeland,

She will approach ye for a pat.

And she do loveth her kin, right well.

Old Daniel

Excerpt  from The Sewing Chronicles of Lady Lizbeth, Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maide

My work is inspired by people like my fellow-Photoshop-lover Judy Gosnell as well as the Romantic stylings of Jane Austen. My art-journaling has been inspired by a movement that's born of both modern digital and old-time analog techniques. Inspired by recent travels in England, I ran across another inspirational art-journaler,Rachel Whetzel, who makes her home and art in the U.K.

This farmyard scene from Rachel's site is reminiscent of the countryside where I spotted these sheep a few weeks back.
 IS that a darling little goat in Rachel's yard, or what?

Romancing England: Fields and Flowers, Gilsland

Keep only bees that love you,

And feed them with flowers you mind yourselves.

For bees mind flowers beloved by ladyes,

with blossoms fresh, orange and new.

As for sharing the bounty?

Well, think ye of gentlefolk most deserving,

And never mind those of ranke inferior to yer own.

Best they learn not the taste of the sweeting

'Lest they yearn for more than WE should wishe to grante them.

Pithy Sayings of Lady Margaret Hoby

as quoted in Sewing Chronicles of Lady Lizbeth, The Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maide

My work is inspired by people like my fellow-Photoshop-lover Judy Gosnell as well as the Romantic stylings of Jane Austen. My art-journaling has been inspired by a movement that's borne of both modern digital and old-time analog techniques. Inspired by recent travels in England, I ran across another inspirational art-journaler, Rachel Whetzel, who makes her home and art in the U.K.

This farmyard scene from Rachel's site is reminiscent of the countryside rights-of-way we were hiking only a few weeks back. IS that a darling little goat, or what?