Weekend Links

 

Well, this has been a week that feels like a (long) year.  I am getting ready to dive into some farmers market shopping and reading this weekend before tackling book revisions that just landed on my desk.  And here's a few distraction...  (also, don't forget to talk like a pirate today!  My book High Seas Stowaway, if you want some historical seafaring hijinks is .99)

The V&A opens their "Marie Antoinette Style" exhibit (and I am sobbing not to be there!)

An art conservator restores a portrait of Isabella de Medici

Where is The Great British Bakeoff Filmed?

It was Agatha Christie's Birthday on September 15!  I think I'll do a re-read in her honor (some favorites--Death on the Nile, The Hollow, 5 Little Pigs)

The most beautiful garden you can visit in every state

The jewels of the new Downton Abbey movie (I saw it last weekend!  So fun to see old friends again, and you go, Lady Edith)

Inside the rooms where 20 famous books were written

Portrait of Shakespeare's possible lover found

Weekend Links

 Happy mid-January, everyone!  My birthday is past, and now I am just huddled down in the cold trying to finish this WIP (Christmas in Gilded Age New York!).  Brrr.  Luckily I have lots of books, tea, and writing to keep me busy until the sun peeks our way again.

(Check out this adorable "The Holiday" mug a friend gave me for Christmas!!  It's so perfect for my mood right now)

In the meantime, here are some reads to distract us...

Happy birthday, Christian Dior!  Born on this day in 1905

6 amazing facts about wine

Quiz: Which Skeldale House resident are you?  (I'm Mrs. Hall!)

Researchers discover what's inside medieval pendant

Marie Antoinette's Wardrobe Book

Two paintings by Queen Victoria are up for auction

New exhibition at Buckingham Palace on Georgian fashion

The 10 shortest reigns in English history

Medieval gardens and plants

Women-only restaurants in the 19th century

Things I Love Thursday

What I love today--garden gnomes! Maybe it's because we're having record-setting low temps outside, and it's literally freezing, but I'm having fun planning flower beds and vegetable patches for the summer. And I love to put gnomes amid the plants, peeking out at us. I know they're cheesy, and sometimes even a little scary, but I enjoy their cute little faces and pointy hats in the warm weather.

What's your favorite season?