Ghosts, antiques, and a cat. Yes, please! I recently stumbled across a haunted antique store called Victorian Charm Antiques (complete with a friendly resident cat named Yoda). The warm and welcoming family-owned shop is within a house built around 1900, with plenty of mystery still surrounding its history. Only recently, an entrance to an underground…
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Hunting for hag stones and more…
Hag stones or holey stones (sometimes also called witch stones, adder stones, fairy stones, or serpent eggs) are stones with a naturally occurring hole that goes all the way through. They are often created by burrowing creatures and worn straight through by water over time. A string or chain might be threaded through the hole…
New article published on The Anne Boleyn Files website
Thank you very much to best-selling author and historian Claire Ridgway for kindly inviting me to write a guest blog post for her esteemed website The Anne Boleyn Files. I have been reading Claire’s work for more than a decade, so it is truly an honour! Sample from the article: “One Tudor tidbit, which I…
All’s well that ends in a miniature well…
Have you ever wished for a wishing well? My daughter did just that and so I set about making her a miniature one. She requested it be for the Tudor dollhouse – a girl after my 16th century heart. Click here to read how I made it.
Spring has sprung! New Tudor bookmarks available.
If you follow me on my Instagram account @laurelleavesandlaundry, you’ll know I love to make graphics inspired by Tudor portraits. Two popular edits I have done recently were floral versions of Anne Boleyn and her daughter Elizabeth I. They are now available as bookmarks that can be downloaded and printed here. Please let me know…
Welcome!
Thank you for visiting my newly launched website. As you may know I have a very strong love of Tudor history and graphic design. I have created a free printable which includes two Tudor bookmarks for your home use. The bookmarks include graphics I’ve edited together using images found in the public domain. I chose…
Tudor Society Presentation
I’m very excited to announce the presentation I completed with my co-researcher Ashley Risk is now live on the The Tudor Society website. We spent a considerable amount of time during Covid lockdowns researching the miniature Tudor portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger believed to be Henry VIII’s fifth wife Catherine Howard. Our research looks…