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28 February 2025 12:37 pm
Your thought for the week from my Medieval Wisdom series.
Your thought for the week from my Medieval Wisdom series.
It's tomorrow! There's a slideshow of great pictures too! Here's what the museum promo says:
This is your friendly reminder to get your tickets to Rosalie Gilbert's upcoming talk, Single Medieval Women: Who Were They and What Did They Do?
The Abbey Hall
Saturday, 22 Feb
2pm - 4pm
Join Rosalie for an in-depth dive into the day-to-day lives of single women in Medieval times. Whether they were unmarried, widowed, divorced, or had taken up a life within the church, learn and explore the different freedoms (or restrictions) women of the Middle Ages lived with. What roles did they hold in society?
Limited tickets remaining - gets yours now so you don't miss out!
TICKETS: Friends Member $10 | Guest $20
https://abbeymuseum.com.au/.../friends-presentation.../
This is your friendly reminder to get your tickets to Rosalie Gilbert's upcoming talk, Single Medieval Women: Who Were They and What Did They Do?
The Abbey Hall Saturday, 22 Feb 2pm - 4pmJoin Rosalie for an in-depth dive into the day-to-day lives of single women in Medieval times. Whether they were unmarried, widowed, divorced, or had taken up a life within the church, learn and explore the different freedoms (or restrictions) women of the Middle Ages lived with. What roles did they hold in society?
Limited tickets remaining - gets yours now so you don't miss out!
TICKETS: Friends Member $10 | Guest $20
https://abbeymuseum.com.au/.../friends-presentation.../
Medieval Wisdom for December
3 December 2024 05:48 pm
Medieval self care advice for December from the Medieval Wisdom For Modern Women calendar.
If you don't like social gatherings, just stay home and life you best life without the crowds. Works for me!
This is the last of the months for the calendar, and since I still have leftovers from this year, I don't think I'll do more for 2025, but for anyone who would like more medieval quotes from actual medieval manuscripts, why not drop Medieval Wisdom for Modern Women on your wish list this year? Sadly, with the changes in postage, it's far too expensive to post out of Australia now, so just Australia wide postage now.
You can VISIT THE SQUARE SHOP if you would like one.
Your thought for November
3 November 2024 10:15 am
Your thought for November from my Medieval Wisdom for Modern Women, Self Care Advice and Warnings From The Middle Ages That You Still Need Today.
I think it's a nice little thought too.
I think it's a nice little thought too.
Medieval Wisdom for May
1 May 2024 07:54 pm
May is my birthday month and a reminder from the Medieval Wisdom For Modern Women calendar that your clothes need not be expensive, but good quality and careful tailoring lasts longer overall.
If you'd like more medieval wisdom in your life, you can shop at the Online Store.
When getting things done stops you from overthinking, doom scrolling on social media AND completes tasks you actually want to complete, you're ticking boxes and although you're busy, it makes you feel good about yourself which is a kind of self-care.
Ironically, the embroidery in the picture is something I've been working on at shows for at least. The quote is from Medieval Wisdom for Modern Women: Self Care Advice and Warnings From The Middle Ages That You Still Need Today! It's good to have down time, but it's also good to get things done!
Take time for yourself
24 December 2023 02:54 pm
Remember, not participating in large parties for Christmas and New Year's can be good too. At this time of year, particularly, there's a lot of pressure to engage in family get togethers and parties and functions and quite frankly, if it's not your cup of tea, just don't go. Start your new year the way you'd like. And don't feel bad about it.
I'll skip the piety but I do love some quiet time. At home. With my cat. In my garden.
From Medieval Wisdom For Modern Women: Self Care Advice and Warnings From The Middle Ages That You Still Need Today by yours truly.
The new Square shop is live!
1 December 2023 09:55 pm
I'm very excited to announce that I've successfully made my very own little Square shop. It's similar to Etsy, but I can manage everything, and they only take commission on sales, not have a monthly fee likes other online marketing tools.
It was a not much of a challenge to make the website and the phone app all sync and get the stock to be the same and learn how to manage it with my own mobile hotspot. A few little hiccups, but easily navigated. It has a great little card reader, so now for the first time, people can use their credit cards to buy things!
I did have trouble with the shipping estimator, but since I have prices for shipping from my post office, the best work around for me was to create multiple listings INCLUDING the postage to different countries. The shopper just needs to select the item with the right country flag on it and they can pay for the item plus shipping. It's a small problem if someone wants a few heavy things in the one package, but they can contact me directly if it's over a certain weight and I can work around there.
I don't have so many sales myself that I can't make this a workable solution, so it's working great for me!
I used photos of my niece, who has been very kind about letting me use her face on things and I love the colour scheme and clean look of the site. I've been able to link my Things For Sale on my regular Rosalie's Medieval Woman website to the shop and so far, that's worked well too, so that all my old links remain in place but point here.
Feeling cute...
30 November 2023 10:31 pm
Lots to love about this manuscript image, but also a lot going on. Is she wearing a coif and still attempting to comb her hair? Is she using the comb to spread something on her hair, like a hair colour or bleach or conditioner?
I do love the red border on the mirror and the fact that her face is very faintly seen in the mirror.
Book banner
16 November 2023 06:07 pm
I've made a banner for book displays at markets or book signings and I'm absolutely loving it, but..but...
I've used my niece for the picture because it's a great photo of her holding the book. But... well, now that I look at it again, it looks like she is Rosalie Gilbert, author, and not me.
What to do?
I can leave it and just be delighted with the pretty photo, or I can take a photo of myself with the book and use that instead, which I probably should do. It's my name on the sign, after all. I just hadn't thought it would look like it was her being me.
My thought was, use a picture of a pretty young woman with the book. She has one. You should have one too! My name is right under the picture though.
Or am I being silly? It looks really lovely!
I guess I'll need to have a bit of a think about it, but I've feeling now that looking at it again and again, that it should be me.
Love Your Bookshop Day 2023
6 October 2023 11:18 pm
It's Love Your Bookshop Day 2023 on Saturday, 7th of October and I will be there loving my local Books@Stones Book Shop at Stones Corner in Brisbane. Co-incidentally, it's their 13th birthday too, so there will be an array of celebratory activities... face painting! Balloon shapes! Book signings! Discounts! Free Stuff!
And yours truly will be there in costume on the footpath signing my newest book, Medieval Wisdom for Modern Women: Self Care Advice & Warnings From The Middle Ages That You Still Need Today. I'm just so excited that it's been in my house for less than a week and already orders are coming in, I have a nice review and my amazing local book shop has leaped up to be the very first shop to stock the book! Other orders are already coming in, though, so hopefully it'll be available in more places.
Overseas shipping continues to be a headache, but since two or three books will squeeze into a postpack, I heartily recommend making the most of the post and share the shipping with a friend or two. Meanwhile, give your local bookshop some love.
