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Get to finally show off the fundraiser Christmas card design I did for The ‘Mooinjer Veggey’ A Manx Gaelic speaking Nursery in St Johns. (Which means 'little people’ but also The Fae)

The caption reads 'shee as boggey’ or 'peace and joy' they’re £2 each or a 10 pack for £12. All funds go to Mooinjer Veggey.

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Finding inspiration in Manx Gaelic Christmas songs.

Gura mie ayd Annie Kissak and those keeping the songs alive.

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Was pleased with the trees from earlier in the week, so had a play with some patterns from them, adding some woodland motifs of acorns, amanita, strawberry leaves and sorrel.

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Keyll (𝑘𝑎𝑦𝑙) is the word for a wooded place, plantation or forest, it is some times pluralised like with ‘woods’ to become keylljyn. (𝑘𝑎𝑦𝑙-𝑖ℎ-𝑗𝑖𝑛?)

Mushroom there just to make it obviously woods not just trees

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We are now selling the recent illustrations on society6

https://society6.com/babbangaelg

Mainly as kids shirts have been requested and they have a new system where you can pick whether the design is printed on front, back or pockets. Which is neat.

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I kind of forgot tumblr existed, so hi guys! Sorry it’s been a while since i posted anything last.

These are some dairy words in Manx Gaelic.
Bainney (𝐵𝐴𝑁𝑁-𝑦𝑒𝑟) - Milk
Key (𝑘𝑎𝑦) - Cream
Caashey (𝑐𝑎𝑖𝑟-𝑆𝐻𝑈𝐻) - Cheese
Eeym (𝑒𝑒𝑚) - Butter

This one took far too long to do. Fiddly!
Spider webb is eggey (𝒆𝒈𝒈-𝒖𝒉) in Manx, but is usually suffixed by tomorrows word…
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So this is the real reason i did a skull yesterday, I’d already done ‘candle’ last year (𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒆-𝒖𝒍) and i had the time to re-do it ina more seasonally appropriate way,
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I skipped todays prompt, but i did something equally seasonal. claigin means skull or cranium, or the bowl of a pipe…
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Todays prompt is beetle - caraig.
This seasonally coloured little fella, is also seasonal in its nature. Caraigh oanluckee translates as ‘burial/funeral beetle’. It can seek out a corpse from miles away and then proceeds in burying it, and making a...
Todays prompt is herbs - lus or lussyn for plural, kind of just means plants as well.
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Todays word is Pumpkin - I’ve gone for Londeyr pumpkin (𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑑-𝐷𝐴𝐼𝑅 𝑃𝑈𝑀-𝑘𝑖𝑛) - Pumpkin Lantern.
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