Saturday 13 August 2011

Wassail Door

Pixie doors are available to buy here.

This door was made in celebration of the first apples of year. Wassail!

(Wassail meens good health in Saxon, and is a thanks and a blessing given to apple trees still used in the Westcountry)

A Wassail rhyme from Somerset -

Wassail the trees soes they may bare, 
many an apple and many pair,
soes they may grow
and they may bow
and they may bring us apples eno

It also calls on the Cornish litany, having a long leggety beasty!

Wassail!





Wednesday 3 August 2011

Pixie Door #6 - Pixie Pirate captain

 Pixie doors are available to buy here.

This pixie pirate door is a celebration of the spirits of thievery and general drunken roguishness.





Pixie Door #5 - 14th century maclesfeild psalter

Pixie Doors are available in my shop here.


This design is based on the 14th century Maclesfeild psalter (a psalter is a personal prayer book for a patron).