Fada Christmas

It turns out that Santa Claus believes in little white dogs! Admittedly Milo did go all out leaving a glass of milk, belgian biscuits, a carrot for Rudolf that was hardly nibbled at all, not to mention donning his reindog antlers with bells on. He was rewarded with a squeeky duck (squeek! squeek!) and some luxury dog biscuits. “Well, isn’t Santa the clever fella?”

The last pre-Christmas letter box project involved an acute accent. A cute Irish accent in fact! In the Irish language the acute accent (seen here over á é í ó ú) is called a “síneadh fada” or usually just a “fada”. I was asked to make the name SEÁN in letter boxes which gave me the opportunity to make a fada and find a way to get it to hover.  It’s a little box all of its own that wiggles happily over the A and is detachable for packing while in transit. Keep an eye out for more punctuation in the new year!

The Little White Dog is loose on the internet!

Christmas has come early here at LWD because the new website www.littlewhitedog.ie is up and running! A million thanks to GB for such a fabulous Christmas present xxx

It’s been pretty busy here in the run up to Christmas, with all sorts of handmade boxes and cards growing legs and running down to the post office to be sent all over the world.

There were a few custom orders for letter shaped boxes and the ones made from sheet music seem to be really popular. I love the randomness of making these because each one is different and one of a kind. There might be a string of notes running up the back of a letter or a nicely placed treble clef that really enhances the shape. O is probably the most challenging letter because it has no straight edges, but when something turns out well its worth the effort.