Friday, January 28, 2011

Christmas continues on...

Two more coming in! I'm failingly slow at these, but I'm trying to balance drawing with Etsy and Etsy with finding a job and I'm swirling down the stream of craziness that is my life. Enjoy!

































Fun fact: When this song was being translated into modern-day language, some of the words got lost or mis-translated due to the fact that there were no actual dictionaries in which to record words. In olden times, the Four "Calling" Birds were actually called Four "Colly" Birds, suggesting that they were black birds given to be baked into pies ("Sing a Song of Sixpence"). "Colly" refers to the Old English word "Colliery", or "coal mines", therefore it was thought that blackbirds were called "colly birds" since it looked like they were covered in coal dust.