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How to navigate to the rest of the site: navigate to birthday cards: | personalised birthday cards with butterflies & dragonflies | personalised handmade birthday card with animals | personalised  birthday cards with flower illustrations | range of birthday cards with abstract floral images |  personalised birthday cards with flower photographs | personalised handmade birthday cards for kids | handmade birthday cards with Welsh castles | personalised birthday cards with Welsh cobs | birthday cards with Welsh landscapes | handmade birthday cards with Welsh trains navigate to Christmas cards:  | Christmas cards with Welsh cobs and animals | Xmas cards with illustrations and photography | personalised Christmas cards with traditional watercolour landscapes | handmade Christmas cards with photographs | Christmas cards with illustrations of Welsh steam trains and Welsh castles | Christmas cards with windows  navigate to wedding stationery:  | exciting new range of designs with abstract flowers in watercolour | personalised wedding stationery with butterflies and calligraphy | handmade wedding stationery with windows | personalised weddings invitations with iconic images | wedding invitations with ampersands and petals | creative wedding invitations with gate folds and watercolours miscellaneous: | personalised engagement and wedding anniversary cards | new baby christening cards | handmade Dydd Santes Dwynwen cards |  Saint Valentine's day cards | handmade Easter Sunday cards | Saint David's Day cards | Mother's Day cards | Father's Day cards | thank you cards | get well soon cards | with sympathy cards prints and original work by Peter Kitchin: | watercolours of Welsh landscapes | watercolours paintings of Ffestiniog trains prints and original work by Rebecca Kitchin: | Welsh cob paintings | illustrations of cats and dogs | watercolours of Ffestiniog trains general pages: | contact details | site map | about us and contacts | terms | resources | new concepts | about buying | postage | home page

Handmade personalised greeting cards from Wales plus signed prints and originals Personalised birthday cards with watercolour paintings of Ffestiniog steam engines by Peter and Rebecca Kitchin. Click on any thumbnail below to view a larger image and make a purchase. Click here if you need translations (including Welsh). *If you wish to learn how to write and speak Welsh just click here. personalised trains birthday card 1 personalised trains birthday card 2 personalised trains birthday card 3 personalised trains birthday card 4 personalised trains birthday card 5 personalised trains birthday card 6 personalised trains birthday card 7 personalised trains birthday card 8 personalised trains birthday card 9 personalised trains birthday card 10 personalised trains birthday card 11 personalised trains birthday card 12 personalised trains birthday card 13 personalised trains birthday card 14 personalised trains birthday card 15 personalised trains birthday card 16 personalised trains birthday card 17 personalised trains birthday card 18 personalised trains birthday card 19 personalised trains birthday card 20 personalised trains birthday card 21 personalised trains birthday card 22 personalised trains birthday card 23 personalised trains birthday card 24 personalised trains birthday card 25 personalised trains birthday card 26 personalised trains birthday card 27 personalised trains birthday card 28 personalised trains birthday card 29 personalised trains birthday card 30 personalised trains birthday card 31 personalised trains birthday card 32 personalised trains birthday card 33 personalised trains birthday card 34 personalised trains birthday card 35 personalised trains birthday card 36 How the birthday card developed The birthday, as the term suggests, is the anniversary of the exact day on which a person was born. In most parts of the world birthdays are celebrated in numerous cultures with a party and often associated with a rite of passage. Certain religious groups virulently oppose the celebration of birthdays because of the more important dates that celebrate the birth of their founders such as Buddhism or Christianity with the most obvious example of Christmas. In most societies, a birthday like the 18th or 21st, can often trip a legal obligation and responsibility. For instance an obligation to vote or take up military conscription. Birthdays can also take the form of an award like being able to consume alcohol or tobacco, to be able to drive a motorbike or car, or to be able to purchase a lottery ticket Some are related to religions like the Jewish boys who have a bar mitzvah on or around their 13th birthday. Jewish girls have a bat mitzvah on or around their 12th birthday. With Catholic and Anglican religions, Confirmation is the ritual by which a young person receives a Sacrament. This grants certain gifts of the Holy Spirit. The quinceañera celebration in Hispanic countries traditionally marks a girl's 15th birthday. In the United States some girls and boys have a 'sweet sixteen' birthday party. 18th and 21st are traditional coming of age birthdays in the United Kingdom. Sometimes, in some Asian countries, the 14th birthday is celebrated as the day one becomes a man, or a woman, in society. The 12th or 13th birthday in India is replaced with a fascinating 'thread ceremony' when the child takes a blessed thread and wears it. This symbolizes his coming of age and is more common amongst boys in the Hindu culture. Leap years present a problem for some people when their birthday falls on the 29th February. These people often elect to celebrate their birthday on the 1st March instead. for practical reasons many kings and queens have Official Birthdays as well as their natural birthdays. This Official Birthday is always on a fixed day of the year. During the Victorian era birthday cards became very ornate and complex but the iconic images, especially candles, remain until today. Candles, one for every year, have been used on cards for centuries. These are often mixed with more traditional images like sports for boys, dads and husbands, and flowers for girls, mums and wives. Do talk to Peter or Rebecca if you need a specially designed and illustrated personalised birthday card, they enjoy the challenge, just click enquiry@celtic-1.co.uk   PLEASE NOTE HOLIDAY SCHEDULE: At present we have no holidays scheduled. Please note actual delivery is totally out off our hands although we normally print the same day (orders received before 3.00 pm) and post 1st Class the following morning. ORDERING CARDS TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE UK For orders outside the UK please order a minimum of 6 cards (you can mix designs if you wish). GOOD NEWS FOR WELSH LEARNERS If you want to write your own Welsh message we have now added more pages to help you here. If you want to investigate the Welsh language further and perhaps learn a few phrases we have added a totally new section here. Don't forget - you can write ANY message on ANY card with ANY image - just enjoy yourself ! IMPORTANT DATES FOR 2010 / PWYSIG DYDDIADAU I 2010 New Year's Day: January 1st Dydd Santes Dwynwen* (Saint Dwynwen Day): January 25th Saint Valentine's Day: February 14th Saint David's Day (Patron saint of Wales): March 1st St Piran's Day (Patron saint of Cornwall): March 5th Mother's Day: March 14th Saint Patrick's Day (Patron saint of Scotland): March 17th Good Friday: April 2nd Easter Sunday: April 4th Easter Monday: April 5th Saint George's Day (Patron saint of England): April 23rd Early May Bank Holiday: May 3rd Spring Bank Holiday: May 31st Father's Day: June 20th Summer Bank Holiday: August 30th Saint Andrew's Day (Patron Saint of Scotland): November 30th Christmas Eve: December 24th Christmas Day: December 25th Boxing Day: December 26 Saint Stephen's Day: December 26th New Year's Eve: December 31st *Welsh equivalent of the English Saint Valentine's Day. Handmade personalised greeting cards from Wales, signed prints and originals. NODWCH GWYLIAU RHAGLEN: Dim gwyliau rwan. Am traddodiad: yn amlwg darparu gwirioneddol yn hollol allan oddi ar ein dwylo er ein bod bob amser yn argraffu ar yr un diwrnod (archebion a dderbyniwyd cyn 3:00) ac ar ôl 1 Dosbarth y bore canlynol. ARCHEBU I ANNERCH Y TU ALLAN I'R DU Ar gyfer archebion tu allan i'r DU os gwelwch yn dda er o leiaf 6 cardiau (gallwch cymysgedd dyluniadau os ydych yn dymuno). NEWYDDION DA I DDYSGWYR CYMRAEG Os ydych chi eisiau ysgrifennu neges eich hun Cymru erbyn hyn rydym wedi ychwanegu tudalennau mwy i helpu chi yma. Os ydych am i ymchwilio i'r iaith Cymraeg ymhellach ac efallai ddysgu ychydig o ymadroddion rydym wedi ychwanegu adran hollol newydd yma. Peidiwch ag anghofio - gallwch ysgrifennu neges ar y cerdyn UNRHYW UNRHYW gyda delwedd UNRHYW - dim ond mwynhau eich hun!