Handwritten letters, Gaelic cards and prints for the Scottish year, from Christmas and Hogmanay to Burns Night and birthdays.
Everything is designed and made by hand in the Scottish Highlands.
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Every word written by hand for one person, then sealed and posted straight to them.
A letter for a wee one from Mòrag, a reindeer who lives up in the Cairngorms. Written out in ink with your child's name in it, with her hoof print, her door hanger and a wee corner of her Harris Tweed sleigh blanket tucked inside.
£28 UK · £36 rest of the world
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A handwritten letter sealed with red wax, with stories from Christmases long ago and gentle ideas for the day. Your own message goes in a Blàths card, with a wee Scots word quiz and a postcard so they can write to someone too.
£32 UK, sent direct to them
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Tell me what you'd like to say, and I'll write it by hand inside this Gaelic Christmas card and post it straight to them. For someone on their own, far away, or having a hard winter.
£10 UK, written and posted for you
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Each card tells you the Gaelic word, how to say it, and what it really means. Printed at my kitchen table on heavy card and posted flat.
Merry Christmas, Peace, Light and Home, one of each. Or choose a pack of four Nollaig Chridheil in red.
£17 UK · £24 rest of the world
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A5 Christmas cards with cream holly from a Victorian engraving, half red and half green, each with its own envelope.
Sets of 6 or 10, from £24
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7x5 Gaelic Christmas postcards in forest green and Christmas red, with room on the back for your message.
Sets of 6 or 10, from £12
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A Gaelic birthday card for the Scot far from home, and for the folk who miss them. A big Happy Birthday inside a wreath of thistles, with Co-là-breith sona dhut and how to say it, so anyone can read it out loud. In slate, teal, rose or heather.
Letter sets written at my table on the night itself, sealed with wax, with everything you need to keep the evening in your own house. Posted free, and tracked overseas.
A letter written by candlelight on Hogmanay, to be opened on the 31st: the shortbread, sweeping out the old year, waiting for a first-footer. With my shortbread recipe, a promise card and a hanging blessing.
£35 UK · £44 rest of the world
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A letter that takes you through the whole evening, from the Selkirk Grace to Auld Lang Syne. With a Burns Night booklet, the words of the Address to a Haggis explained, and my granny's cock-a-leekie recipe.
£35 UK · £44 rest of the world
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Both letter sets, one to open on Hogmanay and one for Burns Night, so the evenings carry on into January.
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A door is shut and the candles are lit. Round the table sit the people you trust. A handwritten letter sealed in wax, old Gaelic word cards with a question on the back, and an evening of what you choose to say. Nobody has to tell. But everybody will notice who does.
£42 UK · £55 rest of the world
Printed to order on heavy cotton paper, each with its story.
Five words that don't come across into English, not properly. A set of five 5x7 prints in olive, charcoal or teal.
£35 UK · £45 rest of the world
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Choose your word and your colour for one 8x10 print, set in an uncial hand the way Gaelic was written long ago.
£18 UK · £28 rest of the world
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Each print draws a light's real flash pattern above its tower, from Bell Rock to Cape Wrath. 8x10 on cotton rag, with a story card about who built it.
£18 for one · £42 for 3 · £62 for 5 · £80 for all 7 (UK)
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I write, seal and pack everything at my table in the Highlands, and post it flat so it arrives just as it left me.
Live lightly.
A letter in the post still means more than almost anything else that comes through the door. That is what Highland Letters is about.
Every letter, card and print is designed and made by hand in the Scottish Highlands, with a little of the Gaelic and Scots that belong here. Not a printable. Not a form letter. Something real, to keep.