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First Night Design | Heavens to Betsy—25 Sold #Thanksgiving
08/11/2015 in Art & Design, Events & Occasions, Merchandise | Tags: autumn, book, browns, business cards, collage, country scene, etymology, fall, Give Thanks, greens, Heavens to Betsy!, landscape, November, phrases and sayings, postcards, pumpkin, sepia, textures, Thanksgiving, trees | 29 comments
Heavens to Betsy! My weekend has been totally transformed by an email from Zazzle telling me I’ve sold 25 of these Give Thanks Postcards.
The main image is a photograph of our garden – they’re actually Cretan olive trees in the background – and a couple of textures. I’ve used Photoshop to create a Thanksgiving scene with a pumpkin from The Graphics Fairy and an open book from The Cottage Market.
Are you wondering about the phrase ‘Heavens to Betsy’? I have to acknowledge that it’s one of my favourite sayings. I learn, however, that it’s fallen out of use and considered far too anachronistic. Tough. I shall never stop using it. It seems it originated in America in the late 19th century. No one knows who Betsy was and the etymologist Charles Earle Funk said the origins of the phrase were ‘completely unsolvable’. [#1]
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the first written use as from a short-story collection by Rose Terry Cooke, Huckleberries Gathered From New England Hills published in 1892. [#1; #2]
I’m also very fond of ‘Heavens to Murgatroyd!’ but I’ll leave that lovely for another day.
Available at the following galleries:
Redbubble
Crated
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK
Fine Art America
Fine Art England
Saatchi Art
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