sleeping beauties...

Good morning everyone hows your week going, I hope your all well and having a good one...as promised here's a photo of some of the roses on our kitchen table from the garden, we also have a fantastic rose that is deep pink and white stripes...its stunning and I will sow you a photo of those later at the weekend...are you all ready now...ready for some holiday photos?...I bet you cant contain your excitement lol

how amazingly beautiful is the cottage we rented, although I'm not quite sure about the colour its a bit orange don't you think...but the front garden was very pretty

this is just a small part of the garden...it was huge and my poor Dad didn't get to go all around it because he was finding it hard to walk in the gravel and it was impossible to push the wheelchair round...the first morning off I pop around the garden in my pj's armed with a cuppa for a little explore never realising that there was a house at the other end of it...I met a lovely elderly American couple walking their dog lol...we had a good natter if fact I was gone so long my Dad came looking for me 

I couldn't resist showing you this amazing Celtic cross, I took this on the day we went to the Irish national Heritage park which showed Ireland's buildings and way of life all through the ages...brilliant day but being built on a mini mountain totally exhausting...

as you can tell by this photo...my two lovely sleeping beauties and our adopted dog Spot...I thought it was a bit random a dog statue don't you...all they needed was a bit of sun, a cuppa and a couple of cushions and they were out like a light bless them lol...hope I didn't bore you too much and you wanna see some more I have 67 of them so ask away...well I really must craft today (nope I still haven't) the old mojo is being a bit elusive atm but I'm sure it will pop back soon, well I hope it does and I have a card to show you tomorrow...whatever your up to today I hope you don't have the miserable rainy weather we have and have a good one

Mina xxx

a complete stunner...

Good morning everyone are you all enjoying this amazing weather?...fingers crossed it lasts at least until December, well a girl hope cant she lol...I couldn't get near my craft room yesterday as its in direct sun all day and was like a sauna so cards will have to wait or I will have to get up at 5am to get some done and that ain't happening any time soon...so for today I decided to show you a hidden gem we discovered on our travels...I saw a sign while we were driving for Johnstown Castle but after looking it up discovered it was also a Department of Agriculture research centre so we weren't holding out much hope for a good day...boy were we wrong

this place is amazing...after driving down to the car park and getting out in the middle of a forest we walked around a corner to the most amazing castle I have ever seen...the scale is hard to explain but Phil sneaked into the one below with the plants around the lake you can see them in front of the castle above and that will give you some idea of the size of it

would you believe you can get married in the castle but it isn't open to the public we were gutted but had a few nosey moments looking through the windows lol

this is just walking around the top of the lake where I made a new friend...a gorgeously cute miniature Daschund...he was sssssssoooooooo cute and although his owner said he wasn't very friendly but he took a real shine to me and even gave me a lick...I did think about a snatch and run but knew it was too far back to the car lol...I so could have taken him home though...it was so beautiful and peaceful and we enjoyed a picnic in the grounds for our lunch

this one was taken from the other side of the lake...I couldn't resist those stunning trees...look at the colour of the red one

we were just coming back to the castle when I turned round and spotted this view of a lakeside garret we had just been too...I got a beautiful photo looking up from the inside as well as this view one but would you believe some ignorant little....er.....person (notice I resisted swear words although they certainly deserve it) has written graffiti all over this beautiful lakeside retreat...sorry there were so many photos but I kept them small so if you want to see them bigger just click on them...I'm off to see the surgeon today so will report back tomorrow and will hopefully heat permitting have a card to show you...if you don't hear from me send at least 6 hunky fireman with lots of water and ice to rescue me from my sauna craft room lol...have a brilliant day everyone and I hope you enjoyed the photos

Mina xxx