Fun, Flowers and a fizzy head ❤

{Monday}... 

visited a lovely garden centre in the Irish midlands
bought a few bits and bobs
spotted this colourful fella
and thought he was perfect for "Green Day"

 

{Tuesday}...

 paid a visit to Avoca

one of my favourite places to browse around

but I had to hold on tightly to my wallet

as I was sorely tempted to buy absolutely everything! 

Wonderful throws and shawls

China in all colours of the rainbow

Lovely mosaic delph and scented candles

Jams, chutneys and sauces - aaahh!

Yummy sweets and goodies

 and after buying lots of lovely goodies to take home

 I did order a healthy and delicious lunch!

{Wednesday}...

my one and only peony bud has flowered (eventually)!!

I hope that I don't have to wait another 7 years for a bloom!

I was so proud of it that I had to take two photos

and put them into a collage (what a show-off I am)!!

 the alliums planted last year are looking gorgeous

{Thursday}

Oh dear dopey ditzy me

 was looking for hairspray

went into lovely daughter's room

flippity flippity flip

sprayed hair with false tan instead of hairspray

well the bottles do look the same (sort of) eeeek...

{Friday}

Happy Happy days

 school's out for Summer!!!

Wishing you all a healthy, happy week
full of
 sunshine, smiles and lovely things ♥

linking up toaday with Green Day &

Beverley's Pink Saturday

{Green Day 2}

It's that time of the week again!

The object of the link up

is to post a photograph of something green.

The photos can be of anything you like

once they have a green theme,

green fields, pretty green things, green clothes,
green leaves, green foods,

anything at all that takes your fancy!
I hope that you will join in the fun.

the boring bit...

1.   Please do not post anything that may be deemed offensive to others.

2.   Only post material that belongs to you.

3.   Please link back to Raindrops and Daisies

4.   Link directly to your Green Day post and not to the url of your blog

5.   Please visit some of the other participants and leave a comment

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely photos

 and I hope to share some of them

 on the Raindrops and Daisies Facebook page during the week too.

Are you ready for Friday...

and another green day?

We had a huge success with last week's link up.

It was wonderful to see photos

 of  "greens" from around the world.

I have never hosted a link up before

and I was absolutely amazed

at how lovely everyone was

who took part,

you commented on others photos,

you praised their work, you posted on their blogs....

It was fantastic

 and

I would like to thank  each and every one of you

for your participation.

Below are the entries from last week

(not a very good collage I'm afraid

I'm hoping practise makes perfect)!!

Looking forward to meeting up with you again

on Friday next for another "green day"

xoxo



I'm thinking...

that it's a bit of a ditsy dozey day
as I seem to be doing everything

upside down and inside out!

I wrote a post, added some photos,
pressed something on the laptop and low and behold
the whole thing disappeared before my eyes,

so here we go again.....

Well it has  been a good week here in my little corner of Ireland

although the weather has been atrocious,
rain, rain and more rain,

I can't wear sandals as my feet are almost webbed

and I am thinking of getting my husband to build us an arc!!

I spent a lot of quiet time here this week.

Do you remember I posted about my two boys doing exams

well the eldest one (Christopher on the left)
got the results of his finals yesterday and the good news is that he passed everything so

 happy days!

Now he just has to find a job
so I am back to spending more time on my knees in this wonderful church!

On the one day that the sun did shine

 I went for a long walk,

the lake and the gardens look lovely at this time of year

although the ducks must be in hiding!

I met this little cutie who looks so happy basking  in the sunshine

and finally

I did a basket making class using willow

and  it turns out that
I am a complete and utter disaster
involving anything crafty

everyone else brought home wonderful creations
(see pic below)

I left mine behind because it looked like nothing on earth!

When God was giving out the gift of creativity he must have missed me!!

so...

how was the weather in your part of the world this week

and how was your week?

Wishing you all a healthy happy week full of sunshine and smiles ♥

Linking up with Green Day and Weekend Reflections
for today's post

green day

Hello my friends and welcome to

G r e e n   D a y

This is our first link up

so hopefully we might have a few participants!

The object of the link up

is to post a photograph of something green.

The photos can be of anything you like

once they have a green theme,

green fields, pretty green things, green clothes,
green leaves, green foods,

anything at all that takes your fancy!

I hope that you will join in the fun.

Now here comes the boring bit - a few rules

1.   Please do not post anything that may be deemed offensive to others.

2.   Only post material that belongs to you.

3.   When posting your photographs please link back to Raindrops and Daisies

4.   Link directly to your Green Day post and not to the url of your blog

5.   Try and visit some of the other participants and leave a comment

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely photos and  I hope to share some of them

 on the Raindrops and Daisies Facebook page during the week too.

an idea, what do you think?

This week on Raindrops and Daisies

 I thought it might be nice to try something new and that something is called Green Day

Lots of you like taking photos

and as we all enjoy looking at them

 I thought that this week we could have

 a link up.

The photos can be of anything you like

once they have a green theme,

green fields, pretty green things, green clothes, green leaves, green foods,

anything at all that incorporates the colour green


As I live in a very small and very green country
it is a colour close to my heart.

Would you up for the challenge?


If so start rooting out those green photos
or start taking new ones
and include them here on Friday evening
Green Day!

So what do you think?
Will you join in?


It  might be fun!

welcome weekend....

and nice to see you once again....

 weather in my little corner of the world is a bit confused

and doesn't seem to know what to do

the sun was in and and then it was out

in and out

out and in

but mostly in...

but when it did shine it was such a welcome surprise ♥

I enjoyed some lovely walks when the raindrops took a rest

and everything is certainly green and beautiful here

it all looks so

 f r e s h

but because of the rainfall

my washing basket is getting bigger and bigger

and bigger and bigger

it will be Christmas by the time I clear it all....

I ♥  Friday

the end of the working week

no early mornings for two days

time for relaxing with family,

lazy daisy days (well except for the laundry)!

H e a v e n

time to go now

time to pour a little glass of something nice

and time to snuggle up and relax!

Wishing you a wonderful happy weekend

full of sunshine and smiles

***

do you have a favourite day of the week?

Raindrops and Daisies is now on Facebook

click HERE 

or on the Facebook badge

on the right to visit the page

I would love

if you would  pop over and say hello

linking up today with Beverley's Pink Saturday

and

Your Sunday Best

{a little bit of this and a little bit of that}

My goodness we certainly have some weather changes here in Ireland

you could never say it was boring

blue skies and sunshine one day and  pouring with rain the next!

 Monday's sky

H A P P Y   D A Y S

but later during the week, rain, rain and lots more rain

and what day did the  school pick to go

on their trip to County Wicklow?

Beautiful scenery but viewed through a haze of raindrops!

and later it got worse and we couldn't see the scenery at all!!

The field behind our house is so  PRETTY   at the moment

it is full of beautiful golden yellow buttercups which glisten

in both the sunshine and the rain!

This guy lives there

he isn't the friendliest or the prettiest

but he  is very nosey!

and finally, I have been challenged by the lovely Heidi 

 to tell you five random facts about myself

so here goes -

 *   when I met my husband it was love at first sight

something just clicked inside my heart

and hasn't stopped since

he made me laugh and still does....

*   I am  what style experts describe  as an "apple shape"

wide shoulders, slim hips and store my weight on my tummy

yep I'm a  jelly belly!

*   my favourite drink is  red wine

 and I love the glug glug sound it makes when poured into a glass

I like drinking it too
 oops maybe that is why I'm a jelly belly!!!!

*    I hate that my eyesight is going

once I hit 40 my eyesight started to go downhill

and I needed glasses for reading. 

 It makes me sad that I can't read without them....

plus I am always losing them
- couldn't find them on Friday
but low and behold I opened the dishwasher
and there they were having been through the wash
they were SPARKLING!!!

*  I adore shopping,
I love mooching around shops and picking up pretty things.
I even like food shopping and am a bit like Mister above
 as I look into other people's trolley's to see what they are buying!
blush, blush......

*   I love being a mum

it is what I do best

I met someone yesterday who told me

you are such a "mum"

but sure that's my job

and isn't it a privilege to have that job!

Oops that's 6 things!

another thing is that  I do get carried away at times!!!



I have to challenge 5 others now
but I am going to take the easy way out
and hope that perhaps some of you might take up the challenge
 and divulge some bitsy bits about yourself.
As I said, I'm a bit nosey and so would love to hear about you!

anyone willing?

***

oops and oops again before I go I almost forgot to tell you

that Raindrops and Daisies is now on Facebook

click the badge on the right of the blog to view or here

I would love if you would  visit me as I'm a bit lonely,

 maybe say hi and you could even "like" the page,

so what do you think......

Wishing you all a wonderful week full of happy times

{the week that was}

sunshine and showers

a head cold which arrived to visit and hasn’t said goodbye

sniffling runny nose that is rubbed red with tissues

black mascara smudges under sunken streaming eyes
certainly not a good look
I would scare away small children and even bigger ones!

But the good news is
 that because I was coughing,sniffling, snorting and sneezing

I didn't have much of an appetite and so am

***

Mittens our 16 year old pussycat is still hunting
we had a dead mouse on the doorstep one morning
(won't post a pic of that though)!!!

***
I'm excited because my peony has produced it's first bud in years
what am I doing wrong with this plant
I just don't know!!


Looking forward to the flower popping though
and will probably have you all bored to bits
with photos of it!





***
I treated  myself a new pair of  oven gloves
the old ones were an embarrassment
so thought I had better replace them
with something a bit more respectable


 these are the pretties I got
I like the colours and the lovely flowers
now I will just have to start cooking
{well maybe later....}

***
I learned a useful tip too

 if you put a copper coin into a vase of water

It will stop the flowers from drooping

so I tested it out with my tulips

and it really does work no hangy dangy sorry looking flowers!



Wishing you and your loved ones a week

filled with sunshine and happiness


 ♥