Spring is in the air, I love nothing more than having a lovely cup of tea in the sunshine :)

In March there is lots to celebrate, we have Saint Patrick's Day here in Ireland which results in a day off work so I love any day like that :)

I also have a family wedding and I have to do a reading too so I will be all dressed up :)

And that leads us into April and Easter :)

No daffodils here yet as it has been too cold. I'm just going to have a cup of tea and go for a walk. Enjoy your weekend what ever your up to :) I love the sunshine :)

Kitchens

Here is a kitchen which is full of light. I like to have the kitchen sink beside the window as you get a view when your washing up. I love a kitchen filled with sunlight. I also like the wooden worktop on the island in this kitchen. It has very clean lines to it.

Now this kitchen is a real country cottage kitchen, it is full of character and very quaint. I love the design of the units. I would close in the dresser underneath and put doors with glass on the upper half. Even with the extractor fan and window open the kitchen can get quite dirty at times and its nicer to have things behind glass doors. The island is long and narrow in this kitchen and can store alot of items. I would move the kitchen sink to the window though.

I love the glass doors on the dresser type unit in this room. I also love the wooden worktops and the pillar features around the sink. It looks so fresh and bright.

This is a very simple design design but it is very pretty. I like the small splash back behind the sink. These units would look really nice in a smaller kitchen

Here is another country cottage kitchen. The baskets add to the charm of the kitchen. The wooden floor compliments the wooden work tops.

This is a small intimate bright kitchen. The blue/grey tiles are really nice and go very well with the white units.

Hope your week went well and your enjoying the start of the weekend. I was very excited Wednesday evening when I returned home from work :) There was a package waiting for me :) All the way from Canada :) I never received mail from Canada before and mail this nice. I got the camera out ready to take photographs of the contents, but so predictable the batteries were dead. So do you want to see my gorgeous gifts from my dear blogger friend Laurie Anne from Rebel Blossom.

My happy mail consists of a beautiful needle case which I really needed as I have already lost two needles on the armchair. I was in a panic that someone would get them stuck into them! That would not be good. It is so pretty pink and purple with an adorable cupcake on it. And inside I got needles, it is all handcrafted and even has a Rebel Blossom tag which is really cool!

I also received two handmade cards which are really well crafted and perfect looking, they are so nice I will have difficulty ever giving them to anyone :)

And then on top of that I got the cutest drawstring bag- cream and pink with two hearts sewn onto it :) It is so pretty, I am going to hang it on the side of my bed post and put my fluffy bed socks into it :) I sound like an old woman!

Thank you so much Laurie Anne. I will have to post Laurie Anne her Happy Mail this week. To be honest I really didn't know what to send so I was waiting to see what kind of contents to send and I'm afraid I don't have any handcrafted items. My needlework and crafting is not very good but one thing I can say is that it is unique :)

So a massive thank you to Laurie Anne from Rebel Blossom for her very thoughful happy mail :)
You should visit her blog, it is full of lovely crafts, cooking and lots of life stories :)

Hello my dear blog friend and followers

I had news this week that my Country Heritage Blog  has been longlisted in the Best Art and Culture Blog(sponsored by Poetry Ireland)  category of the Irish Blog Awards 2010. I don't know who nominated my blog as it is the blog that I update the least. I had never heard of the Irish Blog Awards until about a month ago. I'm very grateful to get longlisted and thanks to all my blog friends which ever of my blogs you visit :-)

My friend sent me this wonderful image of a wee baby elephant which he saw on a newspaper website. I thought it was so cute. I couldn't find the link for it. It makes me happy every time I look at it. Hope it makes you smile and brightens up your evening :-)

And this is where my love of elephants started when I was just a baby

I got this wee elephant teddy from my parents and I have it ever since :-) Don't laugh now! Yes I'm sad I even have a photograph of it for you, its all tattered and torn but I have it so long I have become attached to it, it will be 27 this year!

Yes notice the new trunk.

And how worn it is... and totally thread bare!