Our holiday and some pics

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Thank you to everyone for your welcome back messages and get well wishes. I'm feeling a little more better today and managed to eat a little today, after nothing for 2 days. I've managed to download all the holiday pics so I can now share a selection with you.

Kingslake - This is was our holiday cottage, it was nice and cosy and we even had our own little garden area with a BBQ.

The wildlife was very friendly.

The fishing was very good, there were 7 lakes to choose from all set in natural surroundings and so peaceful.

We had some great days out too.....

BUDE

THE EDEN PROJECT

TORQUAY

ILFRACOMBE

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, BUT A GREAT VIEW!!

MINEHEAD

The weather was fantastic with only one wet day at the start of the second week, so certainly couldn't complain. Devon really is a beautiful place we did consider moving there before we bought our current house. I was a bit disappointed with Torquay as I remember our family holiday there nearly 30 years ago, but it has become too built up and commercial now. My favourite days out were The Eden Project (Cornwall) and Ilfracombe. It was great going back to the Eden Project after first visiting it the year it opened, the landscape looked so bare the first time but now it is all well established and the Biorms were amazing. Ilfracombe was so pretty and though a popular coastal holiday resort it isn't over commercialised.

Well thats a bit about our holiday and I hope you enjoyed the piccies.

I plan to catch up with blog hopping and emails over the weekend, so please bear with me.

Altering something a little different and Mollie goes fishing.

As many of you know we are off to Devon next Friday for 16 Days of fishing. We normally take a massive holdall to hold all are bit and bobs for fishing, which weighs a bloomin ton. We decided to treat ourselves to a couple of fishing backpacks, which will hopefully make life alot easier to leave our hands free to carry our seats and rods/pole. Anyway, we bought matching backpacks as they were on special offer so I decided to personalise mine a little, (a) so I know which is mine and (b)to add a little feminine touch. So this is what I did....

I've stamped Fishing Dandelion from the D&D range and coloured with watercolour pencils and copics markers and blender. Chalked the background. Ran the image through the laminator and trimmed off leaving a good border of the plastic. Please don't look too close at the hand sewing, I'm not very good at hand sewing. As you can see Dandelion has gone pink which matches my brand new fishing reel I also bought and just had to have as it was pink...lol.

Whilst I was doing this, Steve and Mollie went fishing this morning. Mollie loves to watch us fish, I think she may like it also because she gets the odd bit of luncheon meat too from the bait box. Steve caught his first Tench from the lake, quite a good size too. Mollie really wanted to get a good look, so here are some pictures of Mollie meeting the Tench and one of Steve with his catch.

Been a lovely day here today and this afternoon I went to Withernsea with Mollie for a walk on the beach, so she's had a fun filled day. Sadly Mollie can't come with us on holiday, as dogs aren't allowed where we are going but we have found a few fisheries that do allow dogs in Lincolnshire, so plan to do a few weekends away through the summer where she'll be able to come with us.

Hope everyone is enjoying their bank holiday weekend so far, lets hope the weather continues to stay fine.

I'll be back in the morning with my DT work for the next Stamptacular Sunday Challenge, can't believe it will be challenge 8.

Also don't forget the Funky Fairys challenge this week, which is Circles & Buttons!!

Enjoy your evening xxx

I'm Back From Fishing

Well here I am back again from our hoidays in Devon. The weather was glorious the whole week, a little chilly in the evenings and early morning until the fog lifted then it was sunshine everyday. We had a lovely relaxing time, though the fishing was a bit disappointing all week, so we left Devon early Saturday morning and headed to our favourite fishing lakes complex in Tewkesbury as we were going to stay in Bristol for the night. We also went back there again today for a few more hours of fishing before heading on the road home. My biggest fish of the week was caught in Tewkesbury, yesterday a 12lb mirror carp :-), so I was very happy with that. We made friend's with another couple, Kay & Peter whilst in Devon, who came from Wakefield, so not too far from us. I also learnt on the second day that Kay was also a card maker, so us girls took a day off from the fishing on Thursday and went to the Stitch & Papercraft Show in Exeter, I have to say this was the highlight of my week, we had a great day and spent way too much, as you do. Well that's about it for now peeps, I'm pretty shattered, so looking forward to my bed very soon. Hope to back into the swing of crafting in the next few days as I have loads of new goodies to play with again. I'll leave you with some pictures of our week xxx

DAWN VIEW FROM OUR CHALET

STEVE OUTSIDE OUR CHALET

ONE OF STEVE'S FISHIES

ME AWAITING FOR A FISH TO JUMP ON MY HOOK -grand total of fish I caught in Devon for the week = 5 :-(

ANOTHER FISH FOR STEVE, HE DID MUCH BETTER THAN ME

THIS IS MORE LIKE IT MY FIRST CATCH AT TEWKSBURY - 8LB

WOOHOOO AND ANOTHER THIS IS THE 12LB FELLA :-)