Renovating My Life, Cottage and Garden
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
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Living a solitary life, in an old stone cottage, amid three acres of planted woodland and garden, Colette O'Neill is a published author and passionate environmentalist, Druidess(Bandruí) and Woodlander, promoting Celtic indigenous wisdom and culture in all of her work.
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My gosh, people....don't just drop by to others unannounced - especially not to someone you feel like you "know" only via the internet! Bealtaine Cottage is a place understandably many would love to visit, but it is not fair nor welcome for the cottage or Colette to come by uninvited. The appropriate and respectful way to visit Bealtaine if not invited is to do so remotely by watching the many videos Colette is kind enough to share. As someone who values his privacy I personally would be angry if people I did not know but who only watched my videos showed up on my door!
I wonder when she said "cold callers" if she meant people selling things, offering to do work, or even people like Jehovah's witnesses, sometimes I get all three knocking on my door!
I so agree. That's her private world. ❤
there are people with no manners at all. they have seen the channel and all its wonderful content and would do such a thing?
I find it bizarre that people think it's ok to just show up at your house. They should respect your privacy
Yes I was thinking the same thing. I must admit I was a little shocked.
@@muddyboots2531 Yes I find it strange as well.
They should at least call first.
@@DebrasBeautifulMusic They're strangers who know who she is from social media.
@@TheAdelaideWoman That is creepy, to me anyways.
Hi Colette,I lost my husband in December and I'm slowly getting round to throwing thingsout and rearranging my house to suit just me. It's a difficult time but I have to do it. SO today is bedroom day, and I'm watching your videos for inspiration xx
Sorry for your loss. Your strength is admirable ❤ Good luck with everything ❤❤
You’ve got this! Sending love ❤
So sorry for your loss. It can be particularly hard to let go of things that we have sentimental attachments to.
Sorry for your loss. ❤🙏🏻
Many blessings. May your path open gently. 💝
The secret Garden was one of my favourite books, as a child.
I'm 76 and I agree.. Just do it yourself and get it done.. I have a secret space in my garden .. A place to go and rejuvenate.
I love the secret garden idea. I've always loved the thought of a secret garden where you can go and dream surrounded by beauty!
When I had a picket fence put around my cottage I had the gates put in invisibly. They are made of pickets and no one can find them unless I go out and open it😂😂
I can't believe people just turn up without warning. It's a huge invasion of your privacy. Good luck with the herb garden. Hugs from Crete!
So true. My unannounced visitors always say, 'I feel like I've intruded your privacy', to which I answer, 'Yes, you have'. And, I have a gate!
Your whole property is a sacred garden, and your new little herb garden could be considered a medicinal healing space with intoxicating fragrances. Everything you've done is so lovely.
I hope you mean sacred.
@@witlof5492 Woops..I'll fix that. Thanks
The stained glass is a brilliant idea. So very pretty and so very private. And the secret garden idea is a wonderful plan. I love the whole idea. It sounds so wonderfully fairy-like.🧚♀🧚♂❤❤
The idea of a sacred garden is a lovely one. You do work hard, Colette - all power to you!
You are so right about nature. Nature can be very dangerous to us if we don't respect it. God gave us beautiful nature to live in❤😊
A secret garden is a wonderful idea ❤
Colette, I love your videos and really look forward to them. Really appreciate you showing us around and also for your words of comfort and wisdom ❤️
The studio/office is the real deal! You e mastered a volume of work over the years under whatever circumstances/space presented itself. This is it! What an incredible space to work in and a spacious/professional space that honours your work. Sure Patsy loves it too!
You're looking invigorated Collette. Out with old, in with the new! Big changes happening everywhere. Your cottage looks so welcoming and cosy. Sending ❤ Perth Western Australia
Hi covering your side panels you won't be able to see out either, you side curtains cover them and give you the options to look out..such a beautiful home and gardens..well done have a beautiful weekend,xo
You re so blessed to have a lot of rain in your country. Here in Greece, Aegean islands, Cyclades, some rain only in winter time. We have to save water and be very careful with its use.
I admire your house, garden and, of course, the work you do! ❤
Hi Colette, my name is Collette also! I was intrigued by your headline about giving a hoot. I agree. I love your thoughts about things. Thank you for sharing your life!
Love watching these vidios Collette I suffer from depression and low energy but seeing all that you do inspires me Thankyou x
YES, It is a process of getting into a gentle and healthy relationship with each moment to moment adventure of life unfolding in the mystery. Celebration of being alive and focusing on the many different blessings that exist now as you are now regardless of any kind of distractions and outside influences.
Stay present and aware of the wonderful things that are enjoyable and rewarding to do to enhance your life and your joy ❤
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us ❤
I grow my herbs in large half barrels. It’s so easy to maintain and the herbs are doing so good because of the good drainage. Just an idea for us older ladies.
I think a secret garden would be lovely. You are doing marvelous work in your garden and cottage. Many blessings to you. Take care.
You give me inspiration as I really begin to focus on cleaning up my gardens since my husband passed away almost five years ago. I am always amazed by the abundance and wild growth in my garden and your nature discussion wad so helpful. Blessings from Oregon.
Herb garden great idea. Miss mine in London, it had meadow sweet in it as well smells amazing in flower. 😊
Hello Kindred Spirit, from Ohio USA ❤❤ Thank you for always being an inspiration, you are so appreciated 💗 I love your home, beautiful Patsy and Ireland 🇮🇪 You are a earth momma 100% and I admire you!! 🍀 ☘ 🍀 Blessed Be, blessings to you!! 🌻🌻🌻🌻
Everything is looking great. Thank you 4 sharing...
Yes to a secret garden!
Wonderful to see you energized in the woodland and gardens! I enjoyed hearing the wind and the chimes and movement which were also energized! Enjoy the long sun-high days🩷🐇💛
Hi Colette a sacred and secret garden is perfect ! So well deserved a place to reflect and be delighted in your place in nature .. like your walks are ..and just enjoy .. We could enjoy tea time with you time to time :) Sitting in the garden on a bench covered in a rose arbor with your tea! Roses are herbal! Maybe a place to write and read ..maybe grow some teas chamomile, melissa, some scents, lavender, roses.. This will be an amazing space "to be" in and I can't wait to see what you create! ❣
hello Colette!
Ive missed being here, its so healing
i visited back years ago, well, we
Chancey and myself would watch your programs and Jack with the cats
wonderful.
I took a break from Paganism and found Jesus, and recovered from that dreadful disease and your gardening and softened whispers really helped and brought JOY, thankyou dearest
I see you have a wee one and she is lovely!
Ive truly missed you
i am sorry that people have trespassed onto your homeland, and disrupting your privacy. you deserve the very best
many blessings to you, your land and all creatures on Bealtaine Cottage, xxx willow-Sage Braden
Awesome view from the top of what will be your secret garden! I think I'd find that a very inspiring place to sit and let the visual feast feed my soul. 👍😎🇨🇦🌱🌿🌾🌸💮🐝🐛🦋
Hi Colette & Patsy! The cottage & gardens are looking so beautiful. I think a secret herb garden is a wonderful idea! Looking forward to seeing how it turns out. Blessings to you & Patsy ❤.
Lovely effect on your front door, and reassuring' to know you have privacy. I'll never understand people who think it's fine to just drop in on you. My upbringing taught me to always call ahead. As a visitor, you never know what's going on in someone else's life that you might disrupt if you just 'drop in'. Im in my 70's and my grandmother also taught me as a child to 'clean up as you go along', and I've done so all my life. Sadly most people either weren't taught this, or chose not to subscribe to this axiom, but I agree wholeheartedly that it's the best way to go. It's NEVER fun to return to a task that is a big mess, and all your enthusiasm is quashed! You have done some lovely changes and clean-ups in your home and garden, Collette. Good for you! There's nothing so satisfying as achieving your goals, eh?
I love the window panels! Beautiful. I would want to take down the curtains to let those colorful colors shine through. Absolutely gorgeous!!
Ooh, a secret garden within the secret garden that is Bealtaine Cottage. Wonderful idea, Colette.
I think your grandchildren would love that. A great idea.
Delightful! What an inspiration you are, Colette, and your Secret Garden is another Bealtaine Cottage masterwork we can enjoy along with you... (of course, we do appreciate your doing all the work!) 😊
The lodge and herb garden are looking great! That rustic rose arch is holding up beautifully and the roses are a vibrant pop of color! Sending hugs from Oviedo, Spain!
What you said about the Celtic calendar and July being the last month of summer resonates with me, although I know nothing about it. Once we get into August, although the heat can be very oppressive, since the earth itself is so hot, the light is different. Hot temperatures, but a slight thinning of the light, to me. I've noticed that for years now . I will ,ook into the Celtic calendar. I'm a brand new subscriber, btw. I .ove your cottage and magical gardens!
Oh yes a secret garden Collette ❤
Your grandchildren would love it too!😊Can imagine also a a bench and of course a swing .... I'm sure a robbin would certainly love the space!xx
Hi Collette. I live in Tennessee, US, far south west, bordering Mississippi. Not the same climate, but find following you and others around the UK, we seem to be on track with the Celtic calendar as far as plants as well. Also, I have a property not unlike yours, and veggies are not my priority, but I like to grow what I can. I have 4 simple raised beds, and some containers. The only way I can manage and control. Around this I plant flowers and herbs, mostly in ground. Everything benefits, and the veggies get the TLC they need.
Oh I think a Secret Garden maybe edged in herbs would be brilliant, Colette!! And the stained glass is so very pretty and useful!!🌲🌿🍀☘️🍃🌱
Hi Colette, I really like your sticky back stained windows. They look so effective and pretty! I'm sure they will give you more privacy too! Enjoy the rest of your day, Blessings to you and little Patsy ❤❤
This is the first time I have seen your videos.The garden is beautiful .The secret garden is a good idea. !! James
Here in South Saint Paul, MN, our light is similar to where you are and I feel it so strongly all the time. In fact, I've always found it odd that the meteorological first day of summer always felt so odd and a bit melancholy to me. I can feel the shifting of the time and the season. It doesn't feel like the first day at all, but the beginning of the descent, which is, of course, what it is.
Likewise, winters here can be long, but February light always cheers me immensely! I don't DISlike the growing darkness. I enjoy it and embrace it for what it is. But my BODY responds to the changing of the light and even though it's only just past the height of summer, I feel myself preparing to turn inward. The Celtic calendar literally FEELS so much more aligned with me and the climate here. Not so for everyone in the world, but it is for me right here.
Thank you for all you share, Colette. Always a delight and calming breath when I visit.
I feel very in tune with what you are doing. Have loved wandering along your paths with you. It’s my time for simplifying my life. The freedom and peace it brings are immeasurable.
Secret garden sounds quite magical. I shall be watching with much interest Colette. Blessings to you and Patsy.😊❤️🏴🇬🇧
As your ex veg plot is rectangular you could put a circle area to sit in the middle, leading to the path... Grow herbs all around it, you can sit and smell the aroma of the herbs. Love your work ethic Collette 🤗
Your apples look wonderfully healthy Colette and so far ahead of mine in the Welsh valleys. It is a wonderful climate you have there much helped by the little ecosystem you have created around you.
Sua casa é seu Jardim parece cenário de filmes é tudo muito lindo ❤abraços daqui do Brasil ❤
The stick on stained glass looks lovely, I have used this myself, lets light in and looks pretty while giving privacy.
a bird bath and a small chair and side table would be nice and maybe some solar lights?
Love the idea of a Secret Garden…. Your whole garden is a beautiful secret garden❤ just love it …. Here we are July already 😮 we are in our Winter here in Australia, very chilly here in Tasmania, similar to where you live
In regards to your vegetable garden being transformed into an herb garden and now a secret garden, I can totally relate to having one vision but as you work on it, your ideas change and you come up with something else. Can't wait to see how the space continues to transform.
Your gardens are just so beautiful. Gaia is amazing.
Yes..a secret garden would be perfect..just like the book and original movie🌸🌸🌸
Beautiful! Blessings on you and your beautiful piece of nature ❤
Hi Colette cottage looking good. I have same stuff on some of my windows great stuff enjoy the day Love to you and Patsy xxx
loving the cottage cleanup/move about going on Colette nice movement happening there oh yes hello Patsy...blessed be all ..overgrow overshare overcare overseed everywhere worldwide..goddess bless...nice fake glass panel...have a great day..cheers
As my granny used to say; "Nothin' to it, but to do it".
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Love the stick on window privacy prints, they bring a beautiful hue into the rooms also, it’s a breeze warm day here, recovery is moving along nicely and I am behaving while in the process, many flowers have popped open these last few days bringing such mighty colours into the garden and a wonderful neighbour has come to pick rubbish from the garden beds and tidy about, really though, what would we do without nature, my gosh if our lives revolved around the news, anyway thanks as per, you continue doing Trojan work, keep safe and Patsy has the right idea…
God bless you woman!
Fantastic to see you on the screen looking amazing as always beautiful lady
Thanks again and again for taking us through the garden and the opportunity to realize how much you have done inside of your home too.
I hope people will realize the importance of respect for people's privacy. I know that they are not interested in doing anything harmful but it is extremely rude to come to anyone's home without an invitation.
Learning how to live together harmoniously and respectfully is a very important part of our journey together with peacefulness and kindness with thinking clearly about the needs of others as well as our own interests.
The idea of a place of peace, secretly hidden in the woodland garden is a splendid thing to create and use for a new energetic atmosphere of otherworldly magic and sacredness in a untrodden area that is always a sanctuary for contemplation and rejuvenation. ❤
We all deserve a peaceful and safe secret space for our lives with the healing and the ability to be peaceful and calm and unavailable for the rest of the world in this place of love and relaxation. ❤
Yes yes to the secret garden 💚🧚🏼🌿
90% of the time I prefer to do any task myself. Electrical and plumbing I still ask for help but that's only my fear holding me back. Your home is inspiring.
LOVE THE SECRET GARDEN-- a gate made from dropped branches
I would love to get lost in the beautiful magickal garden you created. It's so lovely! 💚 🌿
Your gradens are lovely and a secret garden would be a wonderful addition.
Always a pleasure. Also am happy for you. You keep making boundaries about your channel and the subscribers keep coming!!! I also have a veg bed Im changing into a different bed. There's too much shade now and a groundhog family too near to keep it going. For changing the bed Im using cardboard to stop the plants I dont want and covering it with soil and mulch. Then I plant straight into that. I did a bed like this last year and it is splendidly weed free with thick hummus and no sign of last years cardboard. Lovely to see you and Patsy enjoying life. Have a lovely day.
What an Inspiration you are dear Colette.A secret garden sounds fab.Love to you both.🤗🤗xx
Thank you for this inspiration. Working on my renovation as well.
Beautiful home unreal beautiful xxx
We put up same ( different design) on our front door. Some years ago. Yours Looks lovely. 😊😊
Luscious greenery…
Many blessings to you as well.
so beautiful. Here in middle Tennessee, we won't have any rain for the next 12 days and 95 degree days....oye.
I love the idea of a secret garden !!!!
I had to smile when you said July is the end of summer in the Celtic calender here in Cornwall and I suspect it’s true for Ireland too, it’s not actually started yet😂I love your plot though you have worked hard also the persistent rain has made everything very lush, I think a secret garden with some lovely scented plants and little bench would be paradise.❤️
Beautiful gardens and love the stained glass look on the door
I love all your trees.
Love the secret garden idea!
Breath taking wood beautiful. Nature abhors a space I find, and the greens spring up no time. Luv your gaff similar to mine somewhat higgldy pigeldy!, plus I also have a few demi johns with blossom brews on the go in my back parlour!, what's not to like blessed be x I have been thinking same creating a secret garden bottom of the garden
Well done with the project, you could put membrane down and gravel, a nice bench and have the herbs in pots xx
Lovely video , please show what you do with your secret garden. I’m creating one for myself and would love to see your ideas. Blessings Colette ❤
Hi Colette, have you heard of keyhole gardening? You could do that in the veg patch and, in the middle ,have a structure to sit under and tend the herbs,etc, and a nice cup of tea❤😊
Your home looks great. Pretty soon I will go into dialysis training to do dialysis on my Mom at home. Have a nice Summer day.
This is a very important skill for the betterment of her life. So many people have kidney disease and require dialysis to live.
Blessings to you both ❤
Yes, definitely a secret garden as that would be a beautiful thing to do in that area.
Would you consider a seated area there, too?
I'm in the middle of a fatigue crash, and your videos are a comfort that this will pass, and I can get back to doing things.
Blessings 😊
When I deal with weeds, I considering it to be harvesting them for mulch and compost. Same with cutting the parts of the lawn I haven't converted to garden yet.
Looking forward to seeing your new adventure 😊
Yes, a secret garden 🪴!
You look great, Colette! And full of energy by the look of things! ! I love the idea of a secret garden! Maybe use some of that willow gone mad to create another archway? Whatever you decide to do, I know it will look magical!
Good morning Colette, enjoyed your video I agree with many others in comments re cold callers, unbelievable. I have the same design of roll on " stain glass" effect, on my kitchen / garden door glass panel it gets the sunlight in the morning and throws a beautiful light across the room. Also upstairs bathroom windows, no need for any other window coverage. I have a few of your calendars and have followed the same Celtic seasons, In my garden it's almost like a very early Autumn coming in lots of leaves wind blown, Hugs and Blessings to you 💚🌹
Love the stained glass..great idea!! Your paradise is looking fantastic dear Colette...job well done. 😂 I can understand that some people mean well just to pop in ..but i think it's rude and inconsiderate after all.
Great 👌 idea of secret garden.
Fantastic garden
Love the dress on the dress form
Yay! A new Colette video with my morning coffee. Love your top.
Colette we like the changes you are making in and out of the cottage. Hugs and love to Patsy and you ❤
dear Col,ette..............once you start rearranging your home,you can,t stop...................that,s what happens to me every time......................but you did a good job..................your sounds sound great.....wish I had some of the big...but here they are very expensive......Blessings and Greetings and for Patsy a big hug from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘
Another great video, Colette. Thank you!