Folksy Folks, Chilli Jam, Cards and oh For a Change Trains!!!!

Phew what a busy time we're having at Twiggy Towers, just over a week until young Master Twigs starts playgroup - I'm being a cissy about it - and he's only doing 2 half days. Anyhoo, we've got lots to cram in.

Here goes.........................................................................

Last weekend involved minature steam trains, then during the week we've spent a fair bit of time in the garden and playing with lovely friends that we haven't seen for weeks for one reason and another.

Twiglet has had his first big boy haircut.He looks about 3 years older, but everyone loves it and it was his idea, so he sat still for 20 mins while the hairdresser snipped away.We're finally managing to harvest some veggies from our little greenhouse, so far a pathetic 7 ripe tomatoes, but look at this bundle of oriental salad, it is yummy!Wow, Twiggy is getting super domesticated, I made my first ever chilli jam this week, phew it's scrummy but it's hot stuff!!! Twiglet and I made some carrot and lovage soup too which was delish, Mr Twigs had a go at the Hairy Bikers Cheese & Ale bread too, unfortunately the soup and bread was sooooooooo delish we scoffed the lot before I could take photos - oops.Here are a few ATCs I made for this months swaps on Papercrafters and ATC Addicts.A birthday card for my fantastic friend Helen.A couple of cards I've made that I'm about to pop into my Folksy shop.

And we've had a very tiring but wonderful day with Twiglets little cuz again, which of course involved trains!!!! and swings and ice cream - had a magic time.In other news, I received a fabulous RAK and two gorgeous cards from my Papercrafters and Crafts Beautiful friends this week which I promise to blog very soon. I was on a bit of a downer at the beginning of the week - I'm missing Twiglet already :( and had a grotty cold so after some good advice from fabby Jo at Blissed Out, I made myself some excitement. I've booked a VERY exciting surprise for Mr Twigs and I in October for his birthday, just hope I can keep quiet until then, but more of that at a later date.............................................

Finally a big thank you to my lovely bloggy friend Louise @ Home Is Where the Heart Is for this..................And right back at you Louise, I've met some great people since I've started blogging and you are one of the best :)

Catch you all later

Twiggy x

Surprises, Awards and lots of plants.........

Hello there

Have lost my blog mojo a bit at the moment. Twiglet starts playgroup for the first time in 2 weeks, so we are cramming in a lot of stuff. This coupled with the fact I've got a grotty cold seems to have affected my whittering abilities (stop cheering!) so this is going to be a post heavy on photos. (The above are photos of the lovely roses Mr Twigs and Twiglet bought me for being a good mummy and taking Twiglet out on trips while I've been poorly :) This was a lovely surprise as I rarely have flowers bought for me. After I gave birth to Twiglet, Mr Twigs bought me a cornish pastie!!! must admit I did enjoy it though:) (He also bought me a gorgeous Doug Hyde print 6 weeks later :)

I've done very little on the crafting front this week. I've kindly loaned the car to Mr Twigs so Twiglet and I have discovered the joys of public transport in a rural area and we've had good fun. It's lovely being able to nosey into peoples gardens and relax and enjoy the scenery which I can't do when I'm driving. Of course Twiglet has been in his element being something of an old lady magnet, I'm sure everyone in a 20 miles radius now knows he has new shoes and a new haircut:)

I received a lovely surprise in the post this week, Vicky over at Anglesey Allsorts posted recently about some agapanthus plants she'd bought at a car boot sale. I mentioned how jealous I was as they are VERY expensive up here. Well, what a terrific surprise my postman delivered two for me from Vicky along with a smashing little book for Twiglet, how kind is that? Here they are in the new pot I bought for them today!!!! Big thank yous and big hugs from Twiglet!!!!

We've spent quite a lot of time in the garden this week and I've finally had some ripe tomatoes in my greenhouse, which were swiftly gobbled up by Twiglet.

Here's my fledging herb pot, I've got a bay tree, rosemary bush and thyme elsewhere in the garden. Today I bought some lovage and comfrey(to make tomato food) but will pop those in a pot so they don't take over the gardenMy lilies have finally flowered too, here's one for your enjoyment (yes I know it's blurred :)

I received an email from Cathy @ Big Cats Emporium this week to say that my Cupcake & Tea swap had arrived safely in Australia, so here's a piccy for you. Although, I'm a coffee drinker myself I just had to include some Yorkshire Tea didn't I? (Gorgeous Cupcake card and tag made by Jan @ Daylily Lane - take a look at her lovely Etsy shop!)And in other news, as they say on TV, I'm trying to learn to crochet again - grrrrrr, that's my only comment. I've opened a new FOLKSY shop, see the link on the right hand side, now I really do need to rediscover my crafting mojo!

Twiglet has now had a big boy haircut and looks about 3 years older, I nearly cried when the hairdresser chopped off his lovely long blonde tresses - sigh. He does look blimmin cute though.

I've also been lucky enough to be the recipient of two awards firstly this one .............

From the lovely Tassie @ Tassies Craft Blog, thank you very much it's so kind of you lady. I was also given this award by lovely Natalie @ Natalies World of Sparkling Cards - lucky Twiggy, thank you Nat.

So I need to :-
1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you’ve nominated

Now, you know I'm lazy and never add links but all my favourite blogs on on my favourite list so go take a looky see at :-

Lynsey @ Swirly Thoughts

April@ Cake Makes the World Go Round

Jan @ Daylily Lane

Emma @ Jellybelly Jellybrain

Lee @ Solstice Dreamer

Sal @ Sals Snippets

Sarah @ Tiggertastic

To quote Frank Carson, and there's more.............

I was given this award from lovely Jo over at Freaky Deaky Crafty Chick, thank you missus, here are the rules that I nicked from Jos blog and as ever all the favourites can be found on my faves list.

1. Only 5 people allowed.

2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog

3. 1 has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.

4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.

The award goes to:-

Jennie@ Falling Down the Rabbit Hole

Daisie @ Daisie Days

Louise @ Home is Where the Heart Is

Vicky@ Anglesey Allsorts

Linda @ Two Pink Possums

Phew, another mammoth Twiggy post, I'm off for a lie down and a Lemsip. Have a good week.

Bye for now

love

Twiggy x

He's a Big 'Un

Blimey you don't get many of those to the pound do you? We visited our local country fair last weekend, and it was great. Apparently 10,000 visitors converged on the little village of Emley during one day - phew! no wonder the fields were so muddy.Twiglet was rather taken with the hamsters.How about one of these lovely creatures? you could make your own wool.
I love living up here.
How sweet does Twiglet and his little cousin look hand in hand, holding onto their respective Daddies hands - bless. He is only 5 months older than his l'il cuz and they get on so well but we live far apart so see each other a handful of times a year, but they're great friends.

Here's a bag I made for the little lady in question, she seemed quite taken with it!

The next day we went to a very rainy Lotherton Hall and met this pretty fellow.We popped into town this evening to meet Mr Twigs from work and had a quick trip to Primark as I never seem to get to go shopping anywhere and I was after a snoogy fleece to make into some cosy cushions. I'm very pleased with this................

And these gorgeous tea towels are so lovely it would have been rude not to buy them.
All at the credit crunching price of £2 each !!!!

I have done a bit of crafting this week, as I am all sewed out, thought I'd do some ATCs. I completed these for the lucky bag challenge I'm taking part in this month on the ATC Addicts R Us forum. The remit was to use only things from the lucky bag you were provided with and basic stuff like glue scissors etc. I used so much glitter, it is still everywhere. I left a fairy dust trail on the bus this afternoon, which I thought was rather pretty :)Good news by the way my friend LOVED the beans on toast brooch and bando that I made her for Cropredy and will wear them with pride (see previous posts). She did think the brooch was hilarious too, it's good to know you're not the only strange person out there :)Finally, now I know that Simone has received her giveaway prize, here's a piccy. Or as they used to say on the TV programme, BULLSEYE, Here's What You Could Have Won ! sorry, I'll get my coat :)

As Simone is a cardmaker I tailored the prize to include stuff I thought she would enjoy using the most.

Have a good week.

love

Twiggy x

Happy Yorkshire Day & The Winner Is....................

Happy Yorkshire Day everyone!

Ok, it's time to announce the winner of my giveaway selected by Twiglet from one of his lurid Ikea bowls

And the winner is ...................................................................................................................................

SIMONE@ LINDEN GROVE
Well done Simone, and sorry to the rest of you but thanks for the book recommendations some interesting stuff there. As I said in my previous post I intend to do a Pay It Forward in the next month or so, so keep watching.
Twiggy x
PS Just a quick note to say that I'm in the process of making some new stock for my Etsy shop so I've got a little sale on existing stock so please do take a look. New stock will be in there hopefully in the next week or so, Twiggy bettter get moving :)