Happy New Year

Been over to my Mums for a little family get together today and Twiglet didn't go to bed until 9.45pm!!! Perhaps we'll start 2010 with a lie in, or maybe not :) Anyhoo the panto was a hit apart from the scarey King Rat, hmm he scared me.

So here's a few Christmas pics as promised. Check out Twiglet and the giant Christmas Eve snowman !!!!

Baking gingerbread men with Daddy for Father Christmas !!!

Tracking Santa on the Norad tracks santa website.

Nana Twigs fabulous Christmas cake.

3 giddy kippers.

Thank you so much for reading my blatherings in 2009 and for giving me crafting inspiration and great friendship. I hope you'll come with me into next year.

love

Twiggy x

Seasons Greetings

Hooray we had a white Christmas, did you? Hope you are having lovely Christmas. We're having a terrific, restful, lovely, family time. Christms Day was so nice. We entertained the oldies yesterday and thanks to me listening to David Tennant on the radio and having 2 glasses of sherry and a satsuma for breakfast I burnt my roast veggies - oops!!! so had to hurriedly do some more, Twiglet piped up these are burnt, my lovely MIL said, it's called caramelised darling - bless. See you can fool some of the people some of the time :) I even made a ginger and lemon cheesecake which was scrummy.

Feeling a bit grotty today as have a yuck cold and I must admit a BIT of a hangover, so off to watch Cranford now and save my energy for the panto tomorrow. Will post some Christmassy photos later.

Take care

Twiggy x

PS Look at poor little ted buried up to the neck in snow !!!!

Santa Express and a few thank yous...........

Well, I have a few thank yous to mention. Firstly to Lissylou for my lovely Handmade Decoration

Swap, my decoration is so cute and has been stolen by Master Twiglet for his tree!! We scoffed the choccy in record time, I'm using my lovely bookmark in my ancient copy of A Christmas Carol I'm currently reading and my needlebook is in my sewing box !! I'm saving the socks for Christmas :) hope you don't mind that I erm........ borrowed your photo !!

I was also lucky enough to win this fabulous MIFFY!!!!! in a giveaway by super Greenpixey, Ms

Miffy is now in pride of place near the top of our Christmas tree.

Well we are Christmas agogo with Mr Twigs having a week off work and visited Santa on the twilight Santa Express this evening, how on earth we kept this a secret from Twiglet for 2

months, I'll never know!!! was fabbo fun.

When the big man asked Twiglet if he'd been good, he told him he had been a bit good, last week. At least he's honest :)

It has been bucketing down with snow since we came home and is VERY deep outside. looks like a white Christmas for us !!!

Here are some Christmas makes, the t.shirts I made for Twiglet, his two pals and my mate. I'm quite proud of the reindeer one as I did a freehand reindeer design and made this one for the little chap for Christmas day.

Made some delish mincemeat muffins - sorry no photos, we've scoffed them.

Thanks to Daisy at Daisie Days for the top tip of where to get a small white Christmas tree for Twiglets bedroom - he loves it!!! yay for Poundland!!!

So that's me for now, we are having our very first Christmas just the three of us this year, looks like it's just as well as it's pretty hard to get up here due to the snow!! We might go to the Christingle tomorrow at our village church if we can get there. We have the oldies (as Mr Twigs calls them - cheeky) coming round for Boxing Day - weather permitting. We're also taking Twiglet to his first panto next week - wahey!!!

Thank you for reading my blog this year my friends, I will be back soon but meanwhile have a fantastic Christmas however you chose to spend it. Big hugs to everyone who will be missing someone at this time of year. I'll be lighting a candle for my dear Dad. Promise me everyone that you will chill out, be kind to yourselves and not get too upset when the lovely Doctor regenerates. Blimey what a blow that will be, thank goodness for Hamlet on Boxing Day, now where's my Casanova DVD.....................

Happy Christmas

love

Twiggy x

In the bleak midwinter........

Get yer sledge out, which is exactly what we did yesterday. Don't know who that crazy woman on the sledge is, honestly, some folk have no sense of decorum :)

love Twiggy x

Finally.........

The snow has properly arrived, yay!!! Here at Twiggy Towers we all have grotty colds so what did we do while the snow fell this afternoon? Built this (thanks for the kit Nana Twigs)

and took these photos.

Ooo we also made these.

Check out the lovely little Christmas pudding at the top of the page that Twiglet made at school for me and his Daddy, it was scrummy.

I will leave you with cowboy Daddy, doesn't he look cute? he'll kill me - haha!!!

I LOVE cosy, wintery afternoons and I REALLY love snow.

Twiggy x

Hooray for the holidays.

Well we had a terrific day today, me and Mr Twigs and Nana and Grandad Twigs went to see Twiglets nativity in our village church this morning. I really can't accuse my son of being a show off as I only found out on Wednesday night that he was a wise man in the play !! I mentioned my friend had phoned and her boy (Twiglets mate) had been a wise man in his nativity and picked his nose throughout :) Anyhoo, Twiglet pipes up, I'm being one of those on Friday, so I said are you? what will you wear. He replied, a gold crown a wise men cape, a fluffy waistcoat and I have a gift it's myrrh but I don't think there is really any in the box - tee hee. Oh I said, why didn't you tell me poppet, he told me, oh I forgot. He is just like his Daddy !!!

Anyhoo it was lovely as we walked down to our village church and we've had a bit of snow overnight so everything was picture perfect. His little girlfriend was Angel Gabriel with tinsel in her hair, so pretty. Twiglet was a great wise man and when he spotted me and Grandad in the crowd kept waving his wise man gift at us!!! One of the camels was a little tired so had a lie down on the floor and the shepherd played with the sheeps ears. The children all sang beautifully and I managed not to cry, just. My boys first ever nativity, what a thrill.

When we left the church it started snowing again, just perfect. We went on to buy little mans Christmas pressie a very lovely wooden pirate ship. This afternoon we collected him from school and he's made us some beautiful things a little calendar, a fantastic handprint angel and a card and a little Christmas cake!!! photos to follow.

This evening, we drove into Leeds to see the pretty lights, so all in all a lovely day full of memories.

We're now full of sniffles but who cares cos we have 2 weeks for snuggling under blankets, watching Christmas films, eating goodies and cuddling. I for one can't wait !!!!

Twiggy x

PS The only annoying thing about today is Mr Twigs camera packed in, so we have no photos, but I'll carry the pictures in my head forever.

It smells like Christmas................

Our house smells divine today because of our fab Christmas tree. It's the first real one we've had

since we had Twiglet. (Hopefully we'll be able to plant it outside after Christmas). It was so lovely decorating it together. Also popped up to the cemetery with a pretty Christmas wreath for my Grandma, another Christmas ritual.We are busy, busy for the next few weeks. Lots of festive jollity. Twiglet has his Christmas play on Tuesday - Rock Around the Flock,and then we have the school carol concert at our beautiful village church on Friday. We'll be back there again on Christmas Eve for the Christingle Service - isn't it lovely having small children at Christmas (They're pretty good the rest of the year too :)

This is our first school one, so all very exciting. Lots of making and doing going on too, but you'll have to wait until later for further info.

Now shock horror, Mr Twigs and I are going out alone for the first time this year - yes, you did hear me correctly. Monday evening we're going to see The Pogues - wahey. Can't wait.

Catch you later.

Twiggy x

Frosty Friday morning

I've just had a lovely, chilly, bracing walk down to school with the Twiglet and thought I'd share.......................

Twiggy x

What is Marcus looking at ?

Well what a day. Twiglet went round to his girlyfriends for tea yesterday and had fun. Anyhoo, I spent most of last night getting up to him as he was crying in his sleep and felt poorly. He told us his neck hurt and he ached everywhere so we ended up at casualty at 6.30am this morning. He finally saw a doctor at 8am who checked him over and declared his tonsils are a bit inflamed and it is probably a viral infection, what a surprise. He had some Calpol (little minx wouldn't let us give him any) and soon picked up. He went on to have a lovely afternoon with Daddy looking around train museums while I went crafty shopping with my friend Helen. Bless him.

Well I've been making again whilst looking after my poorly boy this week. So, what is Marcus the fox looking at ? Is it the Mrs Chickens?

Is it Christmas guinea pig, brought down from the attic as Twiglet has decided it is NOW Christmas :)

Is it this Christmas card I made?

Or perhaps, this one?

Could it be the lovely stocking swap that I received from Lucey at Lemonade Kitty, thank you Lucey, lovely stuff indeed. Can you spot the pretty handmade stocking and little fairy, so cute.

Here's what I sent to Lucey.

Or perhaps it's the terrific booty that I bought at Kanban today for next to no money, talk about card porn. It will keep me going for ages and was very cheap indeed. Thanks for taking me Helen!!

Here's a close up of some of it , how cute??

Well, as long as Marcus isn't eyeing up Little Chicken, that's ok. Naughty Marcus.

Have a great week folks and watch out for dapper but very naughty foxes.

love

Twiggy x

Brrrrrrr

Well it was minus three here last night, very frosty and pretty outside and guess what?? not only is the Twiglet poorly off school (again) missing the schools Victorian Day :( the blardy heating has packed in!! So Twiglet is cosy under his duvet on the sofa, we have a little electric heater going while I await the Sainsburys delivery and the heating engineer. Our plans are write a letter to Father Christmas, watch The Snowman and Father Christmas and I think I'll do a little Christmas sewing as my list is impossibly long - I'll ignore the ironing mountain for another day. Oh well if life gives you lemons then make lemonade and all that !!

Keep warm.

Twiggy x

PS Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Raymond Briggs, I'll save that for another time :)

Sharing a moment

Twiglet is currently sat eating tea with his girlfriend from school!! they are being very good, it is very quiet and very sweet. Just had to share.
Twiggy x

Winter walks and inspiration

So before all the lurgy business we went for a lovely walk at the weekend in my favourite conditions, crisp, sunny wintery afternoons. Yes, I know my roots need doing, all taken care of now, I assure you.My boys..................Isn't the mushroom at the top of the page a fantastic colour? We walked along an old disused train track and went to have a look at a disused canal, am I alone in finding trees growing in still water really spooky?? Clumber Park really freaks me out in places. Yes, I'm sure it's just me.

Now here's a bit of Christmas stuff, Twiglet came home from school and told me we must make angels quickly!! his is on the left, fantastic. My favourite bit was when he whipped it's head off blew down it's neck and shouted AN ANGEL TRUMPET !!!!

Here's the inspiration bit, I love blogland, it's great to catch up on what everyone is up to and also a very friendly and inspiring place. One of the most inspiring people for me is Lynsey over at Swirlyarts. Who can take almost anything and turn it into something wonderful, to me that is true creative talent. It is great to buy a book, the latest fabric and make something but to repurpose something in a totally unique way, well that's what Lynsey does and does very well. Thank you for inspiring me and hope you don't mind that I've nicked, I mean erm, borrowed your lovely chicken design as I fancied making a few Christmas chickens for gifts this year. Don't know what these two ladies are chatting about but I made them a little tree to sit next to!! I have a few more cut out and ready to sew. I've made them by hand as it gave me something to do while sitting with poorly Twiglet.

Another idea I stole, I mean borrowed is from Vicky over at Anglesey Allsorts,she has made some fab reindeers and I fancied having a go. The fleece I used is from a little jacket Twiglet used to wear when he was a baby that I loved and couldn't part with. It seems fitting to make him a little friend that he can keep, made from it. Mr Twigs and I had a good laugh as he's a bit bow legged and as my Grandad would have said, he couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel :) Hope Twiglet likes him.I've also been inspired by Solsticedreamer to stop wasting so much blardy time on Facebook, I only joined for a few weeks and thought what a waste of time, I must admit to the odd sneaky game of bejeweled blitz though. Thank you though for reminding me to go and do something REAL !!!!!!

Finally here's a little Christmas ATC hanger I've made for a Crafters Forum swap, I love vintage.How's the weather where you are? up here on top of our hill it is sooooooooooo windy and wet. my little greenhouse took a battering last night and has popped a panel and it's doors have come off, thanks goodness it's plastic rather than glass. It's blowing a gale up here tonight too.

Righto, off to prepare myself to watch Richard Armitage in Spooks, be still my beating heart. Talking of being all aflutter did you see Mr Tennant at the weekend, only 2 more Dr Who episodes with him , there will be a lot of chocolate and wine assistance needed when he regenerates!

Have a great week and try to keep dry and cosy (why does it always rain when it's time for us to walk to school and back??)

Twiggy x

Hope I'm not speaking too soon...........

But Twiglet is back at school today and although coughing and sneezing, is much, much better!!! long may it continue.
Thanks for the get well vibes and sympathy. It's good to tell those of you who've been ill recently or have littlies or recently had littlies (who are now a little bigger:) as you know just where I'm coming from. You also remember that when your children start school they pick up EVERYTHING. The barmy thing is Twiglet is not a sickly child and was a robust bumper of a baby and a robust boy but school germs you just can't escape them. Here's hoping his immune system will become bionic. I will be back soon with some Christmas makes!
Twiggy x

Not again...............

My boy is poorly again - argh!!!!! We've been having real hassle at school as since he was last ill he just can't seem to settle back in again. Anyhoo took him in today and had a phonecall to collect him at lunch time. Poor boy had cried all morning at school and fallen asleep in class. Did I feel like a bad Mummy.
Took him to the docs this evening and he has a viral infection, swollen tonsils and glands in his neck and is soooooooooooo tired. So please send healing thoughts.
Twiggy x

Going to make..........

Well, two posts in one day, whatever next!! I wasn't going to buy any more fabric but fancied a bit of festive loveliness so feast your eyes on this (The Mabel Lucie Atwell print is soooooo cute, I used some of it to make Coppo the chicken).

And this came free with my order!!! oh blimey I'm going to make an advent calendar - wish me luck.Now this is a bundle of fabric from my stash, any ideas what I'm going to make? Well you'll have to wait and see won't you and I'll TRY to finish it before Christmas!!Have a great weekend.

Twiggy x