Todays post brought to you by Twiggy and Twiglet

I am assisted by Twiglet today as he was going to nursery this morning until he started being sick. We still all have the lurgy here - yuck!!! Anyhoo he's cavorting around on his hobby horse wearing a firemans helmet at the moment, so think he's feeling a bit brighter. I keep falling asleep sitting up - not good. The ironing will have to wait for another day.

Well had a lovely Mothers Day last weekend, but decided to have it a day early on Saturday, as the weather was so glorious. We went to Whitby.................My boy made me a lovely card and pressie at nursery - bless.

Also bought me a pretty plant and lovely windchime.
Finally managed to fly our kite! Found lots of fossils at Sandsend and had a tiptop time.
Had a surprise this week in a bad way, discovered that Twiglet is starting school FULL TIME in September, he's still my baby - argh!!! however asked young Master Twig what he thought about this and he said, cool, fantastic!!!! Ok, I'll be the one sobbing into a cushion then, you'll have to put up with me sniffling come September.

So we've decided that this being our last summer of freedom, it should be our last hoorah, and this is when I received a surprise in a good way. Lovely Pam at White Morn was having a VERY VERY generous giveaway of two seperate weeks at her beautiful cottage in Ireland and I was lucky enough to win one of them. Fanflippintastic!!!! Thank you soooooooooo much Pam.

And finally here are our cucumber seedlings, coming on nicely.

Ok off for a Lemsip now and Dr Twiglet is currently taking my temperature, apparently I need an ice lolly :)

Have a nice week

love

Twiggy x
PS Someone very kindly passed on an award to me ages ago, I haven't forgotten and promise to blog it properly next time.

Excitement!!!!

Hope you've all had a lovely day, blimey I'll have a lot to blog about this week. Phew got in about an hour ago after a day at my Mums, I'm soooooo tired anyhoo, just a quickie to say take a look here :-http://aceoshowcase.com/ I'm VERY giddy, thanks Lynsey.
love
Twiggy x
PS The eagle eyed among you might have noticed the button for Lynseys fab ACEO showcase I've added to my list on the right.

Red noses all round..................

Aren't these daffs gorgeous!!!

The family Twigs were going to fly a kite last weekend but we had rain,snow,hail,sun and thunder talk about 4 seasons in one day so we made thse easy hot cross buns instead - yummy!

Not much to report really this week I've got a grotty cold and poor little Twiglet has another bad cough, he's such a trooper. Send him get well soon vibes, please. He was due to celebrate Red Nose Day at nursery today by wearing red. however, the little poppet couldn't go to nursery today, so he dressed in red, we wore our noses and made some red nose buns!!!

Had a lovely day with our friends yesterday and forgot my camera - doh!

Spent a bit of time in the garden this week, look Spring is really on it's way.

The needle cases are finally finished for our Mums, the third one is for me, hey I'm a Mum too.
Here are the little parcels Mr Twigs kindly posted off to Taz for me today. you'll have to wait to find out what's in them !!That's all for now folks. Hope you've all donated some cash to Comic Relief and got your red noses. I bought one and I've got a real one too - wahey!

love

Twiggy x

PS Go over to Sykessillysite (see my sidebar) Josie is VERY generously donating all monies made from any sale in her Etsy shop before lunchtime tomorrow to Comic Relief . Some lovely stuff there.

Happy Saturday and we have a winner................

Isn't it funny how small acts of kindness make such a big difference? We were up and out at a shockingly early 8.30am (for the Twiggys on a Saturday unheard of) yesterday. We dropped the car off for it's MOT and took Twiglet for a very cute haircut.

Anyhoo, we had to catch the bus home so went to the cafe for breakfast whilst waiting for our bus. A pretty little girl came over and said would your little boy like these and thrust a bag of Magic Stars at Twiglet. Twiglet did what he always does when faced with pretty ladies, looked at his shoes went very red and said erm... thank you erm.....

His Mum shouted over, we have loads so wanted to share, how nice is that? Mr Twigs told Twiglet, a pretty lady offering you chocolate life will never get better than that :)

Mr Twigs continued with this theme of niceness when he later went to collect the car and took Twiglet with him so I could play on my own for an hour or two. I made this for my Mum for Mothers Day whilst drinking beer and listening to the Stone Roses, simple pleasures indeed. I took the pattern from Cath Kidstons Make but used more lurid colours and flower buttons to Twiggy it up!

Right Twiglet has picked a winner from the orange Ikea bowl and the winner is....................................................................................................
TAZ @ Ratbag Creations, so well done missus, I'll post the brooch off to you in the next few days, would you prefer red or turquoise? Thanks to all of you who entered.

I'm being summoned to go and have a shower now and get dressed, it is 11.45am after all!! Look I managed to be up and at them early yesterday and I'm spent now, ok?

We're off to fly a kite when we're all ready.

Catch you later

Twiggy x

25 years on

Just wanted to mention this link, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7925552.stm
you might like to take a look. Mr Twigs and I both grew up in Yorkshire mining towns and lived in them during the miners strike. Very sad times for ALL concerned.
Twiggy x

Come outside it's lovely........

Have you had a nice week? I hope so. Well we've spent a lot of time outside over the last week. Even though we had a dusting of snow a couple of nights ago it feels like Spring is finally just around the corner.

Last weekend we visited a Steam and Diesel Gala and had a fab time,Here's an action shot of Mr Twigs playing on the slide! they even had a little local food market, where we bought these goodies. Douglas Fairbanks inspired biscuit......... Lottie Shaws seriously good hot cross buns which are indeed, seriously good.........
Some very lovely cheese, the Calderdale Bad Boy is VERY hot, bet you thought Calderdale Bad boy was Ted Hughes didn't you :) Went for a walk with Twiglets lovely little cuz, while they were oop North visiting, how sweet are they?Monday saw a VERY busy Mummy and Twiglet day.

Baking more lurid coloured buns.

Team Twiggy homemade pizzas. I made bases, the chaps`decorated'them.
Adding the finishing touches to and posting off Twiglets CBeebies flower.
Even planting our first seeds of the year!!! and we also planted a couple of Silver Birch saplings at the weekend.

Spent yesterday on our weekly, muddy day out with our friends.

All in all a grand week.

I will draw a winner for my little giveaway sometime this weekend. Add a comment to the post further down if you haven't already. you've got to be in it to win it!

love

Twiggy x

Fantastic!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7917722.stm
Twiggy x