We're all going on a Summer holiday

Well just had a lovely morning at Twiglets nursery, his new teacher came by to meet Twiglet and we had a very nice time. Lots to do over next few days, dentist, hairdressers, libraries, shopping, ironing, packing etc, etc. So I'll bid you farewell for now lovely readers, see you in a week or so. Get ready for the invasion Vicky and Hubby P :)
love
Twiggy x
PS Celeste and Lissy lou - I posted your parcels to you this morning.

Oooo excitement!!!

We are sat in the middle of a VERY exciting thunderstorm at the moment, has saved me having to water the plants we repotted today. Anyhoo, as one of my original winners hasn't been in touch. Twiglet has kindly done the honours again.
So, second time around the winner is :

CELESTE

So well done and would you email me as soon as poss and let me know which item you would like from my shop.
Twiggy x

At home with the Twiggys and giveaway update

(Super ace Twiglet art work, with a bit of help from Mummy:)Hope you've all had a lovely Fathers day today. Ours started with taking up Mr Twigs breakfast in bed - Twiglet insisted we must wrap up his pressie pass the parcel style and take Daddy a flower in a vase like Mummy Pigs in Peppa Pig :) Hopefully the neighbours didn't see me capering around the garden in my nighty this morning snipping at the geraniums!!!

Twiglet designed a lovely card for his Daddy on the Bonusprint website and dragged his toy electric guitar and mic into our bedroom, to sing Happy Fathers Day -Daddy - bless !!!

We visited the crematorium with some flowers for my darling Dad and had lunch with Nana and Grandad P, then went on to my Mums who has come home with us for a few days, so I can get organised for our hols - hooray!!!

Well I haven't done any crafting recently but done a lot of joint ventures with Master Twiglet, we had an at home with the Twiggys on Thursday which was very productive.

Twiglet getting all arty at the easel!Some homemade hobnobs - yummy!A plate of our salad that we planted a few weeks ago,

Here we have a carnival barge we made :)

We also dug up our very first potatoes this week, Maris Pipers, oh they were delish!

As I said previously we are going away this week. Lissylou has contacted me so I will get your goodies off to you, however, I haven't heard anything from my other winner yet. I'll wait until 7pm tomorrow, if I don't hear anything by then, I'll draw out another name, so call back if you entered as I want to post parcels off on Tuesday.

By the way don't know if you've noticed on the right,but I've just opened a MISI shop!!!

Have a great week

Twiggy x

Come outside

Here's my one and only alium, I love these they look like glorious fireworks!!

The first flower on my pride and joy lilies that I brought home from South West Cork 7 years ago, they even moved house with us.
Check out our fab potatoes plants, we're eating salad from our greenhouse and can't wait to get stuck into these.

Good old Mr Twigs has finished the raised beds, what a good boy!

Well we seem to have spent most of our time outside recently. Hasn't it been gorgeous?? Hope you like the pics of our garden.
Had a lovely trip to Greenhead Park this weekend too, so Twiglet could have a ride on the newly reopened mini steam train. I LOVE parks, what a brilliant resource, open space for everyone. Where else could you find families in the playground, blokes playing football and cricket, grandparents out with their families, cyclists, skateboarders, dog walkers, tennis players, bowls players .......... Parks are brilliant, I hope we always have them and people always use them. Here are a few photos for you, it was so nice to see the park so busy. We met some great people at the playground and I have to say that Twiglet was getting the glad eye from a few young ladies - unsurprising obviously :)Some of the most fun we've had this week is with 2 supersoakers we were given by a very kind Freecycler. Sadly we were having so much fun I didn't take any photos, so you'll have to take my word for it.

My ankle is on the mend and I've managed to hobble around the park and the garden a fair bit.

We also had a parents meeting at Twiglets new school, which went well and my neighbour told me her little boy has said he's very excited about Twiglet starting at school with him and he'll look after him, isn't that sweet :)

Anyhoo, apologies for the lack of crafting but hey family life is number one isn't it?

I'll make the draw for my giveaway on Saturday, so if you haven't signed up as a follower on Twiggy's Emporium page, you've got to be in it to win it.

Twiggy x

Drum roll and a giveaway............

Hello folks

As my lovely Mum is over I've managed to get my Emporium stocked up much earlier than anticipated (although I'll be adding more bits and bobs as I go along).

Anyhoo, please do go over and take a look and leave me lots of comments about what you think. I'm having a small giveaway to celebrate. Now I'm sorry to disappoint but I'm afraid the night with Mr Tennant was a non starter, he said after what happened between us on his birthday he's still resting, ho ho.

Instead, if you sign up as a follower to Twiggy's Emporium, I'll pop your name in a hat and in a couple of weeks I'll have a draw. The winner can choose an item from my shop and I'm sure I'll chuck some other stuff in.

Meanwhile, thank you all for your good wishes and words of encouragement.

love

Twiggy x

PS It's a mircle I managed this today as Twiglet is very erm.... challenging today :)

PPS Here's another chance to see a hot photo of Mr Tennant, had to grab your attention somehow!!!

Ahem, a small announcement..........

Me again, told you I was sitting around a lot, but also being quite proactive. Continuing in this vein I've been thinking about my Folksy and Etsy shops quite a bit recently. My Folksy shop is more of a Flopsy shop as I haven't had a single sale and as for Etsy though I've had a handful of sales I feel like a miniscule fish in an ENORMOUS pond. Keeping this in mind, I've decided to open my own online shop, called, drum roll.......................
TWIGGY'S EMPORIUM. (I've always wanted to own an emporium:)
Over the next week or so, I'll be closing shops, moving photos, generally tinkering with stuff. To celebrate the opening of my little shop I feel a little giveaway may be in order, so do check back.
Meanwhile, if you want to take a look, click on the Twiggy's Emporium link on the right. My shop window is bare but I do have a very cute number counter.
Twiggy x

When the going gets tough.

The tough get crafting. Well blimey, I had to visit the doctors last Thursday to get my ankle checked out it seems I have torn ligaments in my ankle and it will take 6 - 8 weeks to heal. Brilliant I thought, we're going on holiday in 3 weeks and to a friends wedding. I mooched about a bit and then thought, oh b******s to this. I like to think I'm a fairly positive sort so, I got my crafting stuff out and got stuck in.

Now I have been lucky (see every cloud has a silver lining) as Mr Twigs had booked a lot of annual leave to use up his remaining hols, so if I was going to be out of action now is the time, he's been great. He and Twiglet have done lots of BOY STUFF together (which Twiglet has loved), and I've been left to my own devices. They're out at the moment buying timber to finish off the raised beds they've started - hooray didn't think I'd be seeing those until next year. Of course my Mum has been fabulous too as she always is, and is coming over tonight for a few days.

Anyhoo back to the crafting.

First of all, take a look at this wonderful parcel of fabric that I received from lovely Kitty, isn't it great?Must get my thinking cap on, have a few ideas buzzing around at the moment. thank you so much lovely lady.

Here are some very nice fabric pieces I bought during my last visit to Scrapstore.

How about this lovely Snoopy binding tape, I found a whole roll of it!!!

A couple of cards made for lovely friends birthdays.3 brooches and a pin cushion, the denim items are 100% recycled. (Excuse fuzzy photo).Here's my very favourite thing, Twiglet wanted a case for his Spiderman sunglasses and look who arrived. He was so easy to make and I love the retro look of him.Being housebound I have enjoyed the telly this week. did you see the Apprentice last night? I thought it was an excellent and very close final, but I did like Kate, ho hum.

Last in the series of Ashes to Ashes tonight, what will I do without my Gene Hunt fix? I better go and make something.

And finally, Mr Twigs and Twiglet were rooting around in the attic the other day, so I said find me something interesting. Mr Twigs came downstairs with this. Getting creative during tough times has obviously always been with me, I painted this in 2002 when my darling Dad was very ill in hospital. I forgot all about this painting and now have an urge to dig out my trunk of paints that have remained in the garage since we moved here 4 years ago. Mr Twigs is going to frame it and we'll hang it somewhere in the house. Twiglet says it's beautiful, it reminds me that it's good to take your mind elsewhere during tough times.

Have a great week.

love

Twiggy x

The cavalry has arrived...........

In the form of my lovely Mum. Poor old Mr Twigs returned to work today for a rest and my lovely Mum has come over to take care of us until he is off work again on Friday. Aren't Mums brilliant ?? (my husband is pretty terrif too).
Not much to report as haven't been anywhere due to sprained ankle, it's a fetching shade of purple, blue and yellow with co-ordinating red sunburn streaks on my legs, gorgeous. I look like a fruit pastille ice lolly!!! We set up the paddling pool and tent in the garden , Camp Twiggy!!! and settled in for the weekend. Have spent a lot of time sat in the garden reading and lusting over Gene Hunt - ooo I'll miss Ashes to Ashes when this series ends - please tell me it's not just me???

I received a fabulous parcel of fabric from Kitty recently, I'll take some proper photos and blog it soon.

Hope you like the photos I took in the garden this weekend.

Thanks for all your lovely get well wishes and kind comments about my Dad.

love

Twiggy x