Listings, lurgy and lovely post.........

How's that for an alliterative post title?

Rain, sleet, snow, rain, sleet, snow, February really is my worst month of the year - yack!!! The weather is foul up here and to cap it all I've got Mam flu. Thankfully kind Mr Twigs has driven Twiglet to school before he went into work the last two days, so I just have to walk down to collect him in the afternoon but even that's wiping me out, I feel like I've got sunstroke, hot, cold, shivery, sore throat no appetite - urgh !!! Mr Twigs does like to share his germs.

Anyhoo, onto nicer things, we had a lovely weekend and woke to surprise snow on Sunday and visited Bagshawe Museum in Batley a very interesting place and a gorgeous house.Twiglets school had an INSET day on Monday so we went to Tolson Museum in Huddersfield as I wanted to take a look at their rag rug exhibition, there was some stunning work there. Both museums are worth a visit if you are in the area.
We Twiggys are very cultural indeed.

Now for the postal lovelinessI received two lovely surprises for my birthday from my Craftersforum pal Carolynne (see above) fantastic peacock goodies and look at that fab jigsaw birthday card. I also received these lovely goodies from Sue, isn't the stitched card gorgeous? Thanks ladies.
Kaye over at Stitchng Life recently offered up some lovely bundles of fabric for swapsies. How gorgeous is this? Here's the listings bit, I've made some more earrings which I'm going to pop in my online shops once mr Twigs has taken some decent photos for me with his super ace camera. What do you reckon?

I'm having a major declutter at the moment, so if you fancy a bit of Cath I've just listed a stack of catalogues and have quite a few magazines to sell too. Here's a link.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180473667539&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Have you seen Mastercrafts on a Friday evening, most lovely programme indeed. I loved the first one about woodturning, so relaxing.

Righto, I better go and eat a banana or something before the trek down to school, don't want to faint in the playground! Send healing vibes folks and a bit of sunshine wouldn't go amiss.
Twiggy x

321 and I'm back in the room (I'm stood behind the hairy blokes)

Hello, well we're having a lovely half term and Twiglet isn't back at school until next Tuesday - wahey !! it's been so nice having my boy at home and not having to dash about in the morning,ironing uniforms, making packed lunches etc. My lovely Mum has been staying with us for 3 days this week which has been so nice. So what have we been up to, so far ?

Building train stations............


Baking gingerbread and lots of lovely buns...........



Catching up with old friends..........


Celebrating Valentines Day.


(See top of page too :)

Planting cute little tete a tete in vintage tea cups, they look so pretty lined up on my kitchen window ledge.

I also received these gorgeous 40th birthday ATCs from my lovely friends at ATCs4all, how kind is that? lucky Twiggy.



I've even managed to make some more earrings. I made a pair for my little Big Sis but forgot to take a pic before wrapping them up, oops. Anyhoo, here are the others, the rainbow foil, are mine all mine. However, the others will be making an appearance in my shop, so get a Twiggy original while they're hot :)

Mr Twigs and I spent a very jolly evening at the theatre on Wednesday in the company of the fine fellows at the top of the page. Wow two nights out in the space of 3 months, what's going on ?? We had a fantastic time and would recommend that you go and see them.

Joining the 20 minute crafting a day challenge has really got my creative juices flowing and I'm using the time to crack on with the wedding sampler that I'm making for my niece. It's slow work but quite satisfying.

I've been lucky enough to receive some more surprise parcels of goodies from lovely crafting mates but they can wait until next time. I'm hoping to have a play with my new sewing machine tomorrow and do a spot of crafting while Twiglet is out with Daddy, so watch this space.

Have a great weekend.
Twiggy x

Hooray it's here and I'm signing off...................

To spend half term with my beautiful boy, who I will be going to collect from school very soon. Have fun everyone and catch you all later.
Twiggy x

Hello Hector

Well it's another murky and very foggy day up here today. I took wee Twiglet out for a haircut this morning and now I'm quite happy to stay indoors. The boys are outside builing a go cart from Twiglets old pushchair and I've been making birthday cards for my little big Sister. (She's 5 inches shorter than me!!).

Remember I told you my pal was coming over on Thursday with belated Christmas and birthday gifts. They were well worth waiting for, firstly (see above) meet Hector our lovely new draught excluder complete with diamante collar (she told me she knows I like a bit of bling :) He will come in very handy once the many boxes of laminte flooring we currently have under our bed are finally laid - Easter projedt for Mr Twigs - hoorah !!!
I was totally gobsmacked at my birthday gift. My pals lovely Dad made me this wonderful stool complete with a carved Yorkshire rose, isn't it glorious??? He really should be selling these on Etsy.


Now Mr Twigs tells me I'm good at making something out of nothing - hoho. So what about these beauties, I've had a charm bracelet for ages that I've worn twice, look at it now a lovely pile of beads for my new hobby !!!

These fab tea towels cost me £1.49 for 3 from Home Bargains, I love them and I'm currently thinking what to make them into. Any ideas???

Righto, I've just bought myself a copy of Moneysaving Ways for Modern Days by Martin Lewis which I'm about to peruse.
Have a great weekend.
Twiggy x

Big thank you to lovely Lissylou for this award.
The condition of accepting the award is to pass it on to 5 people and to list 5 things I like doing;
1. Crafting , anything from making ATCs, sewing, cross stitch, painting, oooo and perhaps now making jewellery.
2. Reading, I used to read a lot before Twiglet arrived, these days, I usally fall asleep with my book on my face. I love reading all kinds of stuff but particularly enjoy crime fiction. I LOVE Ian Rankin, Stephen Booth, Peter Robinson. I also have old favourites that I have read many, many times.
3. Gardening - even with a dodgy back. My Grandad was a gardener and the smell of tomato plants takes me back to his warm, sunny, greenhouse, happy days.
4. Walking, I love to be outdoors and we live in a beautiful part of the country with lots of public footpaths and bridleways. Wintery walks are my favourite, whether it's in a wood, by the sea or along a local trail. I pull on my trusty Hunters and get going !!!
5. Laughing, I come from quite a jolly family and like to think we're a happy little crew at Twiggy Towers, well usually!!! I've just finished reading Saturday Night Peter, that I received for my birthday. I love laugh out loud books.
OK now I'm passing this over to :-

Taz
Louise @ Home is Where the Heart Is
Pam @ White o Morn
Vicky @ Anglesey Allsorts
Josie @ SykesSillySite.

Over to you ladies.
Twiggy x

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

Drum roll please, my lovely assistant Twiglet has dipped his hand into the lurid orange plastic bowl and the winner is.......................






SEW CHRISTINE

Well done. Please email your address details to me and I'll send you a little parcel next week.
Thanks for all your lovely entries.
Twiggy x

Winter warmer

Blimey it's very foggy and icy up here today, V.spooky!!! We had a bit of snow last night - brrrr. so here's someone to warm you up - well when I've finished with him. Do you think I could use this photo every month just to keep us cheery ??? Anyhoo, quick reminder, Twiglet will be choosing a winner for my giveaway tomorrow so pop a comment on my giveaway post if you want your name to go in the lurid plastic bowl.
Righto, my mate is on her way with cake and my VERY belated Christmas and birthday pressies, so must dash.
Twiggy x

Hello sunshine

Ooooo it's gone all green on my blog. I thought I'd look forward to Spring by having a bit of a change. Let me know what you think.
Well we certainly got our sunny weekend up in West Yorkshire and squeezed every moment of enjoyment out of it too!!
We had a frugal but fun weekend. Saturday saw us here.http://www.ncm.org.uk/
I can't recommend this museum enough, they have a great photographic exhibition there at the moment, it really is fab.

We had a look and then walked around the nature trail which is so pretty.
Sunday saw us here at Sandal Castle, http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_north/111/sandalcastle.html and Twiglet and Daddy just HAD to go and take a look in the moat - boys............
We also had a nice visit with Nana and Grandad Twigs which is always lovely.
I'm very proud of myself. As a person who never reads instructions or if I do doesn't actually understand them, I surprised everyone by managing to thread and use my new sewing machine this weekend, totally unaided - amazing!!!
The domesticity continues at Twiggy Towers, more baking, Apple pudding a cherry cake (sorry no cake photos as we've scoffed it already)Mr Twigs made a slow cooker full of vegetable soup - very scrummy.
A bit of time for a little stitching - work in progress (see top of page).
And finally, here are the results from my new hobby, I'm very excited about these.
love
Twiggy x