Damp cloths at the ready !!!!!

Two Treats Thursday - Treat Number 2 - A Giveaway !!!!

Hello campers, cor we've had loads of rain here this week, the water butts are full and the allotment is loving it - yipee!!   

(More pretty sweetpeas from the garden, don't they look lovely on the gorgeous little quilt I received from the very talented Heather?)

The rain is  inevitable really with it being Glastonbury this weekend - we will enjoy watching from the sofa and chatting about the muddy time we had there.

So did my avoiding the laptop work? 

I could have avoided it a whole lot more but did manage to do more making than I have recently. 

I spent a back breaking 3 hours weeding at the allotment on Saturday and then came home and made this scrummy Irish sea food chowder accompanied by my very favourite soda bread.

 

 Twiglet made this very excellent Fathers Day card for his Daddy !!!

 I have done a lot of work on my cross stitch which is beginning to look most lovely.

 I also made these little earrings.

 Considering I've done a lot of overtime and attended a Governors meeting on my day off today, not bad time management really.

Right here's the treats.

Treat number one, a little giveaway of handmade goodies.  

A litte felt flower brooch, pretty pincushion, handstitched card and handmade tags.

I'll probably throw in some choccy and buttons and stuff too.

What do you need to do?

Well I've recently caught up with the rest of the world and saw Donnie Darko a few weeks ago and thought it was fantastic, so tell me about a film you've seen and that I really should watch.  

Doesn't matter how old it is, why is it good?

I also saw Citizen Kane for the first time a couple of weeks ago, which was terrific - I'm so out of the loop!!

If you want to enter twice, let me know if you're a follower if not, become a follower.

If you want three entries pop a link on your blog back to this post and let me know you've done it.

I'll ask my beautiful assistant to draw a name from the lurid Ikea bowl the weekend after next.

 I really do spoil you.

  

Prepare to get rubbing your trousers in a Vic Reeves Stylee. 

See above post.

Mr Rickman - ooer - I'm off for a lie down.

love

       Twiggy xxx

Holiday post

At last, as promised holiday photos !!!

Here we have our cute little cottage.

 

 Fantastic view from the cottage.

 Twiglet takes to the sea !!

 Beautiful Inch beach - yes I realise it's sideways :)

 We spent a lot of time on Inch Beach as it was 5 minutes away from where we stayed, so we had many an evening walk after dinner, as it didn't get dark until just before 10pm.

 A fantastic and thrilling boat trip out to the beautiful Blasket Isles.  

We had to go out to the boat in a little dinghy with a motor !!!

 Little cottage on the island, a lady comes over every Summer to do a little weaving and crafting out here during June - September.

 We spent a lovely few hours on the wonderful beach, can you see the black and grey dots in the sea? They are seals, they watched us, watching them and at one point we counted 13 !!

Twiglet thought they were so funny as they were surfing the waves right up onto the sand next to us:)

 The very steep walk down to the jetty for the boat trip!

 The beach where the boys did some body boarding.

 Twiglet has taken to this like a duck to water, he is fearless and can't actually swim yet, he his soooo brave.

 And finally, here's the lovely view from our little cottage again, I would never tire of looking at this.

We took many photos, but as all three of us spent most of the week cavorting around in the sea there is not photographic evidence of our seaside japes.  

We spent SO much time in the sea and on the beach.

It was heavenly and we all want to go and live at the coast now.

Roll on next year :)

Twiggy xxx

Lucky Me & News of a Giveaway

Aren't these sweet peas lovely?

 My first from the garden this year, I love the smell and pretty colours.

How's your week going, I've been very busy and it was lovely to finally have a day off work today, I got my chores done and we've been to the Metrodome in Barnsley this evening for a good splash around.

Anyhoo, on to the pretties!!  I recently took part in Lucey's Button Swap and was lucky enough to be paired up with the lovely and talented Heather over at The Patchwork Heart.

Here's what I received, Twiglet kindly helped me unwrap my goodies:)

All beautifully wrapped in my favourite colours.

 Goodness me what a load of loveliness, a cute tin full of buttons, pretty buttons and ribbons, a gorgeus soft hanging heart that Twiglet has claimed to hang on his bed.  Look at the totally lovely little wall hanging, isn't it gorgeous?

 

 

 A beautiful lavender heart in my very favourite colours and a divine little quilt.  

Not only all that fabbyness but a bag of giant choccy buttons too!!!

Blimey

Thank you so much Heather, you are a very talented and generous swap partner. 

I hope you like my offerings when you receive them:)

Twiglet told me today that he hadn't put his hand in a bowl and picked a winner for ages.

Good point young man, so I think I'll have a little giveaway this weekend, so keep your eyes peeled.

Take care.

Twiggy x

Lazing on a Sunday afternoon

Well I was going to show you some hols pics but Mr Twigs hasn't uploaded them yet, so they will have to keep for now.

We had a potter around day yesterday and  went to the local farmers market and bought two huge carrier bags of fruit and veg for a fiver!! 

We also bought some terrific bread and cakes from the lovely folks at Ackworth Breads.

I buy my shopping online from Tesco as we live in the sticks and have to share a car so I wouldn't have time to shop unless I did it in the evening or at the weekend - erm no thanks.  I hate supermarket shopping.  To be honest I really want to get my costs down and I'm BORED with supermarkets, so intend to TRY to shop around more.

However, the next two weeks are going to be very busy for me, a lot of extra hours at work, meetings, courses, other commitments, I feel like I've returned from my hols and hit the ground at 100 miles an hour.

Although, I like the work/life balance I have these days,  I am a bit of a stress bunny and feel a bit erm... restless at the moment.

I've decided that I need to MAKE more time to craft and do something that I want to do. 

I like having a potter up at the lottie - and I'll post some pics soon - but I feel a bit like I need to make time for my crafting Mojo to return.

I want to make preserves, bake, read, sew, paint, paint my bathroom, sort out my cupboards, make stuff.

With a view to doing this, I've looked at how I spend my time and although I don't watch much TV, I spend far too much time online.  Reading forums and generally wasting time.  

I've decided to spend 10 minutes max on the internet each day for a week and in the words of Why Don't You - go and do something less boring instead.

Care to join me?  I'm going to keep a record of what I do instead, over the period of a week and what it does for my head.

I'll keep you posted.

Today was a very soggy day so we had a lovely cosy Sunday.

I did a big part of my ironing mountain while watching Come Dine With Me (guilty TV pleasure:)

We then got in the kitchen and made some scrummy hob nobs and a multi coloured choccy cake.

Can you tell Twiglet decorated it?

Mr Twigs cooked this lush Sunday dinner using the veggies we bought from the market yesterday.  He oven baked beetroot in tin foil, it was heaven.

Righto, off to watch Case Histories now and do a spot of stitching.

   I've just read the Kate Atkinson book that tonights episode is based on and really enjoyed it.

Meanwhile tell me what you do to unwind?

Twiggy x

PS Send healing vibes, poor old Dom the guinea pig has a very nasty scabby back at the moment and is currently visitng the vets on a weekly basis, good job we love him as it's costing us a fortune :)

We're back

After a truly lovely holiday, we have loads and loads of photos to upload and I have loads and loads of ironing to do, so I will return later.

Twiglet has an Inset day today so we are going up to the lottie this afternoon, all the jobs we've put off until after the holidays must now be faced :)

See above a photo of the beautiful Blasket Islands, we took a very exciting boat trip out there and did lots of seal watching, just lovely.

Back soon

Twiggy x