Poor Mr Twigs :(

Poor old Mr Twigs set off for work on Monday and came home after going to a NHS walk in centre who referred him to his doctor.

Who in turn sent him straight off to hospital with suspected appendicitis.  

He stayed in for two days and it wasn't his appendix but something equally painful which he has had operated on to rectify the probem.

He is now off work for a few weeks and currenty laying in the sofa watching Top Gear.

The last two nights were the first time we've slept apart apart from when I had Twiglet, and it felt very weird (and a tiny bit scarey, especially when the gazebo fell over and started banging on the door in the early hours of the morning !!)

It was very odd being the grown up for once. 

I won't be around for a bit cos I'm making lots of lovely food for him and keeping Twiglet entertained while playing nursey.

Send heaing vibes to the very brave Mr Twig please.

Twiggy x

Sketchbook Challenge : Post 2

So this is the potato printing one, or is it?  

( I just HAD to treat myself to some new watercolours, aren't they pretty?)

I started out with good intentions, however, we had a little jaunt out to a very sunny and lovely park today and collected various leaves and conkers.  

I tried to do a potato print based on an oak leaf  and it all went a bit Pete Tong.

Instead I decided to use some of our leaves as stencils, this was a very messy but enjoyable process!!

I painted the leaves in acrylics in varying shades of blue.

When they had mostly dried, I used blue and orange watercolours to fill in some of the background - I did read your post about complementary colours Gina :)

 Once I started I couldn't stop and ended up with 4 pages full !!

 This is just a plain blue one I tried.

So not what it was supposed to be but still good fun !!

Twiggy x

Filey lifeboat day and a tour around our lottie !!!

 Well we had a lovely couple of days in Filey, despite the showers.  

We stayed here, and would heartily recommend it.  

We ate here for the first time ever, and it was quite lovely.

 We even managed to fit in a bit of body boarding, firstly at 7.30pm on Saturday - dirty stop outs.

Then at 9.30am Sunday morning - barm pots !!!

 A good time was had by all !!

Right, now we paid a visit to the lottie this afternoon, and I remembered my camera - yay!!

Here goes, remember it's a work in progress!!

Twiggy's red cabbages.

Twiglet's parsnips.

 

 Twiglet's pumpkins.

 Twiglet's sweetcorn.

 Twiggy's beans and peas - with Mr Twigs hand build fantastic and HUGE composter in the background.

 Digging up the first of this years spuds, we had some for dinner, they were delish.

 Hooray - the shed is up !!!

 So there we are.

Catch you later.

Twiggy x

Sketchbook : Post 1.

My crafting mojo seems to have run away so when I saw the Sketchbook Challenge created by Gina over at Fan My Flame, I fancied giving it a whirl.  

I will warn you now this is a photo heavy post.

Thank goodness Twiggy, less chat, more pics !!

Firstly, I had to rummage in the garage for my paints and brushes, I haven't touched them since before Twiglet was born - 6 years ago !!!!

 I decided that my colour theme would be blue, I love all shades of blue, particularly, aqua, teal and turquoise.  

I think this is down to my BIG love for the sea and water.

So we started on Friday afternoon.

Anyhoo, here's my page all covered in cling film and left to dry.

 Twiglet decided he wanted to join in too, so here is Twiglet's page.

 I think this image is lovely, so had to take a pic !!

 This is the background on my first page.

It took me ages to decide what image I wanted to use. 

I had a look around my garden and I loved the idea of cow parsley, I love it's outline, like little fireworks, but it proved too fiddly to cut out.

I decided on Ox Eye Daises instead, we have a lot of these and they are so pretty. 

I don't have any oil pastels, so turned the house upside down looking for wax crayons, we have loads but not white unfortunately, so I used some of Twiglet's Thomas the Tank Engine ones in purple, pale blue and dark blue to outline my daisy.

I then painted it in a  mix of cerulean blue acrylic and ultramarine watercolour.

I also found an image of a teasel (another favourite) increased the size on my laptop and used this as a template too.

 However, after we returned from the Emley Show today I had another look and thought I want to use a more aqua shade of blue, so did another two pages, with the watercolour and cling film technique.

I used my daisy image again, once the background was dry I got to work.  

After painting the flower in a darker shade, I used one of my black ink pens and did a bit of colouring in and line drawing.

I was on a roll by now, so had another rummage and found my letter stamps and did a bit of stamping using a black ink pad.

 On the other page, I left my background quite light and again painted the daisy quite lightly and this time used my silver ink pad too !!

 I decided to leave my top daisy as it is and just show the outline as I think it looks quite pretty.

 Here's the full page.

I'm really enjoying this and can't wait to get back to it after the weekend.

If you want to join in and check on everyone's progress, pop on over to Gina's lovely blog.

Twiggy x

Getting Arty at Twiggy Towers.

Well, that's another week that's zoomed by.

(Photo above of various flowers from our garden).

We've been buzzing around, staying at my Mum's again, Twiglet going to birthday parties and we went to the lovely Emley Show today.  

I was planning on showing you lots of lovely country show goodness but Mr Twigs forgot his camera - doh!!

However, my SIL and Twiglet's little cuz came with us and sent us this photo of Twiglet the New Orleans jazz man :)

I had a good look around the craft tent and decided I really need to up my game if I want to enter, blimey the stuff was perfect!!

In between all the gadding about, Twiglet and I managed our first at home day on Thursday and even managed to use the I'm Bored jar!!

First task, draw your family.

Second task, make dinner - fish pie - yum !!

Third task - Make a Yoda puppet using the Star Wars Craft Book :)

 We have also started Gina's Sketchbook challenge, but I'm going to do a different post about that in a minute.

Don't tell Twiglet but he thinks we are going to Filey for the day tomorrow, I've actually booked us into a B & B , so two days of fun - hooray !!  

Mr Twigs is off next week so hoping to get some stuff done at the lottie and get out and about. 

Take care

Twiggy x

A Second Post From Twiglet - New Computer Game

On Monday I got a new computer game.  

It was Lego Star Wars - The Video Game. 

It is hard I completed a level on my own, it was quite easy that level.

Then I completed one with Daddy's help and it was quite hard that one.

Daddy helped me complete the pod racing one.

Twiglet.

A post from Twiglet - Car Booty.

Last Wednesday I went to a car boot sale for the first time.

I bought 3 Star Wars toys, R2D2, Yoda and a Super Battle Droid for £1 each.

I bought loads and loads of Lego, including a Lego carry case, a huge box to keep it in and a posh Harrods bag for £10.  

At first the man asked for £15 but we finally got them for £10.

 I got Dr Who Top Trumps card and Ace Trumps - Tanks for 50p for them both.

I then bought a Dr Who jigsaw from the Prince of Wales Hospice shop for 50p !!

The car boot sale was good.  

I will go again.

Twiglet.

Zoom - where did week one go ???

Isn't this pretty? my lovely colleague bought it for me at the end of term.

I also received a little gift and some lovely cards from the Head Teacher - bless!!

I said thanks and he said well thank you for your dedication and hard work - how nice is that?

I told him I love my job and to be honest getting paid as well, is the icing on the cake :)

The good news is, my 6 month trial period is up and I'm now a permanent member of staff - yay !!

Anyhoo, what have we been up to?

 Well we made an I'm Bored jar - idea nicked from lovely Taz. 

However, we haven't been at home most of the week and time is zooming by.

I'm loving spending lots of time with my lovely boy.

We are certainly cramming a lot in.

We've been up at the lottie painting our new (to us, donated by our kind neighbours)shed.

We went to our very first car boot sale - Twiglet will do a post about this later. 

We had a budget of £5 each to spend, I spent nothing, Twiglet spent £14 !!!

We had a couple of days over at my lovely Mums - we will be spending a lot of time over there during the hols!!

Played in the garden, played in the paddling pool, had a trip to Whitley Locks, went to Selby for lunch!!

Visited Cannon Hall yesterday and watched the sheep racing :) phew it was hot.

We've been swimming today as Twiglet started swimming lessons on Monday and we need to practice.  

We've also fitted in some more lottie and a Yoda puppet - I will show you our fab Star Wars craft book next time.

The boys are going to have a Lego fest this evening while I wash up.

Twiglet and I are meeting up with my old schoolfriend tomorrow for breakfast and a bit of shopping and sightseeing.

Phew - We need to go back to school for a rest.

Righto the oven has just binged, so I'm off to dish up the apple crumble I chucked together !!

Catch you later.

Twiggy x

And breathe...........

Ooooo it's the holidays - have I mentioned that ???

Unfortunately my camera charger has disappeared so I am having to rely on Mr Twigs for photos.  

Of course we went away for the weekend to Filey and didn't take a single pic so you will have to take my word for it that it was good fun. 

Lots of messing about in the dinghy and body boarding !!

Today we've been shopping, painted half of the lottie shed, done some weeding and Twiglet has started swimming lessons, as well as cleaning and playing games - no wonder I'm tired!!

Thought I'd have a little catch up post really. 

First mention is to Mr Twigs and to wish him a Happy Anniversary - our 15th!! for 6th July.  

Also a Happy birthday to my lovely Mum for the 7th July.  

Check out her cake - it was scrummy !!

My crazy boy had his paddling pool out recently and decided he could just fit his dinghy in it - barmy!!

 Here are the teachers pressies for this year, shop bought I'm afraid due to time constraints, Body Shop goodies, we did go to town with the wrapping !!

 

 Twiglet's lovely handwritten cards - bless!!

I promise to search for my camera charger as I have much to share.

Bye for now.

Twiggy x

School's out !!!!

Woohoo - more on this story later !!!

Twiggy x