To me, to you, to you, to me.............

Look who Twiglet met yesterday - the Chuckle Brothers!!

I can heartily recommend them, I think me and Mr Twigs enjoyed it as much as Twiglet: :)

Twiggy x

Happy Easter and a bit of a catch up..................

(Twiglet's Easter card - I think it's ace).

Well I  didn't mean to disappear but what with the first week of our Easter hols whizzing by and me still getting to grips with my pesky netbook, I went AWOL.

 I'm currently typing this on Mr Twigs lovely big PC :)

So how have you been?

 Hasn't the weather been extraordinary, the Thursday before we broke up for Easter was Twiglet's Easter Service in our village church and very nice it was too.

 A lovely warm sunny Spring day (I didn't even wear a cardi in the usually artic cold church).

We've spent a lot of time here at lovely Greenhead Park, and proud Mummy alert, Twiglet rode his bike without stabilisers for the first time EVER this week.

(He fell off and hurt himself rather badly later the same day but we won't dwell on that!).

Can you see the mad woman and cute boy on the miniature steam train?

Fast forward to a week later and it bucketed down with snow!!!

So 8.15am Thursday morning saw us out sledging :)

We now seem to have entered a grey, cold , drizzly phase, so we are spending Easter with my Mum and my lovely In Laws rather than the camping trip we considered !!!

 I must confess that we've done a fair bit of this too - I'm addicted to Lego Harry Potter on the Wii - oops !!

 Another lovely walk at Folly Dolly Falls - great name.

 Twiglet's Easter bonnet - what a cutie !!

 Lurid Twiglet biscuits.

There we have it a whistle stop tour, of our hols so far.

 We haven't been away from home much but we're having good fun.

I have some Easter makes to show you, but they aren't quite finished, so I'll pop back later.

I really must get the old crafting mojo back.

I had a health MOT recently and all is good but I need to lose around half a stone, so we are going for a walk most evenings after school - weather permitting.

Not only that but I'm hoping to start working for the education supply service soon (as well as my current job) so I'll have to address my rubbish time management issues - and get off the flipping Wii :)

Have a lovely Easter, I am now going blog hopping while I have the chance.

love

Twiggy x

Spring has sprung

Or so it seems at the moment.  What a glorious weekend we had, spending most of it just pottering or walking and enjoying the sunshine.

After a Winter of neglect we began this years work up at the lottie, and had the backache and nettle rash to prove it on Monday :)
Mr Twigs got rotivating, I did some digging,while Twiglet enjoyed riding on some new tracks made from our neighbours old fence!!!

 As you can see, we have a lot of work to do.

Then home for very tasty home made lasagne.

I also had time to finally catch up with my pal this week, we haven't seen each other since Christmas Eve. She very kindly brought me some lovely belated birthday gifts and cake!!

Pretty soap buttons.

A fantastic candle making kit. 

Very cute owl magnets.

Gingerbread men candles.

All wrapped up in a lovely Miffy bag.

She knows what I like - there was choccy too - but I scoffed that !!

I do hope you enjoyed this post, as I have a new net book and it has taken bloody ages to type it - it is too small - argh!!!!!!

Until next time and excuse typos.

Twiggy x

The big reveal and some other stuff.............

Well the real life crappola is still rolling on but I'm missing the old blogging.  

Not only do I find it a lovely way of recording our daily family life (I often read back, what we were up to this time last year) I also find it a good way to accentuate the positives, which is a useful thing to do at the moment.  

So here I am.

Although we had the lurgi over half term we had a really nice time as  Mr Twigs lovely big Sister went away on holiday and offered to lend us her house (with cleaner!) so we had a nice time mooching and playing with all their gadgets !! 

I'm glad to say apart from old man coughs we are all better now.  

Anyhow, how are you? well I hope.

It is definitely feeling like Spring up here, the nights are drawing out and we've had some gorgeous warm, sunny days. (I welcome this but as you know I'm a big fan of Winter, but it's nice to be outside again).

Saying that though, it's been snowing and raining all day here, so we've had a cosy Sunday, very lovely indeed.

The big reveal is my finished sampler at the top of the page - do you like it ?  it took me 11 months to complete and I must say I am very pleased with it!!

We had a little jaunt to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park recently - didn't stay long as it was v.v.v.cold.

Today we bathed the guinea pigs, they look so fluffy now !!

and finished off with a bit of art work.

Twiglet's space painting, mine is a painting of Spring - do you like the mucky Easter chick at the top :)

Have a great week.

love

 Twiggy x

Rolling back the years

28 years to be exact.  

My pal and I first went to see the Alarm in 1984, we got a lift from a teacher, 12 of us in the school mini bus to Sheffield City Hall.  

It was our first ever gig and v.v.v.v.exciting.

On Saturday night, same pal and I went to the 02 Academy in Sheffield to see  
 Big Country,
featuring Mike Peters (singer from the Alarm) - it was also v.v.v.v.exciting.  

We both noted that we had aged better than the band :) but they were very good indeed.

Twiggy x

Top fun and a bloggy break

 Well we finally saw some snow up on Holme Moss and headed for the hills on Saturday. 

Top fun was had by all, I did not keep my dignity :)

I'm going to take a little bloggy break for a while now as our real life sh*t has hit the fan, so I  will be rather distracted. 

I'll still be dropping by to see you all though.

Catch you later.

Twiggy x

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

You'll have to take my word for it as my camera batteries are flat !!!  

My beautiful assistant Master Twiglet placed his hand in the lurid orange Ikea bowl and the name he pulled out was................. drum roll please.........

the results have been counted and verified.....................................................................................................

JENNYFLOWER

Would you email your address to me please Mrs and I'll send your prize off to you sometime this week.

Thanks to everyone who joined in.

Twiggy x

David Tennant told me it was your birthday today..............

So here I am Twiggy

 

Ok Mr A, I'll get my coat

Twiggy xxx

Giveaway prize !!!!

Thanks for your kind messages on my last post, my tooth still hurts but it's a bit better - back in work tomorrow too, yikes!!

Anyhoo here are the details of Twiggy's January Birthday Giveaway.

I thought about things that would be nice in January, here goes. 

Pretty Sarah Smith cloths to clean away those post Christmas cobwebs.

2 pretty vintage style coat hangers to use  after you've decluttered your wardrobe.

A Twiggy handmade pincushion for your cosy evening stitching.

Set of cute cupcake cases with matching flags for your hmmmm it's raining I better make some cakes type Sunday afternoons.

A Twiggy handstitched denim napkin complete with retro coffee pot to use when eating aforementioned cupcakes.

Some lovely smellies, soaps and shower creams.

Finally a bar of chocolate, because, well why not??

 

If you want to be included in my little giveaway just add a comment to my giveaway post further down the page.

My beautiful assistant will draw a name out of our lurid Ikea bowl on Monday evening.

love

Twiggy x

Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I had root canal work this morning on a tooth with twisted roots - urgh!!! 

I'm currently laying on sofa reading and slurping Heinz tomato soup - poorly food!! 

Lovely Mr Twigs is taking care of me and will collect Twiglet from his after school club at 4.30pm.

Anyhoo just to let you know I will close the giveaway next Monday 23rd January, so if you want to join in please leave a messge on my previous post.

Note to self - sort out prize !!

Twiggy x