This week we have mostly been..........

Outside !!

Phew hasn't it been hot - as you know I am a Winter gal so have been a bit of a misbo in the hot weather. 

 However, I was home from work on Friday afternoon by 4.10pm, in Twiglet's paddling pool with a glass of Pimms in my hand - respect !!!

We break up for half term tomorrow, and have been very busy bees over the last 2 weeks.  

Twiglet also had a school trip yesterday and I was down at school this evening for their jubilee disco !!

We have done a lot of work on the lottie, see above, and spent a lot of time in the paddling pool !!!

It was Twiglet's birthday a couple of weeks ago and he managed to celebrate for a week - culminating in a trip to the Lego Experience in Manchester.

I promise to be back soon with some makes, we are off to the Railfest at York Train Museum on Saturday and parties at Nana's and Grandma's Sunday and Monday - but I might get time to make something !!!

Righto, off to watch The Apprentice semi final now, anyone watching, who do you think will win?  

I really wanted Gabriella to win but the lovely lady got the boot last week - shows how much I know.

Have a great half term.

love

Twiggy x

Wow Twiglet is 7 !!!!

Where did the time go?  

Happy 7th birthday beautiful boy!!!

Tons and tons of love

from

Mummy & Daddy xx

It's nearly that time again !!

Preparations are being made, parcels hidden,tickets bought. forget the Diamond Jubilee it's Twiglet's 7th birthday on Saturday !!!

7, where is the time going???

Anyhoo, we have been such busy bees recently, and Twiglet is having a week long birthday as usual, we went out for dinner last Sunday with Nana and Grandad, out again tonight with Grandma and off to the Lego Experience and Manchester Airport on Saturday !!

As we managed to have a bit of sun on Saturday we finally got up to thee lottie - it was very soggy so Mr Twigs had to dig a trench, then it was filled with topsoil and we then planted some sweetcorn, pumpkins and sunflowers.

We still have these lovelies to plant out, however, they will have to wait until lovely boys birthday celebrations are over.

 I'll leave you with a pic of my men working hard.

Twiggy x

A few makes and a recommendation.

(We have plants growing all over the house at the moment).

Due to the inclement weather I have done a fair amount of stitching and a lot of reading over the last few weeks.

The house and greenhouse are full to bursting with plants for our lottie but when the rain stops for a couple of hours we are busy and vice versa!!

My main sewing project is a cross stitch which I am doing with a view to entering it into our local Country Show in August - but more on that when it's finally finished.

To break up the boredom of that - it involves sewing a lot of grass - I have done a few other little bits and bobs of cross stitch - my very favourite  craft.

Firstly, here is a little card for my Big, Big Sister's birthday - the kit came with one of my Cross Stitcher magazines.

Secondly, here is one of the little Easter bags I made and filled with choccy goodies.  

I also did a duck and an Easter chick but my annoying netbook deleted the pics - grrr!!

I love this bag, but do think the rabbit has a touch of the Donnie Darko about it !!

Now onto the reading, we visit the library a few miles away every week for DVDs and books, I have read SO many recently.

I love libraries and love the opportunity to try something new.  

I picked up a great book called The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini a few weeks ago and loved it. 

 I chose it because the cover was so pretty but wouldn't normally have chosen this type of book (I'm a crime fiction kind of gal when I'm buying).

Anyhoo, I enjoyed it so much I ordered a couple more and they arrived today for the princely sum of 80p each - 80p to order a book sure beats the RRP on Amazon.

I heartily recommend them, great books and very pretty to look at, give them a try.

 Read any good books recently?

That's all for now.

Twiggy x

Big Camp = Big Fun !!!

Well we had a terrific time and came home sunburnt !!

Pirates ahoy !!

Twiglet gets climbing......

even higher - yikes!!! (I was proud)

 A bit of kayaking.

 Time for the helter skelter

 I'm glad we didn't camp though our Beaver leader had to go  out and buy hot water bottles and extra blankets as it was so cold at night - brrrrr!!!

If you want to see more pics and info take a look here http://www.facebook.com/CountyBIGCamp

Twiggy x

Wish me luck

That got your attention didn't it?

I've been watching North and South for the millionth time this week while I do my ironing mountain

 - phwoar !!!

Huge apologies for going AWOL, I've been very busy with real life stuff.  

I was going to post the other night and lost all my blardy photos while trying to transfer them to my pesky netbook!!

Anyhoo, just back from Twiglet's mate's 7th birthday party and what do I need the luck for?

We're going to the Beavers/Cubs/Scouts Big Camp tomorrow - a full day of huge excitement with 4 to 5 thousand young 'uns !!

Wish this old lady luck - must get an early night tonight and I promise to be back soon with news and interesting photos !!

Twiggy x

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