Intermission

I'm currently unavailable to the land of blog as I have the lurgy yet again, for goodness sake!!! Anyhoo, normal service will resume soon. Meanwhile take a look here at Max and her very generous giveaway. Max's March Madness Spring Surprises Candy. http://maxscraftcreations.blogspot.com/
Bye for now
Twiggy x
PS I've just realised this is my first proper link, amazing !!! hope you're enjoying the good weather.

Todays post brought to you by Twiggy and Twiglet

I am assisted by Twiglet today as he was going to nursery this morning until he started being sick. We still all have the lurgy here - yuck!!! Anyhoo he's cavorting around on his hobby horse wearing a firemans helmet at the moment, so think he's feeling a bit brighter. I keep falling asleep sitting up - not good. The ironing will have to wait for another day.

Well had a lovely Mothers Day last weekend, but decided to have it a day early on Saturday, as the weather was so glorious. We went to Whitby.................My boy made me a lovely card and pressie at nursery - bless.

Also bought me a pretty plant and lovely windchime.
Finally managed to fly our kite! Found lots of fossils at Sandsend and had a tiptop time.
Had a surprise this week in a bad way, discovered that Twiglet is starting school FULL TIME in September, he's still my baby - argh!!! however asked young Master Twig what he thought about this and he said, cool, fantastic!!!! Ok, I'll be the one sobbing into a cushion then, you'll have to put up with me sniffling come September.

So we've decided that this being our last summer of freedom, it should be our last hoorah, and this is when I received a surprise in a good way. Lovely Pam at White Morn was having a VERY VERY generous giveaway of two seperate weeks at her beautiful cottage in Ireland and I was lucky enough to win one of them. Fanflippintastic!!!! Thank you soooooooooo much Pam.

And finally here are our cucumber seedlings, coming on nicely.

Ok off for a Lemsip now and Dr Twiglet is currently taking my temperature, apparently I need an ice lolly :)

Have a nice week

love

Twiggy x
PS Someone very kindly passed on an award to me ages ago, I haven't forgotten and promise to blog it properly next time.

Excitement!!!!

Hope you've all had a lovely day, blimey I'll have a lot to blog about this week. Phew got in about an hour ago after a day at my Mums, I'm soooooo tired anyhoo, just a quickie to say take a look here :-http://aceoshowcase.com/ I'm VERY giddy, thanks Lynsey.
love
Twiggy x
PS The eagle eyed among you might have noticed the button for Lynseys fab ACEO showcase I've added to my list on the right.

Red noses all round..................

Aren't these daffs gorgeous!!!

The family Twigs were going to fly a kite last weekend but we had rain,snow,hail,sun and thunder talk about 4 seasons in one day so we made thse easy hot cross buns instead - yummy!

Not much to report really this week I've got a grotty cold and poor little Twiglet has another bad cough, he's such a trooper. Send him get well soon vibes, please. He was due to celebrate Red Nose Day at nursery today by wearing red. however, the little poppet couldn't go to nursery today, so he dressed in red, we wore our noses and made some red nose buns!!!

Had a lovely day with our friends yesterday and forgot my camera - doh!

Spent a bit of time in the garden this week, look Spring is really on it's way.

The needle cases are finally finished for our Mums, the third one is for me, hey I'm a Mum too.
Here are the little parcels Mr Twigs kindly posted off to Taz for me today. you'll have to wait to find out what's in them !!That's all for now folks. Hope you've all donated some cash to Comic Relief and got your red noses. I bought one and I've got a real one too - wahey!

love

Twiggy x

PS Go over to Sykessillysite (see my sidebar) Josie is VERY generously donating all monies made from any sale in her Etsy shop before lunchtime tomorrow to Comic Relief . Some lovely stuff there.

Happy Saturday and we have a winner................

Isn't it funny how small acts of kindness make such a big difference? We were up and out at a shockingly early 8.30am (for the Twiggys on a Saturday unheard of) yesterday. We dropped the car off for it's MOT and took Twiglet for a very cute haircut.

Anyhoo, we had to catch the bus home so went to the cafe for breakfast whilst waiting for our bus. A pretty little girl came over and said would your little boy like these and thrust a bag of Magic Stars at Twiglet. Twiglet did what he always does when faced with pretty ladies, looked at his shoes went very red and said erm... thank you erm.....

His Mum shouted over, we have loads so wanted to share, how nice is that? Mr Twigs told Twiglet, a pretty lady offering you chocolate life will never get better than that :)

Mr Twigs continued with this theme of niceness when he later went to collect the car and took Twiglet with him so I could play on my own for an hour or two. I made this for my Mum for Mothers Day whilst drinking beer and listening to the Stone Roses, simple pleasures indeed. I took the pattern from Cath Kidstons Make but used more lurid colours and flower buttons to Twiggy it up!

Right Twiglet has picked a winner from the orange Ikea bowl and the winner is....................................................................................................
TAZ @ Ratbag Creations, so well done missus, I'll post the brooch off to you in the next few days, would you prefer red or turquoise? Thanks to all of you who entered.

I'm being summoned to go and have a shower now and get dressed, it is 11.45am after all!! Look I managed to be up and at them early yesterday and I'm spent now, ok?

We're off to fly a kite when we're all ready.

Catch you later

Twiggy x

25 years on

Just wanted to mention this link, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7925552.stm
you might like to take a look. Mr Twigs and I both grew up in Yorkshire mining towns and lived in them during the miners strike. Very sad times for ALL concerned.
Twiggy x

Come outside it's lovely........

Have you had a nice week? I hope so. Well we've spent a lot of time outside over the last week. Even though we had a dusting of snow a couple of nights ago it feels like Spring is finally just around the corner.

Last weekend we visited a Steam and Diesel Gala and had a fab time,Here's an action shot of Mr Twigs playing on the slide! they even had a little local food market, where we bought these goodies. Douglas Fairbanks inspired biscuit......... Lottie Shaws seriously good hot cross buns which are indeed, seriously good.........
Some very lovely cheese, the Calderdale Bad Boy is VERY hot, bet you thought Calderdale Bad boy was Ted Hughes didn't you :) Went for a walk with Twiglets lovely little cuz, while they were oop North visiting, how sweet are they?Monday saw a VERY busy Mummy and Twiglet day.

Baking more lurid coloured buns.

Team Twiggy homemade pizzas. I made bases, the chaps`decorated'them.
Adding the finishing touches to and posting off Twiglets CBeebies flower.
Even planting our first seeds of the year!!! and we also planted a couple of Silver Birch saplings at the weekend.

Spent yesterday on our weekly, muddy day out with our friends.

All in all a grand week.

I will draw a winner for my little giveaway sometime this weekend. Add a comment to the post further down if you haven't already. you've got to be in it to win it!

love

Twiggy x

Fantastic!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7917722.stm
Twiggy x

Be Nice & A Little Giveaway

Hello folks, now a lot of you have said you would love to join a manners campaign, well I'm thinking a nice campaign would also be rather lovely. Lead by example so to speak. Take a look at this lovely blog, what a fantastic idea. http://www.operationnice.com/I'm going to do a bit of nosing around and mention my finds periodically but if you see something of interest that is nice and uplifting let us all know. Are you all still saying Hello to strangers?

Very little done on the crafting front apart from my Wedding WIP which is coming on nicely, I have done a lot of housework but that isn't very interesting so I won't photograph it (also don't want you to see what a slattern I am, Anthea Turner has nothing to worry about from me).

We took a very excited young Twiglet over to the National Railway Museum last Saturday to see the newly built steam engine Tornado, isn't she a beauty? (is a train a she or a he?)

Oh look the gorgeous, aesthetically pleasing Mallard. (I'm describing trains as gorgeous, I've turned into a boy by osmosis:) We also saw The Flying Scotsman my own personal favourite but she had been stripped right down and was being worked on).
No idea who that strange looking woman is accosting the cute little boy!
We're going to a Steam and Diesel Gala tomorrow, trains, train, trains................................

Flipping heck, I've just realised my first blog birthday was on the 23rd February and this is also my 100th post!! Well it's been an interesting year and I've made lots of lovely bloggy friends and had lots of fun so I'm so very pleased I took the plunge over a year ago.

Thought I'd have a little bloggy giveaway of one of my button brooches. So staying with the theme of being nice. Tell me about something nice that someone has done for you in the past. doesn't have to be a grand gesture, but something unexpected that made your day.

I've been lucky enough to receive surprises from lovely bloggy friends over the past year, so a big thank you to you all. Another little thing that I really appreciated especially with hindsight was when I got my first car , MANY years ago and Mr dear old Dad used to get up early every morning to clear the ice of it for me and get her running. It's funny how you realise how important little kindnesses like that are, when you get older.

I'll draw a winner in a week or so.

Righto off to collect wee Twiglet from nursery now and play Kerplunk 100 times - at least!!!

Keep smiling and have a great weekend.

love

Twiggy x

PS I did make this scrapbook page this week, my Mum is going to kill me - hahahahaha

PPS Little snippet from The Little Book of Yorkshire dialect for Louise @ Home is Where the Heart Is (I love this book and might add some more later)- Two old Yorkshire chaps, about to pass each other in the street, hesitated, thinking that they knew each other. Realising they were mistaken, one of them said: Well, Ah'll bi blowed! Ah thowt it wor thee - an' tha thowt it wor me... An' by gow, it's nawther on us!

Zoom, another week gone by.

Hang on a minute, this time last week I was thinking half term, no Nursery for Twiglet, will I be able to keep him amused. Flippin heck, it passed in a flash and yes, we managed to amuse each other greatly. Painting flowers to send in to CBeebies.

Baking sausage rolls.
Making daffodils for Twiglets Grandma and Nana (thanks for the idea Emma @ Silverpebble) I'm on a roll for stealing, ummmm.... I mean being inspired by other peoples ideas at the moment :)Poor lamb was also dragged on a daily walk (I have an ongoing back problem, won't bore you with the details) anyhoo saw my Specialist told him no thanks to any surgery and I'd sort myself out an exercise and pain management regime and see him in 6 weeks. So as part of my rehabilitation, we've seen a lot of stuff and said a lot of HELLOS - see previous post, and done a LOT of walking.

Haven't had much time for crafting but here's one of the secret projects I've been working on, lovely Julia @ Marmaladekiss has received it now so it's ok to blab :) Inspired by Sal@ Sals Snippets (how to reuse a Fairy Non Bio box!) incorporating some of the gorgeous Bible pages, Julia kindly sent me and hoping to capture the glamour of Julia. What you can't see here is the pink leopardskin interior, but there is a shot of it on Julias lovely blog. It's the first altered art I've attempted apart from Artist Trading Cards and I've spent the last week telling Twiglet not to touch the sticky glaze :)

Finally spent the rest of my birthday Amazon vouchers, watched I Capture the Castle for the 100th time, fab and I'm currently reading Larkrise to Candleford. Mr Twigs also bought me the DVD of the first series for my birthday, lucky Twiggy. I love Sunday night TV at the moment, Larkrise, The Victorians and Damages - wahey!
Also purchased from Amazon, two lovely crafting books. Note to self, DO NOT buy anymore crafty books, I have a list of things I want to do that'll last me until I'm 70!!!! Just to step back in time for a minute (ahem forgot these bits) remember my birthday giveaway, here's what you could have won - Jim Bowen from Bullseye again!!!! this stuff complete with jolly Miffy bag went to Jackie @ Jackies Crafts.
Here's the fabaroony cake made for my birthday by my boys, twas gorgeous.............. To celebrate Valentines Day last week , here are our homemade cards, (please note cute Twiglet baby pic in background - sigh:)

We agreed to spend a very small amount of cash on each other, hey we're rich on love - tee hee.

This is what I bought Mr Twigs, a lovely set of Snoopy Magnets from the very talented Lynsey at Swirly Thoughts, go take a look at Lynseys fab blog and shop.

Twiglet received a tractor and trailer complete with noises!!!

I received a big bar of choccy and this book, which really made me laugh, it is now in the smallest room for all to enjoy. Who said romance is dead. Have a great weekend.

love

Twiggy x