Made

Hooray it's Friday, so what have I been making this week. Here's my first ever chicken, thanks to lovely Lynsey from Swirlyarts for advice, as you can see you do not have to worry about me stealing your Chick Meister crown :) Twiglet has christened her Coppo and wanted me to include a photo of her speaking to the doctor, because she lays eggs all day, every day !!! I also finally finished Twiglets denim jacket. (He wanted a pic of him in his new denim jacket, front and back !!! - that's his Friday face).
I like the way this turned out, it took weeks for Twiglet to decide between cars, cowboys or Stanley the dog!!!

Made some ATCS for individual and group swaps for Crafters Corner members, I was loathe to part with the set of three as I LOVE vintage!!!I must mention that Papercraftersunited are in the process of moving to a forum called Crafters Corner, see my sidebar for details. It really is great as there are categories for cardmaking, scrapbooking, ATCs, stitching, knitting, crochet, you name it. Anyone interested in joining, go take a look. I've been a member of the group for about 3 years and they are a lovely friendly bunch. (I'm not on a percentage either, before you ask :)

Twiggy x

Half term catch up

Due to illness and only just uploading my photos I've been a half term hols slacker. So here is a whistlestop tour. Ready? How cute is this little snail I bought from Folksy for my pals birthday?

Twiglets beautifully decorated Halloween cakes.
Mr Twigs fantastic halloween ghost complete with red LED light eyes, v.spooky.
Bit of Christmas stitching by me.
Mr Twigs isn't a fan of sweet cakes (weirdo) so here we have birthday cake number 1. mascarpone cheese and grapes.
Cake number 2, pork pie!! We played out with our pals.
Had a spooky Halloween lunch.
Made a Charlie and Lola Halloween scene.And had lots of cuddles. all in all a tiptop week.

Twiggy x

Charity shop gold

Well we've had a lovely weekend my Mum (Grandma Twiggy) and Nana and Grandad Twigs came over for a firework party on Saturday evening. (Above photo by Mr Twigs) My mum stayed over and we had a lovely wintery Sunday afternoon, a visit to a gorgeous museum at Cannon Hall, and a slap up Sunday roast, succulent free range chicken cooked by Mr Twigs followed by yummy countess pudding baked by me.

Our lovely time continued yesterday after school when Twiglet went to his little pals joint 6th birthday, he came home a very tired but happy little chappy. Took ages to wake him up this morning :)

Now here's something I've been meaning to share with you for a while.

Occasionally I strike charity shop gold that is so fantastic it gives me a buzz for ages. Here are my latest fab purchases.

Look at this an original Camblewick Green lotto game, it is immaculate and Twiglet loves playing it, bought for an astonishing 50p!!!! (Salvation Army shop)

Something just for me, Ready to play? What's the day, it's Tuesday................. Being a child of the 70s I LOVED Play School, how fab are these two jigsaws and again pristine condition,

75p from Cancer Research. I'm going to frame them for the wall in our spare room/soon to be kind of craft room. Hooray for charity shops.

Twiggy x

Oh what a lovely day

Well today we finally celebrated Mr Twigs birthday, he couldn't get time off work on Friday and Twiglet has an INSET day off school today so we had a lovely Autumny day in one of our very favourite places, York.

THE place to be on a crisp Autumn/Winters day. We didn't take cameras as sometines you just want to have fun without thinking (so ahem, borrowed my images), hmm would this look good on my blog but I will share a bit of our lovely day with you. We started off at Micklegate and had a look at a flooded River Ouse from one of the many bridges.

Had a spot of lunch in my fave pub, The Golden Fleece. Had a very nice pint of Centurion Ghost ale too.

http://www.goldenfleece.yorkwebsites.co.uk/

Had a good look round our favourite York shops.

http://www.christmasangels.co.uk/

and not forgetting The Teddy Bear Shop.

http://www.stonegateteddybears.co.uk/

Had a little nosey up and down all the snickleways - isn't that a fab word? invented by the writer of a walking guide in 1983 to describe all the small lanes in York, that are a combination of snickets, ginnels and alleyways !!! Had a shamble down The Shambles............... And finished our visit with a walk around the city walls, we were rewarded with fantastic views.We have had a very busy but smashing half term, Twiglet is back at school tomorrow. After I've done my ironing mountain and sorted the house out post half term hols, I'll be back.

Twiggy x

Happy Birthday Mr Twigs !!!!

And many more of them!!

tons of love from

Us xxxx

Cheesey grins all round !!!

Well Twiglet seems to be on the mend, we're all coughing away, but much better. We had a week of firsts last week, Twiglets first ever harvest festival which was just gorgeous. It took place in our lovely village church, he told me I must be VERY careful as it is very old and I must not break anything :) He did a star turn as a leaf and his class sang a song and explained how trees grow. His little mate said the prayer which consisted of him shouting very quickly and loudly, THANK YOU GOD FOR TREES!!! I love littlies school productions, you have a tear in your eye cos they are so sweet and so very funny too. Here's the cupcakes we made for the audience.
Another first was his parents evening, it is good to know that he's settling in well, is very confident and likes to share information - you don't say:) He is making friends and is very protective to his little girlyfriend which I think is just lovely.

We had a little celebration for Grandad Twiggys birthday, here's the cake Twiglet and I made.

With the germs slowly clearing off, my mojo is on the horizon (this could be why I've signed up to do two swaps!!!) here are a few bits I made this week.
We had a lovely weekend and took Twiglet to Thomas the Tank Engine land at Drayton Manor Park, I had to save my Tesco vouchers for flippin ages for this but it was fabulous. We didn't tell Twiglet where we were going and when we pulled into the car park, he said in his little croaky voice, I AM VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!What a top place. We finished off the weekend with a most pretty walk in the woods, this is my favourite time of year and a Sunday afternoon walk with my boys in beautiful woodland, followed by a fab Sunday roast cooked by Mr Twigs is just magical.

Twiggy x

PS Note cheesy grins at the top of the page, we were riding in Jeremy Jetplane at the time !!!

Still AWOL but here are some things we did earlier!!!

Well our lurgy has gone from bad to worse. We went down to see our relatives at the weekend and poor old Twiglet spent Saturday night projectile vomiting, which continued in the car on the way home. I am sooooo proud of our boy though, he was and is still being a total trooper and even though he felt ill, he still tried to chat and join in with the others. What a poppet.

Both he and I have been VERY grotty this week, so he's been at home with me and we've spent the week so far mooching in our PJs which is pretty much how we plan to spend the rest of the week. Mr Twigs is made of stronger stuff and only has mild symptoms. He reckons we may have the old pig flu!! Anyhoo, here are some pics of what we got up to before we became germ infected. Hope you like them and I'll catch you later, when we will be hopefully be germ free.

Homemade carrot and coriander soup and cheese scones.

We also made many blackberry and apple crumbles after picking lots of blackberries.

This is the parcel I sent to Gina at Fan My Flame, I included a recipe for chilli jam and a jar of chilli jam. Some handmade labels and some cross stitch seed labels that I was pleased with. Hollyhock, delphinium, sunflower and poppy seeds and some vintage flower cards.
This is the parcel I received from Gina, a selection of seeds and recipes, some garden labels and how fantastic are the watercolour labels on the seed packets.Flying kites at the kite festival. And finally a lovely sunny day out.Here we are, me and my little star (nice shadow Daddy !).Twiggy x

Is it me ?

Please tell me am I the only one that finds drawing faces on butternut squash, really, really funny??

I am. Right, I'll get my coat. (I had to find some way of making putting the shopping away this morning more interesting). I think I might go and write my name on the bananas now.

Twiggy x

Fun in the September Sun

Ahhh I LOVE September, the seasons changing, crisp bright mornings, farmers bringing in their crops. We have a theory that every year the week after all the children go back to school the weather is stunning. Mr Twigs parents are both retired teachers and can confirm this, much to their disgust:) We often used to go on holiday during this time before Twiglet started school and had some cracking weather.
So considering the little chap is now at school, we did our best. I visited the Sculpture Park with my pal on Thursday and we needn't have worried about having nothing to talk about without the children to distract us. We twittered on for 3 hours and managed to fit in a really long walk and coffee, cake and sunshine. Tiptop.

This weekend, we had a terrific time in the old dinghy at Filey, the weather was GORGEOUS, (if only my photos did it justice). I even sloped off alone and had a swim in the sea, boy did I ache the next day - what an old codger!Sunday was spent round at Nana and Grandad Twigs for a barbecue, so we really did squeeze all we could from the glorious September sunshine. Hope you had a super time too.
I haven't done much crafting this week as I'm doing a bit of furniture and stash shifting at the moment, so all will be revealed at a later date. I also have another little project lined up next week, but as they say on News at Ten and we'll have more on that story later.............

Twiggy x

Busy,busy

Well the news from Twiggy Towers is Twiglet still loves school and has a girlfriend!!! already!!! fast cat. He's come home with 3 I'm a star awards and a certificate already, what a good boy.

I'm still missing my little buddy but inbetween the domestic tedium I'm managing to do a bit of this and a bit of that. I've also got a few projects in the pipeline but more about that at a later date. So this weekend we popped over to lovely Holmfirth for a bit of shopping and climbing in the playground. On Sunday we visited Kirkstall Abbey, we have driven by soooo many times and never been, if you can get there do, it's fab. Beautiful abbey and park, a little train and ice cream!!

So what else have we been up to?

Scoffing the last of our veggies from the garden.A bit of making and doing.

Starting to do a bit for my various shops. A few Christmassy Country Living tags.

I also made a few birdy tags and popped them in my MISI shop.

Bit of stitching.

I'm quite proud of this Stanley t.shirt I made for Twiglet (adapted from the Make book by Cath Kidston). A sideways shot- don't ask !!!

Some lovely stuff I bought from Lynsey over at Swirlyarts, smashing as always. Lovely Thomas tags for Twiglet (sorry about sideways picture again!) and fairytale envelopes, too lovely to use really :)Finally, I had a jaunt over to my fave big old church hall rummage charity shop and look what I got for a fiver (as well as some books for Twiglet not pictured). These fantastic Ladybird books. And 3 pretty china cups for a project I have in mind. I'll leave you with a piccy of a gorgeous card I received from my good friend Helen to help keep my spirits up when wee Twiglet started school. What a lovely lady.Talking off lovely ladies the hanky has come in useful this last week Vicky (Anglesey Allsorts) but I think I'm over the worst of it now :)

My buddy and I are going out tomorrow morning for a little jaunt without any children or husbands for the first time EVER!!! ooo excitement, what will we find to talk about without having to break off to stop naughty boys misbehaving! I'm sure they'll be cake involved somewhere.

Have a lovely week.

Twiggy x