Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Progress...A Gardener's Journal...and a Valentine's Dinner!!!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Progress...A Gardener's Journal...and a Valentine's Dinner!!!

Yay...doing a Happy Dance here on this Valentine's Day!!!

I have finally finished stitching Block A together with the other gals over at Stitch-a-long!!!

Now I just have to sort out through these fabrics and start cutting...

Fabrics again with Anni's book!!!

Thanks so much Chookyblue for all the encouragement in completing this block...and all the other gals at Stitch-a-long...

You're all a great bunch!!!

Now it's off to make a Valentine's Dinner for Mr Armchair...and of course JoJo...everything here is done for 3!!!

Menu from Nigella Lawson's Nigella Express...

Avocado Crayfish (we're having Prawns) Cocktail

Duck Breasts with Pomegranate and Mint

Flourless Chocolate Brownies with Hot Chocolate Sauce

AND Double Cream!!!

Now I'm getting hungry...

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

15 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...: ok i'll give you the night off piecing the GJ block since you have such a gorgeous dinner planned.........my moouth is watering.........; February 14, 2011 at 6:51 PM
Simone de Klerk said...: Lucky lucky Gundars!!!
Lovely, the Garden Journal stitchery blocks.
I hope you had a lovely dinner (o:; February 14, 2011 at 8:01 PM
catita said...: Hi Dearest Dzintra:
I had been waiting for this post all day!
I really wanted to know what were you going to be preparing for dinner Mr armchair
lots of love
marianela
ps; do you know when is stitching day ??????; February 14, 2011 at 9:58 PM
Nat Palaskas said...: Happy Valentines Day to all three of you. And congratulations on finished the garden block. It feels good to finished something. Enjoy your night - Hugs Nat; February 14, 2011 at 10:27 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Precious friend, I am so overwhelmed and behind in my responses that I am so stressed; your header is giving me thoughts of peace and repose that I know will come my way soon. Happy Valentines DAY!!! Anita; February 15, 2011 at 12:57 AM
Micki said...: I love the garden block, and Happy Valentine's Day to you all. Your menu sounds wonderful...yummy!
Micki; February 15, 2011 at 6:35 AM
Nezzy (Cow Patty Surprise) said...: You little Garden Stitchery Blocks are just too stinkin' cute! Just adorable sweetie!

Have a wonderful evening!

God bless and have a marvelous Valentine's Day sweetie!!!; February 15, 2011 at 7:27 AM
Jeni said...: how pretty is your Garden Journal !!!
Dinner again without me.....ohhhhh; February 15, 2011 at 7:31 AM
Fer said...: Mr Armchair is one lucky fellow!; February 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM
Susan McShannon-Monteith said...: With all those fantastic beach photos in your header it takes one's breath away...
Cute little block... can't wait to see it all joined together.
Hope you had a perfect Valentine's day.
Susan x; February 15, 2011 at 10:31 PM
Victoria said...: Hi Fabulous Dzintra...i love visiting all your magical realms..so mnay treasures..beautiful creations..! Lovely post..I am all sparkly now!!
Hugs
have a fabulous week!
Kiki; February 16, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Vicki's Bit-o-earth said...: You've hit right at the heart of one of my greatest loves with this post Dzintra! GARDENS! Love love love those garden designs! Happy very belated Valentines to you and yours! xxxVicki; February 17, 2011 at 1:32 PM
country clubs on long island said...: Wow great work. Keep up the good work. Hope to see more updates from you. Thanks.; February 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM
My Event said...: wow, thanks for sharing it. Love it.; February 18, 2011 at 5:46 PM
Photography said...: YUmm to the fabric and food!!; March 2, 2011 at 3:48 AM

Welcome To My World

Hello, my name is Dzintra Ingrid ... have been known as Ingrid and since our Sea Change I have started to use Dzintra ... pronounced without the D ... (but still known as Ingrid, I know, it's confusing ...)

Welcome to my world ... a journal of our Sea Change ... Mum to three wonderful children ... bringing up a daughter with a disability and seeing life through her eyes ... being a new Nanna ... photos ... inspiring quotes ... taking on a cookery course ... the odd recipe ... and trying to get some stitching done amongst all this ...

Dedicated to Carers...

'Welcome to Holland'

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this ...

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Colosseum, Michelangelo's David - the gondolas of Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, 'Welcome to Holland'.

'Holland'? You say. 'What do you mean Holland? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy'.

But there has been a change in the flight plan. They have landed in Holland, and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, filthy place, full of famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while, you look around, and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they are all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, 'Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That is what I had planned'.

The pain of that will never go away, because the loss of a dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.

Written by Emily Perl Kingsley......Mother of a Child with a Disability

Kerri...

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sow;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war; and a time of peace.~

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Progress...A Gardener's Journal...and a Valentine's Dinner!!!

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Welcome To My World