Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: ~500 Post Giveaway~

Saturday, February 27, 2016

~500 Post Giveaway~

Woohoo whoever would've thought

that I would reach 500 posts on my lil' blog

I started off reading other people's blogs and after surgery when I wasn't able to do anything and I put my First Post up

To celebrate I have 3 little Patterns and a Fat 1/4 from my favourite Designer (chosen by JoJo)

Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched

If you would like a chance to win these just post a comment and you're in!!!

I'll draw this in 2 posts time!!!

I'm so grateful to be in the Blogging Community and for all the Friendships made!!!

Good Luck.......and a Happy Weekend

Dzintra xo

17 comments:

Anonymous said...: whoo hoo ,congrats Dzintra and what a lovely prize xx; February 27, 2016 at 8:54 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Dzintra, GOOD MORNING and congratulation on 500! You know, according to my stats, I haven't even posted that many, and I've been blogging for 8 years.

I wish you a happy day and I sure have missed you. HUGS!; February 27, 2016 at 10:03 PM
barbara woods bewtjw@gmail.com said...: congrats , great prize; February 28, 2016 at 4:28 AM
Liene said...: Congratulations on the milestone! A lovely prize, to boot! (I just wanted to say hi, please don't put me in the drawing); February 28, 2016 at 5:51 AM
Kath said...: Happy Blogiversary dear Dzintra, I feel as if I have known you forever. I'm sure it must be about 7 years (or even more!).; February 28, 2016 at 7:28 AM
Penny said...: Congratulations on your blog anniversary. I know many people seem to have stopped blogging, but I love the way we keep up with people near and far.; February 28, 2016 at 8:15 AM
Fiona said...: Happy Blogiversary... it's been so great getting to know you bloggily and hopefully we will meet in real life one day...
Hugz; February 28, 2016 at 9:49 AM
Susan said...: Congratulations, 500 is such a milestone. Lovely to know you in real life (and WWF!) too.; February 28, 2016 at 6:28 PM
Birgitte aka Bietje said...: Congratulations with this huge milestone. Let there be a 500 more posts. And even more.; February 28, 2016 at 7:02 PM
Susan said...: You are so right Dzintra - it's the friendship that counts most of all. Lovely of you to offer a giveaway.; February 28, 2016 at 11:40 PM
Rachaeldaisy said...: Congratulations on 500 posts! That is a huge achievement! I'm so glad to have met you through blogging and have enjoyed reading your posts.; February 29, 2016 at 7:28 AM
Tatkis said...: Wow, 500 posts, congratulations Dzintra!
I still have a bit more than 300 :)

Wonderful giveaway!
Hugs,
Tatyana; February 29, 2016 at 4:00 PM
Anita : Shabby Quilt said...: Congratulation. Great prizes.; February 29, 2016 at 8:13 PM
KimM said...: Oh my. How I'd love to win your giveaway. I'm in the USA, please include me if possible. Congrats on 500 posts! I look forward to achieving this milestone for my blog someday.
Hugs; February 29, 2016 at 9:49 PM
Jenny said...: Congratulations on your 500th post. That is so nice of you; February 29, 2016 at 10:02 PM
RitaGri said...: Ar lielu interesi lasu tavas ziņas un skatos tavus darbus! Tā turpināt!
Jauka dāvana apaļajā jubilejā!; March 1, 2016 at 6:11 AM
kiwikid said...: Congratulations on a wonderful milestone..lovely to meet you thru blogging..one day we will meet in person!!!!; March 4, 2016 at 10:01 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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Saturday, February 27, 2016

~500 Post Giveaway~

17 comments:

Welcome To My World