Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: A Very Special Easter Basket!!!

Friday, April 10, 2009

A Very Special Easter Basket!!!

This very special Easter Basket was made by our JoJo at her Day Programme...and how very very proud she is of it!!!

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter break...and of course, lots of your favourite chocolate to enjoy!!!

13 comments:

Anonymous said...: How lovely! Easter blessings to you and yours.; April 10, 2009 at 3:09 AM
Carla said...: HI Dzintra, so pleased your hubby go the message about the gorgeous photos. Have a great Easter with lots of yummy chocolate. Carla; April 10, 2009 at 3:42 AM
Susan McShannon-Monteith said...: JoJo certainly makes a delightful basket of goodies. She looks like she enjoyed her sailing too.
My condolences for the passing of your neighbor.
May you and your family enjoy a joyful Easter.
xo Susan; April 10, 2009 at 8:05 AM
ceecee said...: A Wonderful Easter to you and your family, Dzintra. Jo-Jo did a fine job on her basket! Wishing you good weather and lots of chocolate this weekend!
Love to you,
Catherine; April 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Annabelle said...: Hi Dzintra,

Nice job on the basket JoJo! A very Happy Easter to all.

Hugs Annabelle; April 10, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Julia said...: Hi Dzintra..Easter blessings to you and yours...
Julia ♥; April 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Willow Grove - Kez said...: Have a wonderful Easter and enjoy your chocolates; April 10, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Micki said...: Happy Easter and what a lovely Easter basket!
Micki; April 10, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Simone de Klerk said...: Such a lovely basket from JoJo! She should be really proud!
You and your family have a lovely Easter with lots of nice chocolates (O:; April 10, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Kimonos and Sushi(OLD BLOG) said...: Happy Easter Dzintra....Hope you receive lots of eggs...Jo Jo made a lovely basket; April 11, 2009 at 9:13 AM
vicki archer said...: Happy Easter Dzintra and I wish you and your family a wonderful weekend, xv.; April 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM
a good yarn said...: JoJo has every right to be pleased with her efforts - it's lovely! Wishing you and your family a Happy Easter...Ann :); April 11, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Oh what a pretty blog you have! I love the colors; it reminds me of chocolate and easter egg candies!! Thank you for coming by and congratulating our playwright winner! Have a blessed Easter, Ingrid! Anita; April 12, 2009 at 9:03 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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Friday, April 10, 2009

A Very Special Easter Basket!!!

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