Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: It's My Turn For a Giveaway!!!

Monday, May 25, 2009

It's My Turn For a Giveaway!!!

Hi there everyone...recently I entered a giveaway at Micki's which I had the pleasure of winning...so I thought for a bit of fun...it's my turn now!!!

Baby Things pattern by Bareroots

comprising of quilt, pillow, receiving blanket and sleeping pillow

and...2 little patterns from Anni at Hatched and Patched...

It's easy...just leave a comment...I'll put them all in a basket and JoJo can draw out the lucky winner 2 Posts from this one...
For 2 chances tell your friends to come over...or use the stitchery Hearts and Hands Gather Here (above)...

Regular commenters also get 2 chances...

23 comments:

Dolci Fusa said...: I've just discovered your blog,
so cute!
Please, enter me to the giveaway.
Veronica; May 25, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Nat Palaskas said...: Dzintra, good girl for give away stuff. I need to give away something too, but Am not very organized to do it. I am sure you will have many takers; May 25, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Anonymous said...: Those are so cute! Have a great giveaway. I've thought about doing one later on.; May 26, 2009 at 1:07 AM
Vicki's Bit-o-earth said...: Am I too selfish to ask for entry? I am working on the first two you have given me. I'm a newby to quilting... as you know. But am loving the learning! (:

Great post!; May 26, 2009 at 3:51 AM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Bonjour Dzrintra! What adorable give-aways! Thank you for coming for some pink entertainment! I love your new blog---superbe! Anita; May 26, 2009 at 4:43 AM
Fer said...: Woohoo! Giveaways are always a good thing!; May 26, 2009 at 5:27 AM
Jo in TAS said...: Lovely giveaway Dzintra!; May 26, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Simone de Klerk said...: I love your giveaway, Dzintra. The Hatched and Patched patterns are so pretty! Thank you for letting me enter your giveaway!; May 27, 2009 at 3:06 AM
Micki said...: The giveaway is wonderful! Glad to enter!
Micki; May 27, 2009 at 6:28 AM
barb's creations said...: I've also just discovered your blog through another blog.I would so love to be able to do a sea change but I spose I'll just have to wait till I can retire.Although it seems to be getting further and further out of my reach 67....Yikes I'm lucky if I'll last till 60 hehehe.Thanks for your lovely giveawy and I hope you're enjoying your sea change lifestyle :) Barb.; May 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Dzintra known you were talented but this is terrific!!!
so is the cooking!!

Nick; May 27, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Sandi said...: Lovely giveaway, Dzintra. Cute patterns :); May 27, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Cattinka said...: Nice patterns, I would like to participate in this giveaway. By the way Micki sent me!
KATRIN W.; May 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Sea Angels said...: I was just looking at your night out...it looked really fun.
Thanks for doing such a generous give away......such fun...I must get round to doing one myself...mmmmm now you have set me thinking!!!
Lots of hugs Lynn xx; May 28, 2009 at 1:34 AM
Michelle Marie said...: Omg, this is beautiful Dzintra! I love all your posts so far and think this blog is an automatic favourite :)

Great song too! So beautiful :)

xoxo
Michelle; May 28, 2009 at 4:55 AM
Jeni said...: I just love your blog to pieces...but let someone else have a chance to win
hugs; May 29, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Bev C said...: A lovely prize giveaway. I hope you and your family have a great weekend. Happy days.; May 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
aussiequilter said...: Oh please enter me into this give away! What a very generous person you are!Love reading your blog -so many more happy posts to youxoxo cheers teri; May 31, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Anonymous said...: Hello Dzintra, love to be in the draw for your Giveaway......beautiful patterns....Warm Regards Lyn; May 31, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Nice give away items! How are ya' love? I hope you are enjoying yourself and that life is being good to you! Blessings, Anita; June 1, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Anonymous said...: Hi Dzintra, I'm new to blogging and still figuring it all out, if it's not to late to join in your give away please enter me in.
I found my way to your blog from Natima, you have a lovely blog.
Lynda xox.; June 7, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Natalija said...: Oooh, almost missed this. Please enter me in the giveaway thanks :); June 8, 2009 at 2:08 AM
Kimonos and Sushi(OLD BLOG) said...: Dzintra what a lovely giveaway. Please enter my name into this lovely prize. Hugs Andrea; June 8, 2009 at 1:25 PM

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, May 25, 2009

It's My Turn For a Giveaway!!!

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Welcome To My World