Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: OPAM...(One Project a Month) and SSCS (Secret Santa Christmas Swap)

Monday, December 5, 2011

OPAM...(One Project a Month) and SSCS (Secret Santa Christmas Swap)

OPAM has come around quickly and I haven't done much stitching at all recently...

I've been involved with the Bay Theatre Players in their Victorian Music Hall...

and what fun it all is!!!

Have taken some pics and will post soon...

Meanwhile, I have managed to finish 1 item for this month...

this was part of Chookyblue's SSCS...

the gift to be made for the swap had to include a Christmas decoration with the rest of the handmade gift to be tucked away under the Christmas tree to be opened at Christmas...

The decoration is in the green bag...this is one of the items for OPAM October but I couldn't show it at that time due to all the secrecy!!!

I wrapped the 'main' gift in a Debbie Mumm Fat 1/4 and to it I attached a stitched tag by Hugs'nKisses

front of the gift tag for my partner Anne Marie...

this is my OPAM for November...

back...

Thank you to Peg and Kris for hosting OPAM...

I KNOW I wouldn't get as much finished if I didn't do this!!!

And a big thank you to Chooky for hosting SSCS...

I'm so looking foward to my parcel...it should be here any day now!!!

10 comments:

Peg - Happy In Quilting said...: We are just so happy you are an OPAMer....love finishes Annie Marie will be thrilled; December 5, 2011 at 12:41 PM
Chookyblue...... said...: lovely ornament and tag that you sent to Anne Marie; December 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Bev C said...: Hello Dzintra,

What a great idea to wrap the parcel in some Debbie Mumm fabric. A very cute ornament you made for Anne Marie.
Happy days.
Bev.xoxo; December 5, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Jeni said...: Very cute ornament...you have been so busy; December 5, 2011 at 1:34 PM
Terry said...: Great tag and really special lookin parcel. Well Done; December 5, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Rachaeldaisy said...: That little tag is so special! Your parcel looks wonderful! I like it that you're keeping us in suspense.; December 5, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Nat Palaskas said...: Your post sneaked by without me seeing it today. You are doing well with your OPAM project. Can't wait to see some photos from the Bay theatre - Hugs Nat; December 5, 2011 at 10:24 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Oh there are so many lovely things I want to do for all of you during the holidays, but school and now even the WEEKENDS are so busy.....this is so sweet my friend. HOW IS THE SHOW COMING ALONG?????? Thank you for stepping on stage over at my blog dearest, you know how INVIGORATING IT IS, DON'T YA?

ENJOY EVERY MOMENT, Anita; December 5, 2011 at 10:44 PM
trump said...: Hi Dzintra and thank you so much for visiting my blog and posting a widget of Amish Stories on your blog, I'm very honored to be on your very well done blog. I will be back to visit your web site often. Richard from the Amish community of Lebanon,Pa; December 5, 2011 at 11:49 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Good morning sweet friend!

Thank you so much for coming to visit yesterday; school is crazy busy and now with the colder temps and snow, all I want to do when I come home late is to eat and SLEEP!!!!!!!!!

WISHING YOU FUN WITH THE THEATRE!!!!Anita; December 6, 2011 at 10:02 PM

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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, December 5, 2011

OPAM...(One Project a Month) and SSCS (Secret Santa Christmas Swap)

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