Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Colour Swap Received from Annie's Dreaming!!!

Friday, May 25, 2012

Colour Swap Received from Annie's Dreaming!!!

Recently I signed up for a Colour Swap with Lydia's Treasures.

Yesterday I received my gifts from Annie's Dreaming...and I was not disappointed!!!

The idea was to send 6 gifts with one being handmade in a specified colour...

I nominated 'soft country colours'...

They arrived all wrapped in gorgeous paisley paper...

Jamie Oliver tea towels and barbeque basting brush...Mr Armchair thought he scored ha ha!!!

Fabric covered journal...

A Bareroots embroidery stitches book along with 2 skeins of Threadworx threads...just beautiful in 'soft warm country colours'...

and I needed this book of stitches!!!

A fat 1/8 pack of Whimsicals Tangled Threads

close-up...

And of course every stitcher needs sustenance!!!

And a nice scented sachet!!!

My first ever Christmas pin cushion......I think I'll use it for all Christmas projects!!!

All my goodies together!!!

Thank you so much dear Annie...I just loved my parcel to bits!!!

And a huge thank you to Lisa for hosting this very fun swap!!!

I'll be back later to show what I sent to Annie!!!

8 comments:

Judith said...: Well lucky you, good parcel to unwrap! Enjoy your weekend.; May 26, 2012 at 12:03 AM
Lynn said...: What terrific swap gifts! Fun swap!; May 26, 2012 at 5:07 AM
Anonymous said...: Ingrid what a lovely swap parcel to receive,well done Annie,lots of fun for you there Ingrid,this swap was a lot of fun.xx; May 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Annie said...: Loved making for you Dzintra - glad you were happy with them. I will post my gorgeous gifties received later today...which I am STILL excited about :) xoxoxox; May 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Peg - Happy In Quilting said...: Fantastic gifts Dzintra...; May 26, 2012 at 5:31 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Good morning darling friend!

Don't you just love little goodies? These are so special and pretty and I bet you are just loving them. One of the highlights of my weekends as a child was to walk to the local shopping center (no malls back then) with my mum. She would go with her coin purse and buy me a candy bar and a spool of thread or a new notion for her sewing. Little things have always made my day. Have fun.

ANITA!; May 26, 2012 at 9:02 PM
Palomasea said...: As dear Anita says...the little goodies are so fun...especially when sent with this much love and heart!
These are wonderful, dear Dzintra, what a treat...
Enjoy!!
xoxo,
- Irina; May 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM
Simone de Klerk said...: So much love and loveliness that came your way!; May 27, 2012 at 6:01 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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Friday, May 25, 2012

Colour Swap Received from Annie's Dreaming!!!

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Welcome To My World