Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Once A Season Swap Gift Arrived at Shez's......and Blueberry Muffins

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Once A Season Swap Gift Arrived at Shez's......and Blueberry Muffins

I recently participated in a Once A Season Swap at Cheryll's and my parcel to Shez arrived on Friday!

I ummed and ahhhed about whether to enter this swap...

the brief was......send something either handmade or bought to a secret partner that depicts Winter...

I was at Moruya Markets and saw this cute little felt girl and she said to me "Winter"...

That did it......I came home and registered for the swap!!!

Also included was a stitchery pattern that said......'Winter' by Cathy Penton

A little felt pin keep...

And all stitcher's need chocolate......Blueberry Intense for Shez as it just seemed to match...

Thank you so much Cheryll for hosting this swap...

now I'm thinking...perhaps enter the Spring Swap...

And to think the Sun will be on her way back to the Southern Hemisphere in about 3 weeks time...

the mind boggles as we are entering into Winter here...

and it's a perfect Sunday morning to make Blueberry Muffins!!!

All perfectly gluten free...

the recipe can be found over here on My Dolce Vita, my food blog

Happy Stitching......Happy Baking......Happy Sunday

Dzintra

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Oh Dzintra i am so glad you joined the winter swap,they are so much fun and Chez is a great swap muma.I loved my parcel and the choc was beautiful,lol,my grand-daughter who is 8 has just gone home with the doll she fell in love with it so i didnt have the heart to say no,so she is being well loved.And it was a surprise you being my partner so thankyou so very much for a great swap.xx; June 3, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Margaret said...: She certainly is a winter girl and I an see her tucking into the Muffins.
How did you get the books on your side bar ??; June 3, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Rachaeldaisy said...: What a wonderful wintery package of lovely things. That doll is so pretty!! Your muffins look extra tasty!!; June 3, 2012 at 7:18 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: BLUE......SWEETNESS......DARLING LITTLE GIFTS....well, what more could you ask for to put a HUGE smile on your face???? LOVE IT ALL MY DEAR and how I love little felt things...; June 3, 2012 at 8:31 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Oh dearest, I so love your little creations!!! Have a magnificent Monday my sweet! Anita; June 4, 2012 at 8:12 AM
Nat Palaskas said...: You girls do have fun swapping! The blueberries muffin looks so yummy...; June 4, 2012 at 10:35 PM
trump said...: I smelled some Blueberry Muffins and had to drop over folks, and they look great! Richard; June 5, 2012 at 5:39 AM
Fer said...: Mmmm... blueberry muffins.... I always have to make them with white chocolate too. ;); June 5, 2012 at 9:02 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 ...

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'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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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Once A Season Swap Gift Arrived at Shez's......and Blueberry Muffins

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