Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: ~GDITC 2013...and a celebration~

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

~GDITC 2013...and a celebration~

After leaving the "Girlfriends' (as JoJo calls everyone now) at Girls Day in the Country at Nundle this is what I was doing....

celebrating a B I G upcoming birthday of mine with my family

My Sister put the feathers on for me and Mr Armchair came back with a blue cocktail to continue the theme!!!

Once I get all my pics up and organized I'll be back..........

14 comments:

Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: THAT BLUE DRINK LOOKS AS WONDERFUL AS YOU! Dzintra! I think we are all so busy these days....so good to see you dear heart! Anita; March 27, 2013 at 12:24 AM
Zuly said...: Hi!
I send a big hug from Costa Rica
:-)
Zuly Castillo U.-; March 27, 2013 at 1:56 AM
Bev C said...: Hello Dzintra,

Love JoJo's versions of your friends, rather appropriate. That drink just looks so inviting. Happy days.
Bev.xoxo; March 27, 2013 at 3:05 AM
Lynn said...: Love the feathers! A big upcoming birthday!?!; March 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM
Kath said...: Bright colours really suit you, you look gorgeous in that fabulous blue!; March 27, 2013 at 4:54 AM
Susan said...: Happy Birthday......the feathers look like fun!; March 27, 2013 at 5:52 AM
Annie said...: Must be a 21st - you look BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! You have the most amazing smile and a beautiful happy face Dzintra....all the time!; March 27, 2013 at 7:16 AM
Anonymous said...: Happy BIG Birthday coming up :) love the matching blues; March 27, 2013 at 7:33 AM
Anonymous said...: lovely happy pics Dzintra.xx; March 27, 2013 at 9:11 AM
Sandi said...: The Nundle event sounds fun! Enjoy yourself at your big birthday!; March 27, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Chookyblue...... said...: very happy to be one of the girlfriends........loving all the blue.........; March 27, 2013 at 10:10 AM
Yvonne W said...: Happy Big Birthday to you!The blue drink looks facinating-- did it taste good?; March 27, 2013 at 8:32 PM
Palomasea said...: Oooh..you look so happy!
(25th B-Day, I'm guessing?)
Not till April though, right?
xoxo; March 28, 2013 at 3:12 AM
Fiona said...: you sure are getting to celebrate in style.... do tell more!!
Hugz; March 28, 2013 at 11:51 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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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

~GDITC 2013...and a celebration~

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Welcome To My World