Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: ~Woo Hoo...A Giveaway Win from Frog Cottage Designs~

Saturday, June 29, 2013

~Woo Hoo...A Giveaway Win from Frog Cottage Designs~

Imagine my surprise and utter delight and much excitement during the week when I won a Giveaway over at Deb's from Frog Cottage Designs

Included in the pack was a mini charm pack by bonnie & camille who are a Mother and Daughter team from America

a cute little kit for Honky Tonk Keyring by Annie Downs of Hatched and Patched

a Fabric Pack for the Some Kind of Wonderful Needlebook......

and of course I have the book!!!

and finally an English Paper Piecing Kit of a diamond shape!!!

The Kit is by Sue Daley of Patchwork with Busy Fingers

I was lucky enough to meet Sue earlier this year at Girls Day in the Country and Nundle...

Thank you so much Deb for hosting this very generous giveaway....I just love it all

and it's even nicer that I have met you at Nundle......Dzintra xo

13 comments:

Bev C said...: Hello Dzintra,

I just came across to leave a comment on your previous post about the lovely things at the Markets. I see you have some lovely mail, congrats on your win, enjoy that lovely fabric and patterns.

Happy days.
Bev.; June 29, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Anonymous said...: wow ,congrats Dzintra,such a lovely win for you.xx; June 29, 2013 at 7:02 PM
Susan said...: Congratulations Dzintra. Lovely prizes.; June 29, 2013 at 7:11 PM
Anita said...: What a great win you had.
Cheers, Anita.; June 29, 2013 at 7:20 PM
RitaGri said...: Jauka dāvaniņa, ko varēs izmantot jauniem darbiem!; June 29, 2013 at 8:20 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Isn't it so nice when you MEET the people behind the acts of kindness, Dzintra? I have had the fortunate pleasure of meeting at least three blogging friends, and another one is my BEST FRIEND who lives here in the Twin Cities: IRINA!

And my sweet one, your eldest daughter is right: WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU LOVE because the chances are 100% positive that you will not only find other kindreds, but you will enjoy your writing and sharing experience as the way it was meant to be experienced. My writing teaching is wonderful; she tells us to JUST HAVE FUN.

ENJOY YOUR KITS! Looks like so much fun....spread the love dearest, and CHEERS!!!! Anita; June 29, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Rachaeldaisy said...: Congratulations on winning all those wonderful prizes! You'll have fun making all those fun kits and using those lovely fabrics.; June 29, 2013 at 9:41 PM
Tatkis said...: Oh you lucky girl! Congratulations on your win :)

Hugs,
Tatyana; June 29, 2013 at 10:17 PM
Deb R said...: So nice when your giveaway is won by someone you know! Happy Stitching x; June 30, 2013 at 4:38 AM
Fiona said...: lovely little prize... well done and I know you will have fun with it...
Hugz; June 30, 2013 at 8:57 AM
DAWNIE said...: You are so very lucky to win these , they are really all so fabulous; June 30, 2013 at 9:20 AM
Peg - Happy In Quilting said...: Lucky you...lots of yummy loot....; June 30, 2013 at 4:41 PM
Grethe said...: What a lovely lot of wins! Yes, I understand you were surprised as well as happy :-); July 1, 2013 at 4:02 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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Saturday, June 29, 2013

~Woo Hoo...A Giveaway Win from Frog Cottage Designs~

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