Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: ~OPAM August 2013~

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

~OPAM August 2013~

Just a little Needlebook this month for OPAM (One Project A Month)

Pattern by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched

Thank you so much Sweet Peg and Kris for running OPAM

I hope I'm not too late for August!!!

13 comments:

Anonymous said...: very cute Dzintra,well done.xx; September 3, 2013 at 6:39 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: I so love these adorable little surprises, and look at the sweet stitching of the bird! LOVE!!!!!

Oh Dzintra dear, you are just so special to come and visit me! Off I go now dearest to teach the older grades. Today is the first day and really, it is going to be a buzz of excitement with incoming sophomores and then meeting my other 8th graders. THINK OF ME! Anita; September 3, 2013 at 8:05 PM
Fiona said...: how cute is that needlecase.... love the little birdie stitchery...
Hugz; September 3, 2013 at 9:13 PM
Nat Palaskas said...: That cute. I love needle book. A touch of embroidery is so special - Hugs
Nat; September 3, 2013 at 9:34 PM
Bev C said...: Hello Dzintra,

That needle case is just so damn cute. A lovely project for OPAM.

Happy days.
Bev.; September 3, 2013 at 10:17 PM
Domesblissity said...: Very cute Dzintra.

Anne xx; September 3, 2013 at 10:21 PM
ria vogelzang said...: Such a cutie!! Love it, and love to you as well!!
;)
Ria.; September 4, 2013 at 8:28 AM
Kaisievic said...: That is a very sweet needlebook, Dzintra.; September 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM
Googy Girl said...: Such a cute needlebook, great finish; September 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM
Jan Gartlan said...: Cute!; September 4, 2013 at 9:50 PM
Rachaeldaisy said...: That is the cutest needlebook!! The little stitchery design is so sweet. We drove past Annie's shop the other day but it was Sunday afternoon and I don't think it was open. One day I'll get to go inside.; September 5, 2013 at 7:34 AM
Tatkis said...: Such a cute needle book!

Hugs,
Tatyana; September 5, 2013 at 5:35 PM
Palomasea said...: It is darling!!; September 17, 2013 at 2:40 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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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

~OPAM August 2013~

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Welcome To My World