Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: ~Maree's 6 Item Swap Received~

Saturday, December 7, 2013

~Maree's 6 Item Swap Received~

I joined in Maree's 6 Item Swap earlier in the year and this parcel arrived here this week for me from Helen.......At this stage I'm not sure of Helen's blog!!!

Box of gifts including a little bag for JoJo.....how sweet this was......

A card for JoJo from Helen also

So far she has put the gift under the tree and is being very patient

Unlike me who has decided to open one a day as the suspense is too much!!!

The first one opened is a tree ornie

How cool is this.......a little paintbrush looking like Santa

Next one I opened is 'Sewing Room'

A lovely fat 1/4

Shirt pins

Quilt labels

Pin Magnet

And tomorrow I think I'll do 'Read'

What fun is this!!!!

Thank you so much Helen and also Maree for organizing this fun swap.......wooohooooo!!!

15 comments:

Anonymous said...: wow how exciting and how cool is that paint brush,wow,enjoy Dzintra.xx; December 7, 2013 at 6:58 PM
Susan said...: Lovely parcels, and so sweet for Helen to include Jojo. Maybe I could turn some of my paintbrushes into a Santa!; December 7, 2013 at 7:46 PM
De said...: Love the Santa paintbrush - I have seen this idea before but yet to attempt it!; December 7, 2013 at 8:01 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: THAT PAINTBRUSH IS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS! See, this is what I've always loved and always will enjoy about blogging: seeing people be kind, creative and outstandingly innovative! CHEERS MY DEAR! Anita; December 7, 2013 at 10:32 PM
Jenny said...: Lucky you and Jo Jo. The santa is a bit cute.; December 8, 2013 at 12:49 AM
Rachaeldaisy said...: That paintbrush Santa, is so clever and fun!! People come up with the best ideas!! You and JoJo are going to enjoy your gifts.; December 8, 2013 at 5:30 AM
Yvonne W said...: What a clever idea with the paintbrush! Enjoy opening the rest of the gifts.; December 8, 2013 at 1:14 PM
Peg - Happy In Quilting said...: Lovely parcels there...what a wonderdul Santa p/brush; December 8, 2013 at 5:05 PM
Googy Girl said...: Ohhh looks like a fun swap, love the Santa paint brush; December 9, 2013 at 6:00 AM
RitaGri said...: Tik interesanti ir tādas pārsteiguma dāvaniņas atvērt!; December 9, 2013 at 7:47 AM
Fiona said...: love that santa brush... how clever... you are being patient opening one a day!
Hugz; December 9, 2013 at 9:48 AM
Nat Palaskas said...: All the fun comes together at the end! Enjoy them - Love Nat; December 9, 2013 at 4:45 PM
Bev C said...: Hello Dzintra,

Oh that paintbrush Santa is fantastic. Have fun opening the parcels. Glad to see Jojo got a special one too.

Happy days.
Bev.; December 9, 2013 at 6:32 PM
Helen said...: Hi Dzintra,
I'm glad you are enjoying the gifts I sent but I do have a confession.... I didn't make the paint brush Santa,I bought it at a handmade craft expo and couldn't resist it.... wish I had got one for myself now, maybe I need to make one. lol.

Helen; December 9, 2013 at 9:03 PM
Tatkis said...: Wonderful gifts from Helen!
Congratulations!

Hugs,
Tatyana; December 20, 2013 at 9:14 AM

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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.

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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.~

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

~Maree's 6 Item Swap Received~

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