Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: ~OPAM (One Project A Month) November 2014~

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

~OPAM (One Project A Month) November 2014~

My November OPAM is this item above but I'm sorry I can't show it as it is a Secret Swap in SSCS (Secret Santa Christmas Swap) hosted by my mate Chookyblue

All will be revealed when my Partner opens it at Christmas time and then I will put up the full pics

A Christmas ornament also had to be made which I did out of this screen printed fabric

This too will be revealed after the gifts are opened!!!

Thank you to Sweet Peg and Kris for hosting another month of OPAM!!!

9 comments:

Michelle Ridgway said...: Lots of secret squirrel business going on in blog land x; December 2, 2014 at 9:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi Dzintra,lovely sneak peeks my friend,hope you have a lovely evening.xx; December 2, 2014 at 10:06 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: GOOD MORNING DZINTRA! The time has come for the magic needles to start swinging and clicking and creating! I just know your partner will be delighted. So good to see you! Anita; December 2, 2014 at 10:39 PM
Show and Tell said...: Love those fabrics Dzintra.....What I can see of them xx; December 2, 2014 at 11:25 PM
Liene said...: Lovely fabrics, I especially love the red! (PS Thanks for the sidebar mention of my series, it's got me so excited for the next month!); December 3, 2014 at 12:24 AM
Fiona said...: the sneaky peak looks amazing....
Hugz; December 3, 2014 at 9:27 AM
Rachaeldaisy said...: Looks as though your been busy making some special gifts for your swap partner!!; December 3, 2014 at 4:55 PM
Peg - Happy In Quilting said...: Dear D...bet it is amazing, well done my dear fiendxxxx; December 3, 2014 at 7:25 PM
annemariesquilt said...: SSCS is a very sweet tradition.
You can find my gift from you in the SSCS 2011 on my blogg today. Thank you so much again.
I have decorated the cabin and your gift are on a window display..
Take care and have fun !; December 4, 2014 at 12:02 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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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

~OPAM (One Project A Month) November 2014~

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Welcome To My World