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

Sunday, March 1, 2015

~OPAM (One Project A Month) February~

One small item this month for OPAM

'Some Kind of Wonderful' Needle book (a giveaway win from Deb at Frog Cottage Designs) by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched

Inside the case

The thread specified was Weeks Dye Works Stone Floss which I didn't have

so I looked up the Conversion Chart and used DMC 840 and 3740 which gave a lovely stone/mauve effect.

And the back.

Thank you again Sweet Peg and Partner in Crime Kris for hosting OPAM once again this year!!!

14 comments:

Susan said...: Such a sweet finish and so useful too. Perfect for carrying your needles to Nundle!; March 1, 2015 at 5:22 PM
Chookyblue...... said...: looks great......must get mine finished.......; March 1, 2015 at 6:01 PM
Rachaeldaisy said...: That is the sweetest needle book. What a lovely finish for February.; March 1, 2015 at 9:15 PM
Anonymous said...: hi Dzintra I love your new needle case,well done on your beautiful finish xx; March 1, 2015 at 9:31 PM
Simone Harding said...: Gorgeous; March 1, 2015 at 11:29 PM
RitaGri said...: Kāds jauks un rokdarbiem noderīgs maciņš!; March 1, 2015 at 11:38 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: And I was also just thinking of YOU, and here you are! HOw I love these little cases, always bringing me one stitch closer to my mum....

HAPPY SUNDAY DZINTRA!; March 2, 2015 at 12:24 AM
KimM said...: Oh, how clever. I love, LOVE it! Well done -
xxx; March 2, 2015 at 2:15 AM
Peg - Happy In Quilting said...: Wow...that is gorgeous...love it...not long now and I can give you one super hug....xxxxx; March 2, 2015 at 6:28 AM
Fiona said...: such a lovely needlecase...

Hugz; March 2, 2015 at 9:42 AM
Nat Palaskas said...: Nice needle book/case! I love them and have been collecting for years now. Have a nice week - Hugs Nat; March 3, 2015 at 3:25 PM
Jenny said...: Very nice.. see you soon; March 3, 2015 at 10:23 PM
Dawnie said...: Oh this so looks lovely. It has inspired me to get on with my one; March 8, 2015 at 9:53 AM
Anthea said...: Hi Dzintra!
Your needlebook is super cute - I like your idea with using the DMC combo for your colour of thread.
I really should make that myself some day!
Bye for now, Anthea; March 11, 2015 at 11:37 PM

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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Sunday, March 1, 2015

~OPAM (One Project A Month) February~

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Welcome To My World