Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Giveaway Dilly Received and Chookyblues Party

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Giveaway Dilly Received and Chookyblues Party

I've just come back from a very relaxing few days in the Snowy Mountains with a Carer Group and wouldn't you know it I've fallen victim to a 'flu now and can barely speak, coughing etc......just what I need with Chooky's Birthday Sewing Celebrations this weekend!!!

Meanwhile last week this perfect happy Dilly Bag arrived from Rachaeldaisy as my win from a giveaway.......absolutely gorgeous RAchael and I'm still looking at it!!!!!! Thank You so much......it's just perfect!!!!!

She also popped in this little Monet Card.......very exciting as I plan to visit there!!!!!!

Meanwhile thank you all my lovely readers and blog friends for calling in and leaving your comments.......I read and appreciate every single one.........I haven't been able to get back to everybody especially over the last few days and now that I'm not feeling so well.......hope I'm quickly on the mend so that I can sew along with you all this weekend!!!!!

Meanwhile Take Care.......Dzintra xo

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hi Dzintra good to see you have a nice break,love your new dilly bag,Rachael is so clever,enjoy your sewing weekend my friend xx; May 28, 2015 at 6:45 PM
Susan said...: Sounds like a good break.....hope your cold doesn't hang around too long. Lovely win.; May 28, 2015 at 7:32 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Those little goodies in the post are always a breath of fresh friendship! OH DZINTRA, are ya having fun? I AM!; May 28, 2015 at 8:17 PM
KimM said...: Hope you're feeling better. And what a lovely gift as a pick-me-up!
xxx; May 28, 2015 at 11:46 PM
Chookyblue...... said...: a beautiful dilly bag..........lucky girl..........get better so you can sew...........; May 29, 2015 at 7:00 AM
Rachaeldaisy said...: I hope you're feeling better soon, stay warm and cosy, and drink lemon tea. I'm sp pleased the dilly bag found a happy home with you.; May 29, 2015 at 7:31 AM
Fiona said...: glad you had a good time away but sad you came back with a cold.. get better soon... what a lovely dilly bag to win...
Hugz; May 29, 2015 at 9:06 AM
Deb R said...: Sniff sniff, I had my fingers crossed in that dilly bag lol, Enjoy!!! Get better soon xx; May 29, 2015 at 12:52 PM
Diane-crewe said...: lovely bag ... now you have to get better with such a lovely bright gift to look at xx; May 29, 2015 at 6:43 PM

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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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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Giveaway Dilly Received and Chookyblues Party

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