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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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Monthly Archives: September 2010

It’s from God. It says “Leave God Alone. Will ‘reading’ the note in our church welcome basket.  I’m pretty sure that’s from the New(er) Testament in the Book of William.  The fuller reading is something along the lines of “Leave God Alone.  He’s sick of you and all your ‘problems.’ Go bother someone else.”  [In […]

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saw this when I got to school today.  🙂  His old school did a fantastic job of teaching him how to write his name!

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saw this when I got to school today.  🙂  His old school did a fantastic job of teaching him how to write his name!

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tutorial : temporary applique using fusible web

Today was ‘purple day’ at preschool, but Will has nothing purple in his wardrobe. I didn’t feel like buying a purple shirt just for the occasion, and I didn’t want to ruin any of his shirts by permanently altering them in a purple way.  Fusible web applique to the rescue! Step 1:  Cut out the […]

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Will loves to play the abracadabra game with Ellie and his blankie.  Ellie loves to play ANY game with Will.

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Will loves to play the abracadabra game with Ellie and his blankie.  Ellie loves to play ANY game with Will.

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