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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

sewing more pajama pants

I might have an addiction to sewing these fast pajama pants!  I already know the next two pairs I’m going to make him, which is stupid because last week he fell in love with fleece footie pajamas.  Last night I would have gotten these done even faster than 10 minutes, but I forgot about the […]

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woot!  this tumblr now (sort of) accepts comments!  Just use the little email icon to leave a note.  🙂  Thanks Brian!

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I don’t know when we’d make that happen. We’re a cross between really busy and really lazy. Nic.

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damn pottery barn catalog

Pottery Barn catalogs can be fun when you’re in the right frame of mind.  (The ‘I’m looking for cool color combos’ kind of frame of mind.)  But if you’re not fully Shields Up and you happen to open one unprepared, you’re in for a world of ‘why doesn’t MY house look like that?!” pain. Will […]

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But don’t put me to bed yet. I was just organizing a benefit for orphans. Nic, parodying Will’s fantastic stall bedtime strategies.

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But why don’t you want to play with me? Will to the 6 year old neighbor who has been blowing him off lately. My heart is broken. 

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