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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: November 2010

Ladies and gentlemen…Ellie is officially a crawler. If you’ll excuse me, I now have a lot of baby proofing to do.  😛

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homemade shopping cart / high chair cover

When Will was a baby I had a shopping cart cover that saw a ton of use…right up until the day I realized it was all hopeless.  Between rubbing the bottom of his shoes and sucking guard rails, a cart cover was really more of a protection for other children from Will than it was […]

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first word

Friday as I was feeding Ellie, she made her ‘all done’ sign.  “All done?” I asked.  “Yeah.” she said.  With perfect pronunciation, perfect timing, perfect meaning.  I put the leftovers away.  She smiled.

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taking separation anxiety to new levels

We were warned about sibling jealousy…but in this family, it’s the BABY who is jealous and unreasonable! Ellie is a hard core momma’s girl.  And we seem to be experiencing it at its peak (or I sure hope it is at a peak—Will really didn’t go through separation anxiety, so this is a new pain-in-the-arse […]

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pillow swap time!

Along with the mug rug swap, I signed up for the Pillow Talk Swap.  I have been super excited about it, because it’s a modern swap, with a few more guidelines on the general style of the project.  Having never made a pillow cover, I thought I should do a practice project before diving into […]

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