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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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Yearly Archives: 2010

Had a rough afternoon. And the following conversation with Will on the way home from preschool. Will: Can we go to McDonalds? me: Sorry, honey–mommy just wants to go home tonight. Will: But why? me: I had a rough day. Will: How come you had a rough day? me: Oh–it’s okay, sweetie. People just hurt […]

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swap mania

I’ve been bitten hard by the swap bug, and right now all projects are swap related–either official swaps or ones I’ve arranged on the side.  Here’s a sneak at some of the projects in work: Yep.  I free motion stitched the eiffel tower for the scrappy mug rug swap.  (And was super impressed when Will […]

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Mommy, could you snuggle me on the sofa? That would make me happy. My sweet sweet boy

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Will you snuggle with me? I’m all by myself and lonely. Will, from the sofa.

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sick babies make my remaining ovary shrivel up

Elsie is sick.  She cried every 1-5 minutes last night until around 1am.  She was in bed with us and would settle and I’d think ‘ahh—maybe I can sleep’ and then she’d start crying again.  I put her in her crib around 1 and she cried for about 5 minutes then finally fell asleep.  She […]

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“there will always be cute fabric”

Sometimes it’s hard to let fabric go.  To let it go in the sense that you acknowledge its cuteness but know that you don’t need to purchase any more fabric, or to let it go in the sense that you’re actually going to cut into it and use it.  In times like that I try […]

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