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  • Welcome to my blog!

    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: January 2011

wip: sherbet pips quilt, blocks 1-16

I just finished #17 and am seeing the light!  Of course I will no doubt be tempted to replace one of two when the 20 are finished and I can stretch this project out a bit longer.  😛 Thanks so much for all the suggestions on my last post.  I was really wanting to avoid […]

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miss smarty pants

Ellie is such a little smarty pants.  I just can’t get over it.  She has so many words—hi, mama, daddy, wiwa, button, sun (although that one she’s only said once, but she pointed right at the setting sun!), done, baba, and nana (nursing).  She’s got signs—all done, more, she shakes her head no and even […]

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liebster blog

If you’ve been hanging out in blogland this week, you probably already know about the Liebster Blog award.  It’s a way of sharing information about smaller blogs (fewer than 300 followers)–a way for us little guys to give the nod to other little guys!  🙂 Brooke of Pitter Putter Stitch was sweet enough to send […]

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she cracks me up!

This morning Ellie was standing at my feet, whining at me.  I picked her up and she looked at me and said “Hi.”  It was hilarious. Also, she’s a genius!  Added to her vocabulary:  “sun” and “button.” 

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edna elizabeth, all ready to go

After I dropped Nic off at work this morning (he can’t drive until his vertigo gets under control) I grabbed the power cord from the sewing repair shop and came back home to check her out!  So far, so good!  It will take some getting used to the a few things I’ve been spoiled with–no […]

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