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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: June 2011

like a dog bringing me her leash, ellie is forever bringing me her shoes and saying “outside” or “bye”

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Quiet Book Ideas for Toddlers

Stupid internet.  The very LAST thing I need in this life is another sewing project to start, but I was innocently doing a little mindless blog surfing and saw this quiet book from The Empty Bobbin last week   I had a quiet book when I was little, and Ellie loved playing with it while […]

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sew mama sew giveaway swag

I was lucky twice on Giveaway Day, winning this vintage pattern from Ejegmama and this set of gorgeous fat quarters from Kristine at A Verb for Keeping Warm! They were waiting for me when I got home from Seattle and I felt so lucky and inspired!

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Ellie’s 15 month check

Raise your hand if you knew that you saw the pediatrician at 15 months for a well baby check.  My hand would not have been raised for that one.  So we saw her at almost 17 months for a hybrid 15/18 month check (I’m not-so-secretly thrilled to have skipped out on a well baby check—I […]

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totally hilarious

Ellie is squirming on my lap trying to get to the mouse. All arms and legs and twisting and irritating. Me: Excuse me, Miss. Can I help you with something? Ellie, stops wiggling, looks and me and says: Yeah.

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