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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: July 2011

Will and I like to make up words.  Will’s favorite/most used word: imaginate.  verb.  to imagine.  As in “but I was imaginating that I was a pirate!”  (also works in the past tense as “Look at this beautiful picture!  I imaginated that I was a king!”) Mine: disgustified. verb.  to make disgusting.   As in […]

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quiet book sew along week 2 : my vegetable patch page

I almost got two pages done this week, but decided to start potty training Ellie on Wednesday instead of waiting until Monday as planned, so I spent Wednesday and Thursday watching her hoo-ha instead of doing…well…pretty much anything else.  The good news is that we’re over the worst of it AND she’s been easier to […]

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Heather’s quilt

I have been wanting to make my famously cold sister-in-law a quilt for a long time, but couldn’t decide on a pattern or fabrics.  I wanted something that would fit in with the style of their home, but struggled to think of something modern enough.  I decided that the FRMQG solids challenge (use at least […]

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We have taken to putting Ellie in Will’s shirts for bedtime.  It is adorable.  But it does make her look like a boy

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Today I bought Will a $0.25 bucket at a garage sale (he’d just been saying this morning that he needed a bigger bucket for sand castle building) and a $1.50 shovel on clearance at Target, and he has spent the last 3 hours in the sandbox.  That works out to a babysitter at $0.58 an […]

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quiet book sew along : week one, the plan

Off Topic Rambling I’m not gonna lie–this post almost didn’t happen this week.  In addition to shooting four weddings in 9 days (which is nothing compared to our previous wedding seasons, but when you’re out of ‘wedding shape’ it’s a shock to the system), our house was struck by lightning while I was at the […]

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