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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: September 2011

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i’m happy. i love my kids. my house is getting under control. i’m rocking my class. i’m up to date on my accounting. i am wearing my skinniest of skinny jeans AND eating popcorn and chocolate thanks to villa.  i have faith that everything will always work out to be okay.

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here we go…

This month Ellie added “no” and “mine” to an extensive vocabulary that previously included only words like “happy” and “sunny.”  The terrible twos are starting early. Although I do like it when she calls Will “my woahwee”

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uh huh. oh yeah.

One of the many funny things Ellie does is saying “oh yeah” in the same obnoxious way as the villain in Despicable Me.  Sometimes she has the ‘uh huh’ at the front.  I need to get it on video before she stops doing it!

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children at play twirly skirt

I have loved the green floral print from Children at Play since I first saw a little thumbnail of it!  While Ellie will get plenty of Children at Play dresses, I knew this print was for me.  🙂 I used my twirly skirt tutorial for this one (thought it was so windy today that it […]

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WIP: wonky crosses, joel dewberry style

I bought a few fat quarters on the new Joel Dewberry heritage line on complete impulse.  I think it’s because I didn’t covet them for long before their release (and am really not even sure that I love them now) that I hacked into them so quickly.  I want to sew something with them quickly […]

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