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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: 2011

Once upon a time there was a handsome prince named Will. He married a beautiful baby sister named Ellie. The end. Will telling Ellie “a bedtime story”

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Ellie is the fairest one of all. Will, to the world.  Overheard by Nic and me while they were playing.

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Uck. Ucky. Ellie, on seeing the snow outside this morning.  It was like the world was covered in some kind of yuck.

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She’s so good. She’s always so good. And when another kid cries she always looks so concerned and comes over to help. She’s the perfect child. One of the girls at VillaKids when I picked up Ellie today.  Oh how Ellie loves her babies—every time we pull into the parking lot she shouts “BABIES!!!  PLAY!!!” […]

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heather ross dress

I love this horse print from Heather Ross and got 3/4 of a yard to make Ellie another dress from the border print dress tutorial for next summer. I haven’t been good about photos of the bee blocks I’ve made for the Front Range Modern Quilt Guild bee, but here’s my latest.  Lynn requested pinks, […]

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that’s not it, i like it, uh huh uh huh. Will singing That’s The Way I Like It over and over again today.  (Closely related to his singing last week of “sweet home aroma,” which, sadly, has been replaced by the correct Sweet Home Alabama lyrics.)

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