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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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Category Archives: cross stitch

Halloween cross stitch

I know I said I was going to work on that horrible 32 count linen project, but I am weak and so instead I started a whole NEW project.  This is my first time working with Aida and it is just as quick and easy as I had imagined it would be, even if it’s […]

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Death by 32 count linen | Christmas sampler

This 32 count linen is going to be the death of me.  I am a Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery addict.  I love their patterns and am soooo excited about the National Parks sampler.  But before I start on that, I need to finish up this Christmas sampler.  I have worked on linen before, but in the […]

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nothin into nothin, carry the nothin

While I made several cute things this fall I lost a memory card in early December and so I’m missing pictures of a bunch of the cute things.  (And probably of my kids, too, but I’m trying not to think about that.)  Luckily, one of my favorite projects DID get photographed and those photographs DID […]

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