Needles and a Pen » Knitting, Sewing, and Nursing School

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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 .

    I've created a map that shows links to our camping/hiking/general family fun review posts that you can find here. It's pretty much the coolest thing on this site. Thanks, Google!

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Officially fall = Halloween decoration time

Today it is officially fall, and I am celebrating after passing my assessment check off in nursing school (woot woot, 2 down, only 8 million more skills checkoffs to go!) so I broke out my big orange and black bin and got my Halloween decorations on.  In the process of unpacking all of my Halloween treasures, I found these two cross stitch projects from last fall that never made it to the blog.  They were my first and second ever cross stitch attempts!  Both patterns are from The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery and were amazing fun quick crafty projects!  I’m still looking for the perfect frame for the little Frankenstein piece, but hopefully I’ll find something this year for it!

halloween cross stitch decoration

halloween cross stitch modern

halloween cross stitch trick or treaters