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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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Monthly Archives: September 2010

While wiping Will’s bummie this morning I sprayed air freshener in the powder room.  He wanted to know what I was doing and I told him that it was spray that gets rid of stinkiness. This afternoon I left Ellie playing with Will while I went to the bathroom.  Will shouted up that Ellie had […]

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Mommy? I just really don’t want to have a mom. Will, who is mad at me because he can’t go next door to the neighbor’s house to play right now

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Because three blogs just aren’t enough.

I have been in love with fabric since I first stepped into Aunt Jemimah’s fabric shop in Lancashire as a 13 year old American living in England.  While other kids were out doing immeasurably cool teenage things, my sister and I were stealing my mom’s quilting class book and using our allowances to build our […]

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