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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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Monthly Archives: November 2010

YOU GUYS MISSED IT! Ellie was SMILING! Will, chastising Nic and I as we had an adult conversation and were not paying enough attention to his baby sister.

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It’s after bedtime. Will has requested that I sleep in his bed, I’ve told him that I’ll come in and lay down for 5 minutes. I lay down, and after a little bit open my eyes. He’s just laying there, eyes open. Me: What are you looking at? Will: Just you. Pause. Will: I just […]

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a modern nativity

Too early for Christmas projects?  Nah. Last night there was a discussion on flickr that got me motivated to stay up and make this little Christmas mug rug.  It feels like there’s a lot of outdated religious craft projects out there and not very many simple modern ones.  I wanted to challenge myself to create […]

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first snow to stick to the ground today!  It’s continuing to fall and looks like it will be our first “real” snow since the snowflakes that fell to the ground the other day didn’t stick at all.  🙂

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