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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: 2010

William is our master. Will, in a robotic drone voice. Listening to Will play is always entertaining, especially when he makes his subjects get all formal and use his long name in their obedience.

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some day I will be well rested.  some day I will sleep for longer than two hour chunks.  some day I will not need to invent new words to describe my particular level of exhaustion.  some day I won’t stay up until 1am meeting deadlines and then want to die the next day.  some day […]

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I’m the Heat Nazi in the house and have been trying to stretch the amount of time we went without turning on the heat as long as possible. After suffering through more than a week of mornings at 61 degrees or lower in the house, Nic turned on the heat tonight. I have it set […]

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a lesson I continually flunk

Every few weeks or months I relearn this: If your child is acting like a total pain in the ass and won’t sleep and is demanding and just a huge buttface, it is NOT because you have indulged them too much and this behavior is now permanent.  It is one of two things: illness or […]

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Will calls Darth Vador “The Star Wars Daddy.”  As in, we were at the mall and there was a Stride Right store with a Darth Vador cut-out promoting their brand new Darth Vador shoes (of which Will is now the proud owner) and he said “LOOK!  MOM!  It’s the Star Wars Daddy!” I imagine, since […]

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dreaming up a dream on quilt

I have a Moda Dream On charm pack that pushed its way to the front of the project queue last night.  I absolutely love the fabrics, but the finished projects I’ve seen on flickr have left me a little bummed out and stumped on how to use them.  They have a vintage tablecloth/bedsheet look to […]

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