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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

a very special quilt

His and hers quilts: Okay. These are not modern, but they are as precious as they come.  The one on the left was made 28 years ago and given as a gift to my pregnant momma for me.  When Will was born, he adopted it and continued loving it, and between me and Will and […]

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Will’s school makes my ass twitch. I love the sentence ‘we don’t want them to wait a whole week to read a book!’ as if, if we don’t get a book home from the library, all our kids will have access to are twinkies, coffee, and video games. I’m soooo tired of the condescending letters […]

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Will’s school makes my ass twitch. I love the sentence ‘we don’t want them to wait a whole week to read a book!’ as if, if we don’t get a book home from the library, all our kids will have access to are twinkies, coffee, and video games. I’m soooo tired of the condescending letters […]

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stash: will’s next quilt

Once Will’s car quilt is finished, this will be his next blankie–a Castle Peeps quilt (with some Wee Woodlands stripes and Riley Blake Cheery Circles thrown in for good measure). This quilt was the forerunner for the longest time: until I found this one: Now I’m torn.  🙂

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halloween quilt. DONE.

This is going to be the week of finished projects.  I can feel it.  The Halloween quilt is kicking it off, but Will’s car quilt and the chalkboard tablecloth are going to follow.  All that organizing and reorganizing charm squares is done! It didn’t come out as I planned–I had wanted to place the patchwork […]

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