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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: February 2011

Our Disneyland guidebook came today and we’ve all been fighting over it.  I love that.  Will’s so excited talking about all the rides he wants to go on that he’s singing Christmas songs—always a clue that he’s incredibly blissed out.

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smocked dress from weekend sewing (by heather ross)

I finished Ellie’s ‘smocked dress’ from Weekend Sewing (since I’m busiest in the summer I am trying to get all of the summer clothes that I want to make for her done in the winter).  But before going further I will say that this isn’t a smocked dress, it’s a shirred dress…and if you don’t […]

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Ellie has a cold.  A snot-running-down-her-face kind of cold.  Which prompts lots of “ELLIE!  You’re GROSS!” from Will as he then runs to get her a tissue.

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