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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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Monthly Archives: November 2011

me: I can’t get over Ellie. She loves to play rough, her favorite toys are the swords and Will’s guns. She walks all over the house with them saying “Hiyah!” And remember when Will got those creepy eyes and teeth for Halloween and she put them on HERSELF and walked into the room with her […]

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Ellie is excessively fond of putting on underwear over her clothes.  It makes her look like a superhero.

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a quilt for my goddaughter!

My very first godbaby is expected next month, and so a quilt was most certainly in order!  It’s back with me right now to get its label, so I remembered to grab a picture of it this time!  I used the charm pack quilt pattern from Oh Fransson and the Just Wing It line from […]

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I was singing that Ella Fitzgerald song “Always” to Will (I’ll be lovin’ you/always/not for just an hour/not for just a day/not for just a year/but always) and Will accidentally sang it back to me “I’ll be loving you for just an hour” and I laughed so hard that he wouldn’t stop putting a cap […]

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tumbler quilt

This quilt originated last winter, when I pulled a stack of fabrics for Ellie’s stroller quilt but realized they clashed with her stroller.  I loved the colors together, and with the tumbler die from Accuquilt and my friend’s borrowed cutter, this quilt was born!  The top went together quickly, and I decided I wanted to […]

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