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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: 2011

We have taken to putting Ellie in Will’s shirts for bedtime.  It is adorable.  But it does make her look like a boy

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Today I bought Will a $0.25 bucket at a garage sale (he’d just been saying this morning that he needed a bigger bucket for sand castle building) and a $1.50 shovel on clearance at Target, and he has spent the last 3 hours in the sandbox.  That works out to a babysitter at $0.58 an […]

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quiet book sew along : week one, the plan

Off Topic Rambling I’m not gonna lie–this post almost didn’t happen this week.  In addition to shooting four weddings in 9 days (which is nothing compared to our previous wedding seasons, but when you’re out of ‘wedding shape’ it’s a shock to the system), our house was struck by lightning while I was at the […]

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castle peeps quilt update

My Castle Peeps quilt top has been done for a few weeks and is patiently awaiting its backing.  We will be headed to the renaissance fair soon so I need to get cracking on this one!  (Or accept defeat.  Either way.)  These giant pluses have 7″ finished squares at the top and bottom and 7×21″ […]

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At bedtime I have been signing “love” to Ellie as I say “I love you.”  She started signing it back to me a few weeks ago, which I was very excited about.  This morning I could tell she was ready for her nap about an hour and a half ago, but she was playing nicely […]

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