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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 .

    I've created a map that shows links to our camping/hiking/general family fun review posts that you can find here. It's pretty much the coolest thing on this site. Thanks, Google!

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Yearly Archives: 2011

my antique doll house find

This is what the internet does to you.  You’re cruising along, minding your own business and then BAM!  All of a sudden you have to make a project.  First it was quiet books and now it’s a doll house. When I saw Sarah Jane’s blog post, I thought “darn it!  I want one!  It will […]

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Ellie occassionally swapps woah-wee for William.  It is very very cute to hear her say his long name! She is picking up baby signs at an astonishing pace.  She’s got please banana shoes socks coat love you wind And her spoken vocabulary just gets bigger every day.  One of the things that I love about […]

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open backed and shirred baby dresses

Remember this shirred dress I made for Ellie?  The straps in front were too far apart, and it took me until yesterday to get around to fixing them!  It’s super cute on her and I know there are more in our future! Underneath she wore a pair of bloomers that is able to do double […]

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Tonight a client hurt my feelings, so now I’m considering whether it would be bad parenting to wake up Will so he can love me and I can be the best person in the whole world in his eyes.

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I think the very best part of being a stay at home mom is that Will and Ellie are together all day.  When Ellie goes down for her nap, Will is like a lost puppy, constantly asking when she will wake up.  (And often helping the process along.)  Today I was putting on my makeup […]

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