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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: January 2021

DIY Closet Shelves

I’m kicking 2021 off with this post about my biggest 2019 project! In 2019 I stepped back from sewing and got to work learning carpentry, something I’d wanted to learn for years. My biggest project? A remodel of our office closet shelves. I wanted floating shelves that would span the 7 foot wall that would […]

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2021 Make Nine Plans

For 2021 I’m setting similar goals to 2020–some building, some knitting, some sewing, some scrapbooking! I loved finishing my yearbook album quilt at long last, so I’ve chosen another quilt in WIP purgatory: this bow tie block quilt whose quilt top is actually complete but requires a quilt back and quilting. The Carolyn Pajamas are […]

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2020 Make Nine Wrap-Up

Happy 2021! While 2020 didn’t go as planned, I was surprised to learn I actually finished eight of the nine projects I’d set as a goal for in those naive early days of pre-pandemic 2020! I failed to pick up knitting needles even once in 2020, but the rest of the projects, even the massive […]

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