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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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It’s appropriate that it is Oscar time, because I’m about to say ‘it really IS an honor just to be nominated!’  I have fell behind on my google reader feed this weekend and so I didn’t know that my eiffel tower pillow had made it into Rachel’s top nine February pillows until now!  It didn’t win, but it didn’t need to–my day was already made just to see my pillow in that grid!  Thanks so much Rachel!

March’s guest judge is the one and only Aneela Hoey (the genius behind sherbet pips).  I can’t decide whether to try to rock out a fabulous pillow for March, or whether to accept that I’d crumple under the pressure and end up rocking myself in the fetal position under Edna Elizabeth.

Jacey - My pillow was one of the lucky nine as well! I just love your Eiffel Tower embroidery. It’s awesome!

Melissa - I was super excited for you when I saw your dad’s pillow in her final selection! You deserved it! 🙂

Have you seen the prize for the top pillow next month? 5 (FIVE!) YARDS of Sherbet Pips?! How can you not enter?