The Communique Layout
Popularized by Rhonda Dort, who uses the layout in her classes, the Communique Quilt Layout works for both featuring large fabric and panel pieces, as well as a basis for multiple block designs.
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Welcome to Mouse in My Pocket! I'm Andrea, a web developer living in rural America with her husband and daughter. I'm excited to share my life with you as I explore some of the great things about living in the middle of nowhere. Be sure to check out the blog below to see a few of the things that are speaking to me right now.
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Kitty and Mouse
Kitty enjoys a lot of things, especially eating my shoes and playing with the mouse that lives in the pocket of my purse. She was quite entertaining.
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Up Early with New Kitty
The new cat was up early this morning. Not that I was the one to notice. Matt was heading to work around 6, as usual, and the kitten was very upset. Matt came and got me up, wanting to know what to do, let her out of course.
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Canning Squash
The gentleman giving the tour at Frey’s was nice enough to give us some produce. Most of us took watermelons, but since Matt doesn’t eat them, I stole Marybeth’s idea and took squash. I ended up with 5 butternut squash and as many acorn squash. I haven’t done anything with the acorn squash yet, but…
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Trip to Frey’s Produce and New Generation Dairy
Matt & I went to Frey’s Produce and New Generation Dairy with the District #9 Young Farmers yesterday. It was a good trip. Though, I would have liked to have seen more people come. It would figure that the lack of rain would put people in the fields early. Our first stop on the trip was…
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TOTGA Stuff
I’ve been crazy busy lately handling marketing and advertising pieces for TOTGA (The One That Got Away). We are doing T-Shirts, Promotional CDs, posters and table tents. It’s a LOT of artwork… and that doesn’t even include the artwork and design stuff done for show props. I had to create a newspaper with specific headlines…
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Blowing off steam… & Blowing up Produce
Last night was awesome!!!!! Went out to the fairgrounds and visited with all of the usual suspects (Derek, John, Mark, Sam, Charlie, Dave and my husband). We hung out during the Back to School rides, had some pork chops and blew up some produce. We blew up 2 watermelons and a zucchini last night. The…
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One down, 179 days to go
Well I made it through the first day. I definitely have an uphill battle. Basically to sum it up the last teacher didn’t do much. So these students have it in their head they’re gonna show up and screw around. So I’ve got that to fight. But that’s what I signed on to do. They…
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Around Town
Yesterday while I was on twitter, I saw a link to the Smashing Magazine World of Signage Photo Contest. Let’s be honest. It caught my eye because they are giving away a new digital SLR camera as a prize. Well, I found some ridiculous things while I was out to lunch yesterday. “Pull for Fire.” …
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TOTGA Photos
I am working on my Chroma Key skills. My hope is that everyone’s photos for the TOTGA programs will be great. Right now tho, I’m just having fun playing with my test images. Sweet! Poor Kris was my guinea pig last night after I got the equipment set up. I found out that I really…
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The more things change…
Andrea gets on me because I won’t blog, I keep telling her I have nothing to blog about, today that changed. For those of you who don’t know I’ve recently changed jobs, twice actually. Back in April I went to Miles Farm Supply to be a custom applicator. I spent most of this spring and…
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Texas Longhorns
The Indiana Texas Longhorn Association had a show at the Gibson County Fairgrounds this weekend. I stopped by in the afternoon to check it out. I got some pretty cool photos, and even learned a little. The Spanish brought the first longhorn cattle to America in 1493. Descendants of these longhorns formed the first cattle…
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