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.

About Me

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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On the Blog

Bored, bored, bored, bored…..

By Andrea | August 12, 2010

Guess what?  I’m bored!  That’s right.  I had NOTHING to do today at work.  Well, that’s not entirely true.  I had a few small projects, but most of the things I need to do, require me to wait on responses from others.  Yea me!  So, what did I do today, you may ask…. I did…

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Found on the Internet – Get Some Nuts!

By Andrea | August 11, 2010

I would like to thank my husband, Matt, for showing me these ads.  Theses Snickers commercials are great! Who wouldn’t buy a snickers from Mr. T?  And hey… where do I get a machine gun that shoots candy bars? This first one was great…. too bad that it got the ad campaign banned in the UK. …

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Use of Windows Live Writer

By Andrea | August 10, 2010

So, I didn’t like the overall use of Adobe Contribute.  It tried to list tags at the beginning of each of my posts.  I’m sure if I spent more time with it, I could do much better, but I’m really just looking for something quick and dirty to write blogs without an internet connection.

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A Little History – Our Engagement

By Andrea | August 10, 2010

When looking for blogging ideas recently a friend recommended that I talk about how I met Matt. Well, that’s a little fuzzy… it’s been a while, and I can so easily pull our engagment story from my old wedding website… so since I’m lazy, here it is: The Engagement We got engaged on the 19th…

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Trip to Holiday World

By Andrea | August 6, 2010

Matt and I went to Holiday World today.  We had a lot of fun. (Thanks for the tickets Dave!)  We did all sorts of great stuff… and I got Matt to ride a roller coaster. The first thing we did was just take a trip around the park.  It’s been years since we’ve been and…

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Found on the Internet: The Cat with the Tat

By Andrea | August 5, 2010

I believe I have come to the end of the internet, because I don’t think anyone can come up with something more bizarre than photos of a tattooed cat. At first I thought someone did a fantastic job of Photoshopping this cat, but unfortunately I have come to find out that in Russia it’s trendy…

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Testing Contribute

By Andrea | August 4, 2010

I am in the process of testing out Adobe Contribute to write to my blog.  I will be testing to see if this is more convenient than accessing the administrative section of the website directly.  I am also hoping to determine if Contribute will be useful in pre-writing posts for the blog.  If I can,…

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Trip to SIPAC

By Andrea | August 2, 2010

This weekend was the Indiana Farm Bureau District #9 Annual Meeting at the Southern Indiana Purdue Agricultural Center, henceforth to be known as the meeting at SIPAC.  It wasn’t much of a meeting, mostly it was a tour of the SIPAC facilities.  I learned a lot, and it was a pretty fun trip.  I went…

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Class of ’70 Reunion

By Andrea | August 2, 2010

This weekend was really busy for me.  Dave and I ran sound for the Princeton Community High School Class of 1970 Reunion on Saturday night.  It was a lot of fun.  There are some really great people in that class, that I know very well, even if I am Class of 2003. They had the…

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Peach Pie

By Andrea | July 30, 2010

Decided to make a peach pie today.  Well, I actually decided to make a peach pie last weekend, I finially got around to it tonight.  I haven’t gotten to eat it yet, I’m waiting for it to cool enough to eat, but it smells really good. 

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Found on the Internet – The Farm of Tomorrow

By Andrea | July 30, 2010

A fun look at farming and genetics from Tex Avery, the maker of Bugs Bunny

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Found on the Internet – LA County Fair

By Andrea | July 30, 2010

There are TONS of great things on the internet. This is the first of our “Found on the Internet” series.  Today we are featuring the advertisments for the LA County Fair… because if anyplace could use a county fair, it’s LA.

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