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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Wee Bit Week 7
The week it’s the Wee Bit Wednesday – Halloween Edition. Find out all sorts of spooktacular stuff about me. Or not… I’m not that exciting.
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Germs are No Fun!
I’m still fighting the ever lovin’ cold, but today is much better than yesterday. I’m still medicated with the OTC cold and sinus medications, but I am at least able to go to work today. They closed most of the offices from 10-12 today for some big announcement. I’m still not sure what that announcement…
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Feathers and Fleece
I guess I’m fairly sick today… the thermometer says I have a temperature of 100.2 degrees. This is not awful, but it’s not great either. I had planned on spending a lot of the day today working on product for the new store… but since I’m sick… I don’t want to make anything to sell to…
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Follow Friday
I’m a big fan of FollowFriday on Twitter, so I’m going to start my very own Follow Friday here at Mouse. The idea of my Follow Friday will be to feature one of the blogs that I follow. For my first Follow Friday, I am going to be featuring Pixies and Bears.
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Wee Bit Week 6
So, I’m a day behind on my Wee Bit Wednesday this week. I didn’t forget, but yesterday was a bad day… so I’m a bit behind. {one} have you ever crawled through a window? Nope {two} what’s one subject that you wish you knew more about? Farming, so that I could understand what on earth…
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Halloween – Back in Time
Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. I love to get dressed up in ridiculious outfits, just for fun (see my new winter hat), but doing it for candy is even better. My favorite Halloween costume of all time has to be my bunny suit that Mom had made for me. I…
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She works hard for the money
I spent some time today at work taking the 2010 Survey for People Who Make Websites, from A List Apart. This is a really great survey, which attempts to compile data on people in the field of website design and development.
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Tillage in the Patoka Bottoms
I love to chisel plow, it is without a doubt my favorite thing to do on this earth. I’ve started helping Ron whenever I can now, after school, and on weekends. All I’ve done so far was pull his disk, which I like but not as much as the chisel plow. I finished disking on…
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Long Weekend
I feel like my weekends are way too long and way too short all at the same time anymore. I’m always running around doing things, which takes forever. It makes my weekends go by so fast, that I feel like I didn’t get a weekend at all. But, I guess that will just have to be ok, because I…
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First Recipe Linky
I’m going to try something a little new. I love to cook, so I thought… why not host a link party for people to post their recipes as well? It sounds like a plan to me. Of course, this is the first one, so we’ll see how it goes. You have from today (October 16th,…
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Wee Bit Week 5
It’s Wednesday already… and time for another installment of Wee Bit Wednesday! Topics for today include: milking cows, alarm clocks and bad cooking. {one} have you ever milked a cow or a goat? It has been quite a while, but I spent one summer of my childhood at a babysitter’s who lived on a farm. …
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