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

Fabric Flowers

By Andrea | October 1, 2010

Last night, I got bored… and crafty!  I made myself some fabric flowers.  I did a total of 4 of them last night… using all scrap fabrics, and vintage beads.  This means that the projects cost me $0.  Doesn’t that sound great?  It does to me.

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Squash Pie

By Andrea | September 28, 2010

I finally got around to making a pie out of my canned squash.  It turned out pretty well, tho.  There are a couple things I would have changed.  I would have made two standard sized pies instead of a single deep-dish pie, because I basically overfilled it and had trouble with over-browning the crust to…

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TOTGA a Success

By Andrea | September 27, 2010

Country Club Hosts Play; Comes in 3 Under Par… as the headline should have read.  GCTC’s production of The One That Got Away was this weekend.  It turned out great.  The cast did a fantastic job, and nothing broke… during the show. Jessie did a fantastic job as the director. The show went off waithout…

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Green Friendly

By Andrea | September 23, 2010

Many of you know that I build websites for a living, both as my day job and as a freelancer.  Recently, it came to my attention that this is not completely “green.”  Of couse, by green I am refering to ecologically friendly.  Granted, websites are great, you can get lots of content and never destroy…

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Wee Bit Week 2

By Andrea | September 22, 2010

It’s Wednesday again, and time for another round of Wee Bit Wednesdays… ok it’re really Thursday, but I was busy yesterday, so I’m going to write this post and then predate it to be correct.  And yes, I know that’s cheating, but this weeks’ questions were hard and I needed time to think about them.…

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It’s Caturday!

By Andrea | September 18, 2010

It’s been a very busy week for everyone in the house.  Matt has had tons to do with the school, I’ve been busy with theatre stuff, and Mouse has discovered ribbons. Matt had FFA kick off night on Monday night and his open house on Wednesday on top of his getting all of his school…

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Note Card Collection

By Andrea | September 17, 2010

This is part 5 of 5 of the collections challenge by Pixies and Bears.   The challenge is to blog about a different collection you have every day for 5 days.   Today, in the last installment of this series I am going to tell you about my collection of note cards.

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“The One That Got Away” Prop Work

By Andrea | September 17, 2010

In Gibson County Theatre Company’s 2010 production of The One That Got Away called for several designed print props. The script specifically refers to a comic book called “Super Stallion.”  This is a fictional product, which required a cover design. A newspaper was also created with headlines from the show.

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Hitler Parodies

By Andrea | September 17, 2010

This is a clip from a movie, which has been subtitled.  There used to be tons of these on YouTube.  They were usually about everything ridiculious things like Ohio State’s loss to Purdue; but most of them have been removed.  Here is what Hilter himself thinks about that.

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Recipe Book Collection

By Andrea | September 16, 2010

This is part 4 of 5 of the collections challenge by Pixies and Bears.   The challenge is to blog about a different collection you have every day for 5 days.   Today, I’m going to tell you about my collection of Recipe Books.

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Speaking at Kiwanis

By Andrea | September 16, 2010

About a month ago, I was contacted by my local Kiwanis chapter and asked to speak at about my business. Yesterday was the meeting I got to speak at.

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Wee Bit Wednesday

By Andrea | September 15, 2010

I’m going to try participating in “A Wee Bit of Me Wednesdays”  This should be a quick and fun little post each Wednesday about me and my life.   {one} have you ever won a trophy? if yes, for what? I can’t think of any real trophies.  Does my husband count?  I’ve never really won anything, I was…

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