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 Wednesday
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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Perfume Bottle Collection
This is part 3 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 perfume bottles.
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Dragon Collection
This is part 2 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 dragons. And yes, this is a far cry from the raccoons.
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Raccoon Collection
This is part 1 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 Raccoons.
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Basic Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’m still working on cookies for Matt’s open house on Wednesday. Hopefully this is the last batch I will need to make. The recipe said it made 11 dozen, of course, I got less. I ended up with a total of 6 and a half dozen cookies. Exactly half. I even used a scoop. Ingredients…
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Earthquake Cookies
Matt is having a big open house at the school this Wednesday. I’m in charge of cookies for the shindig and he’s invited all of the ag students, their parents, the principal, vice principal and even the school board. I hate to think how many people that actually is, but it’s a lot. I’m sure…
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3rd Annual Civil War Days
Dave and I ran sound once again today for the 3rd annual Civil War Days at Lafayette Park in Princeton, Indiana. It’s a pretty simple job, which gives me lots of time to take pictures.
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Kitty found a new Toy
Well, our kitten “Mouse” found a new toy yesterday. It was really quite entertaining. I’d missed an easter egg when I had put up all of the decorations this spring, so I’d just left it next to my desk, where it had fallen. Kitty moved it, so we added some old corn out of Matt’s…
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Grama’s 89th Birthday Party
We had a big party for grama’s birthday yesterday. All of the Rumble’s came down and had lunch, followed by a bigger group of people for icecream and snacks. I think it was a pretty good day. Grama got to visit and spend time with a lot of people she doesn’t get to see very often,…
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Lyles Station Celebration 2010
As usual, I helped Dave run sound at the Lyles Station New Beginnings Celebration on Saturday. They have been having the celebration for about 10 years. The first event was held with the purpose of getting the school rebuilt. Since the first event, the school has been rebuilt and hosts tours on weekends as well…
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Cat named Mouse
The cat now has a name, her name is mouse. Yea, mouse! Mouse has been very entertaining this morning. She stayed in the basement last night, because Vicky convinced Bob that she needed to live inside. Vicky is awesome like that, and Bob is awesome for letting her live inside. She’s quite happy inside. Even…
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Adam & Eve and Cain & Abel
So, in college I took an awesome art history class on the Renaissance. As part of the course, we were required to write a term paper on a topic of our choice. I chose to write about the artwork depicting the story of Cain and Abel, or the lack thereof. The story of Adam and…
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