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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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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Bored, bored, bored, bored…..
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Found on the Internet – The Farm of Tomorrow
A fun look at farming and genetics from Tex Avery, the maker of Bugs Bunny
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