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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Photo Shoot in a Dress
Never wear a dress to a photo shoot. That was the first lesson I learned today. It was a cute dress, and I looked nice at work, but man…. I should have made time to go home and change between events. Wearing a dress makes it very difficult to crawl around for floor level shots.…
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row? Good for you, Mary. Mine grows like a jungle. Matt & I finally put some cattle panel up in the garden last night. Our cucumbers were taking over our lettuce. Of course, even…
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Fresh Blueberry Muffins
Since I went and picked fresh blueberries on Saturday morning, I decided to make some homemade blueberry muffins. I decided to freeze the blueberries first, in hopes that they would hold up better in the muffins. They just came out of the oven. I’m going to have them for breakfast, but have no intention of…
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Miniature Melt-a-Ways
This is one of those great recipes that starts with a cake mix, cutting the prep time in half. Dipping the miniature cakes can be a bit messy, but it’s well worth it. Ingredients 1 box yellow cake mix 3 eggs 1/3 cup oil 1 1/4 cup water or unsweetened juice 1 (16 oz..) pkg…
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Scrapbooking Family
I’ve had a lot of fun scrapbooking. It’s been great fun to go through all of the old photos. I’ve made pages for different ages, different parts of the family, and for holidays.
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Looong Weekend
This weekend was very busy. The Gibson County Antique Machinery Show was this weekend, as well as the first set construction for Gibson County Theatre Company’s production of The Sound of Music. Saturday was particularly busy for me. I has a meeting at the house with a client at 9AM. I am currently working on…
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Oatmeal Cinnamon Chip Cookies
Oatmeal Cinnnamon Chip Cookies are one of my favorite dessert foods in the fall. They have a great warm flavor that cuts thru the first of the autumn chill, of course they are good about any time of year. I’m actually thinking about making some for open class at the fair.
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Old Fashioned Hard Candy
I love hard candy, and it seems that most of my friends and family do too. The flavorings available for this candy range from cinnamon and wintergreen, to grape and cherry, to coffee and horehound – but I have found that the most popular flavors I make are cinnamon and sour grape (this one requires…
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Scrapbooking High School
My first love in high school was always show choir. That’s right, I was a gleek long before it was cool. So, of course, my scrapbook has a large section of pages dedicated to it. I have some very simple pages with just show momentos, and some more complex ones. Along with choir, I loved being…
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Blocking The Sound Of Music
Of course, I mean blocking in the theatrical sense. We are still working on blocking scenes for the upcoming Gibson County Theatre Company production of The Sound of Music. Though, “we” really has nothing to do with me in this case, I’m not even in the play, but I’ve been to every rehearsal so far. …
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Mamaw’s Fresh Strawberry Pie
I saw some big ripe strawberries at the grocery today. I got a small box and ate them at lunch. I’m considering going back for more tomorrow, and making a strawberry pie; because nothing is better when strawberries are in season than Mamaw’s fresh strawberry pie. I keep meaning to try to make it with…
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Fruit Pizza
This fruit pizza is basically a giant sugar cookie in a tart pan that is iced in a philly cream cheese topping with bananas, blueberries and strawberries. To start I always use a sugar cookie recipe with granular, instead of powered, sugar for this. Of course, I should also mention that I make my fruit pizza…
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