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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Farmer’s Daughter Chipotle Potato Salad
Recently, one of my favorite restaurants, The Farmer’s Daughter had a cooking class featuring Summer Salads. The class was a lot of fun, even if I’m not usually a big fan of these types of foods. At the event, she gave us some recipes and then explained her (rather organic) process of putting them together. …
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2012 Relay for Life
Last weekend was the 2012 Gibson County Relay for Life. I’ve been helping “Uncle” Dave DJ the event for the last several years. It’s always a great event, but this year was especially awesome. This year’s Relay raised $87,000 and a lot of fun was had doing it. The evening started with a “Celebration” flash…
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Color Week: Black & White
For this final day of color week, we’re going to be featuring black and white. I had a lot of fun with this one – mostly because I love a good black and white photograph. I did take photos of lots of things that were already white or black to begin with, but I’m super…
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Color Week: Violet
Just because it’s Saturday doesn’t mean that color week is over. Today is violet (or purple). Lacking Barney the dinosaur walking around town this one is actually a bit difficult. Fortunately, I do have a butterfly bush in my yard, so I could take a photo of that. Violet
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Color Week: Blue
It’s color week over at Pamplemousse and today’s color week challenge is Blue. Blue has been a fun and interesting challenge for me – because I wanted to find blue in nature and well as in things people have made. Blue Read the other Color Week posts: Red Orange Yellow Green
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Fashion Friday: Asymmetrical
This week on Fashion Friday, I’ve got a super cute dress that I picked up at a local store, The Graceful Lady, in Evansville. I found a similar dress by the same company, Ya Los Angeles, at the Graceful Lady location in Ft. Branch. Both dresses were this great red print, but I loved the…
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Color Week: Green
It’s another day in the color week challenge. Today’s challenge in green! I’m super excited about this one, because during the summer the trees, and grass mean there is a lot of green to photograph. All I have to do is walk outside and start shooting. Green Read the other Color Week posts: Red Orange…
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Color Week: Yellow
Today is the day for yellow over at Pamplemousse for color week. Even with all of the flowers in bloom this time of year. Yellow ended up being harder to photograph than I thought it would be. There just wasn’t the variety I wanted. Yellow Read the other Color Week posts: Red Orange Green Blue
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Recent Reads
I’ve been on a reading kick in the last few months. I’ve always loved reading, but sometimes, it can be hard for me to find the time to read a book for my own pleasure. But I’ve recently decided to take it up again, and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. From…
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Color Week: Orange
It’s Color Week over at Pamplemousse! I had missed the beginning of the challenge, so I posted yesterday’s challenge today. But don’t worry, I got myself caught up as well. Orange Read the other Color Week posts: Red Yellow Green Blue
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Color Week: Red
I just got around to catching up on a few of my favorite blogs today. One of those blogs is Pamplemousse! (it’s french for grapefruit if your interested). She was the inspiration for my Fashion Friday posts (there’s one this Friday). And it looks like she’s inspiring me to participate in another little game. This…
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It’s Getting Crazy
As you may have read in some of my previous posts (here, here, here, here, and here), I’m working on a crazy quilt. I got a lot done on it over the weekend. My original plan for the quilt involved sashing the 12-inch blocks in a dark grey – something like Kona Cotton in Charcoal. …
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