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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Honey Bun Coffee Cake
This recipe for honey bun coffee cake is a favorite sweet breakfast food at our Home Ec meetings. Ingredients: 1 box yellow cake mix 4 eggs 1 cup sour cream 3/4 cup vegetable oil 3 teaspoons cinnamon 1 cup brown sugar 3 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup milk Instructions: Grease and flour a 9×13 pan…
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Still Going Crazy
With all the fun, exciting things going on in my life, I’ve been quite a slacker on all of my crafting and sewing projects, including my quilts. Fortunately, when I went home last night, I started cleaning the basement, which is where my crafting area is. I didn’t get too much cleaning done, but it…
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Happy Birthday to Me
For those of you who didn’t already know, yesterday was my birthday. April 15th. I usually like my birthday, but the last couple years there’s been one very annoying thing to deal with on my birthday. Taxes. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against paying my fair share, but I hate that every…
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Busy Busy Busy
It’s been a busy few days here at MiMP. I spent my Saturday digging lilies out of Uncle Dave‘s yard, and my Sunday visiting with family for the Easter holiday. Our Sunday started at Mt. Olive’s Sunrise Service and then I got to go home and make rolls to take to Matt’s parent’s house. After…
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Social Media and Ag
Yesterday I participated in the #AgChat about Social Media in Agriculture. It was a super interesting 2 hours of conversation. I got to see how other agvocates make use of social media for their brands, causes, and general ag awareness. What really struck home for me in this conversation is that we all share our…
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Old Time Recipes
We recently received a large collection of books from my Uncle Scott. Most of those books were agriculture yearbooks. There were books from the earliy 1900s all the way up to the 1990s. Now those books are actually for my husband, but I found 1 book that was calling my name. It was a copy…
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Easter Roundup
Easter is coming up in just 2 weeks. I guess that means I should get on the band wagon and consider doing a little decorating for the holiday. Thanks to Pinterest, I have a nice little board full of holiday ideas. The people at Southern Living seem to have been most helpful in my search…
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Preferred Content
Here at MouseInMyPocket, I’m always trying to decide what topics to write about. I have a bit of erratic personality – so I tend to write posts about lots of different topics. That’s everything from agriculture to crafting, from food to fashion, to the adventures in my daily life. For those of you that read…
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How is your content shared?
As much as I love sewing, crafting, cooking and farming, I’m a techie at heart. I am a web developer, after all. I also have to admit, that I want to know that people are looking at the articles I post on my website – and hopefully finding them useful. Maybe I just need the…
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Springtime Flowers
Yesterday was the first day of spring, and 80 degrees, so I no longer feel bad about the fact that I spent my Sunday doing a little gardening. The first thing I did was take a trip into town. I needed some new pots and I wanted to pick up a few seeds before they…
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Cotton and Metal
Over the last few weeks, the weather has been pretty nice most of the time, so I’ve not spent a lot of time inside the house crafting. If it was a sunny 82 degrees at your house, you wouldn’t either. But don’t worry, I have been working on a couple of projects. I’ve done a…
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A Night at the Opry
Matt and I drove down to Nashville on Saturday to see our friend, Mark Lathom guest announce at the Grand Ole Opry. It’s was WRAY Night at the Grand Ole Opry again, which meant that one of the announcers from the station got a chance to guest announce. It was my 3rd trip to the…
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