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.

About Me

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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On the Blog

Shakespeare

By Andrea | October 6, 2011

This week, I want to look at how one person’s thought’s and ideas can change the world… even in small ways.  For that, we’re going to have a chat with the most famous of all playwrights, William Shakespeare.  Everyone know’s who Shakespeare is, and if you’re old enough, you’ve been forced to read at least…

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Neutral

By Andrea | October 4, 2011

Buy Tadalafil Buy Abilify Buy Aciphex Buy Amoxil Neutral colors have no distinctive quality, characteristics, or type. They can be achromatic, with no hue at all, like black, white and greys or they can be dull colors that harmonize with most other colours, such as tan, brown, or navy.  You can check out more images in neutrals…

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Fashion Friday – Favorite Looks

By Andrea | September 30, 2011

This week, we’re going to take a little detour from my usual fashion friday post, where I show you some of the things in my closet.  Instead, let’s take a look at some of my favorite looks across the web:   Buy Clomid Buy Flomax Buy Fluoxetine Buy Isotretinoin To see more of my favorite…

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Audrey Hepburn

By Andrea | September 28, 2011

Audrey Hepburn is one of my favorite actresses of all time. Who can forget her, in her iconic little black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany’s? I certainly can’t. Audrey was born Edda Hepburn Van Heemstra in May of 1929 and started her career as a dancer and model before making it big in the movies.…

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Technicolor Rainbow

By Andrea | September 27, 2011

Buy Flomax Buy Abilify Buy Aciphex Buy Amitriptyline Officially a rainbow is a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun’s rays in drops of rain.  For the purposes of this post, it’s any image that makes use of the full spectrum…

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The Stacker Saga

By Matt | September 26, 2011

For those of you who have been following my descriptions on facebook about the Stacker, here is a more detailed story.  This tale goes back many years when some evil ag engineer at Hesston KS decided that baling hay was too complicated with all those strings, wires, needles, knotters etc.  He thought loose stacked hay…

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Fashion Friday – Rosey Retro

By Andrea | September 23, 2011

Today’s fashion is a strapless vintage inspired print dress with a black bolero jacket and tights with bright red peep toe pumps. Buy Diflucan Buy Doxycycline Buy Finasteride

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Og Mandino

By Andrea | September 22, 2011

This week’s thought comes from Og Mandino.  You can learn all about Og on his website. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they are going to be dead by midnight.  Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of reward.  Your life will…

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Pink

By Andrea | September 21, 2011

Buy Lexapro buy Lipitor Buy Neurontin Buy Nexium Pink is a color varying from light crimson to pale reddish purple. It is also another name for Magenta, a deep purplish red that is the complementary colour of green and, with yellow and cyan, forms a set of primary colours for printing.  To see more pink images,…

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Fashion Friday – Animal Couture

By Andrea | September 16, 2011

This week’s Fashion Friday outfit is an amazing dress from Hot Topic, paired with Gianni Bini pumps and an Alice in Wonderland Disney Couture necklace. Buy Plavix Buy Prednisone Buy Premarin What I love most about this dress is that it is actually two  dresses layered.  The bottom layer of the dress is white hexagonal…

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Andrew Lang

By Andrea | September 15, 2011

I recently posted a pin on Pinterest, because I thought it was funny… but the more I got to thinking about it, the more it reminded me of something that Andrew Lang once wrote in his foreward to The Lilac Fairy Book. On Fairie Stories “Nobody really wrote most of the stories. People told them…

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Purple

By Andrea | September 14, 2011

Buy Levothroid Buy Pepcid Buy Valtrex Purple, or violet, is any of a group of colours that vary in saturation but have the same purplish-blue hue. They lie at one end of the visible spectrum, next to blue; approximate wavelength range 445-390 nanometres. For more purple things, view my Purple Pinboard.

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