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rl in her class by several inches which i take a strange pride in even if it wasn t my genetics that contributed to her superior height my husband s family is very tall so at family events i m the shrimpy one at almost 5 6 her height has had extra benefits this year because it has made her really good at karate we put her in classes last march and she fell in love with the sport she s come out of her shy shell and become like a whole different kid plus her karate teacher is really a great guy and has encouraged my husband to start taking classes too so now mims and her dad go to private lessons on saturdays as well as twice a week classes that mims has been doing for the last nine months i am enjoying this so much more than being coach jaime for her volleyball team last year being a karate mom is more about sitting at the side of the room and silently focusing all of your e s p energy on making your kid perform their kata correctly i have never once been asked to run across a field to chase after a rogue ball hippopotamus christmas cookies i m embarrassed by how little crochet i have done this year i took family photos with a tripod and a remote i hid behind the back of the couch my nieces in the elf and santa hats were not impressed i decorated cookies like legit decorated with bags and tips and a rainbow of royal icing i read 30 non school related books i went to 5 plays i fell in love with my new to me 2012 nissan leaf electric car ftw i also fell in love with the hamilton soundtrack the hubs and i celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary my sister had another baby my sweet little cj who loves me the most but barfed all over both of us the last time i saw her my daughter convinced us all to dress up for halloween she went as mavis dracula from the hotel transylvania movies and she got her dad to go as dracula i got to be a bat since the mom in that movie is dead i decorated our christmas tree on november 1st blasphemy and got reprimanded in target for declaring their abundance of pepsimax a christmas miracle on november 20th thanksgiving miracle it s not even thanksgiving yet said the random guy in the soda aisle said we re canadian my quick thinking husband replied i drove my kid to karate lessons and swimming lessons to the water park and to the beach i memorized most of the periodic table of elements and learned about fungi i perfected the art of taking pictures on my phone through the eye hole of a microscope me and cj 15 years later the draculas note the crochet bat hat see i ve still got it but please don t confuse my lack of crochet this year with a lack of desire to crochet i hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and i wish you all the best in 2016 love always jaime crochet dynamite xoxo posted by jaime at 12 36 pm 149 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 20 2015 tunesian crochet washcloth wow happy holidays and happy new year i ve been so busy it feels like i haven t had a moment to myself lately as some of you most of you know i m a full time caregiver for my 93 year old grandma just before thanksgiving she had another mini stroke that has left her very confused and barely mobile it s been very challenging to create a new routine that works for both of us i was used to a small amount of freedom in my day you know to run errands grocery shop etc my new routine requires an additional person to come in and watch her while i m gone thankfully my dad has been able to come watch her for a few hours during the day for the last 6 weeks or so and my mom has watched her a few evenings so that we could go to a couple of movies as a family the good part is that i ve had a lot more time to crochet now that all of the holiday hoopla is over i ve become fascinated with tunesian crochet and i ve been simple stitching away like a mad woman i made some crazy simple washcloths using the simple stitch which were so quick and so fun i really think you all should try it unless of course you re already a tunesian crocheting goddess in which case carry on i used this great tutorial on the purl bee to help me get started tunesian crochet washcloth size h tunesian crochet hook 100 cotton yarn worsted weight i used lily s sugar n cream in pink camo one skein will make 2 washcloths ch 30 r1 starting in 2nd chain work a preparation row into each st of the foundation chain 30 loops r2 work a return row 1 loop on hook r3 work a forward row 30 loops on hook r4 51 repeat rows 2 3 r52 work a return row 1 loop on hook fasten off weave in ends attach yarn in corner sc 30 st along each side working a sc ch 1 sc in each corner fasten off weave in ends alternately you could just start your final sc border without fastening off and then re attaching yarn but honestly the stitches look a lot like purl stitches in knitting so weaving in the extra ends is not a big deal i ve got some fun and exciting projects planned for the next couple of months so i hope you ll come back soon xoxo posted by jaime at 12 07 pm 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 27 2014 happy thanksgiving back happy thanksgiving back dynamos i m taking a break today and watching my fave you ve got mail on netflix between my first thanksgiving feast and my second thanksgiving feast while jake and mimsey are out at what will be their 3rd feast of the day whew it s our first year not hosting in fourteen years and we re excited to be guests at so many welcome homes i just noticed that i passed 5k pinterest followers wahoo i m incredibly thankful for that and for all of you who read and follow and subscribe and comment i m feeling very loved and grateful for all of your support and care so to celebrate and to give you something to do while you re waiting in all of those black friday sales i m declaring a saint spoilings weekend and making all of my books free starting tomorrow november 28th through monday december 1st you can get them all here and if you don t have a kindle they have free software and apps to allow you to read kindle books on your computer phone and tablets i use the kindle software on my phone and tablet and it works great so if you haven t downloaded it do it now and get your books treat yourself and tell a friend make sure that the price for the ebooks is 0 00 or free before you place your order i don t have any control over when amazon starts the sale or ends the sale i just tell them i want to do it so please make sure that the books are actually free i can t refund your money they don t allow me to credit anyone back so make sure that they re free before you check out i wish i didn t have to place this disclaimer but there have been problems in the past and i don t want any unhappy dynamos so have a happy holiday happy shopping days and let s get ready for the crocheting est christmas yet lol xoxo posted by jaime at 6 01 pm 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 19 2014 merry dot garland so i set up my christmas tree last week for my post about christmas crochet and since my sister bought a giant new house recently she s determined to host thanksgiving this year somehow those two things have combined in my brain and i ve completely skipped thanksgiving i am all christmas all the time the upside is most of my shopping is done the other upside i m not cleaning frantically to get ready for thanksgiving company which leaves me more time to crochet a couple of weeks ago the very kind people at belkin sent me the coolest thing it s their portable tablet stage it s designed to hold your tablet and give you a clean white surface so you can do presentations or tutorials without trying to balance it with one hand and work with the other so when i started working on my merry dot garland i wanted to see what my new tablet stage could do oh my goodness it s so awesome i was able to stage my pictures and adjust them by looking at my screen and once they were composed the way i wanted i just snapped the picture it couldn t have been easier so often with my camera i have to take 6 or 8 shots just to make sure that it s angled the right way or centered the way i want it i loved being able to fuss with my pieces until they were perfect and then take exactly the shot i wanted not only did i get the exact picture that i wanted i didn t have to clean off my desk to do it lol i still haven t brought the ornament boxes up from the basement yet there are spiders and vampires down there so my tree is still pretty bare i really wanted to crochet a fun garland for the tree but the only ones that i liked this year were not crocheted they were made of felt dots in fun colors i decided i could totally re create that look but in crochet it was so easy it took me about 2 episodes of so you think you can dance season 11 on hulu plus i stream it through my roku to make the thing from start to finish and that included stopping to watch the dancing and then only crocheting through the critiques if you d like to crochet a fun new garland this year here s what i did merry dot garland approximately 10 feet long supplies worsted weight yarn it doesn t take much yarn to do this project less than 50 yards for each of 3 colors i used cheapy cheapy acrylic in holly berry red grinch green and snowy white because i wanted it to be cartoonishly bright those aren t the real color names btw i think the actual color names are red spring green and white i think that if it was made with more sophisticated colors it could be exceptionally beautiful i m considering making a shades of blue garland to hang in mimsey s surfer girl bedroom year round size h crochet hook yarn needle large circles make 10 in white r1 make 10 dc in a magic loop pull loop tight sl st to first st to close round 10 st r2 ch 2 2 dc in each st around sl st to first st to close round 20 st fasten off weave in ends small circles make 18 in red make 9 in green r1 make 10 dc in a magic loop pull loop tight sl st to first st to close round 10 st fasten off weave in ends to make the garland using white yarn sl st across large white circle ch 6 sl st across small red circle ch 6 sl st across small green circle ch 6 sl st across small red circle ch 6 sl st across large white circle 9 times fasten off weave in ends i made a short video tute to go with the instructions which is a first for crochet dynamite i know it s about time right the belkin tablet stage made it so easy i got to just crochet away and pick stuff up off my floor you ll see and i didn t have to worry about the dreaded shaky camera since it held my tablet securely in one place i will say that i think my tablet camera had trouble with it s auto focus but that s something i can improve on in the future mims liked wearing the garland as a scarf she doubled it up and flipped it around her neck i like it on the super bare tree it s fun and festive and a little silly which i think should be my tree theme this year one last thing about the belkin portable tablet stage the software that goes with the tablet stage lets you write on your pictures how flippin cool is that very cool i think i need a stylus because my finger writing is clearly not up to par lol it makes me want to give a presentation xoxo full disclosure while i received the belkin tablet stage for free to try out all of the opinions about it are mine alone it really is incredibly cool and i loved working with it if you d like to check it out or get on of your own you can go here http www belkin com us b2b118 p p b2b118 posted by jaime at 11 42 am 16 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 11 2014 christmas crochet blog tour and giveaway the giveaway may be over but i d still love to hear what your favorite christmas crochet projects are i have a confession to make i m a christmas craft procrastinator i know it s sad but true i chronically wait until after thanksgiving to even start thinking about christmas projects this means that every year i stay up way too late most nights and still don t get everything finished in time but not this year the folks over at storey publishing sent me a copy of their new book christmas crochet for hearth home tree by edie eckman kids christmas is finally coming early for the dynamite family the first thing i wanted to make was some new stockings for the whole family a few years ago tragedy struck and our beautiful handmade stockings were lost that year i just purchased some dollar store cheapies promising that someday i would make us new stockings four years later i ve finally made good on that promise there were so many stocking patterns to choose from 9 plus many variations i couldn t choose just one mims got the mix and match stocking in gryffindor house colors i got the colorful stripes stocking jake got the basketweave stocking which was my favorite to make out of all of them the single color but great texture made it really fun to work on and i didn t dread weaving in ends when i was done i think they look so cute hanging from the mantle there are so many great decorations in the book i m planning to make some cool crochet trees for the mantle and there are a whole bunch of felted ornaments that i m just dying to make with mims there s even a tree skirt pattern which i desperately need since i usually just throw one of those fake snow blankets around the bottom of the tree and call it good i think my favorite patterns in the book are for the crochet stocking and mitten advent garland the little stockings and mittens work up so quickly oh how i love simple well written patterns however i don t plan to turn them into the cute garland that they show in the book i m planning to use them as gift card holders i m going to stick a candy cane or a burt s bees lip balm and a gift card in them which i think will make a great handmade present for mim s teachers my teenage cousins and i m even making backups for unexpected holiday guests isn t the mitten so cute i set up our tree just to show you how adorable it is as an ornament by the way seeing the tree up so early this year was shocking to mims when she got home from school woah um mom you are going to put other ornaments on it right lol the little stockings are also super cute the purple and white stocking on the left was made with red heart soft and the red and white stocking was made with red heart super saver i only mention it because the stocking is much smaller with the soft which might or might not be a good thing for a gift card and candy cane it really doesn t matter but if you wanted to put something else in there you might want to use a worsted weight yarn on the larger end of the spectrum i think that christmas crochet for hearth home tree is a cute little book full of projects to decorate your home for the holidays it s just the right size to travel with you everywhere you go for 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