Charlotte's Chitter Chatter

Girls Shopping Day

My grandma came out to visit to see the new grandbaby and stayed for a week and a half. While she was here I had a day off of work, so my grandma, my mom and I went down to SLC to do some shopping. We stopped at a fabric store where I found the perfect print for covering the seats of the chairs I bought for my kitchen. Hopefully I will be able to get to that project soon.

We also spent some time at a thrift store. My mom and I both found really cute skirts (hers brand new from Anthropology, mine from a designer for Target collection), but both were too small. :( We did each find a few other things to make the trip worthwhile. They had their Halloween costumes out, and I found brand new really cheap tights so I bought a pair in six different colors. I can't wait to start wearing them with my experimental fashions.

Our last stop was at Gardner Village, which took all the rest of the day. We had lunch at Archibald's - the three of us split one sandwich so that we had room for carrot cake for dessert. :) They already had all the witches up. It was weird wandering in the 85 degree heat in the middle of all the fall decor - we felt out of place.

My favorite witch was the hula hoop champion:

We had to stop for a sample of fudge, of course. I tried the pumpkin chocolate chip and it was delicious as always! Just look at these two kids in a candy store:

There were some very cute Halloween headbands for sale. I really wanted one that was kind of flapper-looking. It had two great big silver glittery feathers and a giant black spider. Unfortunately it was also $20 and I could bring myself to spend that much. Maybe I will try to make one of my own. Here's another cute one I tried on:

The bakery had the best decoration of all, a giant cake! With pumpkins for decorations no less! I loved it.

All in all we had a really nice time together. We all found a couple of treasures to bring home so it was a very successful trip.

Last Lake Day

A couple of weekends ago we had our last day at the lake for this summer. It was a beautiful day, and we had a great time relaxing with our friends. I was dubbed the manliest person there (in a good way!) because I wakeboarded a LOT.

While we were there the boys decided to make some sand angels.

I already can't wait until next year...

September Book List

Chimera by Rob Thurman - 337 pages
Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta - 360 pages
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu - 233 pages
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collin - 390 pages
The Grimrose Path by Rob Thurman - 320 pages

TOTAL - 5 books - 1,640 pages

It felt like I got a lot more reading done this month than last, but I must have been busier doing other things than I thought because my page count is much lower than I expected it to be. My favorite book of the month was Mockingjay. It is the third and final book of the Hunger Games trilogy, and the entire series was fantastic.

My biggest disappointment was How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. It got rave reviews, but I just couldn't get into the story. I almost gave up halfway through; and I should have, because it didn't get any more interesting to me.

Crochet

I recently took a class at Jo-Ann to learn how to crochet. I wanted to learn because I've been seeing so many cute amigurumi creatures like these from Cutiful Creations that I gave my sister at her baby shower.

I heard about a website called Ravelry which is apparently a must-use site if you are either a crocheter or a knitter. I signed up for an account, and it is a really great site. Lots of free patterns and photos of completed projects. The only problem is that now I have dozens of adorable things I want to make. I had absolutely no idea how much you can do with crocheting. Guess I better get to practicing more!

Here are just a few of the fabulous things I found:

I love these haxagonal shapes.