Still working on my Idol blog… it’s always weird for me when I see the results show before I write it.
Meanwhile, I am going to post some pictures of things that IKEA has brought into the house that we all hate and made it, in the middle of the long dreary winter a little bit pretty and a little bit hip and a little bit snazztastic. Anyone who doesn’t like IKEA can just suck it. There. I said it.
I fell instantly in love with this bowl lamp with flowers delicately etched into it($17). We have a distinct lack of surfaci in our house, so it was relagated to the kitchen counter where is has lived in never-turned-off happiness, ever since. For the first 2 days, every time I walked into the kitchen I would GASP! and clutch my chest dramatically and whirl around in circles looking for someone to grab by the shirt in big fistfulls of joy to breathlessly chant, while rocking them mercilessly back and forth, “IT’S. THE. MOST. BEAUTIFUL. LAMP. EVER!!! ” I still think it’s lovely, but I don’t want to go backstage with it after a show anymore. We’re more like friends, now. I also bought that fun spiraly bamboo ($3) and the fun vase that it’s in ($5) because I heard that having bamboo in your proximity was lucky… except the bamboo is now dying… which is -fun and probably causing -luck. I’m not sure what’s wrong with it because I’ve changed the water and I’ve tried trimming it above the joint and below the joint and nothing works and it is just getting more shrivaly and sad looking. I’ve decided to blame the house because it’s a -house.
Here’s a pic of the lamp Kory took with the NEW camera that I have named Leonard.
I know you are clapping right now. Go ahead. Let it all out.
We were actually there to buy a shelf for The Baby’s room and look at curtains, as Kory finally decided he was ready to get rid of the original IKEA ones that he loved. I tried a few times over the years to get rid of those curtains and he was always so sad and dejected over the thought of them leaving his life, I had to give in. In all honesty, I didn’t really care that much one way or the other. We did find excellent new curtains for the living room and The Baby’s room while we were there. I spent about 5 hours doing nothing but ironing curtains that day….
Simple. Delicate. Lovely. They allow much more light to come into the room,even when closed and the light is more of a bluish hue than the yellowish old curtains.
We got these for The Baby’s room because I wanted something more opaque to block out the sun… we are coming into summertime when the damned sun is still up at 9pm, which rocks if you hanging on the deck with some cold beers and the BBQ and sucks a mighty wind if you are trying to convince a baby that it’s bedtime…. I love the colors and the design, too. Not your traditional girly froo-froo.
Our new comforter cover and pillowcases. It’s reversable and gorgeous. I love things that are both masculine AND feminine at the same time. And I don’t mean neutral… like a plain, solid-colored item. I mean both masculine (the black and white) and feminine (the slight floral/vines design).
This isn’t actually anything we bought, but rather our bedroom window covered in a beautiful swirly frost/ice pattern. One morning we woke The Baby and The Teen jumped on the bed, too and we were all singing songs and just slowly joining the day and I decided to open the window and get some sunlight into the room and instead we found the window covered in it’s own awesome art.
The Baby & The Teen, a meeting of the minds…
