Elvis has left the bathroom!

In an effort to FINISH WHAT I STARTed in the playroom, I decided to move the ELVIS tee's in there. That left a huge void in the bathroom. Way back when I painted the bathroom I noticed that these duck pictures looked great with the paint color, but the Elvis theme won out.

In the 90s I started to collect interesting-ly shaped antique shelves. My collection stopped at two:

Notice the candle scent is called "Antique Wood". 

My neighbor had given me this cool box of junk to make a mosiac. I never did.

Love it when you can incorporate stuff you made in shop class into daily life. And it's useful!

But what to do with the deer heads?

And Tom's bulleted practice target?

Now boys, do not aim for the target!

(paper deer has since been replaced with an ugly blue Costco Kleenex box)

I do admit, I miss the bright colors from before. I'm not really a neutral, antique-y person but it works. When you embrace the 80s builder parade home style (ie: fruitwood oak finish EVERYWHERE!), instead of fighting it, things can look good.

Click here and scroll down to see the previous bathroom saga.

And the holiday theme is....

IKEA holiday theming has intrigued me the last few years.

Two years ago, a Valentine's Xmas:

Last year it was a Halloween Xmas:

Maybe they got the memo from Anthropologie:

And this year?

Of course, a Fourth of July Xmas. 

Still awaiting the St. Patty's Day Xmas...

Stuven-VIEW

Remember when Erica Kane lived at Linden? Well we live across the street from the Stuven's, so we live at Stuven-view. 

found in the kid's area. IKEA stuva.

build it any way you want

wonder if it's just BESTA with cool new doors?

kiddy colors-too bad there's not black or red

here's my other great discovery

filled with spinach and cheese-delicious!

mommy i want this

and this

and a 500 square foot apartment!

HAHM SWEET HAHM

Curious to know what Dock 86 was, I checked it out. It's owned by HOM furniture (who also now owns Gabberts). It's in a former Levitz location north of St. Paul.

Nice, clean graphics on the outside. 

Inside you'll find long couches.

White couches.

Chairs for munchkins.

Pink and blue recliners. Ewww.

I'm not a big fan of ugly recliners, but this one is HEAVEN!

Lizzy hated nearly everything she saw.

And them I happened upon this:

So bad, it was actually good. Heaven for slouchy TV watchers.

 And the matching chair?

Cute as heck. Kind of looks like a baseball glove. 

And it swivels! 

It seems to be smiling at me. 

Should we take it home and name it Wilson?

Just add white dog...

... and you can get all the publicity you want. Exciting day... my post from a couple of years ago made craftzine, a hip blog i read everyday.

IKEA-KINI

These creative folks are creating swimwear and more out of IKEA bags...

and you can buy them here.

It's that time of year

Can you believe it's the 60th anniversary of the IKEA catalog. Here's a sneak peek at the cover:

Apparently IKEA put on a cool bash in NYC. Check it out here.