An IKEA Day

Today on my list of things to do was to go get fitted for a custom bowling ball. Yes, I'm very, very cool. Gil won me a bowling ball in a raffle at our end of the year work party. Since that time he's asked me on a daily basis, "Did you get your bowling ball today??" Well, today was the day! I will actually get use out of it because we bowl in a league during the summer for Gil's work.

And since I know you're all wondering what it looks like, behold the glory that is my new bowling ball:

I got to pick the bag. :)

It was actually pretty interesting seeing how they drill the holes and such. There was a lot of measuring of my fingers involved.

But anyways, that's not what this post is about. The more fun part of my day was spent at IKEA. IKEA and I tend to have a fickle relationship. Actually I think I am fickle with most shopping. It's either an on day or an off day where I find nothing.

Today was an on day & I found lots of great stuff for the house. I was getting worried about the cost as I indiscriminately filled my basket, but good ol' IKEA...the receipt was long but the price wasn't too bad.

We purchased the following two prints at Pike Place in Seattle when we went in 2009. Poor things have been waiting for frames since then. IKEA is definitely the place for frames. These are going in the basement bath.

These prints I love! It was a 5 pack. One of them is getting stored for now. Another one I framed with the matte and put it on the red sideboard table for now. These three are going to be hung up in the master bath. Pretty pretty.

I also bought a little lamp for the console table in our living room, a mirror that might work over the red table, some wooden hangers, a couple of stemless wine glasses, a cookie jar, and a glass shelf for our bathroom. I really wanted these wine glasses in the stemless variety but couldn't find them in the store.

Can't wait to get all these frames up on the wall!