Oh what a day...

This Saturday started early, and I still don't feel like I have gotten much done! We woke up at 7ish and got ready for my 9 am hair apointment, where I went to my hairdresser and friend, Danielle, begging her to teach me how to fix my hair to stay put while I travel for work to the super-humid climate of Fort Worth, Texas in a couple of weeks. She taught me how to fix it up with lots of hair gunk and make it more likely to not be plastered to my head when 120+% humidity makes itself comfortable around my head.

After that, Austin and I ventured to one of most favorite places for cheap, cool home stuff....IKEA. Let me back up for a minute. I got a wild hair up my hiney on Thursday while I was home to redo, or should I say do for the first time, my craft room/office. Once upon a time I went to the trouble of aquiring 2 poster size pictures: one of Audrey Hepburn and the other of Marilyn Monroe, of course, and had always planned out a red, white and black room. Well I think I lost my mind at Ikea but sure enough, just about everything is just that, with the addition of birch wood finish.

So back to the day, we were at Ikea from 10 am to 1pm. Yes, you really can get lost in that place. And given the long amount of time we were there, Austin did pretty good. Although he did get yelled at, and inadvertantly I did too, by this old bag who thought I wasn't watching my child while I was in line to get him a hot dog for lunch. Of course if you know me, my eyes never left him during that time. Some people should just mind their own business, but it did make me feel like a bad mom for about a minute or two. I'm over it!

I got a new table to use to make the work surface into a psuedo-corner desk, 2 shelves that look like they are coming out of the wall, red, white and black accent items, a round red rug, and a few other little things.

I even bought yardage of fabric (did you know Ikea sold fabric?) to make a very modern tableskirt to hide storage and other stuff from the living room. Once Austin and I got home around 1:30 it was naptime for him, and apparently for me as well. I fell asleep and woke up when he did! We just had dinner, and now we have to go back to Ikea to return some stuff. Hopefully this will be a project I can complete and I can post pictures soon!

My dad is going out of town this week so maybe I can bribe my mom to come over here Monday to help me. Then maybe I can bribe Dad to come over next weekend to hang stuff for me, which means even more cleaning for the rest of the house...

Guess I better get to cleaning the rest of the house then huh? I will post new pictures once it all starts coming together!

HAPPY SATURDAY!