My girls love books. My hubs and I along with my mum have invested and are still investing quite a bit on books for them. They have so many books that I can find them at very nook and corner — under the beds, under my computer desk, under their pillows, inside some recycled boxes, on their study desk, on the throne top (which I absolutely hate and despite me telling Alycia not to put them there, she just never listens, aargh!!) next to the sink, you name it! I was telling hubs that we should get a new book shelf so that their books have a proper place to sit in – a one and only place for all the books to rest and no where else! So off we went to Ikea on a Thursday morning in search of our dream book shelf…
First shelf on our shopping list…
Next on our shopping list…
Next, a Billy bookcase and we got this – cheap and nice!
But when we reached home, we found out that the Billy bookcase didn’t really blend in with the other furniture, so the hubs placed it in the storeroom and used it as a shoe rack. The Billy bookcase fit into our storeroom just right and our storeroom now looks so much more neater with all the shoes sitting in the shelf neatly.
My handyman whose hobby is fixing and assembling things always finds much thrill and challenge putting pieces of wood planks together. I am always floored to see how patient he can be spending hours assembling planks of wood together into a beautiful, perfect piece of furniture when he has zilch patience shopping with me, aargh!!!
We also got some stackable stools from Ikea as we have always ran out of chairs for guests who are at our place for dinner.
Also got some colorful hangers to hang the girls’ clothes and a set of bib-bowl-cup-spoon set.
After 4 hours of shopping, here are our 2 cart fulls of loot, causing a damage of over RM1K!
After shopping, we had a quick lunch at the Ikea cafeteria. I of course ordered my favourite meatballs and pan fried salmon.
As usual, our trip to Ikea will never be complete without an indulgence in the RM1 nett ice cream. Tell me which kid does not like slotting in a coin into the vending machine to ‘make’ her own ice cream eh? Total bliss!
So this is our March trip to Ikea. Our trip to Ikea in April will be to get the book shelf that we wanted and I’m hoping that there will be some new designs for us to choose by then.
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